Have to disagree a little. After trying everything 6 ways from Sunday:

1. .MID files open and save directly in Realband, no Import or Export needed.

2. Open a .MID file without chords, make some chords, and then save the file as a .MID with Realband; that file will then re-open with the same chords showing next time. It does not make new ones, and no .seq file is involved. Chords show again, even if you have chord-interpretation turned off, and also the program does not issue the notice that it is making new chords.

3. These persisting chords are invisible to something like Sonar. That sequencer will open that same file normally, then save it again without a fuss.

4. And once saved in Sonar, the chords are still there when it's re-opened again in RB ! (I couldn't guess how that would work. But chords definitely survive even that.)


Anyway, as I thought I had read somewhere some time ago, they do have the chord info embedded into .MID files in a scheme of their own. There are some little-used text provisions in the MIDI standard. I suspect PG have tapped into those to use as a proprietary stash.

These are absolutely not SEQ files keeping the chords. They are .MID files.

Larry
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