Sorry to lead you astray. Drums need the proper General MIDI drum notes, not a C7 chord.

I've been writing styles in BiaB since the early 1990s when I was using an Atari/ST computer. I wrote some styles, gave them to my friends, and my friends told me they liked them better than the PG Music "built-in" styles. (Aren't friends great?). So I took out an ad in Electronic Musician magazine and started selling them.

One day Peter Gannon called and offered to convert the Atari styles to PC styles (we called the format IBM back then). Peter has been helpful and encouraging ever since.

Back in the beginning the StyleMaker had 3 instruments and no shots, holds, rests or endings. It's grown step by step since then and I've grown with it.

Get the basic concepts down, and then start working on the advanced features like the masks, macros, multiple patterns for the same situation, and so on.

The masks will allow you to determine when a particular pattern shows up (like after a roll, when a V7 chord leads into a I chord, when the next chord is the same and so on). The macros allow you to make the styles do piano and guitar things that are otherwise either difficult or impossible within the other limitations of Band-in-a-Box.

The more you develop your familiarity with these functions, the more your style will act like a real band. But don't worry about that now, get basic style writing down first, then I suggest add the piano macros as the next step.

I'm happy to help.

Notes

Last edited by Notes Norton; 07/30/20 02:49 AM.
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