I believe that BiaB has always automatically "humanized" the MIDI playback of notation, since the DOS version.

Most music notation programs automatically quantize this difference away for you. But go ahead and open a MIDI track generated by BiaB in RealBand, and you'll see the gaps between the notes. (There is obviously no MIDI instruction for "rest" wink ).

So it's not surprising that the MusicXML file that BiaB generates has the same behavior. You can open up the MusicXML file that BiaB generates yourself and have a look. It's at:

<path to BB>\Data\SRequest\Sound.XML

The <note> tag is used for both pitches and rests. A rest event is indicated by a <rest/> tag, embedded in the <note> hierarchy.

It would be nice if BiaB didn't do this in the first place, even with MIDI. If there's a way to turn this off, I'd appreciate knowing about it! smile

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?