Upgrade Manual

Chapter 12: Other New Features

Option to hear the drum count-in even if the drums are muted or disabled.

Previously, when the drum track was muted (or disabled in a song), the count-in

drum click wouldn't play. Now there's an option to play the drum count-in in all

circumstances. Drummers who play along with BB by muting the drum track

should find this feature useful. To set this option, choose Opt. | Preferences and

set “Lead-in drum count if drums muted or disabled” to true (default is true).

Bass player plays better “5ths” over some Jazz chords. Band-in-a-Box’s

bass player was playing some natural 5ths over some chords like C7 altered or

others. Now, after a discussion with some bass players, we've improved Band-

in-a-Box so that the bass part plays the #5 or b5 correctly on these Jazz chords.

Part Markers are now written to the MIDI files. These part markers can be

read by PowerTracks (and Band-in-a-Box if re-importing the MIDI file with the

Chord Wizard). Save a MIDI file in Band-in-a-Box, and move it over to

PowerTracks (version 8 or higher), you'll now see the Part Markers (and chords)

written on the Chords Window in PowerTracks. Re-import the MIDI file into

Band-in-a-Box with the Chord Wizard and you'll also see the part markers in

Band-in-a-Box.

Option to write MIDI file with separate tracks for each drum instrument.

To select this, generate the MIDI file (press the .MID button), and then select

the combo box “Type 1- separate drum tracks.”

“Chase Volumes” added for playback. For a file with Volume change events

(Controller 7) written into the Melody (or other tracks) – if the song is played

back from somewhere in the middle, the most recent volume control information

prior to the start of playback will get sent.

Direct Entry of Tempo and other settings.

You can now quickly enter a specific tempo for the song by clicking on the

tempo (hot key is Ctrl+Alt+T, or menu item Play | Tempo | Set Tempo…), and a

dialog will open up allowing you to type in a tempo. Similar dialogs are

available for Volume, Panning, Reverb, Chorus, and Bank settings.