Upgrade Manual

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features
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tempo” to true in RealTracks Settings dialog or Additional Song Settings dialog,
Band-in-a-Box will automatically choose the best one to use. For example, if
you have a ballad loaded, with an Acoustic Bass RealTracks at a tempo of 60,
and you speed up the tempo to 140, and press [Play] button, Band-in-a-Box will
automatically choose an Acoustic Bass RealTracks closer to the tempo of 140, if
it is the same genre and feel. This means you can use a simple Jazz style, and
play it at various tempos, without having to set the best RealTracks based on
tempos. If you don’t want this feature to work automatically, then set “Auto
RealTracks substitution based on tempo” to false. The RealTracks that support
the Tempo Swapping are listed in the next to last column of the Assign
RealTracks to Track dialog.
RealTracks Picker dialog enhanced:
- Opens up faster.
- New columns are added (tempo swappable, holds type).
RealDrums Picker dialog has been enhanced, with information about Artist
name, Artist bio, and RealDrums Set number.
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.
Songs that are “Saved-As” a different name now have the new name added to
the Recently Played Song dialog.
Support enhanced for non-concert instruments (Bb/Eb sax, trumpet etc.).
Now when the chord sheet is transposed, you can type in chords in the
transposed key, and they will show up as you have entered them, instead of
requiring you to enter the chords in the concert key.
More Soloists are now available, up to 2000.
Many messages changed to “yellow alerts” at top right of screen, so you don’t
have to respond to the message, interrupting work flow.
Looped playback of any selected region. On the chord sheet window (not the
notation window), select a region of bars, and press the [Loop] playback button
on the toolbar. The selected region will loop. You can change the looped
section during playback. Pressing [Loop] button again will turn off looping.
Mouse scroll wheel support added to the main window, notation window, and
many dialogs.
Ability to have endings use a “held chord,” (like C...). (RealTracks and MIDI)
For songs with no ending, the last chord of the song can be a held chord (like
C...). (RealTracks and MIDI)