Originally Posted By: nelsonmay
I am playing with BB 2022 with an M1 Mini. I am noticing that a lot of song/styles, I guess you call them, have a lot of instruments that sound like an old Atari video game. Is this because I don't own all the sound packs needed, or is this just the MIDI engine making up sound for the particular track?

Is this the way the software is designed?


I don't know anything about the M1 Mini. That said, it could be that the styles or songs you are hearing are MIDI based. Does the M1 Mini play MIDI files? Typcially, the quality of sound for MIDI styles depends on the quality of software used to interpret the MIDI information. With superior software synthesizers, MIDI sounds awesome. The standard computer software it could indeed sound like "an old Atari video game".

BIAB styles that begin with an underscore (e.g. _ACCFOLK) are realtracks and are audio sounds.

Styles that being with an equals sign (e.g. =TEXMETL) are a mixture of realtracks and MIDI.

Styles beginning with M_ (e.g. M_CPLPNO) are a mixture of realtracks and superior MIDI tracks.

Styles that begin with just plain letters (older versions of BIAB... e.g. ZZBOSA) or a hyphen (newer versions of BIAB... e.g. -ZZBOSA) are fully MIDI styles.

Hope this helps.
Noel

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