Upgrade Manual

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial
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In the Snapshots area of the Style Wizard:
- Enter “1-20” for the bars for the “A” Substyle.
- Enter “21-28, 37-68” for the “B” Substyle.
- Enter “12, 20” for the “A” Drum Fills.
- Enter “28, 36, 44, 52, 60, and 68” for the “B” Drum Fills.
Note: Of course you don't need to enter this much detail. You could just enter a
single range like 1-20 for the “a” substyle and make a quickie style. We're illustrating
“advanced” style-generation here.
Now we're ready!
Press [Generate NEW style…], choose a name for
your style, and the style will get made. Let's call it
Violet.STY.
Now to hear your style! You could play the style with any song of course, by
loading in a song and then loading in the Violet.STY It is easily available from
the favorite styles dialog (Shift+F9).
For this tutorial, load in the song V_TEST.MGU that we made for you. That's a
Jazz Swing song using different chords than Violet, and it uses the Violet.STY
(So you need to have made that style before you try to play the song or you'll get
a “Violet.STY not found” message.)
Before loading in the new song save the existing song. When Band-in-a-Box
saves a song that has an entire MIDI file on the Melody (or Soloist) tracks it
gives it a special extension… MGX. So you'll be saving the file as
Violet.MGX. You can revisit this file at a later date as it remembers all of the
settings in the Style Wizard that you've made so that you can resume your work
in tweaking your style.
Alternatively, if you'd prefer to play the Violet.STY style without loading in
another song, you can do it as follows. Since the Violet.MGX file currently has
the entire MIDI file on the Melody track the first thing we need to do is Mute
the Melody (Alt+9 or right-click on the Melody part at the top of the screen).
The next thing is the Enable the Style, by choosing Style | Style is Enabled so
that this item has a checkbox.