Thomas, whether in Band in a box or RealBand, if you import audio, the audio has to go through a process in order to follow a chord progression and tempo map.

In BIAB, this is done by processing the audio through the Audio Chord Wizard, which creates a tempo map, determines the key signature and analyzes and import the chords onto the chord sheet.

In RB, you can use the ACW in the same way or manually create a click track if you have 2016 version.

In either program, even if you record audio live, there still must be a tempo map and completed chord sheet for audio and BIAB to sync.

The problem you are describing appears that a wav or mp3 with the same name as your BIAB song is being imported into BIAB. If you have a BIAB project named Abc.sgu and an audio file in the same folder where the BIAB sgu file resides named Abc.Wav, BIAB will open that audio file into Abc.sgu project when you open the project.

If you create a chord progression in BIAB and record yourself playing along with the BIAB song, you are following along with the existing tempo map and chords in the key of the song. If you are attempting to import pre-recorded audio into A BIAB project,then BIAB has to be given the tempo, chord progression and key signature in order to play along with the music.

I hope I'm understanding your issue and giving the correct advice to help get your old recordings into BIAB/RB and have them play nice with the software.

Charlie

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