Technical information

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions
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The Guitarist Maker
Band-in-a-Box will intelligently arrange any melody to a guitar chord solo by inserting real guitar voicings
throughout the piece. There are many preloaded Guitarists to choose from, or you can customize existing Guitarists’
settings or make your own Guitarists from scratch in the Guitarist Maker.
The Guitarist Maker is accessed from the Guitarist window. Click on the [Ch
Sol…] button to open the Generate Guitar Chord Solo dialog, and then press the
Guitarist Maker [Edit…] button to launch the Guitarist Editor.
Num
Select the Guitarist from this field.
Title
Title the Guitarist.
Memo
This field allows a 100-character memo about the Guitarist.
Guitar Patch
Select the guitar patch in this field.
Frets To Move
If set to zero, the guitar chord solo will be limited to chords that can be played within the
current position. If set to 5 (for example), the chords will be limited to chords that can be
played within the current position and up to 5 frets away from the current position.
Force Open Position
This option forces all of the guitar voicings to the open position. The exception is when the Melody notes are so
high that they can't be played using open position voicings. If the Melody is in a high range, and you want a “forced
open position” you should likely transpose the Melody to a lower octave prior to generating the solo.