Upgrade Manual

Chapter 12: Other New Features

Master Volume settings can now be made more quickly with hot keys.

If you want to “turn it all up or down,” this can be done quickly with hot keys.

Hot keys Ctrl+Alt+A (or Ctrl+Alt+S) will decrease (or increase) the master

volume setting by 5 and Ctrl+Alt+D launches a new dialog that allows a

number to be set for the master volume. Since Master Volume is a different

parameter than Volume, we have also added similar hot keys that control the

overall volume by reducing (or increasing) volumes on all parts by 5 to simulate

a Master Volume effect (especially useful for sound cards that don't support

Master Volume changes). These items are all available on the GM | Master

(Combo) Volume Adjust submenu, and also have hot keys as listed on the menu

(Ctrl+Alt+Shift Q, W, and E).

A THRU Velocity boost can be applied to the THRU part.

When playing along on a keyboard to the

Band-in-a-Box “band,” if the sound of your

keyboard is too quiet, and increasing the THRU Volume doesn't help enough,

using this option to boost to the THRU velocity will make your THRU playing

louder. (For example, non velocity sensitive keyboards are usually set to output

a quiet velocity of 64). To set this “THRU velocity boost,” open the MIDI

Channels dialog (Opt. | Preferences | Channels) and set “Boost THRU Velocity

by” to a value in the range of –127 to +127. (Default is 0.)

The Song Titles Window can be updated from within the song list dialog.

Press the “Rebuild List” button in the Select Song by Title

dialog. Also, if a Song List is rebuilt, the song list dialog

will automatically be launched when the list is rebuilt.

The Big Lyrics Window scrolls a page at a time for easier reading of lyrics.

Previously the lyrics would scroll on

every line. Many users pointed out that it

would be easier to read if they scrolled a page at a time, so we added this

feature. When the lyric cursor reaches the next-to-last line of the lyrics, it will

scroll to the top of the page, allowing uninterrupted reading of lyrics. This

option is settable in the Big Lyrics window options.

Audio Mute.

Now you can mute/un-mute the audio

track in Band-in-a-Box. Choose

Audio | Mute Audio to mute and un-

mute the audio track.