

Then right click the melody track and choose Output to wav. Just mute all the tracks but one and close the sequencer dialog. In addition, this feature would allow you to export the midi tracks as audio. Solo all the tracks one by one to identify them. Newer versions of BiaB have a sequencer which will make the process of identifying the tracks much easier. Repeat this process untill you have identified all available tracks. Write down the track identity as you determine it. You should view the solo track in standard notation here as an aid to identifying the track. You will hear only track 1 at this point and you can identify it by its voice and notes. Track 1 will now be on the solo track with it's original voice. Make sure the merge with existing data check box is not selected. Set the controls to move track from melody to solo and select just track 1. Do this with the Edit|Copy/Move tracks command. The next step is to move the MIDI tracks (there can be up to 16 of them) one by one to the BiaB solo track and identify each one. Make sure to check the import entire file to melody track option. For example you can choose to allow slash chords here. This will give you a dialog that allows some control over the interpretation. If you want or need a little more control over how BiaB interprets the chords use the File|Import chords from midi file command. If you play the midi now it should sound exactly as it did originally. The key, time signature and tempo will also be displayed. It will also display the chords on the fakesheet as they were interpeted by BiaB. This will load the entire midi file into the melody track with all the original voices, controllers, pitch bends etc. By far the surest way is to open the midi file in BiaB using the File|Open midi File menu command. Now you can start to import the song into BiaB. That way you have an easily available backup. It's important to have a local copy of the MIDI file in case of mistakes. Make sure it's in a sensible location you can find easily such as \My Documents\Midi Files\.
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Once you've found the perfect midi version of your desired song download it to you local hard drive. You only have two tracks with which to define the song, the melody and solo tracks so it's important to have the defining melody available for these tracks. Remember, BiaB will ultimately be laying down five tracks for you, drums, piano, bass, guitar and strings. Others have authentic sounding instrument tracks. Files of this type won't be very good as BiaB songs. Some are little more than drum tracks with the vocal line played over it from a midi keyboard. The more popular songs have been copied into midi by many different people and in many different ways. The next most important thing is to find the best quality midi version of the song you are about to import. What makes the song identifiable? Is it the vocals, the bass, the lead guitar? You will need to know this in order to get the best sounding BiaB song you can. Try to identify the style, number and type of instruments and especially any different parts.

The first, and probably most important, thing to do before trying to import a midi file into BiaB is get to know the song as well as you possibly can.
