User Guide

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide
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“Show if Feel does not match” will show a song where the drums are in Even feel and the style is Swing (or vice
versa).
“Show RealDrums that are not favorites.” You can assign a style as one of your favorites by clicking in the first
column. Then you can sort by favorites or use this option to see only favorites.
“Show RealDrums that are N/A.” These are styles not found in the Drums folder, likely because they are add-on
styles not purchased yet. Press the [Rebuild] button and check the RealDrums Settings to confirm that you have the
correct drums folder selected.
“For this song only, force MIDI drums.” Set this if you want MIDI drums and want to override a RealDrums that
is set in the style.
“Memo” is a memo description of the style.
These are stored in the Band-in-a-
Box/Data/RDPGMemos.txt file.
You can also add your own memos in the User
Comments box below.
This shows the current RealDrums
for the song.
RealDrums are recorded by top studio
drummers. See the “Bio” for a capsule
description of the musician’s career and
credits.
This sets the drums to no RealDrums override for the song, and optionally also forces MIDI drums
(i.e., no RealDrums for the style either).
The RealDrums list can be sorted by clicking on any of the column headings.
Click on this button to enter an asterisk beside the current selection in the list, indicating that this is a
favorite style.
Click on the name of the RealDrums style name that you want to select for the song. Names ending in a caret ^
have variations available.
- ^ Clicking in the caret column will show the variations for the selected RealDrums style (if available).
- Genre is the type of music that the RealDrums style comes from, such as Jazz, Rock, or Country.
- Genre (2) suggests additional types of music that the RealDrums style might work for.
- /4 indicates the time signature, which is 4/4 by default. If the column is empty the time signature is 4/4, if there
is a 3 in this column the time signature is 3/4.
- Ev indicates the feel of the RealDrums style, either Even or Swing.
- The listing in the 8 column indicates whether the meter is based on eighth notes (8) or sixteenth notes (16).
- Lo is the slowest tempo for which the RealDrums style is suited.
- Hi is the fastest tempo recommended for the style.
- X indicates a style with a tempo that is out of range for the song.
- N/A are styles not found in the drums folder.
- Artist lists the names of the drummers who recorded each RealDrums style. Select a name to read their Bio.