2011 (Windows)

Chapter 4: MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard 29
If you've read in the entire MIDI file, you have 103 bars of chords on the
Chord sheet. This actually contains 3 choruses of the song. You might want to
reduce that to a single chorus by setting the chorus end of the song to bar 36
and then erasing the excess bars (after bar 36) by choosing Edit | Erase.
Examining the song that has been interpreted by the Chord Wizard.
You'll notice that the title (Violet Song), key (F) and tempo (120) have been
set to the values found in the file. Part markers are not set, the Chord Wizard
doesn't try to guess where part markers might be occurring. You need to put
the part markers in yourself. You also need to choose the style to use (a Jazz
Swing style in this case). If you examine the Melody track (by opening the
Notation window and right clicking on some notes or pressing the Event List
(#) button), you'll notice that the Melody track contains notes from Channel 4,
which is what we specified in the Chord Wizard dialog.
Importing Part of a MIDI file
(or re-doing a section of the Chord Sheet)
Normally we'd want to import an entire MIDI file worth of chords. But if you
only want to import some bars, you can deselect the “Import Complete song”
checkbox, and then specify where to start in the MIDI file (i.e. the number of
lead-in bars in MIDI file) and what bar to start at in Band-in-a-Box (Insert to
BB starting at bar #) and the number of bars to import (How Many Bars to
import).
For example, using the song “Violet Song.MID”, we could redo a section of
the song using different settings. (For example, a chord resolution of 1 beat
instead of 2 beats.) If we were unhappy with the results at bar 7 and 8, we
could redo this by making the settings as follows: