OK - some good progress. Thanks for the sanity check. I have one of these little MIDIMAN USB1X1 boxes, and it was configured properly for Cubase input, but I hadn't set it up in BIAB. I set it to thru, and monitored the audio playback of the imported MP3 from the PC, and the MIDI I was creating actually from the audio out of the wind controller. I'm using onboard synths from the wind controller for this, and didn't want to have any delay issues with the MIDI playback on the PC. Plus, the wind controller synths sound much better than the PC and are optimized for breath control.

So I imported the MP3, turned off the style, set the key and BPM, and started recording in Melody mode. When finished I had a leadsheet with just a single staff, and my notes. I got rid of the tuples from notation by unchecking the triplet resolution, and also set notation to CLEAN. I selected trumpet for the Melody voice, and could hear my recorded MIDI playing back in sync with the imported audio.

I'm getting very close now, and have just a few more questions.

1) How do you insert rests into the notation? There were some measures where it extended notes and tied them together when really there was silence between them. I'd like to make these notate the way they were actually played, but couldn't figure out how to edit that.

2) After you've saved a take, how can you jump to a point on the imported audio and re-record just certain parts of the MIDI? I don't see a slider or REW/FFWD function. For instance, there was a solo on the audio track in the beginning, and then nothing until another solo on the bridge. I couldn't figure out how to just stop recording immediately after the first solo, save that, then jump ahead and start recording at the next solo. Every time I tried to record it always went back to the beginning of the audio. I ended up having to record the entire song as a single take.

I also got a few weird notes on playback where there would be a note stuck on throughout the playback, playing over the recorded MIDI. Once it started doing this, the only way I could get it to stop was to exit BIAB and go back in. Any ideas?

Oh, I also need to know how to insert empty measures in the notation as well.

Thanks for your patience and help!

Last edited by geekdout; 02/09/10 08:33 PM.