Hi,
I've been in a quandry about this for years, but have never bothered to ask if anybody has an answer.
I'm still using a Roland Sound Brush midi player for accompaniment, and I save my BIAB songs as midi files on floppy disk.
For some reason, the Sound Brush will not play the file (it just sits there, won't start playback) as saved by BIAB. However, if I open the file in Cakewalk (version 9, but that's probably not an issue) and simply re-save it (I don't do anything in Cakewalk, just open and re-save), the file plays in the Sound Brush, no problem. I've also noticed that in doing so, the file size is about 20 percent smaller. Obviously, BIAB is saving something to the file that the Sound Brush doesn't like, and that Cakewalk strips off when it re-saves.
(I'm using BIAB 2008.5, but it's been this way for years - I'm not even sure when it started).
(Also, I have more than one Roland midi file player, but they all do the same thing.)
Does anybody know what's going on here? More importantly, does anybody know if there are midi file options in BIAB that I could select that would eliminate this extra step?
It's a mystery to me.
Thanks for any help.