User Guide

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box
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Adding Lyrics to your song
Use the menu command Edit | Enter Lyrics at Current Bar to open the Lyrics Entry window. The Escape key
closes this window.
Use the cursor arrows to move down and enter your lyrics a line at a time. Two lines of lyrics are displayed while
the song is playing, and the lyrics are highlighted as the highlight cell moves across the Chordsheet.
Add a Memo
A song memo of up to 2000 characters may be added with your own notes about the song and the Band-
in-a-Box song summary. Clicking on the [M] button located to the right of the song title launches the
Song Memo dialog where you can type in a short memo about the song, style, etc.
A red border around the [M] button indicates that the song has a memo. The keystrokes Option+M will also launch
the Song Memo.
Automatic Memo-Generation
The Song Summary window automatically displays a full summary of the song (title/tempo/patches used in the
song), as well as other special features, such as substyle patch change, harmonies, and whether the RealTracks and
RealDrums are part of the style or specific to the song.
This saves much of the work previously required to manually type in this information to the memo.
Saving Your Work
Now that you have produced a great sounding song, it is time to save it as a Band-in-a-Box file, as a MIDI file, or as
an audio wave file. All tracks can be edited and saved.
To edit a MIDI track (bass, drums, piano, guitar, strings), or the MIDI part of a RealTracks that has a RealChart
(MIDI transcribed solo), simply open up the Notation window (or Piano Roll window), and click on the track and
edit it. Make sure to Freeze the track by pressing the Freeze button and choosing Freeze for that track. Now your
edited tracks will save with the song.
The [Save] button saves your song in Band-in-a-Box format. Band-in-a-Box accompaniments are
saved with the file extension *.sgu. If a melody has been recorded the file extension will be *.mgu.