I watched your video and your issue is with the numbers Kent with PGMusic staff has posted a photo of above.

You may be having an issue with BIAB terminology as well.

A 'Chorus' is what Biab calls the first two numbers Kent marked.
For example with Proud Mary -
set the third number in that sequence Kent marked to 1. In his example, that third number is currently set to 3. Change the third number to 1.

The first two numbers in the sequence Kent marked above should be equal to the number of measures you have entered the chords onto the chord sheet for your song project, start to finish. For instance, assume you have entered chords into a total of 78 blocks (bars/measures); Set the first two numbers in the sequence as first number - 1 and the second number- 78

Once you have done this, all of the chords will be one color and none greyed out.

In Song Settings - be sure the generate 2 bar ending box is checked. This will place the 'End' marker at Bar 79 and Biab will generate an ending for your song.

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Alternately, a very easy way to create accompaniment backing tracks for commercially released songs such as "Proud Mary", is to google the title of the song you wish to make a cover for as a free midi file. Example: Proud Mary free midi file

download and open the midi file - F7 opens midi files.

This will populate the chord chart, set the key signature, tempo as well as the style type.

The entire midi file will have imported onto the Melody Track in the mixer.

Mute the Melody Track and be certain the style in the Style Box is enabled. (if the Style is preceded by X -the style is disabled. Rt click and uncheck the style enabled selection)

Open the Style Picker and set the search parameters to the same as are displayed on the Chord Chart.
Example: Proud Mary settings could be Key: C Tempo 110 4/4 ev8 and 78 measures have chords.
or you can do a search for Proud Mary and Biab will locate styles that fit the correct settings for the song Proud Mary.

Select a Style you like from the list.

Hit play and the selected style will play Proud Mary

This is much easier than it reads... It narrows down to import midi file, select a style, mute the midi track (Melody) and hit play. You do not actually have to mute the midi file, you can use all or parts from the midi file to enhance the Biab performance but that is a bit more detailed than I'll cover in this post.

I also recommend you google as search for your commercial song title choice and include Band in a Box in the search. This may yield a Biab file for your song that someone has already completed.


Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 05/10/18 07:38 AM.
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