Originally Posted By: CarlosEArellano

For this reason, when I record with a synth guitar, I emphasize playing the notes as cleanly as possible, especially in quick phrases. This reduces cleanup and subsequent editing of MIDI data to very little.


Thanks Carlos and nice playing.

Regarding your comment "This reduces cleanup and subsequent editing of MIDI data to very little." above, this is the issue. The notation I put in the melody track is either an original song melody or simple record lift melodies. I use AnthemScore to assist with record lifting. I figure out the timing of the notes and enter them directly in BIAB. This is faster and cheaper than trying to play it, run it through extra expensive equipment, adjust it. This is all front end stuff (getting the notes in). My question has nothing to do with front end. It has to do with making the melody track such that it does not turn people new to BIAB off. I think PG-Music needs to have an over view course web page for absolute beginners on this topic "making the melody track such that it does not turn people new to BIAB off". The beginner steps through the course topics in prerequisite sequence after they get the overview. If they think they know a topic they (don't drill down into the details but instead skip to the next topic). So as an example entering melodies could be a topic with two sub topics (manual notation entry and midi instrument playing entry). When I first got BIAB in 2012 I would process that topic but now I would skip that topic.

Last edited by bowlesj; 06/21/20 05:02 AM.
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