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 12: User Programmable Functions
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Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions
Band-in-a-Box offers users the ability to program many of its most powerful features from scratch. Those with the
interest and enthusiasm can actually create their own personalized versions of these features:
- Styles
- Harmonies
- Soloists
- Melodists
- Guitarists
Have fun!
The StyleMaker
Overview of the StyleMaker
The StyleMaker is the section of the program that allows you to create brand new styles or edit existing styles. This
is done by recording patterns for each of the Drums, Bass, Piano, Guitar, and Strings parts. If you don't want an
instrument in a style, you don't need to record any patterns for it.
The StyleMaker opens with the User menu commands Make A New Style (STYLEMAKER) or Edit Existing User
Style.
Styles with RealTracks and RealDrums
The StyleMaker has settings to assign RealDrums, RealTracks, Volume Adjustments, Timing Offset adjustments,
Long Style Name, Tempo, and Resolution. This allows you to create or edit styles to assign specific RealDrums or
RealTracks to the style.
To access this dialog, enter the StyleMaker and then press the [PATCH] button to launch the Misc.
Style Settings dialog.