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A major annoyance -

I find a style I like; I select an instrument to play a generated melody. It's all good.

I want a solo in the middle chorus - I know now how to do that. But I want a violin to play it.

I can select that in the Soloist menu - but when I click OK it switches it to a guitar.

No matter what I do, it won't play as a violin.

Is it the style I chose? (new age 1, not that it shoudl matter).

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There is a program change setting that keeps telling the program to play the guitar. You must change that setting to play a violin, i.e. change the program change (PG) from a number 41 (violin) to a number between 25-32 depending on which guitar sound you want. You normally would do this in the MIDI editor, i.e. the Event List Editor but I may have found a bug.

Would someone please check this out. I have a track with program changes. These changes show up in notation and in the MIDI monitor. But they do not show up in the Event List Editor even though there is an option to list only program changes. Thus I can not edit said changes. So is it something that I am doing wrong or is this a bug. And yes I did a return for factory settings. Thanx in advance.


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Is it the style I chose? (new age 1, not that it shoudl matter).

Tell us more.
Presumably the actual style name is 'NEWAGE_1', (not 'new age 1'), and it is a completely MIDI instruments style?

When you selected Soloist, did you select MIDI (first image below)?

When you selected Soloist instrument, did you select Violin as per second image below?

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Still learning I guess - and I can't re-create the actual sequence, but I did get it to work.

What seemed to happen is after I have it set to Violin as the solo instrument (exactly as your picture shows) it still says guitar in the track mixer.

But when I play the section where the solo comes it, it changes to violin and now has stayed there.

I know that sounds suspect - and so maybe I have it wrong. All I do know is it's right now.

Thanks much for the responses!

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What seemed to happen is after I have it set to Violin as the solo instrument (exactly as your picture shows) it still says guitar in the track mixer.

I think that's a bug that has been identified previously.

Can you check and advise if you have an audio file (.WAV, .MP3) by the same name in the same folder that your BiaB music file is located (.MGU, .SGU etc). This may / may not be related.


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I did create a mid file of the song but this was happening before I did that so I don't think that's the reason.

Like I say it does seem to make the change once it hits the section the solo happens in.

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OK, but remember that a MIDI file is not an Audio file. My question was about Audio files.


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