Cool ... and thanks for shaing.
I've never used the Piano Booster software ... but a quick search shows that's it is a piano teacher "in a box"
Hmmm, midi accomp. and teaching both in the same box. The mind soars!
A few points:
- Setting the solo/melody tracks to a specific midi channel is perfectly valid. MMA accocates its tracks from 16 down, but that is completely arbitary.
- the silence at the track start is NOT a MMA bug. MMA will very happily generate long sections of silence anywhere in the track. The problem is when you take various MIDI tracks and combine them. You might want to look at the -0/-1 command line options or the Synchronize command (whole section in the manual).
- Not sure about your question about 3/4 time? MMA generates its stuff in any timesig. But, I see in your ABC file that you start off in 4/4 time. Is this conflicting?
- Another way to do all this (and I have done it with solo midi generated by MUP) is to use MMA's midi import. Essentially what would do is:
- Create the solo line from ABC as a MIDI,
- Create the accomp in MMA
- Allocate one or more SOLO tracks in that file
- import the ABC-midi and assign it to the SOLO track(s)
The nice thing about is is that the import facility will let you change volume and even transpose. Oh, and the 'Adjust" option lets you move the stuff you are importing around ... in case it has (or hasn't) siilence at the start
Again, refer to the MMA manual for details.
You could also, depending on the size of the file, use the MIDINote facility. Pretty much the same as above, but this uses a text file of the midi.
Again, thanks for the post and let us know if the above suggestions help.
Best,