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Chapter 10: StyleMaker Enhancements 32
Chapter 10: StyleMaker Enhancements
Style Instrument Assignments
Styles can now contain RealTracks or MIDI soloists.
In the StyleMaker, go to Misc. Style Settings and select the [More] button.
To assign RealTracks to a style set the “Instrument” to use, and the RealTracks #. In the example, we are using
RealGuitar for the Guitar track.
Styles can have multiple RealTracks. For example, you could have RealPedalSteel and RealAcousticGuitar.
And also RealDrums.
Styles can also use MIDI soloists. For example, make a style with a banjo part that has the same quality as the
Band-in-a-Box Banjo Soloist. Here we are assigning an Earl Scruggs Bluegrass solo to the Strings part.
Style Log Options
For people making styles, the Style Log text file shows exactly which pattern was used in the song generation
for every instrument and bar/beat. This is useful in fixing errant patterns.
To set a style log, choose the StyleMaker Style | Write BBStyleLog##.txt file menu option Display BB
StyleLog##.txt” in Notepad with each play.
Then, a file called BBStyleLog##.txt will be displayed.
Here is a sample:
Bass: Bar 1 Beat=1, Row= 1, Col=12, Location=13, Chord= C
Piano , Bar 1 Beat=1, Row= 1, Col=17, Location=140, Chord= C
Guitar , Bar 1 Beat=1, Row= 5, Col=8, Location=287, Chord= C
Strings, Bar 1 Beat=1, Row= 5, Col=23, Location=274, Chord= C
This tells you that when the song was generated, for the bass track, at bar 1 the pattern found in row 1, column
12 of the StyleMaker was chosen.
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