User Guide

Chapter 14: Reference
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Copy to Melody Track copies the entire contents of the Soloist track to the Melody
Track. This is useful for a temporary holding area for your soloist or for bouncing
tracks.
Move to Melody Track copies the entire contents of the Soloist track and erases the
original data from the Soloist track, preparing it for a new track or data.
Swap Melody and Soloist Track performs a “double copy/move” so that the data
that was in the Soloist track is transferred to the Melody track and vice versa. This
is also known as track bouncing.
Convert Harmony to Soloist Track… converts a single line Soloist track to
include the current harmony selection.
Remove Harmony (or Guit solo) from Soloist Track removes a harmony from a
track, providing that the harmony was put there by Band-in-a-Box in the first place
using the Convert Harmony to Soloist Track command.
Generate Guitar Chord Solo opens the Guitar feature dialog for generating a guitar
chord solo.
Rechannel to Guitar Display converts channels on a track to channels 11 to 16.
Channels 11 to 16 are used by Band-in-a-Box to indicate strings 1 to 6 of a guitar. It
uses the current position marker on the guitar for this command.
Utilities
There is a Utilities sub-menu that has utility functions to eliminate note overlap and
transpose the Solo.
Eliminate Note Overlap – Preserve Double Stops / Eliminate Note Overlap –
Remove Double Stops opens a Choose Range dialog to select the range of bars where
note overlap will be eliminated while double stops are either preserved or eliminated.
Transpose One Octave DOWN / Transpose One Octave UP transposes the Soloist part
one octave in either direction. This is often useful if the Soloist instrument has been
changed. Transposing can be done while the song plays.
Track Type
Normally you'd leave the track type set to Single, but you can set it to:
- Multi (16) Channel – All channels are
preserved and output on the channels. This
would be useful for importing an entire
MIDI file, and playing it from the Melody
channel (using a silent style).
- Guitar – Channels 11 to 16 will display on the guitar as strings 11 to 16, TAB will
show, the notation will be up an octave, and the MIDI file will contain the channels
preserved.
- Piano – In this mode, channels 8 and 9 are treated as the left and right hand of a
piano part.