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 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box!
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System Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
- Intel Processor.
- 512 MB RAM.
- About 2.5 GB free hard disk space if you wish to install and run the Band-in-a-Box program from your internal
hard drive. 40 GB if you wish to install all the RealTracks and RealDrums audio files as well.
- 1024x768 or higher screen resolution recommended.
- Hard drive versions require an available USB port.
Installation
Band-in-a-Box is available on discs (CD-R and DVD-ROM) and for Internet download. Premium versions are
optionally available pre-installed on an external hard drive. The hard drive version includes installation files that
can also be installed to the Macintosh HD.
The Band-in-a-Box program installs by default to its own Band-in-a-Box folder inside the /Applications folder.
Unless there is an important reason to install it to a different location, we suggest that you accept the default
location.
The /Band-in-a-Box folder has a clean look with only one application file in the folder - Band-in-a-Box. The rest of
the files are in subfolders.
The folders include the Drums folder for RealDrums files and the RealTracks folder for RealTracks files. If either
of these folders is moved or the files are installed in a custom location, the new location must be entered in the
RealDrums Settings dialog or the RealTracks Settings dialog so that Band-in-a-Box knows where to find them.
The Preferences you set in the program are saved in the Preferences folder, and this folder also has a file named
Intrface_X86.BBW with all the program settings including MIDI and audio driver setup. If this file is removed to
the trash the program will open like a new installation the next time it runs. It will prompt for all of the initial setup
selections. This is useful as a “global reset” if there are system settings that have been changed by accident.