Yamaha C961 - DVD Changer Technical Information

Version 2005 for Windows®  Copyright PG Music Inc.1989-2005. All rights reserved.

Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! 10 The Synth Track tab edits Synthesizer settings, and the Audio Track tab edits Band-in-a-Box audio track Direct

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 100indicates a C chord that is a REST. indicates a C chord that is a SHOT. indicates a C chord that is a HELD CH

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 101To use keystrokes, type the caret symbol [^] before the chord. The caret symbol is located above the numeral 6

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 102Allow Embellishment of Chords The Jazz styles include embellishment of chords. This means that if you type a C

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 103 Use the checkboxes to choose which instruments you would like to save and whether you would like to save the M

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 104By default, Band-in-a-Box writes Type 1 multiple track Standard MIDI Files. You can also save Type 0 MIDI file

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 105The Jukebox The Jukebox will load and play an entire subdirectory (folder) of songs. Songs play continuou

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 106Generate Solos: Set this option to “On” to permit the Soloist to play a Solo over all the songs selected for J

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 107Chapter 7: Notation and Printing Band-in-a-Box offers a variety of notation and printing features, both for viewin

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 108 Clean Notation The “Clean Notation Mode” cleans up the notation by eliminating display of redundant grace notes a

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 109Editable Notation Mode Enter the Editable Notation mode from the Standard Notation screen with a single mouse cli

Chapter 2: QuickStart 11Chapter 2: QuickStart Creating music with Band-in-a-Box is as easy as 1-2-3! In this chapter, you’ll see just how easy it is

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 110Entering Notes To insert a new note on the staff move the mouse to the location that you want. If you want beat 1

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 111Editing a note's values. Right click on a note. This brings up the Note edit dialog box that lets you change

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 112Note Roll Notation Mode In the Editable Notation mode, click on the [N] notation mode button to enter the Note R

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 113Notation Window Options Press the [Opt.] button in a notation window to bring up the Notation Window Options dial

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 114Load notation layout w/songs When this box is checked your Notation Option settings will be saved with the song an

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 115 Note Names There is an option to display note names in the center of the note head. You can display absolute no

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 116 Enharmonics for chord tones are automatically based on the chord. Enharmonics for passing tones are based on cho

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 117Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics (circles, triangles) Jazz and Pop music often use certain non-alphabetic symbols for c

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 118Chord Vertical Position This controls how high the chords will be written above the staff. If set to = 5 the c

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 119R/L Cursor Edits is used in the keystroke note editing features. More.. This button opens the Other Notation Opt

Chapter 2: QuickStart 12normally typed using standard chord symbols (like C or Fm7 or Bb7 or Bb13#9/E), but you can enter them in any of the supported

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 1202. Move to the note that you want to edit, and then press the Chord Advance (INS or DEL key on the Numeric Keypad

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 121 Selecting Parts in the Lead Sheet Clicking on the track selection toolbar will select a different track. The tr

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 122 Treble Clef and Bass Clef These checkboxes choose which clefs will display in the Lead Sheet view. AutoSet Clefs

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 123Margins Set margins for the Lead Sheet window, just like the margins in a word processor. This feature has no eff

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 124 When Fake Sheet mode IS selected, the form will show like a lead sheet, with only one chorus showing, and 1st/2nd

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 125 In the Notation Window Options, “Lyric Position” allows you to vertically position the height of the lyrics. Harm

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 126Lyrics Band-in-a-Box supports lyrics in three different ways, Note-based Lyrics, Line-based Lyrics, and a Big Lyri

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 127Lyric Document Window The Lyric Document window displays a full screen of fully formatted lyrics so you can easil

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 128 If you have the Lyrics window option “Auto-open lyrics window for songs with lyrics” selected, and a MIDI file (o

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 129Treble Clef Normally you will want to include the treble clef unless you're printing a bass part or left hand

Chapter 2: QuickStart 13When the dialog opens, press the [Open (Change)…] button to choose a MIDI file that you want Band-in-a-Box to interpret the ch

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 130Print Preview This feature allows you to preview what the printed pages will look like by displaying them on-scree

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 131Chords-Only Lead Sheet Display and Printout Need a simple fake book style chord chart? You can display just the c

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 132Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features Automatic Songs – “The Melodist” Feel like composing a brand new song? Us

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 133 The [Melody] button will set the options to generate only a Melody (no chords) over an existing chord progress

