Upgrade Manual

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial

The “BB Parts” have to be correct. We can audition the

MIDI file by playing a loop and listening to the MIDI file

and muting channels by clicking on the “Channel”

checkboxes. From that we can hear the individual parts and

assign them correctly as we would like them in the style.

From listening to the style (by playing the MIDI file inside the Style Wizard–

see below) we can tell which bars to use for the “a” and “b” substyle. Note:

Some of these settings have been entered automatically by the Style Wizard –

but you'll have to type in the data as below.

The Snapshot

Bars should be correct for the “a” and “b” substyle. You need to tell the

program which bars to use for the “a” substyle and which for the “b”

substyle. The program makes an attempt to guess at this, but since MIDI

files can contain many different substyles (and a Band-in-a-Box style

allows only 2), you'll likely want control over these snapshots yourself.

Tip to help you choosing which bars to use:

To listen to the MIDI file, you can either

exit the Style Wizard dialog and just play

the song like any other Band-in-a-Box file,

or play a looped section inside the Style

Wizard using the [Play], [Stop], and “Loop

at Bar” settings. OK, the Style Wizard has already made the correct settings for

the “BB Parts” for us, so we don't need to make any changes there. Let's move

to the Snapshots section, and enter the bar numbers that correspond to the

substyles that we'd like for the Jazz tune. After listening to the tune, we notice

that there is a “2-feel” Jazz section, and a “4-in-the-bar” section. We'd want

those as “a” and “b” substyles, so we want to enter the bar #s that correspond to

these settings.