Technical information

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features
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setting that is on the main page checkbox. If enabled, embellishment will occur during every playback. If disabled,
embellishment will not occur unless you choose the [Embellish NOW] button in the dialog.
Embellisher Settings
The settings that affect the embellishment can be turned on and off, and given a certain percentage strength.
Humanize
The velocities, durations (legato), and timing of the notes are humanized. The original velocities etc. of the notes
are ignored. The option to only humanize the timing of the music if the timing was “stiff” to begin allows the
Embellisher to leave the timing of human input melodies alone, and humanize only the ones that were entered in
step-time.
The setting is “Only if melody is stiff,” and is the default setting. If
this is set, the Melody embellisher won’t change timing, durations and
velocities if the melody appears to be have been played by a human
(instead of entered “stiffly” by step entry). This is because it’s not
always desirable to humanize a melody that has already been played
by a human. Band-in-a-Box will auto-analyze the melody to determine if it was probably played by a human.
Octave
The octave of the Melody is changed to the best octave for the current Melody instrument. For example, if the
instrument were a piccolo, the octave would be raised to the best range for a piccolo.