Originally Posted By: Planobilly
When I did the test just now, BIAB would not render the song at all until I played a few bars.

Can you test that idea? Any midi song. Load it but don't hit play. Go straight to render.

Billy

Billy,
I just loaded an all MIDI style, and checked notation for one of the instruments. Its was blank/empty as expected.

Then I dragged the Master onto the MIDI drop-zone, which went green almost immediately, and when I checked the same instrument (ElPiano), the notation was now available.

So I am surmising that the single action of dragging the Master track to the MIDI drop-zone also generates the song (if required), which matches what Matt mentioned above.

In my tests, the notation never changed by dragging multiple additional times unless the Generate/Play button was pressed.

I repeated with a new song, loaded a style demo, the tracks were empty (song was not generated) and then I used your steps:
file
save special
save song as a midi file
type one midi file
OK save as file

And it definitely generated the file before saving.

HTH a little,

Trev

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