User Guide

Chapter 15: Reference
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Audio Harmonies & Pitch Tracking opens the Generate Audio Harmonies dialog. There are three uses of the
Audio Harmonies in Band-in-a-Box, namely:
- Pitch tracking (fixing) of the melody.
- Harmonizing your voice using Band-in-a-Box harmonies (when a MIDI melody is present).
- Harmonizing your voice to the chords of the song (when no MIDI melody is present).
DXi Synth Settings opens the DirectX Plugins dialog to the Synth Track where you can select a DXi synth and
apply real time effects to its audio output.
Realtime DX Audio Settings opens the DirectX Plugins dialog to the Audio Track where you can apply real time
effects to the Band-in-a-Box audio track.
Audio Drivers/Settings opens the Audio Settings dialog where you can set up audio drivers, for example, select
ASIO drivers if you have them on your system.
Set Audio Master (Base) Tempo is used to ensure that tempo stretches are based on correct master tempo.
Set Audio Stretching Method to 0 = default, 1 = sax, 2 = acoustic guitar, 3 = pedal steel.
Use fast loading of audio files allows fast loading of audio files with lower quality stretching. Disabling this
setting will make the audio file loading slow for the first time a WAV is loaded, but will create a high quality tempo
stretch file (bt0) file.
GM Menu
The GM functions work on MIDI sound devices that
support the GM (General MIDI) standard, which includes
most newer MIDI Keyboards and sound cards.
The GS functions work on instruments that support the
Roland GS specification. This includes the Roland Sound
Canvas, SCC1, and JV-30.
The XG functions work on instruments that support the
Yamaha XG specification.