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 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide
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Global Volume adjust
If you are finding that the RealDrums track is too loud or quiet in relations to the MIDI parts, you can adjust the
volume here. This affects all RealDrums styles.
Slide Track
You should normally leave this at 0, but if you are having sync problems between the MIDI tracks and RealDrums
you can set this to a positive or negative value. Values are in milliseconds (ms).
Custom Drum Folder, instead of /Applications/Band-in-a-Box /drums
You can choose any folder for your RealDrums. This allows you, for example, to conserve space on your hard drive
by storing the RealDrums on an external drive.
Since you can type in your own folder name directly, you should update the setting when you
are finished typing the name.
If you want to store your Drums folder somewhere other than /Applications/Band-in-a-
Box/Drums, then specify that location by choosing its folder here.
Other RealDrums Controls
This button clears the currently selected RealDrums for the song.
This allows you to audition the song with and without RealDrums without leaving this dialog.
Stop song playback.
Return the settings in this dialog to their defaults.
This updates the settings in the dialog and rebuilds the list of drum styles.
The [Archive] button will erase the AIFF files in the Drums folder when there is a smaller
M4A available.
For a single chosen folder, this reverses the Install function and erases the AIFF file when
there is already an M4A file.
Press [OK] to make your selection and exit the RealDrums Settings dialog.
Press [Cancel] to exit the RealDrums Settings dialog without making any changes.