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for a word or phrase to find a title quickly. For example, type in “Old folks” and
the search will find the song title “Old Folks at Home,” as well as any other
songs with “Old folks” in the title.
Import Chords from MIDI File uses the MIDI file chord wizard to interpret
chords from any MIDI file, and also read tracks to the Melody and Soloist
tracks.
(re)-make Song Titles list makes the list of song titles for the current folder. It
can be used to update the list when new songs are added to a folder.
Save saves an existing song to the same folder with the same file name.
Save song As… saves songs using the file dialog to name the file and choose a
folder for the saved file.
Save Standard MIDI File makes a standard midi file. You can save in Type 1
(multi-tracks) or Type 0 (single track) files. Karaoke MIDI files are also
supported. See the settings in the Edit | Preferences dialog box to control how
the Melody, Solo, and Harmony are written to a MIDI file.
Save song with Patches... If you would like to save certain patches with a
song, then type in the number of the patch (instrument) that you would like.
Leave the other instruments at zero (0) for No Patch change. Remember that -
as with all other Band-in-a-Box functions - you use the General MIDI number
for the instrument, regardless of the synth you are using.
File utilities… opens a sub-menu of file utilities.
Open Next Song and Open Previous Song will open the next/previous
song in alphabetical order. For example, if the song loaded has a file
name of “Paul,” choosing load-next-file will find the next file in
alphabetical order after Paul; maybe it would be “Peter.” The hot keys
for this are Shift+F8 and Ctrl+Shift+F8.
Auto-rename IBM songs will rename all song files in a folder using
the song title as the name.