Technical information

Chapter 14: Reference
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Make a Hybrid Style
The “Hybrid Styles” feature allows you to play and create a style that has instruments from up to five different
styles! You can, for example, play a song with a Reggae bass, Rock drums, Salsa piano, or any combination of up
to five styles that you want.
Style Wizard (Auto-Create Style from MIDI file)
Launches the Style Creation Wizard, which automatically converts a MIDI file (.MID) to a Band-in-a-Box Style
(.STY). Simply open a MIDI file, select your options, and press “Save-As Style.”
Style is Enabled
This item will Enable or Disable the style. When disabled, the name of the style will have an X at the beginning,
which indicates a disabled style. The disabled style won't sound or write any data to the MIDI file. The most
common use for disabling a style is when a MIDI file is loaded to the Melody track. Then the style won't sound and
conflict with the full arrangement on the Melody track.
OK to load style with songs
Normally this is checked so that songs load with the associated style. But let’s say we’ve discovered a new style,
and want to try it out on many different songs. In that case we would ensure that this item is NOT checked. Then
when a song is loaded it will play in the new style we are trying out.
Open a User Style from disk…
Styles can be selected and loaded with Long File Name dialogs.
Browse Styles with info…
Opens the StylePicker window with complete style information.
Select Favorite Styles…
Opens the Favorite Styles dialog, which contains a list of the most recent 150 styles used. Since these are ordered
based upon how often they are used, we call this the “favorite styles” list. Since you can also store user-definable
favorite lists, we also refer to them as Set Lists.
Load Previous Style, Load Next Style.
This function, like the Load Next Song function, loads in the previous (or next) style in alphabetical order of the file
name. These functions are in the Styles menu, and accessible with the hot keys Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F8 (or
Alt+Shift+F8).
Style Aliases
You can create an alias so that when Band-in-a-Box looks for a style, it will load its alias instead, so when you have
found a new favorite style just change the alias and you don’t have to change all of your songs.
- To create a new alias, click on an empty spot in the Alias list, or click on the alias you wish to edit if you wish
to change an existing alias.
- Press the [Choose] button below the Original Style box and select the style you wish to be replaced.
- Press the [Choose] button below the Substitution box and select the replacement style (alias).
- If you want to type in a style name use the [Custom] button.