User Guide

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010 for Macintosh
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QuickStart Tutorial
How to Use the New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2010
Band-in-a-Box 2010 is here with over 50 cool new features!
There are some exciting new features in Band-in-a-Box. We've added a new “Plug-in”
mode, allowing you to simply Drag-n-Drop tracks between Band-in-a-Box and your
favorite sequencer (GarageBand, ProTools, Logic, Nuendo, Reaper and more).
RealTracks generate much faster now, typically 4X faster. RealTracks now support
Shots, Holds, and Pushes. Time for generating MIDI arrangement is much faster - now
“instantaneous” (less than 1 second). Endings are improved, and RealTracks endings are
now 4 bars long, giving time for the natural decay of the instruments. Individual tracks
(MIDI or Real) can be frozen now, so the arrangements can be saved and fixed, and will
replay quickly without need for regeneration. Soloist RealTracks are now saved with the
song. We added Multiple Undo support, up to 999 levels of Undo. There are new
Reverb and Bass/Treble controls for each track, allowing you to add these to individual
RealTracks. All settings are now saved with each song. And many more!
The New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2010 for Macintosh are...
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).
2.
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.