Hi Blake, you are right, BIAB sends chords to external arranger, and it can even drive the accompaniment on that, changing chords with its auto-accompaniment or auto-arpeggio, etc. features (!).

Moreover, here is my workaround to get a MIDI file with chords that can be read on the display of a Yamaha keyboard: I have to transmit via MIDI the whole file to my keyboard (playing it), and record the file on it. For this to work, here is what I do in Biab: I enable ‘output chords to external arranger’, where I ‘output MIDI Sync info’, ‘select Channel 16’ for the chords to be sent, set ‘# 0 ticks before chord change to output’; other things do not influence. I saved these into my Preferences.
On my keyboard, I have built a MIDI user preset where I have external clock control, and chord detect on channel 16. Moreover, I have to set each sequencer channel to read MIDI inputs instead of Right1, Right2, Left and so on, that it would search as default. This way I can both have the keyboard playing following BIAB chords (!), and record chords and midi in a new file on the keyboard, where it converts chords info (notes played) in chords meta events, written in XF format in the resulting file.

This is fine at the end of the day, but I have not found yet a way to send variation and fill-in commands. I have to put them into the file in step mode, afterward.

I would so much appreciate the possibility to embed XF chords in those MIDI files produced directly in BIAB, avoiding such a time consuming workaround. Also because I have not been able to send and record lyrics, the way I described.


Thank you

Maurizio

Last edited by maurig; 06/03/11 12:34 AM.