Best way to connect PC to PA

Best way to connect PC to PA 


he earphone jack on the standard laptop is electrically equivalent to an unbalanced stereo line output. Use of adaptors to break the signal out to L and R channels and then into any set of Line Level inputs on your PA will yield a very good result. (TIP: When doing this, make sure that the software mixer of your laptop has the Master and Wav, Software MIDI synth, outputs turned all the way up! This will drive the line the hardest, which is what we need here, for lowest signal to noise ratio and fullest sound. Get your volume level at the PA with the hardware fader.)
If your laptop is fairly new, there really is not a good enough advantage to buying an aftermarket soundcard for playback of programs like BIAB. This is because today's laptops are shipping with very good D-A output converters in them due to the customer demands to watch (and hear) multimedia. 

*ANy noise you experience is likely due to an AC GROUND LOOP. Use of a Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolator between laptop output and PA will safely eliminate that noise. Less than $20US


--Mac 

Unable to use midi output driver

Unable to use midi output driver
tip: http://www.pgmusic.com/techfaq17.htm#80 and unchecked all sw synths and configured the Roland VSG DXI synth,
There seems to be at least two areas of potential problem-

1. Use of ASIO drivers chosen in more than one open program ( I have had many problems using ASIO drivers but none with MME except for the latency which does not affect my use)

2. The grabbing of drivers when two programs with the same are used in a session

We have had success by these actions -

3. Complete closedown - wait 20 seconds and boot

4. Select ASIO drivers for one program and MME for the other

5. When the message shows you can choose an alternative driver for that session

6. Also one problem cleared itself after a Diskclean - Defrag and Registry clean and compaction

This seems to be a conflict rather than a bug in BIAB
jazzman 

Song Creation Strategy for BIAB

Song Creation Strategy for BIAB

This is the song generation strategy that works best for me.

1. Generate the song using BIAB
2. Mix or sequence them with Real Band or your fave such as Sonar or Audacity or Audition

Within BIAB
1. Create three templates Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

All to be generated ONE FILE per TRACK

2. Part 1 is for all the instruments except Melody and Solo. For example, the Bass, Piano, Guitar, Strings and Drums. These are your rhythm section. You dont need to change this often so it is better to put them as a group in Part 1.

3. Part 2 is a template based on Part 1 but this time, mute all other instruments except Melody. Why? Because this is where your need to experiment (no need to wait for that slow generating RealTracks. for example you use BIAB to generate a Melody.

(Note: if you want to add more tracks not accommodated in Part 1; you may also do that here. For example you want to add some Wind instruments or Strumming or Solo)

4. Part 3 is only the Soloist part. Why? same reason as melody.You want to experiment in Soloist till you best one without waiting for RealTracks that slows you down.

(Note: if you want to add more tracks not accommodated in Part 1; you may also do that here. For example you want to add some Wind instruments or Strumming or Solo)

5. Rename each track so that you will not confused (so many "melody" or "piano" names can confuse you.

6. Open all of them in your favorite Real Band or Cool Edit or Sonar etc...then mix all of them or part of them etc.. you can create different versions of the song (without piano, without electric).. Note that the Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 can give you so many channels to for different instruments and all of these tracks can be opened by Sonar and you can create different versions of your song in your sequencer.


6. And there's your song. Once you have the basic tracks, you can experiment with Part 2 and Part 3 for the best melody and solo. (NO NEED TO change everything.)

Issues about PANNING
I think this is what happens"
Case 1: When you generate the tracks on a PER FILE PER TRACK basis as part of generation of the BIAB song, then the PANNING is maintained. That is, if you use Sequencer to open them separately, their sounds, volume and pan are already embedded in each, and when you play them together as if you come to the original rendered song.

Case 2: When you generate ONLY a single TRACk (not part of the process of generating the entire song) then you get DEAD CENTER pan of that TRACK you generated.

Now, it is up to you. I find it best to PAN them at BIAB so I dont have to experiment too much about their PANNING in sonar or in Audacity. However, it is up to you.

