This stuff is awful confusing. Let me see if I can mess it up more.

BIAB-VST will not interpret the notes in a midi file and assign a chord name to them which can be then viewed in the Chord Chart section. This requires "chord labels" present in midi file. BIAB and the BIAB-VST both will write chord labels to a midi section. But that is based on what you have typed into the chord chart.

BIAB will open a midi file and interpret chords then translate them to chord names and place them in the chord chart.

Scaler will open a midi file and interpret chords and translate them to chord names and place them in the scaler chord chart.

Scalar will allow midi track you have recorded, to be dragged from Reaper into Scaler and will interpret the chords and translate them to chord names and place them in the Scaler chord chart. And then will assign Chord Labels to be dragged back into Reaper.

Here is how it all comes together.
Once the midi track from Scaler is back in Reaper with the chord labels, you can drag it into BIAB-VST to appear in the Chord Chart. That's what you wanted, right? There is currently a small bug with this action listed over in the beta forum, which the BIAB developers have indicated they will soon fix.

I did a video on this whole workflow several months ago... crazy

More confused?? Or maybe just thinking, Cheese and Crackers, if you have to do all that, when do you get any music made? grin




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