I am trying to do what I thought would be very simple. Export a song from BIAB with its chords, modify it in a program like Rapid Composer and then import it back into BIAB.

But I know very little about MIDI so I don't know if it is even possible or if it is possible but not with BIAB or whatever!

So, I always start these sort of projects with as simple of a test as I can find. Then if that works I keep adding complexity!

I figured the simplest thing to do would be to export a MIDI song from BIAB and then import that same song back into BIAB. I thought this would be a no-brainer but alas it did not work. frown Here is what I did...

TO CREATE MY MIDI FILE
1) open BIAB and create new simple song
2) set it to 8 bars and 1 chorus
3) turn off 2 bar ending
4) enter one chord in each bar as follows, C F G F Am Em Dm C
5) select Options/Preferences/OutputCh
6) tick the box for Output Chords and click OK and OK again
7) click the .MID button on the toolbar
8) click File on Disk button and save the MIDI file
9) close BIAB

TO LOAD MY MIDI FILE
1) open BIAB
2) select File/Import/Import Chords from MIDI File
3) click the Open (Change) button to select file
4) select the file I created above
5) click INTERPRET CHORDS NOW button
6) I get a total mess! I get a 2-bar lead-in, an extra bar and a 4 bar ending and the chords are all wrong.
Dm C C Fmaj7 G Fmaj7 A Em7 Em7 Em7 G7

If I repeat the import but this time tick the box for "OK to use PG Music Chord names from MIDI file" it does a better job but still has a 2-bar lead-in and an extra bar plus a 4-bar ending.

So, is there a way to make this simple test work? Export MIDI song with chords and then import it back into BIAB perfectly?