Sound Levels: Do your final mixdown to 3dB levels. Now, if you want to master them at a higher volume (3dB is not loud enough for your iPod), 

- then you do a PEAK LIMIT effect (in Sonar or Real Ban) (the logic of PEAK LImit is somewhere in Google), 
- and then after that you can increase the GAIN.

(the PEAK limit is an important step to prevent distortions when you apply the gain)

Im not saying im correct in all items but hope this will save you some repetitive work. 

Ibanez IMG2010

http://www.joness.com/gr300/img2010.htm

http://www.joness.com/gr300/MC1.htm

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/product/Ibanez/2010+midi+controller/guitar/10/1

mac on midi guitar
idea2 2 try

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXSHs6f_5TU
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x62u2f_rolandgr20lo_music
http://www.musicequipmentvideos.com/Roland-GR-20-Guitar-Synthesizer/p/G02G63QS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlnLudG57Y8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTjoy_CQn1g&feature=related

export Yamaha style

export Yamaha style files to realband, or other sequencer, for processing and\or saving to midi 

MidiPlayer 2 

find style files here

http://www.1manband.nl/freestyles.htm

http://www.1manband.nl/links.htm

asio setup

Hi,

I wasn't entirely certain - I might have missed it - if you want to have Band-in-a-Box play through your Ensoniq synth, or if you want to play Band-in-a-Box through an internal synth on your computer.

Let's assume that you simply want to use your keyboard for input to play into Band-in-a-Box, but you want to hear everything (including what you play on your keyboard) played by an internal synth. By internal synth, I mean something like a MIDI synth built into your sound card (which you don't have; M-audio cards generally just have a MIDI interface to allow you to connect external device, they don't have a built-in MIDI synth), the Microsoft GS Wavetable (included with Windows) or the Roland VSC-DXi (the General MIDI compatible DXi synth included with Band-in-a-Box).

On your system, your options for "internal" MIDI output are the GS Wavetable or the Roland VSC-DXi. The Roland VSC3 used to be popular with Band-in-a-Box, and it acts like a "regular" MIDI Output driver, however it has become less compatible with newer computers, and it is much better and easier to use the Roland VSC-DXi instead. So the VSC-DXi is installed with Band-in-a-Box, while the VSC3 isn't. It is available if you want to install it, in the \bb\vsc\VSC_installs folder. But most people wouldn't want to install it.

Your best option is the Roland VSC-DXi - so select the "Use DXi Synth" checkbox.

There is a piece of information that you may be missing, which might be useful for you...

When you play your external MIDI keyboard, you hear the sound played by (it is routed to) either the MIDI output driver or DXi synth. That is, even if you have a DXi synth selected, when you play your keyboard, it might be routed to your MIDI output driver depending on some settings and whether song playback is happening. Here are the settings:

--
--if you are using "MME" audio drivers:

-If you have the "Route MIDI thru to MIDI driver" box checked, then it (live playing) will be routed to the MIDI driver (e.g. GS Wavetable) all the time.
-If you have the "Route MIDI thru to MIDI driver" box UNCHECKED, then it will be routed to the DXi synth while the song is playing, and to the MIDI driver (e.g. GS Wavetable) while there is no song playing.

--if you are using "ASIO" audio drivers:

-If you have the "ASIO Always On" box checked (in the ASIO Audio Drivers dialog), it is routed to the DXi (or VSTi) synth all the time whether the song is stopped or playing.

-If you have the "ASIO Always On" box unchecked, it is routed to the DXi synth while the song is playing, and through the MIDI Output Driver when the song is stopped.
--

So if you had been using MME driver, playing your keyboard and trying to determine the effect of the route MIDI thru... checkbox, you would have always been hearing it play through the GS Wavetable unless you happened to have a song playing while you were testing.

