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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Soloist –Prefer Long phrases
Set the checkbox to “true” (enabled) if you would like the Soloist to use the longest musical phrases it knows.
(Note: this option may also increase Soloist creation times. Disable this feature if you are using a slower or low-
memory equipped computer.)
Velocity Adjust
The “Soloist Velocity Adjust” and “Melodist Velocity Adjust” boxes allow you to quickly boost or reduce the
volume of the Soloist or Melodist part relative to the other instrument parts.
For a realistic mix, they are set slightly louder than the other instrument parts in a song. The default is 5.
OK to treat the V Major triad as a V7
Since the V chord is usually played as a 7th, this allows better playing on V chords. You can disable it for Rock or
Blues songs that use the major triad.
Reverb
This button opens the Reverb Settings dialog with audio reverb settings for
RealTracks and RealDrums.
Select from presets, apply custom settings, and save your own presets in this dialog.
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-a-
Box Default Reverb” until you save some presets of your own.