User Guide

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide
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This buttons opens the Edit Settings for Current Bar dialog.
This button opens the Chord Options dialog where you can edit chords and add rests and
pushes.
Options and Utilities
These settings are found in the Opt. menu and the Opt. | Utilities submenu.
Language Selection
This allows you to change language from English to another language for display. If there are other languages
supported by your version of Band-in-a-Box, then they will display in this dialog box.
Edit Chord Shortcuts file (shortcut.txt)
Have you found a chord that Band-in-a-Box doesn't recognize? If so, you can make a text file called \bb\shortcut.txt
for your own shortcuts. (Note that this file doesn't ship with Band-in-a-Box or it would overwrite your file!) The
file \bb\pgshortc.txt is only for shortcuts supplied by PG Music.
Refresh Chord Shortcuts…
When you have saved your shortcuts file click on Refresh Chord Shortcuts… to start using them. Changes to your
chord shortcuts won’t take effect until you choose this command.
Applying Styles
There are many styles available for use with the Band-in-a-Box program. Styles refer to styles of music like Jazz
Swing, Tango, Blues, Pop Ballad, or Country. You can pick a musical style either before or after you have entered
the chords to a song. Once a style is loaded, the song will be played back using your chosen style. All style files
have an .STY extension.
Note: The program defaults to the “Jazz Swing” style or it may be “aliased” to another style, such as the newer J_WYNT_K
style.
Load Previous Style, Load Next Style.
This function, analogous to the Load Next Song function, loads in the previous (or next) style in alphabetical order
of the file name. These functions are found in the Styles menu, or use the hot keys Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F8 (or
Alt+Shift+F8).
Current Style Window
The name of the current style is shown in the window below the song title.
The [Style] button opens the StylePicker window.
The [f] button opens the Favorite Styles list.