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Table of Contents PG MUSIC INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 6 CHAPTER 2: SUMMARY OF NEW FEATURES 7 Notation Enhancements StyleMaker Enhancements 8 10 CHAPTER 3: QUICK-START TUTORIAL Quick-Start Tutorial For Version 9 Upgrade Band-in-a-Box: Overview Explore BB Version 9.0 Find these buttons on the main screen: Let's RENDER a BB song to audio. Let's Add a GUITAR CHORD SOLO to an existing song.
New Lyrics Features 36 Other Lyric Functions 42 CHAPTER 6: GUITAR ENHANCEMENTS 44 CHAPTER 7: THE 'GUITARIST' 48 Select Guitarist Window.
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Chapter 1: Introduction This documentation covers the new features in Band-in-a-Box Version 9. ! Chapter 2 is a Summary of the New Features ! Chapter 3 is a Quick-Start Tutorial ! Chapters 2-13 and Appendix A-B describe the New Features in detail This major new upgrade to Band-in-a-Box includes over 50 new features! We've added a full featured digital audio track, so you can add live vocals or guitar playing to your song.
Chapter 2: Summary of New Features New Features in Band-in-a-Box Version 9 are ... • Audio Track! – Feel like adding vocals to your Band-in-a-Box song? Or a live guitar part. No problem with version 9. You can easily record a track of CD quality audio using the new audio features. Plug in your guitar or a microphone to your soundcard, press the Microphone record button in Band-in-a-Box, and Band-in-a-Box will add your track to the song. You can overdub the audio parts to add in harmonies etc.
song. You can preview styles before loading them so you can hear what they'll sound like in your song. The window remembers the style and genre that you've used, and will return to it the next time you visit the window. • Big Piano Window. We've added a new Big Piano Window, showing you the notes of any track on a piano keyboard. You can set the size of the Window, range of the piano, and number of octaves to display.
duration, channel) with other hot keys. This speeds up editing of notes. For example, you can record a song using the Melody Wizard, which will have the correct timing and durations but incorrect pitches. Then you can quickly step through the notes of the song, using the cursor up/down keys to fix the notes, and you'll end up with a Melody as good as if you had played it on a MIDI keyboard. • Notation range.
StyleMaker Enhancements • Larger style limit. Previous limit was 40K for styles. This is now 65K, allowing for bigger styles. • Copy all 'a' substyle patterns to 'b' slots. This feature is handy when only a volume increase tweaking is required for the 'b' substyle. • Delete all patterns in this row option added. • Pattern trim routine that deletes notes past the end of a pattern, or (optionally) a specified distance from the end of a pattern. • Event list for Editing Notes in patterns using a list.
• Easy STEREO/MONO panning menu items. These allow you to quickly set the instruments to a stereo panning or mono panning. • Total time for song in Minutes and seconds are now displayed at the top of the screen (e.g. 4:58). • Polyphonic adjust of Melody tracks. This function will convert a polyphonic track to a monophonic track by eliminating note overlap, optionally preserving the double stops (chords) in the track. • If a song has an intro, its usually not necessary to play the 2 bar lead-in count.
Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial Quick-Start Tutorial For Version 9 Upgrade The full description of the new features in Version 9 of Band-in-a-Box are provided elsewhere. This tutorial is a quick-start tour of the new features in Version 9. Band-in-a-Box: Overview It is assumed that you are somewhat familiar with the previous release of Band-in-a-Box. If not, here is a brief "primer". Band-in-a-Box is an automatic accompaniment program.
Find these buttons on the main screen: Find the microphone button, this is the way to launch the recording of audio. There is a button that allows you to set your Recording inputs. This is essential, since you need to select Microphone or Line-in if you plan on recording audio. Find the playback audio settings button, this allows you to view levels of playback, and also can lead to the Recording Panel by choosing OptionsProperties-Recording.
The Dialog usually opens up with another window at the right – this is the Recording Control . (Hint: If your soundcard doesn't open with the recording control shown, and instead shows the playback control, you'll need to select Options-PropertiesRecording in the menu of this Mixer – or upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows 98.) If the Recording Control has not launched, you can manually launch it by pressing the Recording Control button on the audio dialog.
As the song plays, you can look at the VU meters to ensure that you haven't sung too loud and got into the red zone of the VU meters – indicating a 'clipping' of the sound. When you've completed recording your section (say after 16 bars of singing), press the ESCAPE key or STOP button on the main screen, answer YES to Keep Audio Take. Now press SAVE, and Save your new vocal arrangement. Call it "Old Folks at Home With Vocals. MGU" Technical note: There'll now be an Old Folks at Home With Vocals .
Use the Recording Control to select recording of OUTGOING MIDI, and deselect everything else, including microphone, line-in and audio CD. Now press the Render to WAV file button. This begins the process of recording the outgoing MIDI to WAV. The Rendered wave file name is shown at the top. It will be called "_Old Folks at Home .WAV" in this example. Note that the underscore at the beginning is a convention that BB uses to indicate that this is a Rendered wave file.
You'll see the Select Guitarist Dialog. Choose Guitarist #2 "Jazz Guitar Single Position". (If you've been already changing these setting make sure that the other settings haven't been changed from their defaults, and that the Fret Position is at 5, Track is Melody, and Generate is set to Whole song.) Press OK You'll now see a confirmatory dialog, indicating that a chord solo has been added. The music will begin playing and you can hear the chord solo added to your song.
STOP the song. Let's edit this chord solo a little. Open the Notation Window. You'll notice that there is guitar tab displayed. This is because the track type for the Melody has been set to Guitar (automatically by the Chord Solo routine). You can change this on the Melody menu if you don't want to see tab, by setting the track type to Normal. On the Guitar Window. Press the Chord Step Advance buttons (INS and DEL on the NUMPAD). These advance and highlight a chord at a time.
