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[chris]

So to some extent my midi file has to 'track' the structure of my piece?

So if I have 8 bars of midi and a song with a 4 bar verse followed by a 4 bar chorus it'll use the first 4 bars of the midi file as the basis of the verse and the next four as the basis of the chorus?

[As an aside, have been on jamstix since release 1, just upgraded to 4 from 3 and think the new version is a huge leap up in terms of functionality and ease of use]

[Ralph [RZ]]

[chris]

[hotmitts_1]

I'm new and I've been trying to figure all this out too. If I understand correctly;

In the 'Song builder', you set your initial song structure etc. and choose 'import' from the styles. Then click create.

Then when you've done that you look at the 'Groove' section & you can see the 'Song Sheet' on the left of the 'Brain' window. Clicking on the various elements eg Verse, chorus, shows the different Brain modules for each section.

So click on verse to load the MIDI for that, and clicking on the chorus you can load a different MIDI file for that (or saved groove or whatever). Any linked parts will also be affected.

Dunno if that helps ?

[Ralph [RZ]]

hotmitts_1, you are absolutely correct and thank you for helping out!
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[chris]

Thanks hotmitts_1 that makes more sense (though I think the fact that the dialogues being identical are somewhat misleading -- perhaps it should say 'Pick Style' instead of 'Load Style' as matter of contrast?).

I notice that if I have several verses they get labelled consecutively in the SongSheet (Verse 1, Verse 2 etc), but I only get a single part labelled (Verse 1) in the Song Builder -- and from the perspective of the Groove section all of the Song Sheet parts link to to the single Song Builder part (if that makes sense).

[Ralph [RZ]]

[chris]

Excellent, thank you for that - I had already read that and assumed it only applied to the generated patterns.