User Guide

Chapter 13: Tools and Utilities
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Playback Display
During playback, you will see the chords (and/or lyrics) to the song, scrolling along in time to the music. For
example, you might see this…
*5| D | D7 |
7| G | Gm
The * marks the current bar (bar 5), which is a D chord. The screen always scrolls to show you 2 bars ahead of the
current time.
TranzPort Dialog
There is a TranzPort Settings dialog inside Band-in-a-Box with additional settings.
If you are a non-concert instrument player, you can set the transpose display in Pref | TranzPort. For example, an
Alto sax player would press the “Eb Alto” button, and then the TranzPort display would show chords transposed to
his key. This feature is useful if you have a friend over for a jam session. One of you can look at the PC screen, and
the other can look at the TranzPort, and they can be in different keys for non-concert instruments!
If you want lyrics to display on the TranzPort during playback, set these options in Pref | TranzPort.
- [REC] has no action.
- [PUNCH] has no action
- [Footswitch] has no action
Guitar Tuner
The Guitar Tuner is optimized for guitar and bass, though it may be useful with other instruments. Connect an
electric guitar or bass to your computer’s sound card Line-In, or tune an acoustic instrument using a microphone
connected to the sound card Mic input. Play a pitch and the tuner will auto-range to determine the nearest note, and
display the intonation of your instrument.
Press the on-screen [Tuner] button or select the GM | Guitar Tuner menu item to launch the Tuner
Window.
Tip: There are detailed Guitar Tuner instructions in the online Help topic Connecting an Instrument.