Click on the Lyrics button on the notation window, this is an L button (on the notation toolbar) , or press Ctrl L. The lyric edit will open up. Use ENTER to advance by a chord, and Shift TAB to move back by a chord. When the highlighted note is on the note for the word "Way" (i.e. Bar 1 Beat 1), then type "Way" into the edit, and then press Enter to move to the next chord and type "down" then continue with the rest of the notes, until you have entered the lyrics for the first 4 bars.
You can see that they are interleaved with the chord names. This is called the "Busker format", since Buskers usually work with a sheet of chords and words only. You can press the Options button to de-select the show chords option, and you'll just see the lyrics without chords interleaved. Choose the Option – Lyrics – Copy to clipboard.
Chapter 4: Audio Features Audio Features Overview • Audio Track! – Feel like adding vocals to your Band-in-a-Box song? Or a live guitar part. No problem with version 9. You can easily record a track of CD quality audio using the new audio features. Plug in your guitar or a microphone to your soundcard, press the Microphone record button in Band-in-a-Box, and Band-in-a-Box will add your track to the song. You can overdub the audio parts to add in harmonies etc.
Even if you aren't recording an audio track, you can use the new "Rendering Features" to convert an all MIDI "Band-in-a-Box Song" to a .WAV file. You can do the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Convert a Band-in-a-Box song file to a stereo 44K (CD Quality) .WAV file (with the audio track included as an option) Use the Rendered .WAV file in your other sequencers (PowerTracks etc.) Convert your compositions to "compressed .WAV" files that don't take up much space, and are more suitable for Internet use.
Audio Menu There is now an Audio menu, where all of the audio functions are found. The Record audio function is used to Record Audio (using a microphone plugged into your soundcard, or a guitar (optionally plugged into a mixer) and then into the line-in on your soundcard. This launches the Record Audio Dialog (discussed elsewhere). The next 2 items (Record audio and MIDI) refer to the situation where you want to simultaneously record an audio track (vocals etc.) as well as a MIDI piano part.
Erase Audio Choruses will erase some of the choruses. Erase Region will erase a specified region of bars/beats of audio. Adjust Output level – quick uses the Windows Mixer to adjust the output level of the audio track. You can also use the Windows Mixer directly by pressing the Speaker icon. Adjust Level of .WAV file permanently changes the volume of the audio track itself.
Audio Track Recording Band-in-a-Box has a single audio track. It is a 44 K mono track (CD quality). This allows you to record vocals or other instruments using a microphone or line-in from a mixer or guitar. To record audio to your song, first prepare the Band-in-Box song (i.e. type in the chords or load in an existing song). Then press the microphone button (or choose menu Audio-Record). This launches the Audio Record Dialog Before you begin recording, you'll need to: 1.
track), whereas when Rendering the whole composition to a single .WAV file, you always want to record the outgoing MIDI. It is essential that you understand this! *Technical Note: This is only true if you are using the soundcard for your output MIDI driver. If you have an external MIDI device like the Roland Sound Canvas, the outgoing MIDI doesn't get recorded – you'd need to route it back into the line-in to record the MIDI.
"hot" high signal, digital recordings need to absolutely avoid high levels, since any overload (clipping) of the signal will result in a ruined recording. When you press the "Test Recording VU Meter" button, this launches the Windows mixer. The recording settings are on the recording panel of this Mixer. Note: BB opens the Windows Mixer with the window titled "Recording Control".
If you've set the 'SHOW VU Meter" option, then the Recording VU Meter will open up and display during recording, so you can monitor the VU meters. .When you are finished recording, press STOP or hit the Escape Key. You will then see the "Keep the Audio Take Dialog" If you are happy with the recording, you should choose Keep Take. Then the Audio will get added to the Audio Track. You can listen to the results by pressing PLAY.
At the end of recording, you get an option to Overdub with the underlying audio. Playing the Audio File. Now you can play the Audio file that you've recorded. The size of the audio file will be displayed at the top of the screen. If you haven't saved the song yet, your window title will look like this. In the example, above, the song is titled NoName.SG1, and there is a 3.4mb .WAV file associated with the file, and that's 38 seconds of audio. The total duration of the song is 3 minutes and 20 seconds.
look at the Delay plugin, i.e. the P^.DLY.INI file and then look at a sample INPUT.TXT file that BB writes prior to launching the plugin, and the small Output.txt file that the plugin writes on completion, you should have what you need to write a plugin. There are more DOCS available on our web site www.pgmusic.com, and sample Delphi code to write plugins if you're interested. The plugins can be written in any language, since they just need to interface with BB through the Input.txt, Output.txt and P^NNN.
A Band-in-a-Box song called "My Song.MGU" will have the associated wave file called "My Song.wav". If BB loads this song file, and it can't find its associated file, it will put up a message to that effect. If that message is distracting, and for some reason you don't have the wave files that were recorded with the songs, then you can disable that message. Reading the Audio and MIDI tracks into other programs.
If you use an external MIDI module (Sound Canvas etc.) as your MIDI Driver … You should connect a cable from the audio out of the Sound Canvas to the linein on the soundcard, and then de-select the recording of the rest of the inputs (Audio CD, microphone in and MIDI). All of these selections are done from the Recording Panel of your Windows soundcard Mixer. This is launched from the Rendering dialog. Here is the Rendering to WAV dialog.
