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I wrote a chord progression of a song using ezkey2 in STUDIO ONE, and then exported the MIDI. The name is song.midi

I used Biab main program to open song.midi

But I found that some chords were missing. Is this normal, or am I doing it wrong?

File>>>Open >>>Choose song.midi


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Could you post the midi file (song.midi) so that we can have a look at it to see what might have happened? You will need to use a host site such as Dropbox and you could provide a link for people to download the file.


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MIDI files do not contain chord symbols. Chords are interpreted when imported into BIAB.


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Originally Posted by Noel96
Could you post the midi file (song.midi) so that we can have a look at it to see what might have happened? You will need to use a host site such as Dropbox and you could provide a link for people to download the file.


hi. thanks.

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Hi babymusic,

When I have a look at the notation for the midi file, the C chords are present as notation but BIAB has not interpreted that chord and entered it on the chordsheet. This suggests that something is not working properly in BIAB. I'll pass this information on to the development team. I'll also refer them to this thread so that they can download your MIDI file.

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I got the same results as Noel. BiaB is reading the entire measure as Am7 because of the common notes between the two chords, i.e. C-E-G.

There is a workaround IF you need the correct chords before BiaB fixes the problem. Select the beat 3 of the second measure and click ctrl F2, then type C. BiaB will add the C chord. Do this for all missing C chords OR copy and paste the corrected measure where needed.

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Originally Posted by Noel96
This suggests that something is not working properly in BIAB. I'll pass this information on to the development team. I'll also refer them to this thread so that they can download your MIDI file.
--Noel

Originally Posted by MarioD
I got the same results as Noel.

OK!
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I found this interesting also. It's as though BIAB didn't need to name a chord if it was in the key signature of the song. However, it appears that it's automatically using the relative minor, even ignoring the C in the bass.


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BabyMusic, Please tell the steps you made to get the midi file into Band-in-a-Box.

Did you navigate to (1) File > Open Special > Open MIDI File or (2) File > Import > Import Melody from MIDI File or (3) File > Import > Import to Soloist Part from MIDI File or (4) some other method I didn't think of?


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My firewall is blocking that site.?


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My firewall is blocking that site.?

ditto that


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Originally Posted by Matt Finley
My firewall is blocking that site.?
I've got access, and possibly Noel has also.


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Originally Posted by Jim Fogle


(1) File > Open Special > Open MIDI File


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Thanks for the response. That's the response I hoped you would say. Unfortunately I have no suggestion.


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Confirmed and reported, bug id# 4956


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Originally Posted by Simon - PG Music
Confirmed and reported, bug id# 4956

Thank you very much!


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