User Guide

Chapter 10: Working With MIDI

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Recording Your Own Parts To The Melody Sequencer

Normally you would record your parts to the Melody, and not be concerned about what MIDI channel they are

using, because Band-in-a-Box uses the Melody channel (usually channel 4) for this.

But if you have set the Track type to be multi-channel, the output on the Melody part will be whatever channel is

stored in the tracks.

When you record a Melody part and the track type is set to multi-

channel, the “Keep Take” dialog will have a selection for the

channel that should be used for the recording.

Also, make sure that you have “Overdub underlying melody” checkbox set, or you

won’t hear the other melody parts during the recording.

Example: Recording 4 Separate Counter Melodies On The Melody Track

So if you want to record, for example, 4 separate parts to go along with a Band-in-a-Box song, you should do the

following.

1. Set the Melody track to Multi(16)-Channel (Sequencer)

Record a Melody part. At the end of the recording, pick a channel for the part that is not already

used by Band-in-a-Box. BB uses channels 2-10, so channels 11 to 16 are available for your counter

melody parts.

3. Repeat step 2 by recording additional melody parts.

Assign patches to the Melody parts using the

Sequencer Window.

Import a Band-in-a-Box Song

Easily import part or all of an existing Band-in-a-Box song to your current song, with options to specify source and

destination range, type of information to import (chords, melody, lyrics, etc.) and more.

Choose File | Import Song.

In the Import Band-in-a-Box Song dialog, choose the range that you want to import (Import from Bar and # of

bars), and the destination bar (Import to Bar). You can also choose which information to import, and the insert

mode (insert/overwrite).