User Guide

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide
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Hot keys are also available for these, look in the Play menu under the Looping submenu.
Loop Keystroke Commands (useful for live performance)
NUMPAD 1 Toggle looping on/off.
NUMPAD 2 Open Loop Section Settings dialog.
Ctrl+NUMPAD 1 Play with last chorus looped.
Ctrl+NUMPAD 2 Play with middle choruses looped.
Ctrl+NUMPAD 3 Play with middle and last choruses looped.
Ctrl+NUMPAD 4 Jump to last chorus.
Ctrl+NUMPAD 5 Jump to ending.
Ctrl+NUMPAD 7 Loop Notation screen.
NUMPAD [DEL]
Advances the notation, lead sheet, and guitar window by one chord (group of notes).
NUMPAD [INS]
Backs up the notation, lead sheet, and guitar window by one chord.
Notebook users should set “Simulate NUMPAD Keys” to “ON” in the Preferences dialog, then use the regular
number keys to trigger looping.
The Title bar at the top of the main screen indicates the looping status. If a song has a looped section, this will be
listed at the top of the screen (e.g. “Will loop Middle Choruses” or “Currently looping Middle Choruses”). So you
can tell what is going to happen with the looping during a live performance.
“Conductor”- Live Looping/Playback control.
As the song is playing, many “single key” hot keys are now available to control the playback and looping
of the song.