Upgrade Manual

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 19
Let's use the Direct-to-Disk Render
to convert our Band-in-a-Box to a WAV
file directly.
Press the [.WAV] button on the main Band-in-a-Box screen.
Press the Direct Render using VSC3 button.
This launches the Roland VSC3 Virtual Sound Canvas. If the program doesn't
launch, either you haven't installed the VSC3, or you haven't installed it to the
default directory, which is c:\Program Files\roland\vsc30\.
Once launched, you'll see the 2 panes of the Roland VSC3. If you only see one
of the panes, then you need to open up the “Player” section by
pressing the
Player button
. Then you'll see the “Player” section, which has the MIDI file
already prepared and ready to be converted to a .WAV file.
Press the [AUDIO-CONV] button
, and then choose the location and name
for the wavefile (.WAV) to save. By convention, we suggest that you name the
files with the suffix _VSC3, so that if your song is called “Violet Song” then
you could name it Violet Song_VSC3.WAV, but of course you can call it
anything you want.
The .WAV file will then be saved within 5-10 seconds. It gets saved as a 44K
stereo WAV. You can choose a different conversion rate by pressing the Setup
| Audio Conversion Rate.
Once you've saved the .WAV file, you can then convert the file to a WMA file
(Windows Media Audio) by pressing the “Convert any WAV to WMA file”
button. You can then select compression rates so that your file could stream on
typical dial-up web modem speed.