Test the WAV file by playing it, to ensure that the MIDI is being recorded, and the volume levels are correct, and that the volume of the audio track (if any) is in balance with the MIDI track. If the audio track Volume isn't in balance with the MIDI tracks, adjust the level of the audio track to put it in balance. A setting of 6 dB would make the audio track twice as loud. It's quickest to do this with a small sample of the wave file.
When you press the Render button, a dialog will popup indicating that the Rendering is proceeding. You can STOP this at any time, and if you stop it early, you'll be able to listen to the portion of the file rendered. When the Render is finished, a message will popup indicating the name and size of the saved file. You can then use the TEST WAV button to test the WAV file. This uses Media Player (MPLAYER.EXE) to play the wave file.
From this dialog, you can choose the type of compression that is appropriate (from the available drivers). You can save your settings as named presets by using the "Save As" button. For example, if you choose Microsoft ADPCM as the compression method, and choose 44K, you'll get a 4:1 compression and a bit rate of 43K / second. You can save this as a preset called "MS ADPCM44K" or whatever name you like. Using the Audio Rendered Stereo .WAV file with other programs.
Chapter 5: Lyrics Features New Lyrics Features Note-based lyrics. Previous versions of Band-in-a-Box had lyrics based on a "line at a time". We've added note-based lyrics. This allows more accurate placement of lyrics as you can place a word under each note. As you enter the lyrics, the note is highlighted, and pressing the TAB or Enter key moves to the next word. Notebased lyrics are saved with the MIDI file, so you can use them in your other MIDI programs. Big Lyrics (Karaoke) Window.
Entering Lyrics on a note-by-note Basis. You can enter note-based lyrics by pressing Ctrl-L or pressing the Lyrics button on the Notation toolbar. When you do this, you'll see that the notation window is open, and a lyric edit window has appeared on top of the notation toolbar. Let's enter the Lyrics for the first 4 bars of the song "Old Folks at Home". The Lyrics are, "Way down u-pon the Swa-nee Ri-ver … ".
highlighting the first note of the song. We type "Way" in the lyric window, and then move to the next note. We can do this by pressing ENTER or TAB. (Shift TAB gets us moving back one note.) You can enter each word or syllable as it corresponds to the notes. "Way down u- pon the Swa- nee Ri- ver\" would be the syllables you'd enter. Note that a hyphen is put at the end of syllables, and a backslash is put at the end of a phrase, to indicate a line break.
From here, you can edit lyrics, or INSERT new lyrics , or APPEND lyrics to the end of the track, or DELETE lyrics. A single lyric event can be 128 characters. So note-based lyrics can be entered using the note-by-note method, or fine tuned with the Lyrics Event List. Tip: Lyrics can be used to store other types of text information - for example you could use them for comments about sections of the music. Big Lyrics Window.
As you can see, the lyrics are displayed, interleaved with the chord names. This is referred to as the "Busker format", since it shows the chords and lyrics in a manner similar to "Busker Leadsheets". If you set the option on the Big Lyrics Window to not display the chord symbols, you'll get only the lyrics displayed. When the song plays, the lyrics will highlight in a bouncing-ball manner.
This dialog has options to allow "printing" (i.e. copying to clipboard) of notebased and/or line-based lyrics. With either option, you can choose to include the chord symbols or not, have double line spacing, and margin settings. Process Lyric Lines cleans up the display of lyrics by inserting/ removing extra spaces in line-based lyrics By doing this function (on the first 4 bars of the song), you'd get the following to Paste into your word processor.
Other Lyric Functions On the Lyrics menu, you can see a number of Lyric functions. These all apply to note-based lyrics. There is a sub menu at the bottom of items that apply to linebased lyrics. The note-based lyrics functions are: Erase all Lyrics: Erases note-based and Note-based Lyrics. Erase Note Lyrics: Erases only the note-based lyrics. Move Lyric ahead to time line.
Copy Line Lyrics to Note Lyrics. This converts line-based lyrics to note based lyrics. It is imprecise, because the line-based lyrics don't correspond to individual notes. But you can edit the positions of the note-based lyrics using the event list or the Move Lyric back/ahead to time line functions discussed above. Move Line lyrics to Note Lyrics works like the Copy Line lyrics to Note Lyrics function, except it erases the Line-based lyrics.
Chapter 6: Guitar Enhancements Guitar Tablature. The notation screen now has an option for Guitar Tablature, that displays any track in standard Guitar TAB. This can be seen on the notation screen, leadsheet window or printed out. Automatic Guitar Chord Solos to any Song! Now you can easily make and learn a professional quality guitar chord solo to your favorite song! Load in any song with a Melody into Band-in-a-Box (or generate a song with a melody).
• • Tablature is shown on the Notation. When saving the file as a MIDI file, any notes on the "Guitar Channels (11 to16) are preserved, so that any fret positions are preserved. (Channels 11 to 16 correspond to strings 1 to 6, so that a G5 note on Channel 11 would be shown on the high E string at the third fret.
On the Guitar Window, you will notice some new buttons. Ch- and Ch+ are the Convert to Chord Buttons. The hotkeys for these are NUMPAD 7 and NUMPAD 8. When you press these buttons, the current note on the Melody track gets highlighted, and the note gets converted to a guitar chord. This is a 'real' guitar chord, with a proper voicing that a pro guitarist would play if he/she was doing a chord solo with the original note as a melody note.
You can see that a chord has been inserted with the G melody note on top. It is present on the guitar neck, notation and TAB. If you continue to press the Ch+ button you get different variations of the chord. The N- and N+ buttons work in a similar manner, except they convert to a single guitar note. Pressing the buttons repeatedly will change the note to be displayed on a different string (at the same pitch).
Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist' With Band-in-a-Box 9, you can now generate a guitar chord solo for any melody. BB will intelligently arrange the melody to a guitar chord solo, by inserting real guitar voicings throughout the piece. You can select from among many "Guitarists" to create your arrangement. And you can define your own guitarists, choosing parameters such as strum speed, types of voicings (pop/jazz), embellishments, and many more.
Guitar, single position". That will create chord solos that stick to a single position on the guitar neck whenever possible. 2. Select Melody (or Soloist) track. You'd normally want the Guitar Chord solo to be written to the Melody track, but you can also select the Soloist track as the destination. 3. Confirm the Selection the Guitar Patch. The Guitarist that you pick (see item #1) will already have chosen the guitar patch to use, but you can over-ride it with this setting.
Select the Main Guitar Position to use. BB has a setting called Auto-Set that will set the main guitar position for the solo for you, based on the key signature. For example, in the key of C, BB will choose the 5th position as the best position for the chord solo to be played. But you can over-ride this, for example if you wanted the solo to be in the 12th position, you could de-select the "Auto-Set" and then set the guitar position to 12th position.
This tells you that that the solo has added a solo to the track, adding about 500 notes to the existing 1,000 notes. You'll notice that the guitar doesn't add a chord to every note, it intelligently decides which notes to add chords to. The playback will begin automatically, and you'll see the guitar voicings on the Guitar neck. For example, at Bar 8 the chord is a C#dim, and BB has voiced a Bb melody note with a 4 note Guitar voicing of the notes Bb,E,C#, and G.
the auto-set position button, and choose the 12 position. Since we only want to regenerate this for the choruses 4 to 6. We set the range to "Part of Song" and the range to start at chorus 4, bar 1, and range of 96 bars. This will rewrite the solo, by first removing the existing guitar chord solo (if any) and then generating a new one.
• • • • • • The Guitarist is selected from the "Num" field. You can title the Guitarist using the Title "field". The Memo field allows a 100 character memo about the Guitarist. The Guitar Patch is selected using the Guitar Patch field. Frets To Move field: if set to zero, the guitar chord solo will be limited to chords that can be played within the current position.
Looking at the settings above (for Guitarist #2), these would be interpreted as follows: - - - - If a note occurs and it is the "First Note of a New Chord", and the note is not followed by another note for at least 50 ticks (120 ticks = 1 quarter note) , then a chord will get voiced 90% of the time.
about 50% delay. A delay of 0% also sounds good, and has the added advantage that it doesn't shift the actual time of the Melody note (relevant if you keep regenerating the solo on the Melody track). Pressing the PLUCKED or STRUMMED button sets these settings to preset values. Chord Types To Include. You can decide which types of chords should be included in the chord solo: Chord Types (Best/ Good/ Advanced/ Unusual / Barre/ Open Strings).
Embellishment types allows setting of the types of embellishments to do: • • • "Pop" Guitarists should be set to use 9ths only. This will change C7 chords to C9 and Cm7 to Cm9. The "7ths/9ths" setting should be used for Jazz. This adds the embellishments of C to Cmaj7 and Cm to Cm7. The "7/9/11/13" embellishment should be used for "Advanced Jazz" Guitarists and add 11ths and 13ths voicings.
Chapter 8: Style Selection Enhancements Style Selection Enhancements. Selecting a style to use for your song has been made much easier, and more fun! When you open the new StylePicker Window, it shows you which styles would work best in your song, highlighting all styles that have a similar tempo, genre, and feel to your song. You can preview styles before loading them so you can hear what they'll sound like in your song.
For each style, you see the following information: (the example will describe the J_DIZZY.STY) • • • • • The asterisk (*) or (^) tilde indicates if the style is a perfect or good match to the prototype style (as described previously). 'Sw' indicates that the style is in a Swing feel (vs. Ev for Even feel) of the beat. The '8' indicates that the style is an 8th note feel (vs. 16th note feel) Jazz Dizzy Style is the full name of the style. SD #5 indicates that the style is found on styles Disk #5.
Chapter 9: StyleMaker Enhancements Larger style limit. The Previous limit was 40K for styles. This is now 65K, allowing for bigger styles. The larger style limit can only be loaded in by BB version 9. If you are designing styles for older versions of BB, you should keep the size to 40K. There is a new command to "Copy all 'a' substyle patterns to 'b' slots." This feature is handy when only a volume increase tweaking is required for the 'b' substyle.
There is an event list for Editing Notes in patterns using a list editor. To access this, press the Notation Editor for the Style Maker, then press the # button. You can then edit the notes of the current pattern using an event list.
Chapter 10: Big Piano Window Big Piano Window Overview Big Piano Window. We've added a new Big Piano Window, showing you the notes of any track on a piano keyboard. You can set the size of the Window, range of the piano, and number of octaves to display. You can also display notes names, or guide notes showing the scale notes of the current key. Notes can be displayed using a different color for each note.
• You can set a specific range for the Big Piano, a starting note and a # of octaves, by over-riding the "auto" settings. • Show Out of Range notes ensures that all notes will be played on the big piano. • If "Send Notes to Notation Window" is clicked, clicking a note on the big piano will insert a note to the notation track, if the notation is in editable notation mode. • Note Names and Note Colors can be used, in a manner similar to the Notation settings.
Chapter 11: Notation Enhancements Notation Enhancements: Overview Keystroke Note Editing. You can easily edit notes using only keystrokes now. By stepping through the notes one-by-one, when a note is highlighted you can change the pitch using the cursor keys, and other values (timing, duration, channel with other hot keys. This speeds up editing of notes. For example, you can record a song using the Melody Wizard, which will have the correct timing and durations but incorrect pitches.
