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Chapter 8: Audio Rendering Enhancements

“Direct-to-Disk” Audio Rendering

“Audio Rendering” means converting a song to audio format, usually to a

WAV file. In previous versions this was done by recording the song as it

played, which took several minutes (i.e., the length of the song). Now you can

render directly to disk, choose the “Save As WAV” (Audio Conversion)

option, and your Band-in-a-Box file will save to disk in WAV format in 5-10

seconds! The file is saved using the high quality Sound Canvas sounds,

To use the Direct-To-Disk Rendering feature, first make sure that you have

installed the Roland VSC3. If you have installed the Roland VSC3, you'll see

it listed as one of the output drivers when you choose Opt. | MIDI driver setup.

You don't have to select the Roland VSC3 to use the Direct-to-Disk Rendering,

you just need to have installed the driver at some time.

Press the WAV button on the main Band-in-a-Box screen.

Press the Direct Render using VSC3 button.

This launches the Roland VSC3 Virtual Sound Canvas. If the program doesn't

launch, either you haven't installed the VSC3, or you haven't installed it to the

default directory, which is c:\Program Files\roland\vsc30\.