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Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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Hi,
BTW. Love this program and the support.
I tried the Audio Chord Wizard. It works fine. When I try to send the song to BIAB, the ACW quits but nothing happens. It doesn't matter if I have BIAB running or not.
I'm running everything off of the external hard drive EverythingPAK (awesome idea).
- Jeff
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Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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Hi jauen,
Please make sure that you have the latest build (#5) installed. I'm running BIAB/Audio Chord Wizard from the external Everything Pack drive and I am able to send chords to BIAB with no problem.
Ron
UltraPAK 2021, 27" late 2012 iMac, 16 GB RAM, OSX 10.15.7
Logic Pro X 10.6.3
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Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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Hi Ron,
I did install the build 5 upgrade hoping that was the problem but I get the same result.
When I hit the "Send to BIAB" button a window flashes up for 1/2 second (too fast for me to read), then the program quits and nothing else happens.
- Jeff
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Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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Just for the record:
Mac OS 10.5.7
24 inch iMac
2.8Ghz Intel Core II
BIAB 2009 Build 5
Audio Chord Wizard 2.0.0.1
- Jeff
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Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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>>>
When I hit the "Send to BIAB" button a window flashes up for 1/2 second (too fast for me to read), then the program quits and nothing else happens.
That's what is supposed to happen. ACW is supposed to disappear. And then you should see the BB screen, and there should be a message saying to press OK when you want to load the Song into BB. You may have dismissed that dialog by mistake prior to running BB, or something else is happening.
In any event, you can just run BB, and choose [menu] Windows - Read chord from ACW. This reads the chords, which will stick around.
Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.
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Hi Peter,
I've got the same problem here. A flash and nothing happens. When I load BB before and then analyze the song BB comes foreward and shows just a blank screen with none of the analyzed chords.
Gerard van Wieringen
MacBook Pro 13 inch 2019 1 tB SSD, AirPods Pro and Max,
iPhone 16 Pro Max AppleTV 1 ,2,3 & 4 iPad Mini Retina 256 GB, Applewatch #7 generation. iMac 27 inch 1 tB Fusion Drive, 16 Gb memory, iPad Pro M1 12.9, Mac Mini M1
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Had the same problem ... try this (I'm on an iMac, build4):
• Open BIAB
• Click ACW-Icon
• "File Chooser Window" opens - choose audio-file
• Analyze file in ACW - when you're ready, press "OK - Send to BIAB"
• ACW quits automatically (which I don't like, read below)
• In BIAB, press "Yes" in the "Answer Question" window (which automatically opened in the background)
• Now chords should appear in BIAB
I initially had the same problem - opened ACW, analyzed the file, pressed "OK - Send to BIAB" and - ACW quits w/o a message ! I thought it crashed - until I incidentally opened ACW from BIAB and I noticed the "Answer Question" - window. Can't remember that I read anything about opening BIAB first !
BTW, Peter, why does ACW quit after pressing "OK - Send to BIAB" ?? - I would like to check ACW's analysis further (eg. single notes) after having sent the chords to BIAB and refining the chord changes ....
Regards
RobKastler
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Right, if you run AudioChordWizard without running Band-in-a-Box, then you would need to do the following:
1. Press OK- send to Band-in-a-Box in AudioChordWizard.
2. Run Band-in-a-Box, and choose menu item [Windows- Read Chords from Audio Chord Wizard]
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If you run AudioChordWizard from within Band-in-a-Box (by pressing the AudioChordWizard), when you return to Band-in-a-Box there will be a dialog where answering YES will do the same thing as menu item [Windows- Read Chords from Audio Chord Wizard
Rob, good suggestion about not always closing ACW after sending to BB, the program could ask you about that.
Also, for the next build, if you have run ACW standalone (without BB running), and pressed the "Send to BB" button, then the next time you run BB, it will offer to import those chords.
Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.
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I got the Audio Chord Wizard to send to BIAB but, I'm sorry to say that ACW does not work. to learn how to use it, I up loaded a mp3 of a simple blues recording that has only three Chords and what I got wasn't anything like the song. disappointing.
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You **shouldn't** try a simple song with 3 chords. Try a pop or country song, with more than 3 chords. results will be much better.
You should make sure that the bar lines are correct for the song, you do that by clicking the "Tap Bar line button" as the song is playing or just using the ENTER key. If the bar lines are correct, and you are using a genre like pop or country, the results should be very good.
Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.
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Thank you Peter I'll try That
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