The Event List allows you to edit/ insert and delete notes: • • • • • 64 Double click on an event to edit it (or press Edit). Insert puts an event before the current event. Append puts an event at the end of the track. Update redraws the notation screen. Edit Lyrics – Edit Soloist – Edit Melody selects which track to edit.
Chapter 12: Harmony Enhancements Harmony Enhancements: Overview Convert Harmony Part to Notation track. Previously if you added a harmony the harmony parts wouldn't be seen on the notation, you would only see the lead part. Now you can write the harmony part directly to the notation track, so you can see it and print it out, just like any other part. (Note: these features are all described for the Melody track, but apply equally to the Soloist (or THRU) part.
You can specify a harmony to only occur for notes longer than a certain duration. Many harmonies like the "Garner Piano" harmony previously harmonized every note. This produced un-realistic harmonies, since a piano player (like Garner) wouldn't harmonize notes of a short duration. You can specify a harmony to only occur for notes longer than a certain duration. In the example of Garner, we set the threshold to 200ms, notes shorter than that will not be harmonized.
Chapter 13: Other New Features Fly-by Hints: Band-in-a-Box now has the popular 'yellow text' windows that pop up when you are passing the mouse over buttons and other controls. These can be set to display brief or detailed descriptions of the selected controls. To access the settings for the fly-by hints: Choose options-Preferences 2. From here you can enable/ disable the hints, and enable comprehensive (long) tips.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Open up a song that has a Melody, preferably a sparse Melody with some space in it that a Soloist might be able to "jump in". Press the Soloist button. Select the Solo Mode "Around Melody". Set the Soloist to play in All Choruses, and un-check the Mute Melody in Middle option. Press Ok, and the Solo will be generated, playing riffs at times when the Melody isn't playing.
Song Endings option. The usual Band-in-a-Box ending is 2 bars appended to the end of the song. This new option gives you an alternative to end the song on the last bar of the song, BB will still play an ending on the chord that you specify, and the ending will occur as a 2 bar phrase beginning 2 bars before the end of the form. This results in more natural endings for many songs. For example, the song Old Folks At Home is a 32-bar chorus song from bar 1 to bar 32.
Choosing the command Melody- Eliminate Note Overlap will cut the duration of the G note to a little less than 1 beat in duration, so there is no note overlap. Choosing the next option on the menu will preserve double stops, so that notes that start at near the same time (as in a chord or "double stops") are not considered to be overlapping, and therefore not truncated. Omit Lead-In if Intro is present. If a song has an intro, its usually not necessary to play the 2 bar lead-in count.
Appendix A: "Audio Plugins" DSP Effects - A Primer Band-in-a-Box is capable of producing high-quality 'rendered' DSP effects in software. These effects are designed to simulate 'outboard effects' (i.e. rackmount devices or 'stomp-boxes') without the additional cost of extra equipment.
Compression can make a signal loud and punchy. This is desirable when preparing music for noisy environments, such as club music, car music, radio and television sound, or small computer multimedia speakers. The Band-in-a-Box compressor is an upward compressor. An upward compressor works by making quiet signals louder. A downward compressor works by making loud signals softer. Downward compression is useful in analog boxes, but a digital downward compressor can reduce the resolution of a signal.
Use low Release settings to compress individual notes. Use high Release settings to compress the overall level of a track. Very fast Attack and Release settings can sometimes cause intermodulation distortion on full-range mixes. For instance, on a track with both kick drum and hihat, the kick drum might audibly pump the level of the hihat notes. It is a good rule of thumb to use moderate Attack and moderate-to-long Release on mixes, but use shorter Attack and Release on individual instruments.
Release: The it takes the Expander to attenuate the signal after it falls below threshold. Low Release, combined with high Threshold and high Ratio, can cause oddsounding decay tails. Sometimes it can sound distorted. This is called Gate Chatter, and is a common side-effect on expanders. If you get Gate Chatter, try more conservative settings. Using Compressor and Expander Together High compression settings can raise low-level noise (between musical phrases) to objectionable levels.
After the first reflections, comes a build up of more closely spaced echoes from secondary reflections bouncing between the room surfaces. As the reverb decays, the echo density builds up into a final sheen of hundreds of ever-quieter echoes. The Reverb knobs can be adjusted to emulate various types of rooms. Pre-Delay: The delay before the onset of first reflections. Rvb Time: The time it takes for reverb to decay.
Feedback: The number of times the echo will repeat. Mix: Relative balance between the original signal and the echoes. Modulation: When Modulation is enabled, the pitch of the echo is modulated, or "wobbled". Rate: The speed at which the pitch is modulated. Random: Make the modulation Rate slightly unstable, so it has a less mechanical sound. Depth: The amount of pitch change.
Delay: The average delay between original and chorus signals. Feedback: The amount of delay which is routed back to the delay input. High Feedback settings make "tunnel" or "tight steel cable" effects. Modulation Rate: The rate at which pitch is "wobbled." Random: Make the modulation Rate slightly unstable, so it has a less mechanical sound. Depth: The amount of pitch modulation. If Depth is set too high, the effect will have an objectionable out-of-tune sound.
Random: Randomize the rate, to avoid a mechanical sweeping sound. Ring Modulator Ring Modulation is a strange effect, which is best for non-pitched sounds such as gongs, unusual percussion, and robot voices. Ring Modulation is not very useful on ordinary melodic or chordal parts. Ring Modulator is a balanced modulator, or four-quadrant multiplier. Carrier and Modulator signals are mixed together, and only the sum and difference frequencies are passed. The original frequencies in each signal are supressed.
