Technical information

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You can disable the rests feature. You might want to do this if you’ve got a song with a lot of rests in it, and are
then having difficulty recording a melody because you don’t hear the drums providing the beat (due to the drums
resting). If so, you can temporarily disable the rests so that you can record and listen to the drums.
Allow Any Pushes
If for some reason you don't want a style or a song to have pushes, you can set this to no.
Allow Style Pushes
If for some reason you don't want a style to have pushes, you can set this to no.
OK To Load Style With Songs
This loads the style that is saved with the Band-in-a-Box song. Set it to NO if you don’t want the saved styles to
load, perhaps to audition a new style with several different songs.
Concert Pitch Adjust
This is useful for non-concert instruments such as Saxophone or Trumpet. The output is transposed so that you see
the music in one key, and it plays in another.
Trumpet players and other Bb instruments should set Concert Pitch Adjust to –2.
Alto Sax and other Eb instruments should set Concert Pitch adjust to +3.
Note: This concert pitch adjust setting is an old one. It is preferable that you use the Notation-Transpose Option instead.
Allow Any Endings
You can disable the endings from all the songs by using this setting.
Lowest Bass Note
Styles will normally play bass notes (down to the low E) if the pattern won't go below a low E note. This happens
with all styles automatically, but there is also an option to set the lowest note that the bass can go real low (so you
can get a low C if you want to!).
Prevent “too low” guitar notes
Allow late notes in pattern, just before chord change
Styles will normally play notes near the end of a pattern, before a chord change. Sometimes this makes the style
sound “too busy.” If you set this to, say 70%, then 30% of the time, the note at the end of the pattern will play
quieter, typically at half the volume.
Drum Brushes
Most GM modules have brushes available on patch 41 on the drums. On some Sound Blasters you need to load a
GS sound font for this to occur, and you need to use the Sound Blaster software to do this (AWE Control Panel). On
the Yamaha XG, you likely need to send a “GS mode on” message from the GM menu in Band-in-a-Box. But if
your module just doesn't have brushes available, then you can set this option, and the style will remap the notes to
different drum instruments that don't have brushes.
First bar of first chorus of song gets a drum cymbal crash
If selected, the first bar of the song (following the intro) might get a cymbal crash. Usually this is left unselected,
since most drummers wouldn’t play a crash cymbal on bar 1 of the song.