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Hi gang,

New user here. I'm a songwriter and while im excited about BIAB's potential, I'm a bit leery about
always using canned arrangements. You know, not all songs are follow the leader, every instrument can have it's own hook/melody to play, or needs to play an arrangement that is supportive of the main instrument hooks.

So, my attention came to the fact that you can edit in Midi, and that would trigger the real band tracks, giving it the real feel. So is this to say, that I could use a midi guitar converter, play a bass line for example, save it as midi, and then somehow get it into the BIAB, so that instead of playing the canned pattern it will play what I played in Midi?



Yes, but not with Real Tracks. A midi track can only trigger a midi synth not an RT. The RT/RD's are prerecorded audio files that Biab can chop up according to your chords. That's very cool, much better than audio loops but like audio loops, you have no control over individual notes. What most of us do is first use Real Band, not Biab. RB gives you 48 tracks to work with. You could start with a good midi file you may have found on the internet, or create the midi tracks yourself like you described, modify it to your liking, then start adding RT's and RD's to it on separate tracks. RB allows you to create a new instrument part by picking a Biab style and either having it create a midi part or a RT part. You can do this on separate tracks as much as you want. By mixing a RT with a good midi part that has all the song specific hooks and things you can wind up with a good overall sound. Having said that, I do some gigs as a trio that require solid covers of classic songs and we will just use a good midi file played through my Korg PA1XPro keyboard. My Korg has outstanding sound quality and I could care less about trying to create one of those tunes using Real Tracks. I love the sound of the RT's and I'm good enough with these programs to do it but in a live casino setting with all the bling/boing sounds flying around that extra sound quality would be completely lost anyway.

Bob

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