Re: another great source of bass lines

Berry Kercheval ( kerch@parc.xerox.com )
Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:48:10 PDT

>>>"reed kotler" said:
> Turn off the drums and piano and just capture
> the bass midi from Band in the box.
>
> Then import the midi into a composition program and print
> it out.

You don't need to do that, you can print the bass line from Band inna Box
directly. If you switch to the notation window, and select the 'B' button it
will show the generated bass line. Then just do File->Print and away you go.

This works for other parts too, though the drums come out a bit strange as the
General Midi notes for each drum sound are printed, rather than any kind of
standard drum part notation.

Even more fun (if you have an algorithmic turn of mind) is to look into the
"edit styles" menus and see how the bass lines get put together. It's full of
"If a chord of type X is played for Y beats/measures, than use one of these N
bassline fragments..."

Very educational to study.

--berry

Berry Kercheval :: kerch@parc.xerox.com :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center