The frequencies of Lo, Lo Mid, Hi Mid, and Hi, are 80 Hz, 400 Hz, 2.5 KHz, and 8 KHz. Graphic EQ A ten-band Graphic EQ with ISO centers. Each band covers one octave. Parametric EQ There are six independently tunable filters. The Parametric EQ is the tool of choice for precise control; especially handy for adjusting narrow bands for corrective surgery on problem tracks. Frequency: The center frequency of each bandpass filter. Bandwidth: The relative width of each filter.
Variable Gain: These effects change gain over the selected region. Fade In: Level will begin at zero at the beginning of the region, and rise to the original level at the end of the region. Fade Out: Begin at the original level, then fade to zero at the end of the region. Adjustable Fade: Level will begin at Start Gain Percent, and fade to End Gain Percent. You can access the effects described here by choosing from the AUDIO menu.
Line Frequency: Set to the local power frequency. USA and Canada uses 60 Hz. Filters: Choose the active notch filters, among the lowest six harmonics of power hum. Each filter is a tenth-octave wide. Sometimes hum is "pure" and sometimes hum contains upper-frequency harmonics. Though these notch filters are narrow, they still affect your audio to some extent, so it is best to use the smallest number of filters necessary to do the job.
The Hum Filter is not very useful for "buzz." Buzz contains high-frequency hum harmonics caused by RF interference from fluorescent lights, electric motors, or cheap light dimmers. Sixty Hz line buzz can contain harmonics at 60 Hz intervals all the way into the high frequencies (420, 480, 540, 600, 660, 720, 780, 840, 900 Hz, etc). Since there are so many possible buzz harmonics in mid and high frequencies, notch filters are not very practical.
level of the mid-frequencies can be adjusted, and the highs can be expanded relative to mid-frequency signal level. The Bass band in the Enhancer includes frequencies below 480 Hz. The Midrange band is between 480 Hz and the HF Corner Frequency. The High Frequency band is above the HF Corner Frequency setting. Mid Level: Adjust the loudness of mid frequencies. HF Corner Freq: The border between the midrange and high frequency bands.
Used conservatively, the Exciter can brighten some types of audio. Add some "air" to vocal, horn, hihat, or acoustic guitar. Exciter usually works best on monophonic tracks. Exciter can sound distorted and aggravating if over-used. Exciter can sometimes brighten old low-fidelity cassette tapes, by adding some highs which do not exist on the tape. Frequency: The cutoff point for high-frequency distortion. It is best to adjust Frequency to include only the top octave which is present in the source audio.
Semitones, Cents: Set the pitch shift amount. Granularity: The size of individual time-slices which are pitch-shifted. When transposing down, the Pitch Shifter occasionally deletes a snip of audio to preserve tempo. When transposing up, an occasional snip of audio is repeated to preserve tempo. The Pitch Shifter uses a pattern-matching process to locate the best splice points.
Fattening: Fatten a track by slightly detuning copies of the track. Fattening can be effective on many instruments, including vocal, solo instruments, bass, and snare drum. Flange and Chorus are also useful for fattening, but Flange and Chorus has a vibrato effect. Pitch Shift fattening doesn't introduce vibrato, and it also slightly disturbs the rhythm of the clone tracks, which can enhance the doubled effect. Transposing: Pitch shift by semitones to change the key of a track.
Octave Doubling: Octave doubling is great on instrumental leads, especially electric guitar or sax. Duplicate a track, then shift the copy by one octave. An octave down usually works better than an octave up. If you double an octave up, the pitch shifted track has very noticeable echo-tremolo artifacts, which may not be desirable. Artifacts: In science, the word artifact can mean, "Erroneous results caused by imperfections in the measurement technique.
Distortion: Add some grit before filtering. When Distortion is set to a value of 1, there is no distortion. The Auto-Wah distortion has a razzier sound than the Band-in-a-Box Soft Distortion plugin. The Auto-Wah distortion takes a mathematical root of all the sample values. This raises the amplitude of small sample values. When set to 2, Distortion takes the square root of all values.
harmonics at the cutoff frequency. High resonance has a biting, synthetic effect. Low resonance is mellower sounding. Release: The time it takes for the filter to track note loudness decay. Adjust to taste. Filter Mode: The 2 pole filter has a more gradual high-frequency attenuation slope than the 4 pole filter. Each setting has a unique sound. Filter Tracking: • Linear- Filter cutoff frequency linearly tracks the input signal. Linear may be better on instruments with wide dynamic range.
This plugin works like a high-frequency limiter— limiting loudness of high frequencies without affecting low frequencies. Frequency: Adjust the crossover point for the De-Ess function. Frequencies below this setting are not limited, and freqencies above are limited. Threshold: The high frequency limit threshold. Zero dB would offer no limiting, and –96 dB would cut almost all high frequencies out of the signal. Loud sibilance can be rather quiet compared to the lower frequencies.
Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation Styles #0-14 are documented in Appendix E of the Band-in-Box 8 manual. Styles #19 is included in the upgrade package to Version 9 of Band-in-a-Box (not included with a first-time purchase of the program). Styles Disks 0-3 are included with the Pro version of Band-in-a-Box. Other Styles Disks are sold separately as add-ons to Band-in-a-Box.
22 New Nashville Country Styles C_90BAL.STY Contemporary Country Ballad Memo: Contemporary med-tempo Country Ballad Style a la Judds, Reba McIntyre. Instruments - Piano, El.Piano at b, Bass, Drums and Acoustic Guitar. Tempo 80-126 Examples: Grandpa, Somebody Should Leave, Mama He's Crazy C_BLUE.STY Classic Country Shuffle Memo: Classic Country Shuffle - Similar To C_Clasic.Sty but with more edge. 5 Instruments: Drums, Bass, Piano, Elec. Guitar and Acoustic Guitar.
