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BIAB 2015 (417) Win 7, using MIDI:
I have a melody line on the Soloist track of a file that I want to copy over to the Soloist track of a similar BIAB file (different chords) that I have opened in a separate instance. I'll call them "A" (source) and "B" (destination).
According to my Live Help session yesterday, I should be able to use the Piano Roll mode, and simply copy and paste.
I can't get that to work (and Tech Support isn't open today).
Here's my process:
- Open the song in Piano Roll mode in A and display the bars containing all the notes I wish to copy
- Using the left mouse button and the "bullseye" cursor, I click and drag a box around all the notes, turning them red
- Using the dropdown edit menu, I select Copy (I've also tried using Ctrl C, same result)
- The note data SHOULD now be on the Windows clipboard
- I move the cursor to B, which is already open in Piano Roll mode at the required location
- I move the bullseye cursor up to the "Note Time Ruler" so that it turns into a finger-pointing hand, and left click where I want the copied notes to start
- That places a green "I Beam" into Note Time Ruler
- Using the dropdown edit menu, I select Paste (I've also tried using Ctrl V, same result) - nothing happens
- If instead, I right click in B anywhere in the Piano Roll window, the resulting menu box shows both "Paste-Replace" and "Paste-Merge" as greyed out/unavailable
Any suggestions?
Help!
Thanks.
Lloyd S
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Hi Lloyd, I've just tried the following in BIAB 2015 and it worked perfectly (and copied midi melody and lyrics). 1. Drag the Soloist track to the "MID" quadrant of the Dropbox  This will create a midi file of the Soloist track. First the quadrant will be orange (as above) and, when the process is finished, it will be green. 2. Open your second BIAB file. 3. Under the "Melody" menu (#1 below), navigate to "Import Melody From Midi File".  4. Go to the bb\DragDrop folder and look for the file called... SONGNAME BBSoloist_MIDI (some descriptive style/midi words here)_0.MID5. Select the file. Leave all midi channels selected because the midi file will only contain a single channel and that's the one that will load in. 6. Select. The file should now be loaded onto the Melody track. If you want the file loaded into Soloist, simply follow the above procedure except via the Soloist menu on the uppermost menu bar. Regards, Noel
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Noel:
I followed your instructions to the letter, but no luck. It "says" MIDI file imported successfully 206 MIDI events, but there's no sign of them on either the "Soloist" or the "Melody" track.
The notes I'm trying to copy are on a track called "New Age" because the patch is called "89 Pad-New Age" so there's no actual "Melody" not "Soloist" buttons to drag, but I did drag the one that said "New Age" to the MID section.
Perhaps I'll do a sample test from a brand new file (or a BIAB sample file) and see if I can get it to work from there. I'll report back with my progress.
Thanks for your help!
LLOYD
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Lloyd,
It worked for me.
Have you tried setting the track type to 16 channel (this setting is to the right of #1 in the image in the above post)?
Also, did you play the file to see if you could hear the melody? It might be there, just not visible.
Just a thought.
Noel
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It might be on another track that you can copy to the "Soloist" or Melody" track.
Can you open the other SGU in Realband then you can SEE all the tracks,
you can just drag the midi exported from BB straight into to Realband then "save as" a BB file selecting the the "Soloist" & "Melody" track in the popup.
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Sorry Noel thought it was a thread from last night. What are you doing up so early 
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I tried a sample BIAB file and it worked fine.
Going back to my original files.
Will report back.
Thanks!
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Noel / solidrock:
I managed to get it to work the way Noel explained it. It may have had something to do with the "16 channel" setting, I'm not sure as I had changed some other settings.
But at least I know the "process" works so I'll keep playing with it until
- I know how to use it
- I get all the notes I want copied, into the new file
Thanks so much for your help!
LLOYD S|
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