Originally Posted By: jycroix
In BB, all I have done up to now, is enter the chords and taken whatever instruments are shown at the top of the screen for the style have have chosen.


From this message I am going to assume that you are using the GM instruments that came with BiaB. If you are using something else then just discard the rest of this message.

BiaB comes with an inexpensive GM (General MIDI) MIDI sound source that sounds ok for laying out your songs. But when you compare these sounds with more expensive better sounds like what is in Sonar, Kontakt, SampleTank 2 and 3, etc then they don't sound so good. What I do is to map out my song in BiaB using the included sounds then I bring the MIDI tracks over to Sonar. I then use the much better sounds, IMHO, for those tracks.

If you want to stay with GM then use Sonar's TTS-1 matching the TTS-1 MIDI channels to BiaB's MIDI channels.

I very seldom use GM. I will pick a sound from one of my sound sources. Again I have to match MIDI channels between Sonar and my sound source.

If you need help feel free to ask.

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