User Guide

Chapter 7: RealTracks and RealDrums
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musically different, not just “sped up.” Drummers play different types of fills etc. at slower/faster tempos, and these
are captured with RealDrums.
Technical note: If interested, you can see which tempos have been recorded by looking in the c:\bb\drums\ folder for the
particular style you are interested in.
How Do RealDrums Work?
There are several ways to hear RealDrums with new or existing Band-in-a-Box songs. The simplest way is to select
a style that already uses RealDrums. They have their own category in the StylePicker.
Styles with RealDrums are identified in the list by a style name beginning with a minus sign. For example “-
ZZJAZZ.STY” is a version of the ZZJAZZ.STY that uses RealDrums.
You can see what RealDrums set is used in a particular style is in the StyleMaker’s Misc.
Style Settings dialog. Open the StyleMaker and click on the [Misc] button to get there.
You can change the RealDrums style, or assign RealDrums to a style that doesn’t have them, by
clicking on the RD button and making a selection from the RealPicker list.
RealDrums can also be enabled to substitute for MIDI drums when a song is played, or they can be assigned to a
specific song. This is done in either the RealDrums Settings or the RealDrums Picker.
RealDrums Settings
RealDrums can be substituted for MIDI drums on existing styles in the RealDrums
Settings dialog, which opens from the RealDrums toolbar button (Ctrl+click) or with
the [RealDrums] button in the Preferences dialog.
With “Enable RealDrums” checked RealDrums may be used rather than MIDI. There is
also a hot key combination to turn RealDrums on/off (Ctrl+Shift+F6).
The hot keys also work while the song is playing.
This will substitute RealDrums for MIDI styles. You can change the setting from 1 to 5.
If set to 1, almost all MIDI drums will get substituted by RealDrums. If set to 5, only RealDrum styles that match
the style perfectly will get substituted.