User Guide

Chapter 4: The Main Screen
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The favorites list will start off as empty one, but you can
add songs/styles as your favorites, by clicking the [Add
Favorite] button. (This button is also found in the StylePicker.)
Check “OK To Add recent files...” to allow your recently loaded songs to be added to this
list. (File | Open Favorite Songs... or Shift+F3 also opens this window.)
Press the [song] button (or Ctrl+F3) to launch the Select song by Title
window, described in full elsewhere in this manual.
Tip: Click the “Play when selected” checkbox at the bottom of the song list window to have
Band-in-a-Box play your song immediately upon selection.
Like the favorite songs button, the favorite styles button [F] activates dialogs with
“Favorites” and “Recently Played” Radio buttons that toggle between a list of your
recently played styles and your favorite songs styles.
Click the “Play When Chosen” checkbox to have Band-in-a-Box play your song
immediately upon selecting a style. (User | Open Favorite Styles... or Shift+F9 also
opens this window.)
You get to the StylePicker window by pressing the [.Style] button or
with the keystrokes Ctrl+F9. This feature is fully explained elsewhere
in this manual.
This is the song memo button. A red border indicates that the song has
a memo. There are automatically generated memos describing the
song, and you can type in your own memos too.
This opens the Additional Song Settings dialog with settings that apply
to the current song for rests, pushes, tags, endings, and fadeouts.
Harmony Area
The Harmony area displays the current Melody and Thru Harmony.
The [M] button is for Melody Harmony - in this case, it's set to trumpet/trombone (3rds)
harmony. Whatever the melody plays will come out with trumpet/trombone harmony in
thirds. Pressing the [f] button allows you to choose from a list of only your most
frequently used harmonies. Pressing the [M] button allows you to choose from the full
list of harmonies. The F10 key disables the Melody harmony.
The [T] button is for Thru harmony. Whatever you play along on your MIDI keyboard
while the song is playing will be auto-harmonized in real time - in this case using a Tenor
Banjo type harmony. Pressing the [f] button allows you to choose from a list of only
your most frequently used harmonies. Pressing the [T] button allows you to choose from
the full list of harmonies. The keystrokes Ctrl+F10 disable the Thru harmony.