User Guide

Chapter 15: Reference
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Adjust Level of melody allows you to increase or decrease the volume (velocity) of the Melody track without
affecting the other tracks.
Timeshift Melody (ticks) allows you to move the Melody forwards or backwards in small increments relative to the
rest of the song tracks. (Measured in ticks or parts per quarter, PPQ.)
Insert Beat(s) in Melody allows you to insert a blank beat or beats into the song relative to the current time
signature.
Delete Beat(s) from Melody allows you to delete a beat or beats from the song relative to the current time
signature.
Copy to Soloist Track copies the entire contents of the Melody track to the Soloist Track. Useful for a temporary
holding area for your Melody or bouncing tracks.
Move to Soloist Track copies the entire contents of the Melody track and erases the original data from the Melody
track, preparing it for a new track or data.
Swap Melody and Soloist Track performs a “double copy/move” so that the data that was in the Melody track gets
transferred to the Soloist track and visa versa. This is also known as track bouncing.
Map Melody track to C7 chord is a useful tool when making styles.
Convert Harmony to Melody Track converts a single line Melody track to include the current harmony
selection.
Remove Harmony (or guitar solo) from Melody Track removes a harmony from a track, providing that the
harmony was put there by Band-in-a-Box in the first place using the Convert Harmony to Melody Track command.
Generate Guitar Chord Solo opens the Guitar feature dialog for generating a guitar chord solo.
Rechannel to Guitar Display converts channels on a track to channels 11 to 16. Channels 11 to 16 are used by
Band-in-a-Box to indicate strings 1 to 6 of a guitar. It uses the current position marker on the guitar for this
command. A popup question will ask if you want to include events that are already on the guitar channels.
Utilities
There is a Utilities submenu that has utility functions to convert the pitch bend range of a track, insert pitch bend
note events, transpose, and transform melodies.
Eliminate Note Overlap – Preserve Double Stops / Eliminate Note Overlap – Remove Double Stops opens a
Choose Range dialog to select the range of bars where note overlap will be eliminated while double stops are either
preserved or eliminated.