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I am having a problem using BIAB to record from a Yamaha Clavier digital piano. You can see the issue here - note the bottom red/green line. BIAB_recording It is as if a note is turned on, but the end note message gets lost. This problem does not occur when I record with PowerTracks Pro, or with Pianoteq. The problem occurs with BIAB whether I use a USB cable between piano and computer, or a Yamaha midi cable with midi/USB adapter. Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing this? Thanks, Ed
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Yes indeed you are correct.
The first note should have finished at the same time as the two above to complete that chord for that duration. The blue /green ones are overlapping notes and should and would exist as red notes to complete those chords, problem is as you say the first note got a stuck midi note state.
No idea of what caused this but did you run out of polyphony ?
Unlikely I would say unless you were sending a lot more midi notes at that time that we cant see in pic
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If Mike's suggestion is correct, there is a way to filter out MIDI input information that is either too short or too soft to matter. I had to do this recording my wind controller, which was sending a storm of MIDI info. The other part of Mike's idea involves the polyphonic limit of a MIDI hardware synth. Mine, for example, coughs at over 64. This doesn't mean 64 simultaneous notes, either; one note might send 4 or 6 or 1 signal toward that 64 limit. Having said all that, I doubt that is the problem here.
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Ed,
Are the problem notes on the same channel as the other notes? You image shows that the 'Chan' is set to 'All'. Cycle through the 16 channel and see if information is contained on anything else other than channel 4 (the channel for Melody).
Also, do you have any idea what the blue coloured notes on your image indicate?
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Hi Mat
I’m sure you will find the blue notes are overlapping notes as I said in my post and were played after the first note got stuck.
As you can see they go with the notes above them of the same duration to complete the chord.
Yes polyphony rules for keyboards usually have a protocol of
If polyphony is exceeded the oldest held note gets shut of first followed by sustained notes but as you say probably a red herring here.
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Mike,
I think Noel96 is thinking in the right direction, BiaB is not interpeting what the Yamaha is transmitting correctly.
I assume that the Yamaha is transmitting in omni mode (all channels). Try changing the settings on the Yamaha so that it transmits on just one channel at a time.
Also, look at your BiaB midi settings and either turn off midi thru or make sure midi thru is set for an unused channel like channel 15.
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Thanks for the great ideas.
My piano was set to transmit on channel 1. I changed it to transmit on channel 4. Same problem.
WRT the question of what other midi info might be being trasmitting, I realized that the sustain pedal also transmits, so I tried recording with no pedal. Same problem.
Also, I tried playing the file back, viewing the pianoroll display with the channel set to various numbers. I don't see any data on the other channels.
Midi thru has been off in all cases.
No paydirt yet, but these were all good ideas, for which I thank you all.
One more piece of data: If I record a longer piece, more of those lines accumulate. After several minutes of recording, there may be 5 or 6 lines. I take this to be consistent with the idea that notes are getting turned on, then left on instead of turning off.
Any more thoughts?
Thanks again.
Ed
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Hi
Yes ok it sounds by what you are now saying to be a midi overflow problem can you increase your midi buffer size in you driver midi settings
By the way if you just want to rescue this one song you have recorded simple go to piano roll view and delete the offending note just right click in the red area and delete event . This will leave the later correct overlapping notes in place.
Then manually draw that first bottom note in again for the correct duration which my
Guess is the same as the two immediately above it is the bottom note of that chord
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Ed, what do you have running in the background? If anything like anti-stuff or anything that goes on the Internet to search for updates can cause this problem. If the nanosecond that background running program interrupts the CPU is at the same time the note is supposed to end then the DAW or BiaB will not get that message. Thus the note stays on. This is why I have my Ethernet card disabled even though my music computer is off-line 99.9% of the time.
You said that if you record a longer piece of music you get more stuck notes. Is it always the same note? Also this may indicated that something is not working properly in your keyboard. We had a similar problem when JonD's keyboard was dying.
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Don't know if this will help, but on the MIDI options screen is an option for "Note Off". You might want to give it a try to see if it helps. This is from the user manual: Send Extra Note Offs:
Leave this option to “No” unless you are having trouble with “Stuck Notes” when you press [Stop]. If you set this option to “Yes” the program will send a “global sweep” of all notes off in addition to the selected notes off that are playing when you press the [Stop] button.
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Disconnected ethernet cable, same problem.
The problem occurs on various notes, not the same note.
Set extra note offs to yes, same problem.
Mike, can you tell me how to set the midi buffer size? I can't find any setting for it.
