Hi DNJ,

I don't use BIAB to record tunes, as such. I do use it to sometimes just drive my Pa80 and listen to it's styles + songs using the GM sounds. At this point, all I use it for is to record the count down that it does when it starts to play a style + song so that I have a starting point for recording my styles from the Pa80 and the leads either from the Pa80 or my Trinity V3.

You can get a trial download from www.pgmusic.com and then play a song using any style and you will see what I'm talking about; it gives a snare whack on a beat of 1..,2.., 1,2,3,4 just like a band leader will call out in a live band when starting a song. This allows me to "sync" up recording "by ear". Also, since I'm not trying to print out any scores, I don't even bother with what the tempo is set to on the recorder and just record in real time. The D1600 simply faithfully records whatever I put in it and as long as I'm not trying to print out music, measures and beats are irrelevant. In fact, if you are ever in a situation where some recording equipment is measure limited (say 999 measures max) and you want to "lengthen" the time you have to record, just set the machine tempo as low as the machine will go, say 40 bpm and record in real time and the measures will stretch out and you will get twice as long a time to record the same number of measures as you will at 80 bpm. My paying gig is as principal organist at the local Catholic Church and I have to do that sometimes. We have a state of the art Rodgers 2 manual organ with midi and sequencer but the sequencer is measure limited at 999 measures, so if I need an hours worth of meditation music the only way I can get it is to "fool" the idiot machine into giving me more time by setting it to 40 bpm and then playing in real time, which is usually between 80 and 90 bpm. That is the only way I can get one hour of continuous music on a floppy so that if I'm sick or absent for some reason, they can just put the floppy in the midi box and have the organ play the hour of meditation music. So far, I have not needed to have anyone use that feature! (And, hopefully, I never will!!!!!)

Tom

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