User Guide

Chapter 15: Reference
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- If “Note Guides” is selected guide notes will be shown on the keyboard. The guide notes can be scale tones,
chord tones, or roots only.
- Note Names and Note Colors can be used as in the Notation settings.
- There is an option to Show Out-of-Scale notes in Yellow.
- The size of the piano keyboard can be entered in pixels, or set with the preset buttons, or set by dragging the
bottom border of the window.
Lyric Window Options
The [BigLyrics] button opens the Lyric Window Options.
Individual color elements can be picked, or
choose one of the presets.
Display Chord Symbols will interleave the
chord symbols with the lyrics.
Show chord symbols above the lyrics will
show the chords on a separate line.
With the Scroll lyrics a page at a time option
selected the Big Lyrics scroll a page at a time.
When the lyric cursor reaches the next-to-last
line of the lyrics it will scroll to the top of the
page, allowing uninterrupted reading of lyrics.
Auto-open lyrics window for songs with lyrics
automatically opens the Big Lyrics window
when a song with lyrics is opened in Band-in-a-
Box.
Karaoke CDG Window Settings
To open a Karaoke CDG file use File | Open, and find a WAV, MP3, or WMA file that has a same named CDG file
in the same folder. With “Load CDG file when opening audio file” selected the Karaoke window will open and
display the lyrics.
You can choose to have a background to the window, either a moving one, or fixed picture. These pictures are in
the c:\bb\KaraokeBMP folder, and you can add your own BMP or JPG image to that folder.