C_HBILLY.STY Hillbilly Country Blues Rock Memo: Hillbilly Country Blues Rock Style a la Marty S. 5 Instruments Piano, Bass, Drums, Elec. Guitar and Acoustic Guitar. Tempo 130-150 Examples: Hillbilly Rock, Six Days On The Road C_JUDDS.STY Contemporary Country Rock Memo: Contemporary Country Rock Style a la The Judds, Dixie Chicks. 5 Instruments -Piano, Bass, Drums and 2 Acoustic Guitars. Tempo 110-138 Examples: Have Mercy, I Feel Lucky C_JUKBOX.STY Country Honkytonk Memo: Country Honkytonk style a la Alan J.
C_SMOOTH.STY Contemporary Country Memo: Radio Country style a la Restless Heart or Diamond Rio. 5 Insts Drums, Bass, Piano & 2 Acoustic Guitars. Tempo 90-120 Examples: The Bluest Eyes In Texas, That Rock Won't Roll C_SWEET.STY Contemporary Country Ballad Memo: Slow Contemporary Country Ballad style a la Leann R. or Trisha Y. 5 Insts - Drums, Bass, Piano Acoustic Guitar and Strings. Tempo 63-78 Examples: How Do I Live C_VINCE.STY Medium Tempo Train Beat Memo: Medium Tempo Train Beat Style a la Vince G.
(80 tunes in the key of C) and BlueJamF (the same 80 tunes in the key of F). Turn on the BB Jukebox and wail! Because these are specifically Blues styles, typing in a C or a C7 chord will have the same effect - the Stylemaker will respond with a bluesy lick based on a C7 type of chord. If you specifically want a Major (only) chord, you should type in a specific chord such as C2, C6,Cmaj7, C69 etc. Of course all other chords are also supported. Another suggestion: study how the demo tunes were done.
CURTISM.STY Curtis M Slow Blues Memo: A very slow New York funky 70's blues style a la Curtis. Straight 16ths. 5 insts. - el. Piano, Guitar, el.Bass, LiveMIDI Drums, Organ at b. T=75 Examples: Any slow blues, The Thrill is Gone DRJONROK.STY DrJon Rock Blues Memo: This 5-inst. st.8 rock blues style features Piano a la Dr Jon and simple Guitar comp. It has a New Orleans blues-jam feel. ac. Piano, el. Bass, el. Guitar, LiveMIDI Drums. Organ at b. T=110 Examples: Any med-tempo St. 8ths blues DRJONSHF.
JITERBUG.STY Jiterbug Fast Blues Shuffle Memo: A 5 inst. Sw.8 instrumental jam style at a fast tempo. Also in the mode of Stevie Ray. Guitar is less busy than Jiterbug2. W/ ac. Piano, el. Bass, el. Guitar, LiveMIDI Drums & Organ.T=215 Examples: Stray Cats, Rock Around the Clock JITRBUG2.STY Jitrbug2 Fast Blues Shuffle Memo: A variation on Jiterbug.Sty, this version features busier Guitar. 5 insts. - ac. P, el. B, el. G, LiveMIDI Drums & Organ. T=215 Examples: Rip It Up, Rock Around the Clock JONLEE.
STRAYST8.STY StRay Straight 8ths Memo: A 4 instrument med-tempo st.8 blues style featuring organ fills thru-out. W/ el. Bass, el. Guitar, LiveMIDI Drums & Rock Organ. T=125 Examples: Why I Sing the Blues, Watermelon Man TAJMALL.STY TajMall St.8 Blues Memo: This med-tempo blues is based on a repeating Bass rhythm which gives it a slight Latin flavor. Sparse Guitar comp. 4 insts. - el. Piano, el. Bass, el. Guitar & LiveMIDI Drums.
Another suggestion: Study how the demo tunes were done. More detailed information about each style is available by pressing the Memo button of the Demo tune. The Demo songs for these styles follow the same naming convention as the styles themselves. So, for example, the DEMO song for BGWALTZ.STY is BGWALTZ.MGU. 26 New Unplugged (acoustic) Styles ACBALLAD.STY Acoustic Ballad style Memo: A slow, Ballad style a la Grisman quartet with Bass, Drums, Guitar, Violin and Mandolin.
Examples: The Weight, Tears of Rage, Tupelo Honey DOGFUNK.STY Dog Funk style Memo: Mandolin-driven funk-groove style, with a 16th note shuffle feel. With mandolin, guitar, acoustic bass and fiddle. Fiddle plays staccato chops at 'a', fills at 'b'. T=100 Examples: Butterfat, Dawgfunk DOGFUNKD.STY Dog Funk (with drums) style Memo: DogFunk.Sty with drums added. Mandolin-driven funk-groove style, with a 16th note shuffle feel. (mando, g, b, drs & fiddle. T=100 Examples: Butterfat, Dawgfunk DOGSAMBA.
Memo: A modern Folk-Rock acoustic style with 2 acoustic guitars, bass and drums. At 'b', Half-time drums and Pete Townsend-style strumming ala 'Pinball Wizard'. T= 80-150 Examples: Pinball Wizard, Trains FOLKTRIO.STY Folk-Trio style Memo: A Folk style a la Limeliters or Kingstons, featuring strummed banjos & guitars, bass & tambourine. At 'b', add bongos, banjo fingerpicking & different guitar rhythm. T=170 Examples: This Little Light, Wimoweh JTLATIN.
