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Table of Contents PG MUSIC INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT...................................................................2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................3 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................4 30 New Features for Band-in-a-Box 2010.5! 4 CHAPTER 2: SUMMARY OF NEW FEATURES........................................................
Chapter 1: Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh! This documentation covers the new features in Band-in-a-Box Version 2010 and 2010.5 for Macintosh. - Chapter 2 is a summary of the new features. - Chapter 3 is a QuickStart Tutorial. - Chapters 4, 5, and 6 describe major new features. 30 New Features for Band-in-a-Box 2010.5! The amazing RealTracks features in Band-in-a-Box keep growing more powerful. Many of the new features in Band-in-a-Box 2010.
Chapter 2: Summary of New Features Welcome to Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 There were over 50 cool new features added in Band-in-a-Box 2010, and now version 2010.5 adds 30 more! These include user wish list requests and enhancements to existing features, plus some wish list requests of our own. 30 New Features! - The StylePicker now has a filter to show/hide Real or MIDI styles. So if you only want to see MIDI styles, or if you only want to see styles that use some/all RealTracks, you can set this.
New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2010 Band-in-a-Box 2010 added over 50 cool new features! These exciting new features were added in Band-in-a-Box 2010. There’s a new "Plug-in" mode, allowing you to simply drag and drop tracks between Band-in-a-Box and your favorite sequencer (GarageBand, ProTools, Logic, Nuendo, Reaper and more). RealTracks generate much faster now, typically 3X faster. RealTracks now support Shots, Holds, and Pushes.
you both recently used songs/styles, and a new list of “favorites” that you select as a favorite songs or styles. You can add an unlimited number of favorites. Double-time and half-time support for RealTracks added. Now you can play any RealTracks at half-time or double-time. This allows you, for example, in a ballad at a tempo of 70, to add a RealTracks Sax solo with tempo of 140, and play it as a double-time, which will match the ballad tempo of 70.
Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial Using the New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2010 and 2010.5 Quick Song Settings These are enhancements for entering songs quickly.
DAW Plug-in Mode There is a "Plug-in" mode for your favorite sequencer (GarageBand, ProTools, Logic, Nuendo, Reaper and more). With the new plug-in mode, Band-in-a-Box is open as a small window, and acts as a plug-in for your favorite DAW sequencer, so you can Drag-n-Drop MIDI and audio (AIFF, M4A) tracks from Band-in-a-Box to your favorite sequencer.
- They play back the same way each time, so if you like a solo, you can “freeze it.” - If you send a song to a friend as “frozen,” they will hear the same performance. - For the Soloist track, if you generate a solo, it can now be saved (by freezing the track). Reasons to Freeze a MIDI track: - You can edit the MIDI data, to customize the performance to match a certain song, and this will be saved. Use the Notation window or Piano Roll to edit the track.
All Tracks can be Edited and Saved. MIDI tracks for bass, drums, piano, guitar and strings can now be edited, and saved with the file. If you freeze a track, edits can still be made to it, because it is only frozen from Band-in-a-Box making changes to it (you can still edit it), so that the MIDI track will be saved to the file. So you can customize the bass part to match a certain song, and save it with a frozen bass part, so that Band-in-a-Box won’t overwrite your edits.
Assuming that you have the Holds files for the RealTracks that you are generating, then you just use Band-in-a-Box as you would normally, and type chords with shots (e.g. C..), holds (C…) or pushes (^C or ^^C for 8th or 16th note push), or combinations of push and hold (^C…). RealTracks naturally occurring pushes are enhanced in many styles. This requires updating the ST2/XT2 files, and these are included in the 2010.5 update.
To do this, press the Audio Reverb button, and adjust the various parameters. You can then save your reverb types as presets, and the current settings will also be saved with the song. The presets all gets saved to a PGReverbSettings.bin file in Band-in-a-Box/Preferences folder. You can enable/disable Reverb. If you disable it, this will save some CPU cycles, so this might be advisable on an older/slower machine, if you hear that the audio is clicking or not keeping up.
Tempo swapping of similar RealTracks You can use this feature either automatically or manually. If you set “Auto RealTracks substitution based on tempo” to true in RealTracks Settings dialog or Additional Song Settings dialog, Band-in-a-Box will automatically choose the best one to use. The default for the tempo swapping feature for RealTracks is now true. It used to be false.
The RealDrums button now has a menu (like the RealTracks button) to choose the RealDrums Picker Dialog, Shift+click, or the RealDrums Preferences, Ctrl+click. New Favorite Songs/Styles Dialog There’s a new dialog for these favorites with separate lists of “Recently Played” and “Favorite” songs or styles. The previous Favorite Songs/Styles dialog was a list of recently used songs/styles.
