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Original BIAB file saved as a seq file in RB. The style was all realtracks so I presume there was no midi information at all anywhere so right click on a spare tracks and choose 'generate midi' did nothing.

Changing the style left me with my realtracks and luckily I knew which midi style had the kind of bass part I wanted. So midi generation worked.

I then exported the bass part as a wav and reimported (not strictly necessary but meant I was dealing with all audio)

Firstly is there a quick and easy way to generate the midi in the first place? I rather assumed that in the helpful PG Music way 'generate midi' might give me a menu of styles in the same feel as the original style (genre, time signature and eighths or sixteenths etc.) The stylepicker didn't seem to pop up the usual choices. But as I say I knew the midi style that would be right - but now I have so many there might have been a better choice I could audition.

Secondly I seem to have forgotten how to render a midi track to audio within RB (I used to do in Powertracks). Can someone remind me please? The RB and BIAB manuals are such weighty tomes sometimes a simple issue like this is a little hard to find. I'm sure I used to pick the midi track, pick the destination track and simply watch PT render the track to audio without leaving the program.

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To convert to audio:
Right click on the data display area of the desired (and selected) track. Not the name area, the note display area.
Then select Auto convert MIDI track to audio track.
These options have moved around in the menus over the years, and I am describing the current version above.

RB handles generating a little differently than BiaB.
When you go to generate a single track it will offer all the realtracks so you can generate grunge as well as blue grass or anything else .. styles in RB are not a priority unless you are working on a SGU file. SEQ files are different.
The quickest way I know to narrow the choices is to use the filters in the realtracks picker or (if looking for, say, a tempo) use the sort options.


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With midi there are as you did midi styles that you can import and delete the tracks you don’t want

Also you can user super midi tracks in RB, or there are millions of midi loops out there on the web. There are gazzilions of midi song files out there. You can write midi in the piano roll or other tools. Or play them in with a midi keyboard.


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