User Guide

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 7
This will open an audio file in WAV, MP3, Windows Media Player (WMA, WMV) or CD Audio (CDA) format.
To play it at a slower speed, choose the desired speed on the Play | Tempo menu.
New Audio Plug-Ins added!
Three new DirectX plug-ins have been added to Band-in-a-Box 2006. The PG Vinyl Tool can remove clicks and
pops from your old vinyl record collection, the PG RTA (Real Time Analyzer) plug-in assists audio equalization
and can measure the frequency response of audio equipment, and the new PG Vocal Remover plug-in can reduce
the level of lead vocals on many recordings.
Styles can now have different instruments (patches) for the “a” and “b” substyle.
For example, you can have drum brushes on the “a” substyle, and sticks on the “b” substyle, or acoustic piano for
the “a” and electric piano for the bridge. Many of the new styles included with the upgrade use multiple patches in
this manner!
These patches are set in the StyleMaker, in the Patches dialog.
In addition, we have many new styles with these multi-patches, and you can see a list of them in the StylePicker, by
looking at the “Styles with Instrument Changes” category. You can see a list of styles that have instrument changes
Multi-channel lead sheet display and record to specific channel.
You can now record up to 16 separate tracks on
the Melody part. Or simply load any MIDI file
to the melody part, and edit the channels. This
allows for counter-melodies or additional
instrument parts. Simply set the track to “Multi-
Channel” then record the part, and specify the
channel number. Each channel displays
separately on the notation window. You can
easily choose which channels will sound or
display, so if you’ve loaded a MIDI file, you can,
for example, easily mute channels to leave only
the melody, allowing Band-in-a-Box to be the
rhythm section.
A Melody Sequencer dialog allows for easy
editing of the channels and patches with new
commands for deleting and rechanneling.