It seems to me that Impro-Visor is such a wonderful music editor, that it would be nice to import completed midi files just so that I can edit them (I'm a...
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user923005
Aug 2, 2010 11:06 pm
I told the lick generator to learn licks from a folder that had one simple .ls file and 28 .mid files totaling a bit less than one megabyte. So far, it has...
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Bob
keller_91711
Aug 2, 2010 11:21 pm
... The grammar learning feature (used by the lick generator) does not use .mid files. It only understands .ls files. Learning a grammar takes on the order of...
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Bob
keller_91711
Aug 2, 2010 11:21 pm
... We might be able to get to a midi transcription feature within the next year, but it is not in the works right now. Thanks for your input. Bob...
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user923005
Aug 3, 2010 12:15 am
... Actually, it was the style extractor. Does the mid file need to have the exact same name as the .ls file?...
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Bob
keller_91711
Aug 3, 2010 12:26 am
... Yes, the names have to be identical. Extraction of a style takes place only with one pair of files at a time, and usually goes pretty fast, a few seconds...
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Dale
aledaythuday
Aug 12, 2010 9:07 pm
Hi -- I am not sure which one of these I installed on my Windows 7 machine, but looks like one is for any Java platform and one is native to Windows (without...
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Dale
aledaythuday
Aug 12, 2010 9:08 pm
This instruction on the tutorial doesn't work for me -- by pressing the menu button, selecting the menu item or just pressing 'p'. Here's the tutorial link:...
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Bob
keller_91711
Aug 12, 2010 9:24 pm
... Dale, You have to have a Java virtual machine in either case. There is no way around that. ... The one above will install the Impro-Visor launcher as a...
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Bob
keller_91711
Aug 12, 2010 9:30 pm
... I am using XP and it works exactly as specified. Granted, XP is not 7, but it should not be much different. Maybe it is a problem with your installation. I...
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Dale
aledaythuday
Aug 13, 2010 6:12 am
Thanks. Then looks like I already have the recommended configuration....
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Dale
aledaythuday
Aug 14, 2010 3:53 pm
... About 5-6 years ago I was using Finale (from MakeMusic) quite a bit and their out-of-box OCR for music was pretty acceptable. I don't recall if it also...
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Dale
aledaythuday
Aug 14, 2010 3:54 pm
... I reinstalled Impro-visor on another Vista laptop and preferences works there. That's good news. For the time being, that may be my main Impro-visor box....
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brigdonnwr
Aug 14, 2010 3:55 pm
This software is fantastic. I'm just starting out with jazz lessons on the clarinet after years of classical training, and Impro-visor is a wonderful support...
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howardg2173
Aug 17, 2010 10:02 pm
I understand it is not possible to change meter within a leadsheet. Is it possible to write 2 .ls files one in 3/4 and one in 4/4 and use them as separate...
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Bob
keller_91711
Aug 17, 2010 10:16 pm
Howard, The closest one could come to this would be to export the two files as MIDI, then use some 3rd party MIDI utility to "glue" the two MIDI sequences...
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Dale
aledaythuday
Aug 18, 2010 7:20 am
I have just about made my was through the tutorial and am now getting into real work. I see so much potential here to help with Jazz, but as a piano player it...
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Bob
keller_91711
Aug 18, 2010 10:41 am
... You are right, the focus of Impro-Visor is, by design, on the monophonic solo line. We might add simultaneous notes in a future enhancement. This has...
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Jon Dreyer
jdreyer
Aug 18, 2010 5:14 pm
... Absolutely! ... A related feature would be multiple lines. I was trying to use Impro-visor to write out a bass line. I could write the bass line instead of...
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countandduke@...
countandduke
Aug 18, 2010 7:42 pm
Band in the Box might be a solution for a piano player. I know that BIAB allows you to select from different styles of soloists and some of them ARE piano...
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howardg2173
Aug 19, 2010 7:04 pm
Thanks Bob. I have re-saved Baubles...ls as Baubles..44.ls after simply altering the meter. I then exported each from impro-visor as MIDI, converted both to...
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aledaythuday
Aug 19, 2010 7:04 pm
All, Thanks for the answers. I was just trying to make sure I didn't miss anything. I read about Style Extractor in the tutorial with a lot of interest, but...
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countandduke@...
countandduke
Aug 19, 2010 7:25 pm
Once again I'll mention the BIAB because the same company has an Oscar Peterson program with many of Oscar's tunes and I would rank Oscar at the top of ANY...
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robert
robertthomas...
Aug 21, 2010 6:19 am
I have this Oscar Peterson Multimedia CD-ROM. There are: 8 audio piano performances 6 videos 10 MIDI transcriptions of blues performances 2 hour interview with...
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schell.austin
Aug 25, 2010 5:44 am
Hello, I just installed the impro-visor on my macbook pro with mac os x 10.6 (snow leopard). It starts up fine and loads files, etc, but I cannot get any audio...
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Bob
keller_91711
Aug 25, 2010 5:49 am
I've run it on a number of different Snow Leopard systems without this problem. There were some problems with early versions of the operating system. If yours...
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John's Music Studio
speaker_2_an...
Aug 25, 2010 7:48 am
I've encountered similar problems in Logic Studio Pro. Logic will record MIDI and audio fine but refuses to playback. The channel strips all work but there's...
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schell.austin
Aug 26, 2010 4:06 am
Thanks, I'm on 10.6.4 I use Cubase, Finale and other audio software with no playback problems. Of course Cubase is playing back digital audio and midi is...
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Dale
aledaythuday
Sep 1, 2010 12:38 am
Why is the drum/bass accompaniment coming out as "piano" on my midi keyboard? I have a Roland RD700GX and am piping the midi output from Impro-Visor to the...
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Bob
keller_91711
Sep 1, 2010 12:43 am
It might have to do with the fact that all midi output is directed to channel 0, rather than separate channels, which were never implemented on Impro-Visor....