There are reasons for the way it works... the "DXi synth" usually has much more latency than the "MIDI output driver", and with that much latency it doesn't make sense to use it as your output for live playing. In your case, the GS Wavetable has alot of latency and happens to be your only available internal "MID driver".. This is common with many newer computers, but wasn't always the case. The GS Wavetable had far less latency on Windows 98 than XP, and has far less latency on XP than it does on Vista. In addition, many people have soundcards like the SoundBlaster series which have built-in MIDI synths with no latency. Other people have external synths like you do, but they're using them for output in addition to input, and that has no latency.

The latency problem of soft synths is generally solved with the use of ASIO drivers, although it is often more difficult to get ASIO drivers set up on specific computers. "ASIO4ALL" is an excellent solution and works great on most people's computers. One problem is that on some systems it can conflict with the GS Wavetable. The solution is to make sure that the GS Wavetable isn't selected anywhere in your setup.

Note that it is possible to inadvertently "select" the GS Wavetable by choosing the "MIDI Mapper" or "No MIDI Output". In general, you should ignore the MIDI Mapper, which was useful on Windows 95/98/ME, but is no longer useful/functional on newer versions of Windows, as far as I know.

Here is what I think should work for you...

1. Install ASIO4ALL

2. Reboot your computer to make sure there are no problems.

3. Run Band-in-a-Box. Select the M-Audio device for input, and ALSO select the M-Audio device for your output. The purpose of this is to just make sure that something other than the GS Wavetable is selected for output.

Note: the synth/soundcard setting is mainly useful for non-GM compatible synths and specific purposes. But you can select the VSC from that list, or just select "General MIDI Instrument Misc."

4. Check the Use DXi/VSTi synth box. If already selected, click the DXi synth Settings button. Either way, this will open the DirectX/VST Window. You should have the VSC-DXi selected in the top slot (synth plugins). Don't worry about the bottom three slots, which are for audio plugins, although you may wish to select the PG Peak Limiter plugin in one of them if your volume is low. Close the DX window.

5. Click on the Audio Settings button (or Opt.-Preferences-Audio) to open the Audio Settings window. Select ASIO, or if already selected press the Audio Drivers button. This will open the ASIO Audio Drivers window. Select ASIO4ALL. For the input and output ports, normally you can leave the top ones highlighted. This would normally be your computer's built-in audio device. If that one isn't working you may need to experiment, as it isn't necessarily obvious what all the different ports are for.

6. Check the ASIO Always On box.

Note: The ASIO Driver Control panel button will open the ASIO4ALL settings. The main purpose is normally to adjust the latency ("buffer size"). Leave this at default, or around 512, until you get it working. When you have sound etc. then you can try reducing the buffer size if you're finding that there is still some latency between when you hit a key on your keyboard and when you hear it play. How low you can set the latency depends on your computer (processor, etc.).

Note: While other dialogs in BB display latency, when you are using ASIO drivers the ASIO control panel is the only dialog that you can use to change the latency.

7. Ok to exit all the dialogs. Press Play once (if you haven't yet since you started BB), just to make sure ASIO is initialized. You can stop playback now if you wish, ASIO will remain on for the rest of your session.

Now try playing your keyboard and playing a song, and see if it works. If it does, you may want to close Band-in-a-Box, open your bb folder and make a backup of the file "intrface.bbw" Then you can restore your settings at a later date if you need to (BB2009 has an option to do this under the Opt. menu).

If that doesn't work for you, describe what happens and what doesn't work about it, and hopefully there is a solution... 

--------------------
Andrew 
PG Music Inc. 

biab chord push

I'm trying to jump a chord location...shift it forward to have it strike on the upbeat (before the downbeat); 


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The precise location of the sounding of your "pushed" chord impacts how you might implement a "pushed" chord. 


To sound a push on the 4th beat of a 4/4 measure, simply enter the chord you want to push and precede the letter with a "," comma. 


To push a chord on the 2nd eighth note "and" pulse of the 4th quarter note, at the end of a measure, 


right click in the next measure where the chord you want to push ahead of the 1st beat should be located, 


select the chord settings sub menu and check on the left side mid area the extent of the push you want, with options for an eighth note beat as well as some other values. 


