User Guide

Chapter 6: Making Songs in Band-in-a-Box
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Staff Roll Notation Mode
Click on the Staff Roll Notation button to go to Staff Roll Notation mode.
Band-in-a-Box Staff Roll Notation window.
In addition to the editing features of the Editable Notation mode, in Staff Roll mode the velocity (vertical line) and
duration (horizontal line) of notes can be edited with the mouse.
Adding Note-Based Lyrics to Your Song
Open the Notation window by pressing the notation button.
Press the [L] button on the Notation toolbar. The Lyric Edit window opens up and the current note is
highlighted. In this example, lyrics have already been entered in bars 1 and 2, and the first note of bar three
is highlighted. The first syllable of the word “Swanee” has been typed in the lyric box.
Now by pressing Enter or Tab “Swa –” will be entered under the highlighted note and the highlight will
automatically advance to the next note.
Entering note-based lyrics.
Lyric Edit Window
The [Line] button enters a forward slash “/” line break marker in the current lyric.
The [Para] button enters a backslash “ \” paragraph break marker in the current lyric.
The [Enter] button enters the current lyric, equivalent to hitting Enter key or Tab key.
The [Close] button closes the Lyrics Edit mode, equivalent to hitting the [L] button again.