Thanks! I did this from memory without the program open ... big mistake. Thanks for catching it. I've also corrected it in the cross post to tips. Also Import Special should be Open Special, also corrected
Drag and drop is the same as File> Import> Import Melody from MIDI File in my step #3. But the other steps are valid and necessary to end up with the ability to audition different styles against the Chord Sheet and maintain the MIDI tracks.
Thanks for this great thread!! I'm just learning BIAB in earnest and I've been trying to figure out how to get the individual midi tracks from a wonderful midi file of "Angela" into BIAB, and this did the trick! Only one problem: somehow when I was done, the melody starts on the third of four click tracks, so I am 2 beats premature on every imported instrument. Yet for some reason, the chords are right where they should be. I can't figure out how to add 2 beats to the zero measure or move everything 2 beats forward (I am not too concerned about the chords, as I could easily re-enter them.) Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
There is an offset box in the bottom right of the 'Import> MIDI Melody ...' window. When I have put in '1 Bar' everything seems to line up otherwise.
I would imagine there are various methods to edit the length of MIDI tracks, but that is not something I've had to learn in BIAB yet. If you use other MIDI editing, perhaps it would be easier to edit the file before you import? That would be a method I would try first myself.
That 1 bar offset did the trick, thanks! However I have another mystery: the 5 midi instrument tracks I imported to utility tracks in the mixer properly display the particular instrument's data in piano roll format in the mixer. But the 5 moved tracks' vu meters do nothing when the song is played. The vu meters on both the melody track (where the midi file was first imported) and the master track both respond to the music. I even tried erasing the original melody track, and the song plays correctly but the vu meters still respond only on the (now erased) melody track! Also, the "hide unused tracks" selection in the mixer doesn't seem to work, so I have to scroll down to the 5 utility tracks to see the piano roll. Also in notation mode, for all 5 imported tracks, highlighting the note that's playing doesn't work, although it's selected. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
Steve ... BIAB initially imports a file to a single BIAB track, usually # 6, Melody. I think it might be that the original MIDI file import with multiple tracks on different MIDI channels is still playing and the moved tracks are not routed to a sound source.
Have you set up a default MIDI device?
I don't want to sound unkind, but I'm not really a source for much technical support. A lot of things just work in BIAB for me and I never dig in to see why something that works does.
If you're a new user I strongly suggest you check into the available video tutorials or look to some place like Groove3 that sells an excellent BIAB intro tutorial. Otherwise, the question you ask could easily be posted as a new post on the forum where there are many, many people who have a deeper knowledge of BIAB than I.
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