Upgrade Manual

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial

Always save all song settings.

Now all settings are saved with songs, including patches, reverbs, volume etc.,

so the song will play the same way each time, without having to set this in the

Save Patches and Harmonies with Song dialog.

If you keep the default setting of “Save

all settings with Songs,” you will find that all settings are saved, and loaded with

each song. You shouldn’t have to visit this dialog, unless you have some

custom items that you want to not-save with the song.

Note that if you set a MIDI patch for one of the bass/drums/piano/guitar/strings

parts, that if you load in another style, Band-in-a-Box will overwrite your

patches with the style patches. If it didn’t do that, you would be stuck with the

same patches regardless of the style. So if you want a certain patch for a track,

set it after you have loaded in the style that you want.

Songs that are “Saved-As” a different name now have the new name added to

the Recently Played Song dialog.

Rendering Tracks

Rendering now has a Normalize option, to normalize individual tracks or the

complete arrangement. Normalizing boosts the volume to a maximum level

without distortion. Most professional music tracks are normalized.

To enable this, in the Render to

Audio dialog, set the “Normalize Rendered Files” option to true.

Rendering songs to audio is now much faster for songs with no MIDI, such

as RealStyles.

StylePicker Enhancements

Favorites and Recent styles now appear in this dialog as separate lists. It now

has the ability to add/remove styles as favorites. A Favorite Style indication (F)

shows up for each style. You can filter any list by only showing favorite styles.

You can build up a list of favorite styles, and only show them when needed.

The favorite styles are the ones that you’ve identified as favorites, either by

pressing the [Add Favorite] button in the Favorite Styles dialog, or the similar

button in this StylePicker dialog. Note that an “F” appears beside the name of

any style that is a favorite.