2011 (Windows)

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 5
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
This documentation covers the new features in Band-in-a-Box 11.
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Chapter 2 is a summary of the new features.
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Chapter 3 is a QuickStart Tutorial.
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Chapters 4-12 and Appendix A describe the new features in detail.
The latest version of Band-in-a-Box adds 50 more features.
First off, you'll get the
“MIDI File Chord Wizard”
that reads any MIDI
file and interprets the chords for you to be displayed in Band-in-a-Box.
We've added new
“Jazz Music” fonts
for music, chords, lyrics and titles
– giving you an option for authentic looking jazz notation and symbols.
We've added a
“Direct-to-Disk” Audio Rendering
feature, which
allows you to directly convert your Band-in-a-Box song to an audio
WAV file in 5-10 seconds, without having to wait 3-4 minutes for the
song to render in real time!
There’s a new
Melody Embellisher
that automatically adds life to
existing Melodies by
adding slurs, grace notes, vibrato, legato
changes, extra notes
and more, to simulate the varied interpretations that
different musicians make when playing a Melody.
To make all of your Band-in-a-Box music sound better
we've added
the famous
RolandED VSC3 MIDI Synthesizer
– this greatly improves
the sounds that you hear from Band-in-a-Box. In our “blindfold”
listening test (www.pgmusic.com/blindfold_compare.htm) our users rated
the sounds from the VSC3 to be #1, better than Wavetable soundcards
and even better than hardware sound modules! This synthesizer works
with Band-in-a-Box and any other Windows
®
MIDI programs to improve
your sounds.
The
Guitar Styles
have been enhanced with a
Jazz Guitar “highest-4-
strings-comping mode”
that has voice leading on the highest four
strings, to simulate a “sax section.” The Melodist now composes songs
for
BeBop tunes
and
Jazz Ballads
. The
main window chordsheet now
has selectable fonts
, font size, and # of rows.
Band-in-a-Box Version 11 also includes
Notation Enhancements
such
as the ability to display and print
Multiple Tracks of Notation
at once.
Now you can view and print bass, piano, etc. tracks at the same time!
You can also add
“Section Text”
and
Boxed Text
to your notation. The
appearance of the notation has also been enhanced with
slanted beams,
chord/music/lyric font selection
and more. There's a new
Scrub Mode