PG Music Home Forums PG Music Product Forums Band-in-a-Box for Windows Putting my own bass (or any other instrument) part in BIAB or Realband songs

First, what gwp99 said.

BIAB is NOT the place to learn how to do MIDI recording, sorry. I will get hate mail here from long time BIAB users on that one (and I count myself one of the longest, as well as OLDEST, users back to DOS but not quit back to it's ATARI roots - I never had an ATARI I had an home built Altair ).

I love BIAB but it really is not the place to start leaning /RECORDING MIDI. RealBand, since it came with BIAB anyway, is much better place to start: it can be set up as a basic MIDI sequencer and you can learn all the ins and outs of MIDI, channels, parts, etc. there. I don;t even record into it (usually).

Since you SEEM very new to MIDI in general, no offense, you really should do some basic reading like:

http://tweakheadz.com/how-to-get-started-with-midi-and-the-difference-between-midi-and-audio-is-explained-along-with-many-other-core-concepts-for-building-a-home-recording-studio/

http://www.midi.org/aboutmidi/intromidi.pdf

FWIW: the MID channel "$09" (and I am making a BIG assumption here that you are looking at the BIAB MIDI monitor as I explained it above) simply means that BIAB has its thru channel set to channel 9 (hex 09 = decimal 09) or that your Korg is transmitting on channel 9 or both. No biggie but since the "default" Thru is Channel 5 within BAIB if it was changed did you change it?

Finally, I wasn't going to revisit this topic at all since, Jazzmammal covered it more quickly when he noticed you had a USB connection on that Korg unit; hence, he assumed you were using the KORG'S USB connection (which DOES require driver installation from Korg as he explained- succulently) and as long as it finally worked no reason for any of us to revisit this topic. And you didn't post back after a day or two.

I assumed, without even checking to see if your Korg had a USB connection, that you were using the old fashioned 5-pin DIN MIDI connections ( because you bought an additional USB to MIDI cable). Although even a basic 5-pin MIDI cable still requires Windows having some MIDI I/O interface/device installed (as explained) that you plug that cable into. However, it does beg the question why did you buy a "USB to MIDI" cable solution if you already had a unit with built-in USB MIDI capability?

But immaterial whichever one you are using two 5 PIN cables or one USB cable - if the unit finally has "comms" with PC it's time to do some basic homework.

The whole Korg "is or is not a driver," "does or does not have a diver," etc. was a rabbit hole and semantics (depends on how you approached connecting unit to PC). I have multiple HW units some with USB, LAN, one with FW, but bulk have only 5-pin MIDI connections. However, I connect all of them exclusively using 5-pin DIN MIDI cables via multiple MIDI "mixer" patch bays (to/from each other and to/from PC and laptop).

Larry