User Guide

Chapter 12: Tutors, Wizards, and Practice Aids
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This erases the audio track from BB. If you have loaded in an MP3 file, the audio track isn’t the MP3 file, it is the
WAV file copy that BB has made of it. So you wouldn’t be erasing your MP3 file! Note that you also have to SAVE
the BB file to have the erasure be complete.
If you enable the MIDI style, you’ll be hearing the audio file as well as the BB MIDI style. Otherwise you can mute
the BB style by disabling it here.
You can revisit the Audio Chord Wizard by pressing this button (this can also be done from the Audio menu).
Revisiting the AudioChordWizard is useful to refine the bar lines.
Tip: How to preserve chords if you revisit the AudioChordWizard
If you do revisit the AudioChordWizard, and want to preserve the chords that you may have edited, first select all of
the chords, and choose Edit-Copy, and then, after the AudioChordWizard, choose Edit-Paste. Otherwise the
AudioChordWizard might re-interpret your chords!
The Help button launched the help file (BBW.CHM file) with a topic describing the dialog, and the
AudioChordWizard.
The “Manual” button launches a PDF manual of the Audio Chord Wizard with latest features described. This
manual is in BB AudioChordWizard folder.
MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard
Many MIDI files lack chord symbols, making them difficult to play along with by ear. Now you can open up any
MIDI file in Band-in-a-Box, and Band-in-a-Box will automatically figure out the chords of the song for you. The
chords are written onto the Band-in-a-Box chordsheet like any other song. You can also read tracks into the Melody
and Soloist tracks.
Importing Chords
You can import the chords from a MIDI file. To do this, first blank the chordsheet, by choosing File | New. Then
select the menu item File | Import Chords from MIDI file to launch the Interpret Chords from MIDI file dialog.