Upgrade Manual

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial18
Let's associate File Types With Band-in-a-Box.
Once set, this means that you can double click on a song or style in Explorer
and Band-in-a-Box will open up with that song or style. Choose the new menu
items File | File Utilities | Associate Files to associate the Band-in-a-Box file
types, and Remove Associations to remove the associations.
Let's hear a song playing with the new Roland VSC3.
First off, make sure that you have installed the Roland VSC3 – it is a separate
install from Band-in-a-Box. Visit the “Options | MIDI driver setup…” dialog
and see if the Roland VSC 3.0 is listed as a MIDI Output Driver.
If the VSC3 is not listed, then you need to
install the Roland VSC3. When you do, you
will also find the file vsc88.exe in its default
location, which is c:\Program
Files\roland\vsc30\.
If you see the Roland VSC3, select the
Driver, and press OK. Band-in-a-Box will
offer to set the latency to 430ms, you should
say YES to this. Then press PLAY on a
song, and you should hear the song played
with the sounds of the VSC3.
Tip: The VSC3 uses a lot of CPU overhead, so you need a Pentium 200 MHz or
higher to get best results. For a rough idea of the speed of your machine go to
Help | About Band-in-a-Box, and look at the P= ### section. It should be at
least 200.