From Score to Audio with BIAB (One Users method..Use back arrow from Explorer to return to web page after finished)
I am a keyboardist who dabbles with electronic styling and midi sequencing.
1. Enter chords from the score into BIAB using any style you. want to play against and save it as an SGU file To view this file you need to have Band in a Box on your computer and dowload this SGU file using the “Save as File” option.
2. Open BIAB and load the SGU with the chord entries and practice playing the score with the BIAB style.
When ready, I record the upper and lower keyboard notes into separate channels using Cakewalk. Make any modifications for volume, pan , balance of the upper and lower keyboard tracks etc and save as a midi file.
3. Start Biab and open the original SGU file and Import the melody from the midi file created in CWK using Melody/Edit Melody track/Import Melody from midi file options from the BIAB toolbar. Select 1 as the number of bars to offset from the start of the midi file which will account for the leadin bar Ab(1a) measure at the beginning of this particular SGU.
4. Now you can simply select and listen to the various BIAB styles to find one or more starting points that meet your criteria and save to midi. I selected the following styles to save as midi files.
5. Load the midi into Cakewalk and re-voice/remix or even delete/modify the rhythms in the various parts. A friend (ROB whose web page is http://members.lycos.co.uk/robertfaint/) took the midi and modified it as well as adding a solo part for the melody in the piece called CORNERSTONE_ROB.mid and recorded it into the MP3 listed by that name in 6.
6. The following were then recorded into mp3 files from Cakewalk