Upgrade Manual

Chapter 17: Other New Features
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Chapter 17: Other New Features
Selective Humanize option for the Melody Embellisher!
There is a new option for the Embellisher to only humanize the timing of the music if the timing was “stiff” to begin
with. This allows the Embellisher to leave the timing of human input melodies alone, and humanize only the ones
that were entered in step-time.
In the Melody Embellisher dialog, there is a new setting called Humanize (none/only if stiff/always).
The new setting is “Only if melody is stiff,” and is the default setting. If this is set, the Melody embellisher won’t
change timing, durations and velocities if the melody appears to be have been played by a human (instead of entered
“stiffly” by step entry). This is because it’s not always desirable to humanize a melody that has already been played
by a human. Band-in-a-Box will auto-analyze the melody to determine if it was probably played by a human.
The embellisher will still add other embellishments, such as grace notes, anticipations, turns, vibrato etc., regardless
of the humanize settings.
Shift-Click Region Selection!
To select a region of Chordsheet, Notation, or Audio Edit window, you can now Shift-click on the end point to
easily select a large area.
To select a region on the Chordsheet or Audio Edit window.
- Click on the starting bar.
- Shift-click on the ending bar.
The range from starting bar to ending bar will be selected.
To select a region on the Notation window.
- Select a small region by dragging the mouse.*
- Enlarge the region by shift-clicking on the end point.
*Note: Shift-click is also used to enter a sharp (#) note, so the selection via shift-click requires that a small region be already
selected.
Song Name in Taskbar Hint!
The entire song name displayed in the taskbar hint when Band-in-a-Box is minimized!
This is useful to find the name of a song playing when Band-in-a-Box is playing in the background.
“Favorite Folder-Open Song” button!
By opening a song using the “Favorite Folder-Open Song,” you first select the folder from a list of recently used
folders, and then you can directly open the song from that folder. This allows you to quickly find a song in another
folder.
File-Favorite Folders menu item!
This then shows the most recently used folders, allowing you to select a recently used folder.