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importing midi files/chord charts????? #26473 06/17/09 02:42 PM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 7 C charliehornsby OP Newbie
OP charliehornsby Newbie C Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 7	guys, i just bought band in a box. i'm a piano player playing in some rock/blues bands. if i can find/buy/download pre-made midi files online, can i import them into Band in a Box so i can play along with the trax? thank you!

Re: importing midi files/chord charts????? charliehornsby #26474 06/17/09 03:27 PM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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OP charliehornsby Newbie C Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 7	in other words, what's the most time efficient way to get a song structure/chords into a BIAB file? are there sites that offer downloadable files that you can import and play along with?

Re: importing midi files/chord charts????? charliehornsby #26475 06/17/09 04:43 PM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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fgrittner Expert F Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,066 St. Paul, Minnesota	Go here and several thousand standards in BIAB format await you. I love to play along with these tunes. http://www.members.shaw.ca/glitch/bbfiles.html Last edited by fgrittner; 06/17/09 04:44 PM.

Re: importing midi files/chord charts????? fgrittner #26476 06/18/09 09:35 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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OP charliehornsby Newbie C Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 7	wow! great! thank you so much! if you think of anything else, please let me know!

Re: importing midi files/chord charts????? charliehornsby #26477 06/18/09 09:37 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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OP charliehornsby Newbie C Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 7	i checked out this site, when i clicked on the "a songs", "b songs", "c songs"... i just get a page of gibberish. what am i doing wrong? thanks,

Re: importing midi files/chord charts????? charliehornsby #26478 06/18/09 09:40 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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Mac Veteran M Joined: May 2000 Posts: 38,502 Chesapeake, Virginia USA	Quote: i checked out this site, when i clicked on the "a songs", "b songs", "c songs"... i just get a page of gibberish. what am i doing wrong? thanks, The macintosh will let you view the ascii representative of files that are meant for downloading. What you need to do is Save the file to disk rather than view it. Command-Click on that hotlink instead to bring up the Downloader. --Mac PGmusic FAQs, Tutorials and Updates! click here You must be Audiominds. www.audiominds.com

Re: importing midi files/chord charts????? Mac #26479 06/19/09 11:03 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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StephanieM Enthusiast S Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 66 Maple Ridge, BC	Mac is close - the problem is that Allanah's files are in WinRAR format, with a .rar extension. Unassisted, Safari doesn't recognise these as downloadable (as opposed to displayable) files. To force a file to download, it's OPTION-click (not command-click). You'll still end up with a .rar file but any reasonably new version of Stuffit Expander can deal with this. Last edited by StephanieM; 06/19/09 11:03 AM. Stephanie

Re: importing midi files/chord charts????? StephanieM #26480 06/20/09 06:24 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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Nomi Enthusiast N Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 87 Germany	Hi Stephanie, I have got a programm called „UnRarX“, I don't know from whom I got it. May be I got it there: http://unrarx.softonic.de/mac. This programm will decompress the downloaded file („bba.rar“ for example) automatically. Please remember to download the Biab-rar-files in an extra „Ordner“ (I don‘t know the English word); otherwise you get hundreds of files in the place the rar-file was downloaded first, when you open it by a double-click. (Pleas apoligize my bad school-English.) Greetings from Nomi Germany iMac, Intel Core i9, 64 GB, OS X 13.4 BiaB 2023 for Mac, Audiophile version

Re: importing midi files/chord charts????? StephanieM #26481 06/20/09 06:29 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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Nomi Enthusiast N Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 87 Germany	Hi Stephanie, the correct address is: http://unrarx.softonic.de/mac (without that point „.“ at the end. Greetings from Nomi Germany iMac, Intel Core i9, 64 GB, OS X 13.4 BiaB 2023 for Mac, Audiophile version

Re: importing midi files/chord charts????? Nomi #26482 06/20/09 06:40 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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edbulmer Expert Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 809 Toronto	To add further if you have a program like winzip you can right click on your mouse for instance the "a" list on songs. Then chose "save link as". Then you can just chose which songs you want to decompress in winzip. That way you don't have to decompress the whole file. My website to hear my stuff- http://www.edbulmer.com/ guitar player, vocalist, sailor

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