Thanks again, guys.
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Hi
I may have given you a duff steer there.
The only control you have in BIAB is in the midi latency setting but that is more of a visual thing to keep the screen display in sync with the midi notes you hear.
But it does seem that you are sending more midi data than it can cope with and the problem seems to get worse the more you send .
I will do some test using my Yamaha Clavinova later and se what I can clean from that.
In the mean time you might like to visit my web site technical articles section where you will find many articles on midi and Yamaha keyboards .
Some thin there may be useful to you at some time link in my signature at bottom of post
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Disconnected ethernet cable, same problem.
The problem occurs on various notes, not the same note.
Set extra note offs to yes, same problem.
Mike, can you tell me how to set the midi buffer size? I can't find any setting for it.
Thanks again, guys.
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Hi Ed
Well I have just done 4 recordings using my Clavinova as the input keyboard
On to the melody track / ch while using an all mid style. Just to make sure there was plenty of midi activity going on. I also set my midi output from the style to play though the Clav while recording my keys into BIAB no dreaded latency this way.
So I was using the Yamaha midi driver both for input and output and sending nothing to the BIAB dxi no tick in box use vst /dxi
All notes sent from the Clav including LH chords AND Melody notes were recorded cleanly no stuck notes
I also tried from my impulse 61 controller keyboard using a dxi to handle the midi data. This also worked flawlessly no stuck notes.
Not that this help you only to say the Yamaha driver and BIAB seem to agree
May well be that the pc is busy as others have said.
I will keep thinking on this one.
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Hi again Ed
Ok after last nights test I think the only thing to try now would be to improve your pc performance while running BIAB.
You may like to check processor usage and page file usage in the windows task manager screens look for processor spikes at regular intervals in the performance monitor these are likely to coincide with wifi poling the router etc
While recording
It will help with load if you stop all unnecessary progs running in the background
Including internet access this will kill windows Auto updates and any other auto update eg Adobe reader AV definitions etc .
Stop wifi you don’t need it unless you are using a wireless printer which you wont be while recording.
Now you are off the internet you can safely stop your Antivirus prog
Stop screen savers
Also don’t forget to defrag your hard drive if it is badly fragmented it could be taking to long to find a space to write your midi data.
My windows is set to defrag every WED at 3 Am by default as installed so generally is ok .
But it cant defrag if it is not on so it does it next time switch on when it thinks the computer is not busy.
You may also benefit from running windows disk clean up from:
All programs / Accessories /system tools /disk cleanup.
Do this disk cleanup before you defrag the drive
Every little helps as they say.
I don’t now how much ram you have but I have 8G
Just some thoughts
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Hi ED Yet another thought You might like to check your BIAB programs priority settings in windows To do this open band in the box then cnt alt del to the windows task manager and proceed as in pic Sorry if you knew this Mike dont miss my last two post on previous page
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Today I recorded my Yamaha using Aria, a free midi recording program, with no stuck notes. Also, I again recorded with Pianoteq and PowerTracks Pro, doing something like a stress test – playing as many notes as I can with all ten fingers, as fast as I can; again, no stuck notes.
I also turned off styles on BIAB (can’t for the life of me remember how I did that), and recorded without accompaniment, thinking this reduces the CPU load. Stuck notes as usual.
I also monitored the CPU load while recording and playing back, and did not see any spikes or anomalies associated with stuck notes.
I got my ancient Casio LK220 keyboard out of storage - hasn’t seen the light of day in many years. Connected it to my computer via USB, and recorded with BIAB. No problems.
So it seems the problem is unique to the combination of this Yamaha piano and the BIAB software. I was wondering if there are some midi messages unique to the Yamaha that only the BIAB software responds to. Looking at the midi monitor window, I saw some pitch bend messages. On the piano, I disabled pitch bend messages, and on BIAB I set it to ignore pitch bend messages, and tested. Still had stuck notes.
At that point, I decided to bite the bullet and reinstall BIAB, thinking maybe the file was corrupted. Just to be sure, I reinstalled it twice, with a restart in between. Still had stuck notes.
I reset the priority of the process, per suggestion from Mike (thanks, I have done that years ago for some other problem, but I had forgotten about it). Still had stuck notes.
I have also tried many other things to clean up my computer, reduce loading, isolate the computer from the internet, isolate the cables, minimize loading, etc, with no luck.
