My name is April. I'm part of a small jazz ensemble (the same one that Russell belongs to). I'm using his PC here because I don't have one at the moment and we are attempting to collaborate on some original arrangements. I am just learning how to use BIAB software.

In answer to the previous post, no, it's not what I want. Seems like others on the forum are wondering the same thing as I've now discovered. What I'm hearing is that we accept either MIDI or RealTracks but right now, we can't expect the two to behave with one another. Yes?

What I / we do want, is the sound of a RealTrack played note for note as it appears in an existing MIDI file. I don't want to play a MIDI file. I like what I hear from the RealTracks but not at the expense of changing the notation I've created.

As an example: If the 'Silent Night' MIDI tune I got from my collaborator has the melody buried in the melody track ... and if we want to collaborate on a tune that sounds the best we can make it ... (short of diddling with MIDI synths and stuff), seems we would need (and want), to use RealTrack replacements for the existing MIDI tracks. However, the trade-off seems to be that if I use a RealTrack on my melody track, I will lose the note-for-note arrangement that I've created (in a MIDI format). If I chose to do this (for the sake of quality), I lose Silent Night as we know it! Yes?

Now, according to the user manual I can exchange MIDI for a RealTrack for any track I desire. AFTER the RealTrack has been applied / generated I can go back into the track via Editable Notation Mode and manually type my score back in. Yes?

Sorry but I'm very new to this and computers.

Thank you,

April

Ike