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Thanks Martin, Lyn and Mac for your further replies - you've given me much food for thought, and it's going to take a while to properly digest it all. Not overnight, but it will happen!
For now, I can say to Mac that the MIDI file in question was a standard BB SGU file - does BB produce Type 1 files? I opened another BB file at random to look some more at channel information in the event list window and found the bass on channels 11, 12, 13 and 14; the piano on 8 and 9; and the guitar all on 7.
Also, you mentioned "one patch per channel": seems quite sensible, but upon opening another BB file for a look, I found guitar on 12 through 16, and bass on 11 through 14 (assigned channels in the tracks window were 7 and 2 respectively, which I think is normal). So now we have patches sharing channels 12, 13 and 14 - it seems like the more I look, the murkier and more confusing it all gets. Is there any simple answer to all this apparent confusion, or possibly some further reading you could recommend?
Clinton.



BiaB can put Bass or Guitar parts on separate channels, one for each string. This is so the TAB can be derived, among other things.

For what you are doing, you may wish to not have that happen, though. To put all the strings of the Bass or the Guitar onto ONE channel, go to Notation Options and deselect the Bass or Guitar on separate channels using the dropdown window. Then Save the song like that (I'd use SaveAs and a slightly different name so as not to overwrite the original).

Alternatively, you could choose to Rechannel those four or six separate channels inside RealBand or PT and put them onto one channel each.


--Mac

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