User Guide

Chapter 12: Other New Features 52
The Melody Embellisher has been enhanced.
You can now save/load your own presets for the Embellisher.
When you have made a custom setting in the Embellisher dialog, press the Export button to save the
data as an .EMB file.
When you want to recall the saved preset, press the Import button, and load in a previously made .EMB file. You
can share your favorite presets with other installations of Band-in-a-Box using the EMB files.
MIDI Normalize option. If performing live, or at a jam session, it helps to have the volume of all of the songs be
similar. Now, with a MIDI Normalize feature, you can level the volumes to a setting in the program options. For
example, you can set all volumes to be 70 and the program will make each song play within those levels. This is
done in the Preferences [Arrange] tab.
When you have set the normalize to “on” the title window at the top of the screen reports that Normalization is set to
70, and that the velocity of the currently playing song has been increased from 49 to 70.
The normalization will affect bass, drums, piano, guitar and strings. If you select the “Including Melody, Soloist”
option, the normalization will also affect the melody and soloist parts.
Clearer piano display. The instruments displayed on the on-screen piano now make use of higher resolutions, so
that each instrument display is clearer.
On the top row, guitar (green), melody (red), and soloist (pink) are displayed.
On the bottom row, bass (brown), piano (blue), and strings (grey) are displayed.
Range of bars for MIDI files.
When making a MIDI file, you can now select a range of bars to be included. Highlight any
range of bars, and the MIDI file will be made for just that range.
For example, to make a MIDI file for a selected range, first you can select the range that you’d like (e.g., bars 5-10)
and then press the MIDI file button.
You’ll then see a range dialog box that allows you to confirm or adjust the range chosen.