So, depending on the groove, the pulse, it may be as easy as how you enter the chord, placing it into a quarter note slot using a "," 


or if the push location for sounding is finer than that again depending on the groove and pulse and the effect you seek, use of the right click chord setting sub menu with some experimentation, auditioning how the push option checked off actually sounds with drum kit used and other instrument that may be impacted, using that more detailed option. Best of luck... 



pgpost

click track

pgmucis_post, -Create one measure of drum click by using event list to insert C#2 channel 10 (sidestick) on the 1-1-0, 2-1-0, 3-1-0, and 4-1-0 of the first measure. 
(I use the sidestick because it cuts thru in headphones) -
-use 127 for velocity when creating the notes
-hilight the whole bar and copy it.
-Paste it, using the 'repitions' checkbox to set the number of nars to match the song.
-Assign the VSC DXi to the track, right click the track and auto convert it to audio on a blank tarck.
-turn off the midi track and hilight the new audio track.
-go into DX FX area and put PGPeakLimit on the track so you can make it as loud as you need to by pushing one slider up.

You should have a click in perfect sync with RD and one thats loud enough to make the drummers ears bleed, which in my experience is the correct volume to get them to even notice it, let alone pay attention to it! 

your own style list

1. Create a new file in your bb folder called MyStyles.LS3, and open this file with a text editor, like notepad. (the file can have any name you want as long as it has the .LS3 file extension).

2. On the first line of the text file, type the ~ symbol followed by your new category name. For example: ~ My Styles

3. Open the existing file BBW.LST in the bb folder, also with a text editor. (Disable word wrap).

4. Search for a style name (Ctrl+F). Highlight the entire line (shift+end) starting with the @ symbol, and copy it from bbw.lst to MyStyles.ls3. Repeat for each style you want to add.

5. Save the file, and press Rebuild in the StylePicker. 







pgpost

manning1 pgmusic tips

manning1 pgmusic tips

approach to songwriting

I was asked for my approach to songwriting and wrote the following. Others might find it helpful...

Notating the Melody

If you are a singer then your dilemma re songwriting is the same as mine and probably for the same reason - we are primarily singers and think as such rather than instrumentalists and thinking as such. It is easy for us to write the lyrics and think of a good melody - arranging is our problem. To get around this, I use Melodyne. The programme does take some learning but you can also get a training video for it. This enables me to record a vocal melody and then use the programme to convert the melody into MIDI notation.

Remember to use a metronome or simple drum pattern to record the vocals against, this will help with the timing and placement of notes. Nothing fancy, just a 3 time or 4 time beat. Set it to start with at 120bpm as this is the median of the RI tempos. You can always speed it up or slow it down a little but stay, if possible, within the 100bpm to 140bpm range so that you will be able to make good use of the RIs. There is a reason why PG maps everything to 120bpm and the key of C - not only is it mid-range tempo it is also the easiest key.

Arranging

Once the notation is down, it is very easy to arrange. Import it into BIAB and this will tell you what key your notation is in. A good clue to the melody key though is usually the most common note in the series and / or the final note of the song. Next step, transpose it to the key of C (no incidentals to worry about) which makes it very easy to see the chords to arrange it to. You can cover all the notes using 3 chords (I, IV and V7) - in the key of C, these are C, F and G7. Every note in the scale is covered with these. Look for the 'key' notes, these are the longer ones or the ones that come on the beat and are most often the first and third beats in a 4/4 bar (in a 3/4 song it is even easier because you just need to look at the first note in each bar).

In C, the I will match against C, E and G, the IV will match against F, A and C, the V7 will match against G, B, D and F. The V7 will also resolve nicely back to the I. Now that gives us every note...

