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Hey,
I am new to this amazing software and everything looks terrifying to me. But what I want is simple, but yet I can't find in this program that I could find in others: how do I remove instruments, for example drums or piano, while playing a .MIDI file from a song I found off the internet?
Thanks.
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When you load a MIDI file, BiaB should automatically disable the Style.
This is confirmed when the Style name in the Style window, below the Songtitle window, has an 'X' in front of it.
If you inadvertently enabled the Style somehow and now don't want it to play along with the MIDI, simply RightClick on the Style name window and choose, "Disable.."
--Mac
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how do I remove instruments, for example drums or piano, while playing a .MIDI file from a song I found off the internet?
Welcome.
Hit the SEQ button on the tool bar, midmainscreen, right side. Choose "sequencer on melody track." If by "remove" you mean "silence" just untick the channels you don't want to hear. If you mean literally delete the data on those channels, hit the appropriate button(s) in the edit column and choose delete.
Keep in mind that the ability of BB to play/edit midi files like this is a peripheral function. The core functionality is... well to be a band in a box. 
Have fun, -Ron
EDIT - My post crossed Mac's. Two interpretations of the question. Take yer pick
Last edited by rkl122; 01/19/10 07:41 PM.
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OK, thanks Mac for the reply...
Here's the thing... I am a guitar player and all I want is to have a backing track for my guitar playing... perhaps some drums and bass running in the background to accompany me.... so does that mean I can for example load up an MP3 file on BiaB and it can play some drums and bass according to the music that's been played in the loaded MP3 file?
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An mp3 file is not a MIDI file. It is audio and all instruments on the file are "together" in that audio file.
BiaB cannot separate those out for you.
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Ahh... thanks rkl122 you too...
Hey i'm having trouble with almost everything here... i have realdrums sets installed and it's playing but completely of out sync with the rest and i can't get it to sync out or just change the tempo of the drums...
i'm messed up...can anybody willing to help add me on messenger or something please? i'll send an MP if so...
please...thanks =(
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Hit the SEQ button on the tool bar, midmainscreen, right side. Choose "sequencer on melody track." If by "remove" you mean "silence" just untick the channels you don't want to hear. If you mean literally delete the data on those channels, hit the appropriate button(s) in the edit column and choose delete.
WoW! THanks!! this is what i was looking for :-)
Gracias^^
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BTW, using Band in a Box in this fashion really defeats the purpose. My suggestion is to find a folder in the band in a box files that says FOLK. Under this are Irish, Scottish, English, and Children's folders. Find a song you know and like. Play it. Change the key, play it. Check the tempo, the time sig, and press the style button and go find a country style for it. Play that.
Figure out how to right click an instrument at the top, remembering the tempo, and go find yourself a fiddle or harmonica with a close tempo. Play it. Change volumes on the tracks. Right click on the buttons at the top to mute the thing.
Then go into the Styles file and find the 'example' for each style. Load that and listen and watch. Change the key, mute the guitar and strum along.
You'll soon fine out the last thing you want to do is use it to play someone's midi file from the internet.
You can also find all sorts of predone band in a box files using google. Just type in "Band in a Box songs" and go hunting.
Good Luck
John Conley
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Have you read the manual? Please do.
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Hello prankstare, Quote:
i have realdrums sets installed and it's playing but completely of out sync with the rest and i can't get it to sync out or just change the tempo of the drums...
If you are not using a VSTi/DXi synth plugin, then audio tracks are not always automatically in sync with MIDI tracks. There are settings to adjust this, but you might try a DXi synth first. In the Opt.| MIDI Driver Setup dialog, check the Use DXi Synth checkbox and select the VSC-DXi in the top plugin slot (the VSC would have been installed with Band-in-a-Box as long as your operating system is 32-bit.). If you have a non-DXi synth that you would prefer to use, then you might need to adjust the Driver Latency setting in the MIDI Driver Setup, or the Audio Latency setting in the Audio Settings window.
Andrew
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VSTi/DXi
Man... this is what I needed... the sound is much better and in synch now thanks!!! 
Ohh... i have one more question here.... okay let's suppose i leave out the MIDI stuff for now and want to use BiaB to go along with my guitar playing... the thing is that i have been watching some videos on youtube and it appears that it can play REAL INSTRUMENTS instead of crappy MIDI sounds... but the thing is...i can't make it play like that... all I can hear are crappy MIDI sounds... except for the drums, that i have managed to get a realdrums package but thats it...
like this video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwfDG7NWQ0E&feature=related&fmt=18
i have done (or tried) do everything this video says to do...the video says it's using realstyles... all i have installed here is styles with realtracks... i'm using BiaB Version 2008 (257) and i'm going maaaaad... :P
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I may be wrong, but I don't think Real Tracks were available in version 2008, only real drums. You may need to upgrade to be able to use real tracks.
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Oh nooooo... tell me this isn't true... how can I update to 2008.5?
does the 2009 version already have realstyles?
Last edited by prankstare; 01/20/10 01:15 PM.
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Today you would really want to update to the current version, BiaB 2010.
The PGMusic main sales page will tell you the upgrade packages and their pricing.
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Hi again Mac...
But i would like to know whether version 2009 already have realstyles compatibility atleast....
i'm from brazil and shipping would be way pricey...
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The latest version ships as a very small usb hard drive. Actually I use the Ketron SD2 midi device which PG music sells from the store on the website here.
The Dxi synth sounds ok though. The best way to deal with this is to bite the bullet, get everything, and then update it at least once a year. Great things keep on happening and I'm sure it will continue.
And it is very hard for people here who are almost all running the current version, to provide help to others...
John Conley
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Hi again Mac...
But i would like to know whether version 2009 already have realstyles compatibility atleast....
i'm from brazil and shipping would be way pricey...
BB2009 has RealTracks capability.
You would likely not be able to use the Shots and Holds feature with RealTracks and that version.
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OK. Thanks guys. You guys were very helpful and I appreciate that. BiaB is definitely a superb program and I'll certainly do everything I can to keep-up with the yearly updates - it's hard due to money problems 
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