Upgrade Manual
Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial
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SHIFT-PLAY, generate a new arrangement, and press SAVE. Then the new
“fresh-frozen” arrangement will play instantly, even with many RealTracks.
Tip: Obviously you wouldn’t use this feature to force regeneration of a frozen song if
you have made custom edits to the song that you don’t want to lose, unless you’ve
saved the song and have a backup copy.
All Tracks can be Edited and Saved.
MIDI tracks for bass, drums, piano, guitar and strings can now be edited, and
saved with the file. If you freeze a track, edits can still be made to it, because it
is only frozen from Band-in-a-Box making changes to it (you can still edit it), so
that the MIDI track will be saved to the file. So you can customize the bass part
to match a certain song, and save it with a frozen bass part, so that Band-in-a-
Box won’t overwrite your edits. This includes RealCharts – if you wanted to
edit the notation of a RealTracks solo for example.
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, or right-clicking on the instrument at the top of the screen
and choosing Freeze. Now your edited tracks will save with the song.
RealTracks Enhancements
No more long waits for RealTracks to generate!
RealTracks generate much faster, 4X faster on average. A typical song with
RealTracks that took 20 seconds to generate will now generate in about 5
seconds. And if you freeze some or all tracks in the song (see below), playback
of RealTracks is almost instantaneous.
This “speedup” feature works “automatically;” you should just notice that
generation of RealTracks is much faster. This feature uses CPU resources
during playback. If you have a multi-core machine, you may not notice this at
all, since it will use different cores than the main Band-in-a-Box thread. If you
have an old machine, low on memory, slow hard drive etc., you can disable this
“speedup” feature. This will insure that your machine is doing less CPU work
during playback. This is done in RealTracks Settings dialog.
Soloist generated RealTracks are now saved with the song, so you will hear
the RealTracks play the same solo when you reload the song.
When you generate a solo using RealTracks, Band-in-a-Box will remember this,
and when you go to save the song, Band-in-a-Box will ask you if you want to
save that solo (and thereby freeze the Soloist track). If you say yes, then the
solo will play instantly the same way when the song is reloaded. Of course you
can freeze the soloist track yourself at any time. Note that only one solo can be
saved. You can’t generate a bunch of different segments of solos; only the last
one will be saved.