Memo: Up-tempo acoustic contemporary bluegrass a la David Grisman and others. Features guitar, banjo, mandolin & bass. 'a' substyle is more syncopated than 'b'. T=160 Examples: Ride the Wild Turkey, Gingeng Sullivan SWAMPROK.STY Swamp Rock style Memo: An acoustic style a la groups like Dave M. & Bon J., with banjo, guitar, bass, drums & fiddle. At 'b', add fingerpicked banjo & heavier drum backbeat. T=100 Examples: Don't Drink the Water, Dead or Alive WRYCODER.
similar time-feel, such as CRYSTAL.STY with KINGDOM.STY. Of course, combining different sounding styles will produce more dramatic variations. More detailed information about each style is available by pressing the Memo button of the Demo tune. Many of these Demo tunes were saved with some added reverb, chorus and panning - mainly on the guitars. The Demo songs for these styles follow the same naming convention as the styles themselves. So, for example, the DEMO song for PRAISE.STY is PRAISE.MGU.
GRACE.STY Grace - Praise and Worship style Memo: This is a medium Pop 16 style with 5 insts- el. piano, bass, drums, muted guitar & brass. The 'b' section is bigger and more intense. T=100 Generic Example Tune: I Second That Emotion HALELUIA.STY Haleluia - Praise and Worship style Memo: Soft Pop medium tempo with 5 insts - piano arps., bass, guitar, strings & drums. 'a' is soft with Alberti piano. 'b' - big backbeat & strat guitar added. T=100 Generic Example Tune: Won't Last a Day HOSANNA.
REVEALED.STY Revealed - Praise and Worship style Memo: Med-slow pop 16ths with a warm string section and arpeggiated guitar sound. 5 insts - ac. guitar, fr. bass, Atmosphere (100), strings (50). T=105 Generic Example Tune: We Are the World REVIVAL.STY Revival - Praise and Worship style Memo: This is a medium - fast rock style with 5 insts - ac. piano, el. bass, drums, strat guitar and organ. T=155 Generic Example Tune: Jesus Is Just Alright SAVED.
us to create some of those requested styles which might not warrant a full styles disk of their own. You'll find many of those styles in Styles Disk #19 - including Brazilian Canção, Contemporary Celtic, African, Soca (Caribbean Soul Calypso), a great new Jazz Ballad style, Reggae, and we even answered a request for a Peanuts style. The sound of groups like - TijuanaBr, SergioM, B-Gees, Blondy, Elvis, BennyG quintet, BMarley and more are all represented.
26 new 'Requested' Styles 3GIT_16.STY 3 Guitars 16ths Memo: A versatile Pop-Jazz-Folk 16ths style with 3 acoustic guitars & acoustic Bass (no drums). 4 insts - 2 acoustic guitars, 1 nylon guitar and acoustic bass. Tempo range from 80 - 150. T=100 Examples: Any Pop, Jazz or Rock ballad, any Bossa B_GEES1.STY BGees 1 - 80s Disco Memo: 80s Disco a la BGees. 5 instruments - electric piano, muted guitar, electric bass, drums & strings. At 'a', muted guitar riff, low string pad & sustained chords.
C_GARTH.STY Garth - Country Ballad Memo: Contemporary Country Ballad Style a la Garth B., Keith W. etc.. 5 Instruments - piano, bass, drums, acoustic guitar and strings (at 'b'). T= 80-126 Examples: If Tomorrow Never Comes, Don't Close Your Eyes C_HAG.STY Hag - Country Classic style Memo: Classic Country style a la Merle H. or Clint B.. 5 Instruments drums, bass, piano, acoustic guitar and electric guitar. T = 105-145 Examples: Okie From Muskogee, Better Man C_PIANO.
Memo: 50s rock blues shuffle with 4 instruments - piano, bass, drums & vocal background. Piano plays strong shuffle figure. T=170 Examples: Rip It Up, Don't Be Cruel J_LIONEL.STY Lionel - Slow 40s Jazz Swing Ballad Memo: Non-Brushes variation of J~LIONEL style. A slow 40s swing ballad style. Smooth Vibes. 5 instruments - vibes, piano, bass, guitar, drums (no brushes). T=75 Examples: Lover Man, But Beautiful J~LIONEL.
Memo: The Caribbean 'Soca' style, a combination of (So)ul & (Ca)lypso, originated in the 70s. 5 instruments - drums and percussion., bass, kalimba and steel drums. At 'b', add guitar. T=100 Examples: Soca Party, Highway Robbery THEMBA.STY Themba - Contemporary African Memo: A contemporary African 4/4 style with 5 instruments - percussion, bass, marimba, kalimba. Xylophone at 'b'. At 'b' the xyl. plays a ' 5 over 2' figure. Tempo = 102 Examples: Angelena, Hakuna Matata, Layaye TIJUANA.
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Index Audio Features, 21 applying audio plugins, 29 audio menu, 23 audio options dialog, 30 audio rendering, 31 audio track, 21 audio track recording, 25 compressing the WAV file, 34 Internet song formats, saving, 21 main screen, 22 other audio formats, 34 overdub, 27 playing the audio file, 29 save song as wave, 21 set recording properties, 25 start point, 27 test recording level, 26 using with other audio programs, 35 writing audio plugins, 29 Audio Plugins, 71 Auto-Wah, 87 Chorus, 76 Compressor, 71 De-Es
generate chord solo, 48 Guitarist Maker, 52 Guitarist window, 48 strumming settings, 54 Harmony Enhancements, 65 convert harmony to notation, 65 new options, 65 overview, 65 hum filter, 80 Introduction, 6 Lyrics, 36 Big Lyrics options dialog, 40 Big Lyrics window, 39 Busker format, 40 copy lyrics to clipboard, 40 entering lyrics note-by-note, 37 lyric edit window, 37 lyric event list, 38 lyrics menu, 36 new lyrics features, 36 note-based lyrics functions, 42 New Features Summary, 7 Notation Enhancements Ov
