User Guide

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide
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4. We now enter settings to tell Band-in-a-Box what Soloist it should use when making improvisations using
this NEWONE.STY. For this, we need to know the genre of the style (Jazz, Country, and Pop etc.),
whether it is in an even or shuffle feel, and whether a soloist should be playing primarily 8
th
or 16
th
notes.
From the drop down combo box that appears, for this Jazz Swing style (newone.sty), we should choose
“Jazz Swing Triplet feel 8
th
notes.”
By doing this, Band-in-a-Box will then choose from many Jazz Swing type of Soloists available in BB.
But if we want a specific soloist to always be used, we can specify that soloist number. You can see the
soloist numbers in the Soloist dialog. In this example, we leave this at zero, so Band-in-a-Box will choose
between many different soloists.
5. Next we describe the feel of the style. Are the 8
th
notes straight or shuffle? Is the time signature 3/4
(waltz) or 4/4, is it a 16
th
note based style (tempo usually less than 120), or an 8
th
note style (tempo usually
above 120).
For the NEWONE.STY, enter these checkboxes as above. (Not straight 8ths, not a waltz, and not 16
th
notes.)
6. Next is the Tempo area. Here you can enter the typical tempo and the range of the tempo for the style.
7. You can assign a number for the style disk. We recommend that you use numbers higher than 1,000 and
pick a unique number for your styles. You can then search for them easily. It is not necessary to enter a
Style disk #.
8. When a style is chosen in the StylePicker, it will send out patch changes on the Melody and Soloist tracks,
to make the song sound more authentic in that style. The settings for Melody and Soloist patches allow you
to select which patch types will get sent out. Here we choose “Jazz Patches” for our NEWONE.STY
We’re finished adding the NEWONE.STY.
We could now continue adding new styles, and categories, for all of our new styles that are not in the list.
But let’s see our added style on the StylePicker.
Press the [OK – Save] button. This exits the dialog, returning to the StylePicker. The StylePicker
will recommend rebuilding the style list for the added styles. Answer “Yes” to this.