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 14: Reference
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Quantize Melody…
The Quantize Melody… and Quantize Soloist…menu commands open the Quantize dialog, where all or part of the
Melody and Soloist tracks can be quantized. The dialog and settings are identical for both tracks.
Resolution
Choose the division you would like the track quantized to. Choosing 16 will quantize to 16th notes.
Starting at Bar# and Chorus #
Quantization will begin at the place you select and applied for the number of bars.
#Bars to quantize
Leave at 999 to quantize the entire track, or specify 1 or more bars.
Quantize durations %
Choose 100% if you want the notes quantized exactly to the division. Otherwise, the notes will be moved
the % toward the target quantization.
Quantize Start Times. By default, this option is set to “Yes.” If you don't want the beginnings of the
notes quantized, set it to “No.”
Quantize Durations. This quantizes the END of the notes. By default, this is set to “Off.”
Humanize w/ straight feel and Humanize w/ swing feel
Band-in-a-Box uses intelligent humanization routines, which can humanize a melody from one, feel to another, from
one tempo to another, and vary the amount of swing in 8th notes (but not randomly). The results are very musical
with natural sounding MIDI melodies.
Humanize Melody…
Opens the Quantize to New Tempo or Feel dialog. The humanize effect is broken down into 5 main categories:
Tempo, Lateness, 8th Note Spacing, Legato, and Feel.
Transpose Melody…
Transpose the melody track without affecting the other tracks in the song.
Copy 1st chorus to all song
This stretches the melody track out over the entire song (all choruses).
Kill entire melody
Erases the melody track and any data that was contained therein.
Kill Melody Choruses
Eliminates the Melody from the First Chorus, Middle Choruses, or Last Chorus as selected from a list box.