Note that if you set a MIDI patch for one of the bass/drums/piano/guitar/strings parts, that if you load in another style, Band-in-a-Box will overwrite your patches with the style patches. If it didn’t do that, you would be stuck with the same patches regardless of the style. So if you want a certain patch for a track, set it after you have loaded in the style that you want. Songs that are “Saved-As” with a different name now have the new name added to the Recently Played Song dialog.
For example, you can make a Jazz Ballad style (tempo 65) that uses a Sax Soloist at tempo 140 (playing double time). And much more… Band-in-a-Box window is now sizable. When size changes, chord sheet, notation, and other windows redraw in proportion to the new size. This allows you to have Band-in-a-Box open as a small window on screen with other programs, and you still see a full chord sheet. The screen size is remembered between sessions.
Chapter 4: Band-in-a-Box Plug-in Mode DAW Plug-In Mode There now is a "Plug-in" mode for your favorite sequencer (GarageBand, ProTools, Logic, Nuendo, Reaper and more). With the new plug-in mode, Band-in-a-Box is open as a small window, and acts as a plug-in for your favorite DAW sequencer, so you can Drag-n-Drop MIDI and audio (AIFF, M4A) tracks from Band-in-a-Box to your favorite sequencer.
5. SELECTED REGIONS. If you would like to transfer only a portion of the performance, you to the drop can do this by selecting the region in Band-in-a-Box and then dragging the track button station (don’t drag the selected region). You will then get just the selected region dragged to Finder. Tip: If you hold the SHIFT key during the drag, then the file will be dropped as MIDI (if it is a MIDI track), regardless of the setting in Plug-in options.
Drag Combo as separate tracks (default=false) If set to true, when dragging the Combo button, the drop will result in multiple files, one for each track. Drag Audio as m4a files If set to true, the audio gets dropped as m4a. Show DragDrog Folder This will show Finder where the dropped files reside. When you drag a file to your DAW, the file is created on disk and stored in the DragDrop folder inside the Band-in-a-Box folder.
Chapter 5: RealTracks and RealDrums Fast RealTracks Generation No more long waits for RealTracks to generate! RealTracks generate much faster, 4X faster on average. A typical song with RealTracks that took 20 seconds to generate will now generate in about 5 seconds. And if you freeze some or all tracks in the song, playback of RealTracks is almost instantaneous. This “speedup” feature works “automatically;” you should just notice that generation of RealTracks is much faster.
RealTracks/RealDrums Installation If Band-in-a-Box cannot find your RealTracks folder or your Drums folder, a yellow hint message appears at bootup to alert you to that, and tells you how to fix it: "Note: You have RealTracks installed, but none are found in your RealTracks folder. You should point to your correct RealTracks folder in Prefs-RealTracks Settings." Band-in-a-Box will keep on generating RealTracks even if some wav files are missing.
For example, if you have a ballad loaded, with an Acoustic Bass RealTracks at a tempo of 60, and you speed up the tempo to 140, and press [Play] button, Band-in-a-Box will automatically choose an Acoustic Bass RealTracks closer to the tempo of 140, if it is the same genre and feel. This means you can use a simple Jazz style, and play it at various tempos, without having to set the best RealTracks based on tempos.
RealDrums Artists and Set Number In the RealDrums Picker dialog, notice the new columns for Artist Name, and RealDrums Set number, as well as a Memo for Artist Bio. The auto-generated song memo now says if RealDrums come from the song or style.
Chapter 6: Reverb Audio Reverb Control The Reverb control for individual tracks with RealTracks or RealDrums is added so you can easily add audio reverb. At the top of the screen, there is an “A.REV” (Audio Reverb) control. Click on an instrument radio button, and then set the Audio Reverb for it. The Audio Reverb varies from 0 to 127. Clicking on the left hand side of the control allows you to enter a setting, or click on the up/down arrows.
You can enable/disable the audio reverb. If you disable it, this will save some CPU cycles, so this might be advisable on an older/slower machine if you hear that the audio is clicking or not keeping up. Click on the green Select a Preset button to open the list of presets. This list will show only the “Band-in-aBox Default Reverb” until you save some presets of your own. As you adjust the settings, they will be applied to the current song.
A prompt will ask you to confirm that you want to save the preset. Select [Yes] to save the new preset to the chosen location. Auto Reverb Enable “Auto-Add Reverb to RealTracks” to automatically apply preset amounts of reverb to RealTracks according to the instrument type. No reverb is added to the Bass part, for example, but most instruments get reverb. If you just want more or less reverb added overall, you can adjust the “Strength %.
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