What happens if you already own BIAB? I am reluctant to try the demo because it doesn’t say what I’m buying: a link between the programs, or a stripped-down version of BIAB that might affect my installed version. Any suggestions or advice please?
If this works, it offers a chance to dramatically increase the number of MIDI tracks in a BIAB song. If it works with the full BIAB program, with RealTracks, that would be amazing. Even if it takes a few extra steps, like exporting Music XML from Notation Composer and importing it into BIAB, that would be great, too. Has anyone tried this?
I use several music notation programs and I don't actually care how good a notation program Notation Composer is. If it can access the full BIAB program via this new plugin, I can live with it. John Ford does use it, though, so it can't be terrible.
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I use several music notation programs and I don't actually care how good a notation program Notation Composer is. If it can access the full BIAB program via this new plugin, I can live with it. John Ford does use it, though, so it can't be terrible.
Once there was a Henry Ford; his enfant terrible came in all colors they say, and only at the price of 2x BIAB:
Thanks for the info as I was interested in the program but the key phrase in your post was -
"The list of styles included in within Notation Composer (that are also included in the Band-in-a-Box Pro version)". In other words they are not addition styles but a useful pathway for Notation users
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The documentation indicates that it can also use existing MIDI-based style files (I'm thinking from PGMusic and Norton and downloaded web-styles); I'll play with it this weekend and see what happens.
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Thanks for the info as I was interested in the program but the key phrase in your post was -
"The list of styles included in within Notation Composer (that are also included in the Band-in-a-Box Pro version)". In other words they are not addition styles but a useful pathway for Notation users
jazzman
I'm following this thread also to see if it opens more midi channels. I'm not fully understanding the limitation you're addressing.
My understanding is the BIAB Styles the Notation program uses are taken from the Pro Version of BIAB which is not new additional BIAB Styles but duplicate the existing Styles that ship with the BIAB Pro version. But my thought is that any of the other BIAB packages that include more Styles, would also work with the Notation program as well as third party Styles like Norton or even Styles I may create.
I agree with your analysis I am considering getting Notation but unsure if the BB plug-in is limited to just the 100+ BB pro styles, as it was infered in this thread that these may be "extra styles" which we now know are not.
I look forward to seeing if fellow posters experiment to see if more present and future styles can be accessed with interest
jazzman
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Thanks for your reply jazzman. I've never looked at or was even aware of Notation before this thread and I'm interested to see how it may open more midi channels in BIAB. So I'll be following along on the sidelines.
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