I am now in the process of building a steel room, shielded with copper, and connected with thick cables to a ground rod sunk into my back yard, with all this supported by heavy duty steel springs and shock absorbers, to better isolate BIAB from the outside world, and eliminate uncontrollable variables. (Just kidding.)
Anyway, thanks for all the wonderful suggestions. I really appreciate the help.
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Hi ED
Hmmm well that was a good report but not good news.
I do seem to remember having similar problems in the past with Yamaha keyboards both my DGX620 and my CVP405 but I was using Cubase and Sonar at the time.
It’s as if when the Yamaha starts to send midi data it sends a bunched up chunk at start of recording as it usually the first notes sent that seemed to stick.
One thing that can cause problems if both midi in and midi out are sent to the DAW.
is note echo and double notes if local is on at the keyboard as each note gets sent to the software via midi and the keyboard which then echo it back to the software.
One way to do this if using midi leads is to not connect them both that is only send nidi from the keyboard to the pc while recording
Or turn local off at the keyboards midi screen function / midi, /all parts / edit
When I tried this the moment I started to record in BIAB IT SWITCHED ON AGAIN
So I had to flip it of after the recording was running watch the Yamaha screen!!
Sona turns local of by default these days, but BIAB does not.
I usually leave at least one or two blank bars at the start of a recording to give time for all the initial track / channel instrument data to be written also you could try sending a single note first before, the what is often a large handful at the beginning of the track this is likely to be at least LH chord of three notes + RH notes that’s quite a bunch to write if it is still sending track data headers to the other tracks.
Pitch wheel and sus peddle mod wheel event should not cause a problem as the software will put them in an empty time tick between the notes , as all midi is sequential any way, only one thing can be written for any one time but with the sort of clock speeds we are talking about there should be plenty of room in one second for many events.
Good luck let us know how you get on
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Another busy day chasing this problem – but finally had some success!
Following Mike’s suggestion, I found that by setting the piano to local off, and also setting BIAB to local off, there are no stuck notes in the recording, and the recording plays back OK. The fly in the ointment was that I was not able to hear the piano itself playing (because of local off), and for some reason was not able to get BIAB to output the piano sound in real time (either by MS Wavetable, Coyote, or Pianoteq). So the experiment succeeded (no stuck notes), but I had to play without real-time sound. Perhaps I goofed somehow in setting things up, I will go back and review this later. I don’t have a pressing need to resolve this question because a better solution popped up.
Since I had reinstalled BIAB yesterday, I had to go through the process of re-integrating it with Pianoteq. This involves using software called Jbridge, which smooths things out between the 32 bit BIAB and the 64 bit Pianoteq. I noticed when I got it working that when BIAB calls up the Pianoteq window, there is a small Jbridge icon on it, which I don’t remember seeing before. When I clicked on the icon, up came a window that had some choices. One of them said allow asynchronous operation. I chose that, and it seems to have solved my problem. With piano set to local (so I can hear it), I ran a good stress test – thousands of notes at high speed, no stuck notes.
Live and learn.
Again, thanks for the help.
Ed
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Hi Ed
Great news
If you need to keep local on , as I said then remove mid out of BIABs midi out to the piano midi in lead,
If using a usb lead go to midi settings in BIAB and don’t send midi out to the piano (while recording)
That is set the piano on the midi input side but something else on the midi output side.
Looks like you are on a roll now
Have fun
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Jazz, Funk & World (Sets 468-475):
Our new jazz, funk & blues RealTracks include a groovin’ collection of RealTracks and RealDrums! These include more requested “soul jazz” RealTracks featuring artists Neil Swainson (bass), Charles Treadway (organ), Brent Mason (guitar), and Wes Little (drums). There are new “smooth jazz” styles (4), which include a RealTracks first: muted trumpet, as well as slick new smooth jazz brushes options for drums. Blues lovers will be thrilled—there are more “classic acoustic blues” styles, including guitar (5), bass (4), and drums (10) with blues master Colin Linden, featuring understated and tasty background acoustic soloing, plus brushes drums and acoustic bass. There are also new electric blues RealTracks, including electric blues with PG favorite Johnny Hiland (3) and soulful electric slide guitar from Colin Linden (4). If you love funk & gospel, there are great new options this year, including gospel organ (3) from Charles Treadway, as well as new funk, tango, and rock ’n’ roll drums (3) and bass (1). And for big, bold arrangements, we have uptempo soul horns (4) featuring a three-part hip horn section with options for a full mix or stems of each individual horn — plus an accompanying rhythm section (4) of drums, bass, guitar, and electric piano!