C - I / IV
D - V7
E - I
F - IV / V7
G - V7 / I
A - IV
B - V7

Ok. This is simply a 3 chord trick but you can spice it up by using substitution chords. In the key of C, D can be substituted with a iim and A with a vim (i.e. the IV chord can be substituted with either iim / vim). If you want fancier chords, you can always add the extensions (2, 9, 11, 13, etc) or flatten a note in the chord to cover something in the melody where the chord you really want to use (because of a progression such as I-vi-ii-V7-I) will clash, such as an augmented chord or a b5... These extra chords are just added for flavour. Remember, EVERY song can be boiled down to the simple I, IV and V7 chords. Most probably, though not always your song will start and end on the I. Remember the Beatles? They wrote an entire song using just one single chord, which was of course the same as the key (G, if I remember right). Once you have the melody, of course, you can always use the Re-Harmonist feature in BIAB to generate a chordal progression for you but if you follow my outline above, you won't go far wrong. I mainly use the Re-Harmonist if I want to find an alternative progression in a part of a song if I am trying to avoid using a certain chord (I can play every chord in the book but some of them are preferable to others for ease of playing and for sound properties). Once you have this, you can then use the Vocal Wizard to set it to the right key for your voice (and for our area, that is primarily either C, G, D, A or E). Believe me, the above may seem very simple but it really is! About 15 or so years ago, I analysed in depth note-for-note over 250 all-time hit songs from ABBA to ZZ Top to work out how they did it and created a Decision Support System that enabled me to spot the patterns and how they were arrived at. It took a couple of months and the above was the outcome. It works.

Selecting Instrumentation

Having done this, select the instruments you would like to have in your line-up and can imagine being played by real musicians in a band you put together and then use the RIs to reflect this. The rest is down to your ears and the mixing and mastering techniques as very simply outlined by Ray in his tutorial on RB. Don't go creating arrangements with different instruments each time - we may have the ability to do this with RB but would we in real life? We can't afford to tour a whole orchestra with us just because we want an alto sax solo or a bassoon for one single number in a repertoire of 20 songs or so! Use your ears and your brain / imagination!

Selecting a Style

As to Style selection, I start with something very simple and only one instrument (usually a strumming acoustic guitar), not even drums. I want people to be able to play this at home for themselves and therefore it is very important to KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). I want to walk along a beach one day or take an underground train and see a teenager playing and singing my songs on a guitar! Once I have this, I will add a second instrument (this used to be a bass but now that my g/f wants to play with me, it is an acoustic piano). These are my two main instruments - bass, rhythm and fills can be achieved with these two instruments alone (think James Blunt).

For recording purposes, I will then add drums, bass (I have an e-bass, so that is what I go for as I know I have one) and possibly, though not always, a lead guitar / sax. I will use these instruments for the backing tracks and can always have them recorded for use in live performance (still only 2 real musicians, myself and my g/f). The choice of instruments can be varied - I have an acoustic guitar, a strat clone and a jazz guitar so I have a choice of 3 different guitar sounds, a jazz e-bass and keyboards so I know I have the instruments to be able to play this line up by myself if need be.

Recording & Performance

So now we have the music, add a good quality mic for recording and we can produce great songs. Add a good PA system and you are ready for gigs.

Additional Tips

Another tip is to spend as much time as possible hanging out around the forum - on all the boards. So much can be picked up there about all sorts of things from gigs to performance techniques to tricks with the software and stored away in memory for possible future use.

HTH

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http://www.pgmusic.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=196068&an=0&page=1#Post196068

Sam

Audio and tempo sync

the audio chordwizard Besides detecting chords, it also detect tempo and irregularities within. If you import it back into your program you can bring the tempomapping in as well.

Open the file
Open the AudioChordWizard and allow it to reset the bars.

Then listen to it in the Audio Chord wizard.
If the tempo needs adjusting so that the beats line up just tap the F8 key on the '1' of each measure and the audio chord wizard will adapt, and will also adjust the tempo map so the drums and midi line up. Even realtracks will work then!

just my styles

An better way to do it is to make the *LS3 file manually:

1. Create a new file in your bb folder called MyStyles.LS3, and open this file with a text editor, like notepad. (the file can have any name you want as long as it has the .LS3 file extension).

