User Guide

Chapter 15: Reference
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“Allow soloing to crescendo” can be applied to some RealTracks to have the intensity
of the solo building up, with the flashiest part of the solos playing as the solo builds.
If you have similar RealTracks available at different tempos, Band-in-
a-Box will automatically choose the best one to use. For example, if you have a ballad loaded, with an Acoustic
Bass RealTracks at tempo of 60, and you speed up the tempo to 140, and press [Play], Band-in-a-Box will
automatically choose an Acoustic Bass RealTracks closer to tempo of 140, if it is the same genre and feel. This
means you can use a simple Jazz style, and play it at various tempos, without having to set the best RealTracks
based on tempos. The RealTracks that support the Tempo Swapping are listed in the next to last column (headed
TS) of the RealTracks assign dialog.
There is also an option in the RealTracks Settings dialog to disable automatic tempo swapping. When automatic
RealTracks substitution is disabled (unchecked) the “Show message when better RT are available at this tempo”
setting will be turned on.
A yellow message appears if RealTracks are selected, but better RealTracks are available for the current tempo.
You can then substitute all four parts by pressing the RealTracks toolbar button and then clicking on Select
better RealTracks for this tempo.
The Tempo Swapping (TS) column of the RealTracks Assign dialog shows which RealTracks are eligible for
Tempo Swapping. The tempo swapping only occurs if you have the RealTracks in your installation.
This “speed up” feature works automatically and uses
CPU resources during playback. If you have a multi-core machine, you may not notice this at all, since it will use
different cores than the main Band-in-a-Box thread. If you have an older machine, low on memory, slow hard drive
etc., or notice audio glitches during playback you can disable this feature to ensure that your machine is doing less
CPU work.
This improve the quality of tempo and pitch
stretching by a small amount. You can set this if you have a fast computer and are not hearing stuttering sounds
during playback.
This setting is normally left off, but enable it if you have
a slower machine.
4-bar endings allow time for a natural decay of the instruments. By “4-
bar-endings” we are referring to a 2-bar ending that has an additional two bars to allow for the natural decay of the