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At this stage it seems that you can't load songs with Melodies or Midi on the Solo track as the new Plugin doesn't seem to support the BIAB MGX file format.
Seems a bit strange??
It will open older files with Melodies MGU but if you change the extension from MGX to MGU (something I regularly do when moving songs from WIN to OSX) it seems to "crash" the Plugin.
Are others finding the same problem?
iMac, 3.7 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5, BIAB MAC2024 (802), Audient iD4
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MGX file extensions indicate that a multichannel MIDI file is present on either Melody or Soloist track. This occurs if an external MIDI is loaded into BIAB and then saved as a BIAB file. The below is from the 2019 manual. You can open an entire MIDI file into Band-in-a-Box. The chords will be automatically interpreted by the Chord Wizard and the MIDI file will play and display on the Melody track. A “silent” style will be loaded so you will only hear the MIDI file. When the file is saved, the extension will be MGX, allowing you to easily identify the BB songs that you have that contain entire MIDI files. To elaborate on the above... When a MIDI file is opened in BIAB, a 16-channel track-type is created on either the Melody or Soloist track depending on where the MIDI file is sent. In the BIAB program, this occurs in the background. As far as I'm aware, the VST plugin does not support a 16-channel MIDI file on a single track like the program does. As mentioned above, from a user's perspective, the MGX extensions indicate that the BIAB song file is MIDI on either the Melody or Soloist Track (with no style playing). To transfer this MIDI to a DAW just drag the Melody (or Soloist) track across to the DAW. When I drag across in Reaper, I'm asked if I want the multichannels split onto separate tracks (to which I say 'yes'). Hope this helps. Regards, Noel
MY SONGS...Audiophile BIAB 2024
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Strange thing is, as I have both WIN & MAC, I have some songs with a version in each format MGU & MGX (MAC doesn’t open MGX).
When I firt tried the DAW plugin, I opened the MAC MGU, which was in the same folder in fact you won’t see the MGX fro the plugin dialogue.
The plugin opened the file with Melody & Midi solo just fine, generated and allowed me to drag all the tracks into Cubase just fine.
To use WIN MGX files on my MAC I just change the extension from MGX to MGU and it works fine but this method caused the plugin in to crash.
Yes, I’ll drag the Midi files the old way until we see if there is a solution to this.
iMac, 3.7 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5, BIAB MAC2024 (802), Audient iD4
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The reason the MGX still works in BIAB (Mac) is because like the Windows version, the Mac version of BIAB also supports multi-channel tracks on the Melody and Soloist track from what I can gather in the manual.
MY SONGS...Audiophile BIAB 2024
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