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 134 The Memo area displays a Memo for the current Melodist, as well as the name of the Database (e.g. MELPOP1.ST2)

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 135- Intro Length (bars) - This sets the duration of the intro to 2, 4, or 8 bars. - Starting chord (after intro

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 136Pick a type of Soloist in the “Soloist type” list box and choose the appropriate style, or enable the “Auto” ch

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 137Soloist Wizard This option enables the “Soloist Wizard.” As you play notes on either a MIDI keyboard connected

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 138Force to # of Choruses Allows you to set a song to a definable number of choruses (e.g. 5) so that there are en

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 139This dialog can also be accessed from the Opt. | Preferences [Soloist] button. Set “Use MIDI Volume for Soloing

Chapter 2: QuickStart 14 Method 2: You can use the StylePicker window to select your style. Select the button above the chordsheet, or type Ctrl+F

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 140 Here are the steps to generate a Guitar Chord Solo: 1. Select the Guitarist to use. In the main list at the

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 141 If you already have a guitar track that has guitar channels (for example if it was played on a guitar controll

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 142Automatic Embellishments – “The Embellisher” Overview When musicians see a lead sheet that has a melody written

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 143setting that is on the main page checkbox. If enabled, embellishment will occur during every playback. If dis

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 144Anticipations An anticipated note is playing a note early (“ahead of the beat”). Unembellished notes. ANTICIP

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 145Vibrato Vibrato can be added according to the additional vibrato settings available in the “More” dialog. The

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 146 The Embellisher Memo describes the current embellishment, with statistics counting the number of embellished n

Chapter 9: MIDI Recording 147Chapter 9: MIDI Recording Band-in-a-Box has two built-in MIDI sequencer tracks. They are named the Melody and Soloist t

Chapter 9: MIDI Recording 148 Keep Take (yes/no) saves the take you just recorded. Remember that it’s easy to fix small glitches in the Editable Nota

Chapter 9: MIDI Recording 149Recording with the Wizard Feature This is a very helpful feature if you don’t have a MIDI keyboard but you want to record

Chapter 2: QuickStart 15Method 3: Styles that you’ve used previously show up in the Favorite Styles dialog. Choose this with the [f] button next to t

Chapter 9: MIDI Recording 150Import Which Channel(s)? You'll need to know which channel(s) of your MIDI file the melody is on. You then select

Chapter 9: MIDI Recording 151 As you can see, we have broken down the Humanize effect into 5 main categories: tempo, lateness, 8th note spacing, legat

Chapter 9: MIDI Recording 152 The Event List Editor allows you to modify, insert, and delete notes: - Double-click on an event to edit it (or press t

Chapter 9: MIDI Recording 153Notation Window Editing You can use the Notation Window to edit notes instead of the Event List window. To do this, ope

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 154Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering There are two types of audio features in Band-in-a-Box: 1. The

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 155Technical Note: This is only true if you are using the sound card for your output MIDI driver. If you h

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 156 The VU meters show the average strength of the signal, with a dB scale, and a clip indicator. “Clipping

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 157Set the start point for the recording. You can record from the Start of the song, or somewhere in the mi

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 158Playing the Audio File You can play the Audio file that you've recorded by pressing [PLAY]. The siz

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 159 This button plays the selected area, and then stops. The other instruments are all muted; you just hear

Chapter 2: QuickStart 16Locate the framing buttons. There are three of them, one each for Beginning of Chorus, End of Chorus, and Number of Choruses.

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 160In this dialog, there are 3 types of harmony that we can choose from: 1. Melody Pitch Tracking only (thi

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 161The 4 columns labeled Melody, Voice 2, Voice 3, and Voice 4- 8va are the 4 part MIDI harmony that will be

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 162Melody Pitch Tracking Now let’s use the Audio Harmonies for a different purpose, to “fix” pitches that m

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 163The Pitch Styles are especially useful for harmonies generated from MIDI tracks, because these lack any v

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 1649 Funk Vibrato An energetic sound from the 70s. 10 Head Voice Vibrato A very resonant vibrato, using pi

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 165 To process a WAV track with a DirectX plug-in, choose Audio | Plugin | DirectX Audio plugins. Apply Di

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 166The file is saved using the high quality Sound Canvas sound set powered by the included Roland VSC3. To

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 167 You can elect to include the 2 bar lead-in for the WAV file, and include the Drum Count in sound. Press

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 168Rendering is a 3 step process: It's quickest to do this with a small sample of the wave file. Once

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 169From this dialog, you can choose the type of compression that is appropriate (from the available installe

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 17Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2005 New Fully-Featured “Piano Roll” Windo

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 170 Note: Any CD you create won't be playable in an Audio CD player until the disc is finalized. Ther

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 171Select a Burner If the computer contains multiple burners, select a drive with the Burner drop-down menu.