2. On the first line of the text file, type the ~ symbol followed by your new category name. For example: ~ My Styles

3. Open the existing file BBW.LST in the bb folder, also with a text editor. (Disable word wrap).

4. Search for a style name (Ctrl+F). Highlight the entire line (shift+end) starting with the @ symbol, and copy it from bbw.lst to MyStyles.ls3. Repeat for each style you want to add.

5. Save the file, and press Rebuild in the StylePicker.

--------------------
Andrew
PG Music Inc.

finding the right style

How to find Styles that fit your particular song.

*Start the song playing back after checking the "Loop" checkbox in the mainscreen. Doesn't matter at this point what style it is, but it is a good idea to start with all MIDI styles because they load instantly (RealTracks styles take too much time to load. RealTracks styles will be preceded by a '=' sign or an underscore "_" in their filename and will always appear at the top of the alphanumerical listing in the Stylepicker's center window. Just scroll past those for now.).

*Open the Stylepicker.

*First thing to do is find any style that has proper *timing* FEEL and METER for the target song that is playing back. You can usually narrow down the possible choices quite a lot by taking advantage of the subgroup listings over on the lefthand side of the Stylepickerwindow.

*At this point I usually like to set the dropdown selection under the "Show Styles by 'Feel' and 'Tempo' to "Show all style rhythms" -- unless the original style that is already playing is close to what I want. These are powerful filters here. So powerful that unless and until you have identified this important part of the equation, they can actually hide styles that you would want to try. More on this in a minute.

*Make sure that the "Preview on doubleclick" near the bottom center is checked. This is the power here, doubleclicking on any MIDI only style, you can almost instantly hear it playing your chords and decide right away if it is a good fit or not.

*Once you find a Style that is "near" what you want to hear, take advantage of the "Feel and Tempo" dropdown to limit the possiblities in the upper center window some more. Go with the "If feel matches prototype" first, unless you are certain of the song's BPM tempo (good idea to note that before the Stylepicker is opened). If you are certain that the song will be locked into a certain tempo, then by all means narrow down the choices further by selecting "If feel and tempo matches prototype".

*Whenever I find a style that fits at all, I make a note of that using Notepad, but I don't stop there. Maybe there's a better fit in another style somewhere further down the list. So I keep trying selections, filtering both automatically using those tips above and also by using the "filter" between my ears as I read the style name and description by single clicking down the list while the song is playing. Of course, I doubleclick on every seemingly viable candidate.

*Don't neglect use of the "Search" feature in the Stylepicker, either. You can type in a single word there and find all instances of it by clicking on the G next to it while the song plays. And if you've already selected a subfolder on the LH side, it will only search through there first instead of "All Styles". Sometimes you can type in a group's name, too, like "beatle" or the like because of the memo notes associated with each style. Or you might type in "shuffle" if you know that your song has a shuffle feel to it. Things like that work well to narrow the candidates down quite a bit. "Ballad" may be another example, or "Folk" or "Pop" or whatever you can think of that may describe the song in question. Every once in a while, even the NAME of the song may do the trick, just type in one word of the name, though, picking the most useful word for such searching.


Using the above method it does not take as long as one might think to isolate if there are any styles that can be made to work with your song.

And, of course, once the Feel, Tempo and type of style has been found, go back over the list in Notepad using the same Play on Doubleclick "auditioning" to narrow that down to one style you like.

After you find the style is the time to start trying RealInstruments or RealStyles that may work also. Using the "Fits Feel and Tempo" filter can even narrow down those RealStyle candidates in a hurry.

AND -- The above is exactly what I would have to do for you to tell you which style might work with your particular target song today, but only after I could HEAR a recorded example of that song first. And BIAB is designed so that you can do all that for yourself. So get started. The more you do this and practice it, the faster you will be able to narrow down style selections in the future.


