Upgrade Manual

Chapter 4: Band-in-a-Box Plug-in Mode

DAW Plug-In Mode

There now is a "Plug-in" mode for your favorite sequencer (GarageBand,

ProTools, Logic, Nuendo, Reaper and more). With the new plug-in mode,

Band-in-a-Box is open as a small window, and acts as a plug-in for your favorite

DAW sequencer, so you can Drag-n-Drop MIDI and audio (AIFF, M4A)

tracks from Band-in-a-Box to your favorite sequencer. Work in your

favorite sequencer, type a chord progression in Band-in-a-Box, drag the track

button to the drop station (blue rectangle) at top left of the screen, and then drag

that to your sequencer's track at the desired track and the bar location.

The DAW Plug-in mode is a mode within the regular Band-in-a-Box program.

This mode allows you to transfer tracks or parts of tracks, to other DAW

sequencers or Finder.

You can enter and exit the DAW plug-in mode easily.

Press the [DAW Mode] button on the Toolbar, then choose the menu item

“Start DAW Plug-in mode” (or go to Windows menu and choose Plug-in Mode

for Sequencer-DAW).

When you do this:

1. Window size of Band-in-a-Box changes to a small size (you can resize it to

the size/position that you want, and it will remember that).

You can now easily drag tracks from Band-in-a-Box to your DAW in 2-

steps. First, drag the track button to the drop station (blue rectangle), and

then when it turns green, drag that to your DAW ’s track.

You can also drag files to other programs, besides DAW’s, if they accept a drop

of audio files (AIFF, M4A) or MIDI files. For example, Finder allows this. For

this documentation, we will use Finder as an example.

Dragging Tracks from Band-in-a-Box to Finder (or a DAW).

1. Run Band-in-a-Box. Enable Plug-in mode as explained above.

2. Open (or make) a song in Band-in-a-Box.

3. COMBO (MASTER) TRACK.

If you want the entire performance dragged to Finder, drag the

Combo button to the drop station. Then when it turns green, drag to Finder.