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering 172Stop Burn Stop burning before the disc is finished. Note: If you prematurely Stop, the CD will almost ce

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 173Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions The StyleMaker™ The StyleMaker is the section of the program that a

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 174 The StyleMaker always opens to the Drums window, as indicated by the highlighted button to the left of Dru

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 175 Let’s examine the pattern in detail. The highlighted cell shows that the Bass Drum is being played on be

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 176Bass Patterns Click on the button to the left of Bass to open the bass pattern window. Notice that the sta

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 177When recording stops, a Record Options dialog opens. The options are explained in the Help, and they can a

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 178Late Notes The [Late Note] button is found inside the Misc. Style Settings dialog, it opens a dialog with “

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 179 Piano, Guitar and String Patterns Piano, Guitar and String patterns are recorded in the same way as live D

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 18“Auto Endings” added for Styles without Endings! If you‘ve made a style, and haven’t included an ending, a 2-b

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 180In the Settings for Guitar chord macros dialog choose the tracks that you want to put guitar parts on. Use

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 181Guitar Macro Notes Tip: Middle C is C5 or note number 60 The main Guitar Macro notes to use are: Strummed

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 182Hybrid Styles The “Hybrid Styles” feature allows you to play and create a style that has instruments from u

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 183 This feature also works well to modify existing styles. Import an instrument from a similar style to make

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 184Style Checker Analogous to a “Spell Checker,” this function analyzes your style-in-progress and identifies

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 185- The chords for the MIDI file are interpreted and written on the Chordsheet. - The “part markers” for

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 186we'd like for the Jazz tune. After listening to the tune, we notice that there is a “2-feel” Jazz sec

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 187The Harmony Maker The Harmony Maker allows you to create or edit your own or existing harmonies. Each har

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 188Settings For Each Voice Chan. A 1-instrument harmony will use Channel A only. Additional instruments can

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 189Additional Harmony Options Press the [More…] button to launch the Additional Harmony Options dialog. Use

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 19StylePicker now Editable! You can now add your own styles to the StylePicker list by pressing an ADD/EDIT butt

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 190Use Guitar Harmony Voicings Harmony Maker will use real guitar chord voicings that display correctly on the

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 191 10 easy steps to make a Soloist 1. Bring up the Soloist window by pressing the [Soloist] Button. 2. Se

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 192 Tip: You can have these values preset to the values you'd like by first selecting the range of bars

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 193The Melodist Maker This module lets you define or edit your own Melodists. Press the Melodist Maker [Edit]

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 194The Patch Change area allows you to select an instrument and Harmony, and to set Change Instrument setting

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 195Number of Variations to Choose From As the Melodist is determining what type of phrase to generate, it will

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 196The Guitarist Maker Band-in-a-Box will intelligently arrange any melody to a guitar chord solo by inserting

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 197The settings for Note Duration thresholds to get a chord refer to how long a note must be before a chord wi

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 198Chord Types to Include You can decide which types of chords should be included in the chord solo. Be

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 199Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards Vocal Wizard The “Vocal Wizard” displays the best song keys for your vocal range! Thi

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Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 20Entire song name displayed in Taskbar hint when Band-in-a-Box is minimized! This is useful to find the name of

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 2001. Entering your Vocal Range. Here you enter your “comfortable” vocal range, from lowest note to highest note. If

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 201 In the example Old Folks at Home, you can see that D is the best key (“green”), but any of the keys from G to Db ar

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 202Chord Substitution Dialog This dialog depends on what chords were present at the bar that was currently highlighted

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 203Auto Chord Substitutions You can quickly auto-generate substitutions for an entire song, or portion of a song using

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 204

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 205Ear Training Tutor Ear training is an important exercise for all musicians and you can practice your ear training w

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 206 Start the game by pressing the [Guess Interval] button. You can control the starting note and the second note in th

