User Guide

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features
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1.
Select the Guitarist to Use. In the main list at the left of the Window, you see the list of Guitarists that is
already defined. For example, you can see that Guitarist #2 is called “Jazz 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 Guitar Patch Selection. The Guitarist that you pick (see item #1) will already have chosen the
guitar patch to use, but you can override it with this setting.
4.
Select the Range of the song to use. You can either generate a chord solo for the whole song, or just a region
of the song. In either case, remember that you need to have an existing melody to work with. You can use the
Melodist to generate a melody if you don't have one.
5.
Select the Main Guitar Position to use. Band-in-a-Box 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, Band-in-a-Box
will choose the 5
th
position as the best position for the chord solo to be played. You can override this. For
example, if you wanted the solo to be in the 12
th
position you could de-select the “Auto-Set” and then set the
guitar position to 12
th
position.
6.
Change Guitar channel. In case you already have a guitar track that has guitar channels (for example if it was
already played on a guitar controller as a single string guitar part), then you might want to tell Band-in-a-Box
not to change the guitar positions of the notes that it finds. Normally you'd want to set “OK to change existing
guitar channels” to true.