User Guide

Chapter 12: Other New Features 53
For example, you could select Chorus #2 if that is the chorus that you want.
The resultant MIDI file will be made from the selected range.
Alternatively, without selecting a range on the chordsheet, you can make a MIDI file for a
partial range by pressing the MIDI file button, and then the “Set Range” button.
Support for 11
th
chords. A new option (in Prefs-Display) for “11
th
chords” allows
display of “9sus” chords as “11” (e.g., Bb11 instead of Bb9sus). Note that all of your old or new songs are
completely compatible, this only affects how the chord is displayed, not how it is stored. And you can type either
C11 or C9sus to enter the same chord.
Direct open or import of WMA, MP3, and CD-Audio files. You can open or import a Windows Media Audio
file (WMA) to add to the Band-in-a-Box song, or an MP3 file (including variable-bit-rate files). This allows you to
open or import the most commonly used audio formats into Band-in-a-Box. Once opened, you can play the audio
track along with a Band-in-a-Box song, or slow down the playback without affecting pitch.
Important: Opening or importing WMA and MP3 files uses the Microsoft routines included with Windows XP
and Windows Media Player. So if you are using Windows 98 or ME, you should download the latest version of
Windows Media Player so that the MP3 or WMA feature will work.
To open a WMA file choose File | Open Audio File, and then select a WMA file. The file will open in Band-in-a-
Box by appearing on the Audio track. Prior to opening the file, you choose where to put the audio data. Normally
you’d want the track to start at the beginning of the count-in, but you can offset it by a certain number of bars if you
want to. You can also choose if you’d prefer the file to be read in as mono or stereo.
You can view the data on the Audio Edit Window to view or loop sections of the file.
You can manually set the tempo, by clicking the minus key 4 times as the song is playing, at the tempo of the audio
file.
Export of audio as WMA file has been enhanced, using Microsoft's newest Windows Media compression codecs,
which are rendered directly rather than with a command-line utility. This feature requires Windows XP or Windows
98 with the latest version of Windows Media Player. If you don’t have either of those, the function should still
work, but use a command line utility instead.