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Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide
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It also lists Styles with RealTracks, a blend of MIDI tracks and
RealTracks, with subsets for different musical genres.
The style names for RealStyles are prefaced by an underscore, _.
Style names for Styles with RealTracks are prefaced by an equals sign, =.
Styles with RealDrums
The StylePicker has another category called Styles with RealDrums.
This lists many RealDrums styles that we’ve made. We always name the RealDrums style beginning with a minus
sign, so that “-ZZJAZZ.STY” would be the ZZJAZZ style, but using RealDrums instead of MIDI drums.
MultiStyles
Original Band-in-a-Box styles had two substyle variations, “a” and “b.” Band-in-a-Box MultiStyles have
four substyles, “a” through “d.” There is a MultiStyles category in the StylePicker that opens a list of your
available MultiStyles. The Memo describes each substyle variation.
Standard Pop song form with 4 substyle MultiStyle
As a general rule for styles with 4 substyles:
- “a” substyle is for the verse.
- “b” substyle is for the chorus.
- “c” substyle is for the intro (or first verse).
- “d” substyle is for the break (or interlude).
Choosing Styles
For each style, you see the following information:
- The asterisk (*) or (^) caret indicates if the style is a perfect or good match to the prototype style.
- ZZJAZZ is the name of the style file.
- “sw” indicates that the style is in a Swing feel vs. “EV” for Even feel.
- The “8” indicates that the style is an 8
th
note feel (vs. 16
th
note feel).
- 160 is the tempo for this style.
- Jazz Swing Style is the full name of the style.
- SD #0 indicates that the style is found on Styles Disk #0, one of the original 24 Band-in-a-Box styles.