User Guide
Table Of Contents
- PG Music Inc. License Agreement
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box!
- Chapter 2: QuickStart Tutorial
- Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh
- Welcome to Band-in-a-Box 2010.5
- New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2010
- More New RealTracks
- QuickStart Tutorial
- Quick Song Settings
- Save Default Mix
- Improved Audio Rendering
- DAW Plug-in Mode
- Freeze Tracks
- RealTracks Enhancements
- New Favorite Songs/Styles Dialog
- Rendering Tracks
- StylePicker Enhancements
- New in the StyleMaker
- Chapter 4: The Main Screen
- Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box
- Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide
- RealTracks
- RealDrums
- Song Settings
- The Chordsheet
- Chord Preview/Builder
- MIDI file “Chord Wizard”
- Applying Styles
- The StylePicker
- Playing, Pausing, and Stopping Songs
- Changing Volume, Panning, Reverb, Chorus, Bank
- Freeze Tracks
- Saving Songs
- Preferences – User Settings
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- Show Chords with push/rest chars
- Metronome During Recording
- Harmony Volume Adjust
- OK to Load Style with songs
- Write Guitar part on 6 channels
- Turn External Keyboard’s Local On at end of session
- OK to beep with messages
- OK to prompt to reduce/expand
- For Roman Numerals in minor keys, use relative major
- Save Button on main screen works as Save As
- Name MIDI files with .MID extension
- Allow larger fonts on Chordsheet
- Color for Chordsheet Area
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- Other Editing Features
- MIDI Setup
- The JukeBox
- Chapter 7: Notation and Printing
- Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features
- Chapter 9: Recording Tracks
- Chapter 10: Audio Features
- Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun
- Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions
- Chapter 13: CoreMIDI and Apple DLS Synth
- Chapter 14: Reference
- PG Music Inc.
- Index
- Registration Form

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide
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Show Chords with push/rest chars
The push character is the caret symbol (^). So a C chord with a push is displayed as
^C. The rest character is a
period (.), so
C. shows a C chord with a rest.
If you prefer not to see these characters displayed, then set this to false. These characters won't show up on the
printout regardless of this setting.
Show Rests in color
If checked, pushes are displayed in GREEN, and rests are displayed in RED. This only applies to the Chordsheet
(not the notation).
Allow any Rests
You can disable the rests feature. You might want to do this if you've got a song with a lot of rests in it, and are then
having difficulty recording a melody because you don't hear the drums providing the beat (due to the drums resting).
If so, you can temporarily disable the rests so that you can record and listen to the drums.
Allow any Pushes
If for some reason you don't want a style or a song to have pushes, you can uncheck this box.
Allow Style Pushes
If for some reason you don't want a style to have pushes, you can uncheck this box.
Chord Display Type
This box allows for non-standard display of chords on the Chordsheet area. The options here allow for Normal
(standard notation), Roman Numeral notation, Nashville notation, Solfeggio notation and Fixed Do notation.
When a new notation mode is selected a message will report the change on the main screen. Click anywhere in the
message box to close it.