--Mac

Monitoring what I'm recording

Monitoring what I'm recording

part 2

recording vocals

http://www.pgmusic.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=219239&an=0&page=0#Post219239

biab/rb styles

RealTracks Style refers to one particular RealTracks instrument, that can be assigned to any Band-in-a-Box track (Bass,Piano,Guitar,etc.) by right-clicking on the track. An example is "Sax, Tenor, Jazz Sw 140". This is Tenor Sax playing in a swing feel, recorded at a tempo of 140 BPM.

A 'Style with RealTracks' refers to a Band-in-a-Box .STY style file, where at least one of the instruments is a RealTracks style. STY files can be all MIDI (MIDI bass, guitar, piano, strings etc.), or can have any combination of MIDI + RealTracks + RealDrums. Styles with RealTracks have been hard-coded to use RealTracks in the StyleMaker. You can identify them because they have an = (equals sign) prefix. e.g. =MyStyle.STY

A 'RealStyle' is a Style with RealTracks (i.e. STY file) that has no MIDI parts at all. You can identify them because they have an _ (underscore) prefix. e.g. _MyStyle.STY.

It is similar for RealDrums. A 'RealDrums style' usually refers to something like 'JazzBrushes', 'CountrySwing' etc., while 'Style with RealDrums' refers to a Band-in-a-Box .STY file where the Drum track has been hard-coded to use a specific RealDrums style. Styles with RealDrums can be identified because they have a - (minus sign) prefix. e.g. -MyStyle.STY. They don't use any RealTracks.

http://www.pgmusic.com/techfaq17.htm#166

midi tracks, channels and ports

midi tracks, channels and ports

http://onstagemag.com/ar/emusic_downloadable_sounds/

biab Melody Wizard

Check to make sure that your drivers are set up appropriately for live (thru) playing. To do this *press Play*, then press some notes on the on-screen piano keyboard, or your qwerty keyboard. You should hear the notes when you do this. If you don't hear the notes, or if there is a long delay between when you press the note and when you hear it, visit the MIDI Driver Setup. If you are using MME drivers and a DXi/VSTi synth, select the checkbox 'route MIDI thru to MIDI driver' - otherwise there will probably be too much latency to play live. Then, try to select a low-latency MIDI Output Driver - something other than the GS Wavetable, for example a hardware MIDI synth. If that doesn't work for you, use ASIO drivers (you can download ASIO4ALL from the web). Then you can play thru the DXi synth.

If that's not what the problem is (i.e. you can hear the notes and the latency is ok), then:

1. Go to the Play menu and enable "Wizard playalong feature"

2. Press Play.You can position your right hand to press the enter and \ keys, and your left hand to play the T and 6 keys. These 4 keys have the same function. Press the keys in time with your melody, and you should be playing the melody notes.

3. You can use other hotkeys to vary the melody - QWER and YUIO can be used as approach notes before the next note in your melody, and the 5 key can be used to play the same note (as the last note played) again.

4. You can re-record your melody with what you play on the keyboard, by pressing Record. You will have the option to not keep the take - or select Soloist - Edit Soloist Track - Record to soloist part. This will retain the original melody on the Melody track, with your new melody on the Soloist track.

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biab practice in all 12 keys

biab practice in all 12 keys

the goal 5 rows of "Dm7 G7 CMaj7" played 4 times (OR 1 row of "Dm7 G7 CMaj7" played 20 times. Then the same for "Gm7 C7 FMaj7", and for "Cm7 F7 BbMaj7", and for "Fm7 Bb7 EbMaj7" . . . "Am7 D7 GMaj7" - all 12 keys. the MAColution

Write it out ONCE and then use the Prefs->Transpose window to set the thing to automatically transpose by your entered number of half steps per chorus repeat. (that would be the number 1)

Set the chorus number to 12 and there you go. 

Use an all MIDI style for this one. It is not only faster, the RealTracks will choke on that one.


--Mac 

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