Hi Richard,

RealBand does not contain the BIAB MIDI Harmonies engine, but you can still get it to play your song correctly.

The way to get the harmony parts inside of RealBand is to not simply open a BB songfile in Realband, but to first go back to BIAB and export the song as a MIDI file. If you also have RealTracks, be sure to check that box off, too.

Inside BIAB, with your song open and generated, choose File -> Make a Standard MIDI File.

In the next window, hit the Options button.

To get the harmonies into RealBand, be sure to check off, "Write Harmony to MIDI file" there.

Right below that is another checkbox I like to use, ""MIDI file harmony on separate tracks" -- this one will place each line of your Harmony part on a separate track in the MIDI file, which means that you can then adjust things like Pan, Volume, etc. for each Harmony part once the file is opened up in RealBand. You could also add Effects, either to just one track or any. Powerful.

After creating a MIDI file of your BIAB songfile, you can open that up easily inside RealBand and you should be ready to go!

Realband is not Band in a Box. Don't expect to find all the familiar Band in a Box stuff there. Realband represents a way to move BIAB songs to a multitrack sequencing software that also recognizes things like the style files, chord grid and stuff, but doesn't have all the auto-accompaniment features that BIAB does. Meant to work together IMO, rather than one being a replacement for the other or anything like that.


--Mac

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