User Guide

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2007
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Open up the RealDrums Settings dialog. Try turning off the RealDrums by
de- selecting
Enable RealDrums. You can do this even while the song is playing. When you do, you will then hear the MIDI
drums – this is a good A/B comparison test to hear the differences.
Making Your Own Real Drum Styles from Scratch
Note: This is an advanced feature, for people familiar with recording live drums, making WAV files, and TXT files. It is not
intended for the casual Band-in-a-Box user, since the casual Band-in-a-Box user can just choose from the many RealDrum
styles that are provided.
You can make your own RealDrum styles from scratch, and add them to the library of RealDrum styles that are in
your Band-in-a-Box setup. To do this,
- Choose a name for your style, let’s call it “Funky,”
- Make a WAV file recording of a live drummer, save the file with the name Funky_120_style.WAV (if 120 is
the tempo of the file),
- Make a Funky_120_style.txt file that lists the various patterns to play (“a,” “b” substyles, fills, etc.). Details of
the TXT file format are provided on www.pgmusic.com
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- (Optional) Make more tempo variations (e.g. Funky_180_style.WAV), so that your drums get the closest
tempo match when used in a Band-in-a-Box song.
- Put the WAV and TXT files in the c:\bb\drums\Funky folder.
Inside Band-in-a-Box you can now choose your “Funky” RealDrum style by any of the methods described above.
More details about the RealDrums are covered in Chapter 4, in the meantime, play a few more demos in the
RealDrums folder.
Get chords from MP3s and other audio files with the Audio Chord Wizard.
This amazing wizard automatically figures out the chords from any MP3, WAV, or WMA (Windows Media
Audio) file and displays them in Band-in-a-Box. Just load in the file and you’ll instantly see the chords.