Rock & Pop (Sets 476–482):
Our new rock & pop RealTracks bring a powerful mix of requested favorites, fresh genres, and modern chart-inspired styles! We have more of our popular “Producer Layered Acoustic Guitars (15)” featuring Band-in-a-Box favorite Brent Mason. We’ve continued our much-requested disco styles (10), and added new Celtic guitar (5) with a more basic, accessible approach than our previous Drop-D or DADGAD offerings. There are also highly requested yacht rock styles (17), inspired by the smooth, polished soft-rock sound of the late ’70s and early ’80s — laid-back grooves, silky electric pianos, warm textures, elegant harmonic movement, and pristine production aesthetics. Fans of heavier styles will love our new glam metal (13), capturing the flashy, high-energy sound of ’80s arena-ready guitar rock. We also have a set of rootsy modern-folk rock (18), with a warm, organic sound combining contemporary folk textures and driving acoustic strumming. And we’ve added lots of new modern pop styles (16) — the kinds of sounds you’re hearing on the radio today, featuring exciting new drums, synths, and cutting-edge RealTracks arrangements.
Country, & Americana (Sets 483–488):
Our new country & Americana RealTracks deliver a rich collection of acoustic, electric, and roots-inspired styles! We have new country pop (9) with legendary guitarist Brent Mason. There is also a potpourri (14) of bouzouki, guitars, banjo, and more, perfect for adding texture and character to contemporary acoustic arrangements. We’ve added funky country guitar (5) with PG favorite Brent Mason, along with classic pedal steel styles (5) featuring steel great Doug Jernigan. There are more country songwriter styles (8) that provide intimate, rootsy foundations for storytelling and modern Americana writing. Finally, we have “background soloing” acoustic guitar (12) with Brent Mason — simpler, but still very tasty acoustic lines designed to sit beautifully behind vocals or act as a subtle standalone solo part.
Check out all the 202 new RealTracks (in sets 468-488)!
And, if you are looking for more, the 2026 49-PAK (for $49) includes an impressive collection of 20 bonus RealTracks, featuring exciting and inspiring additions to add to your RealTracks library. You'll get new country-rhythm guitar styles from PG Music favorites Johnny Hiland and Brent Mason, along with modern-pop grooves that capture today’s radio-ready sound! There are also new indie-folk styles with guitar, bass, 6-string bass used as a high-chording instrument, acoustic guitar, and banjo. Plus, dedicated "cymbal fills" RealDrums provide an added layer that work very well with low-key folky styles with other percussion.
The 2026 49-PAK is loaded with other great new add-ons as well. Learn more about the 2026 49-PAK!
2026 Free Bonus PAK & 49-PAK for Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac®!
With your version 2026 for Mac Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, Audiophile Edition or PlusPAK purchase, we'll include a Bonus PAK full of great new Add-ons for FREE! Or upgrade to the 2026 49-PAK for only $49 to receive even more NEW Add-ons including 20 additional RealTracks!
These PAKs are loaded with additional add-ons to supercharge your Band-in-a-Box®!
This Free Bonus PAK includes:
- The 2026 RealCombos Booster PAK:
-For Pro customers, this includes 27 new RealTracks and 23 new RealStyles.
-For MegaPAK customers, this includes 25 new RealTracks and 23 new RealStyles.
-For UltraPAK customers, this includes 12 new RealStyles.
- MIDI Styles Set 92: Look Ma! More MIDI 15: Latin Jazz
- MIDI SuperTracks Set 46: Piano & Organ
- Instrumental Studies Set 24: Groovin' Blues Soloing
- Artist Performance Set 19: Songs with Vocals 9
- Playable RealTracks Set 5
- RealDrums Stems Set 9: Cool Brushes
- SynthMaster Sounds Set 1 (with audio demos)
- iOS Android Band-in-a-Box® App
Looking for more great add-ons, then upgrade to the 2026 49-PAK for just $49 and you'll get:
- 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and RealDrums with 20 RealStyle.
- FLAC Files (lossless audio files) for the 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and RealDrums
- MIDI Styles Set 93: Look Ma! More MIDI 16: SynthMaster
- MIDI SuperTracks Set 47: More SynthMaster
- Instrumental Studies 25 - Soul Jazz Guitar Soloing
- Artist Performance Set 20: Songs with Vocals 10
- RealDrums Stems Set 10: Groovin' Sticks
- SynthMaster Sounds & Styles Set 2 (sounds & styles with audio demos)
Learn more about the Bonus PAK and 49-PAK for Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac®!
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