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 207Chord Tutor Click on the [Chord Tutor] button to enter the Chord Tutor module. Press the [Play Tonic] button to f

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 208 When you think you know the root, press the root name on the list of note names at the left. If you guess incorrec

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 209Rhythm Guitar Chord Tutor Use the Guitar Tutor to analyze any song. This feature will show the chords that are play

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 21“Play Selected Area as a Loop” function! Shift-click on the Play button, or press F10 (Play Selected Area as L

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 210 There are also tutors for the alternate tunings like DADGAD, Open G, etc. They can be selected from this drop-down

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 211MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard Many people who play music by ear think of songs in terms of “Chords and Melod

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 212Once you have loaded in the MIDI file, and assuming that you have the “Auto Interpret” set to true, you'll see

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 213Now, after loading in the MIDI files, you'd normally have a look at these settings above, to see if they seem r

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 214The setting for “Allow Sus chords” determines if chords like Csus or Bbsus7 will be included. The “Allow 7th chords

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 215 As you can see, by comparing the two sets of chords, the Chord Wizard got almost all of the chords correct in this

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 216 The setting for “Write Chord Summary Notes to Soloist Track” is only used for diagnostic or special purposes. Whe

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 217 The “Channel selector” presets help with the selection of the channels as described above. The [None] button de-se

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 218Snapshot Regions This area is for the “snapshots” for A substyle, B substyle, and A, B drum fills. For the “A” sub

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 219 “Add to existing style...” allows you to add the patterns to an existing style. The [More] button launches the Sty

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 22QuickStart Tutorial for the Version 2005 Upgrade. The full descriptions of the new features in Version 2005 of

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 220 Bass (“voicings”) determine if the bass part will use All notes / Scale tones only / Root 3rd, 5th, 7th / Root, 3rd

Chapter 13: Tools and Utilities 221Chapter 13: Tools and Utilities Roland VSC3 Virtual Sound Canvas An important part of Band-in-a-Box is the band th

Chapter 13: Tools and Utilities 222Guitar Tuner The Guitar Tuner is optimized for guitar and bass, though it may be useful with other instruments. Co

Chapter 13: Tools and Utilities 223The Drum Kit window can be resized to tile or fit with other windows of interest, or the drums can be moved off-scr

Chapter 13: Tools and Utilities 224Computer “QWERTY” Keys Press computer keys to play drums. Drums are grouped on the computer keyboard by category.

Chapter 13: Tools and Utilities 225Instrument Hints Customize the appearance of the Hint line. - Show Note Name - Show MIDI Note Number - Show Com

Chapter 13: Tools and Utilities 226To use Band-in-a-Box to measure in milliseconds- set Band-in-a-Box PPQN to 480, and Band-in-a-Box tempo to 125 BPM.

Chapter 14: Reference 227Chapter 14: Reference Band-in-a-Box Menu Descriptions This chapter gives line-by-line descriptions for all Band-in-a-Box menu

Chapter 14: Reference 228 Open (Using Custom Dialog) uses the custom dialog that allows long-file-names, font selection, and even remembers its settin

Chapter 14: Reference 229Run Explorer in Current Directory launches Explorer. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+F3 is the usual way to get to this item, and will q

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 23 Let’s examine the improvements in the SongPicker. Open the SongPicker. (The program may rebuild the song l

Chapter 14: Reference 230Edit Menu Edit | Undo and Edit | Redo allow you to undo or redo most operations. Edit | Cut functions like a delete command

Chapter 14: Reference 231Tip: The copied section remains in the clipboard and can be used repeatedly. If your song is in the form verse-verse-bridge

Chapter 14: Reference 232 Source track can be any of the Band-in-a-Box tracks – Bass, Drums, Piano, Guitar, Strings, Melody, or Soloist. The track to

Chapter 14: Reference 233Unfold (convert to 1 BIG chorus) Choose this command to unfold a multi-chorus song into one BIG chorus. When selected, Band-

Chapter 14: Reference 234 Transpose From .. To .. launches the Transpose dialog for transposing a particular section of the song. The bar values can

Chapter 14: Reference 235Chord Settings… This launches the Chord Options dialog box, where you can put in rests and pushes. You can launch the Previe

Chapter 14: Reference 236Make a Hybrid Style The “Hybrid Styles” feature allows you to play and create a style that has instruments from up to five di

Chapter 14: Reference 237When you have successfully made an alias, you will notice that there will be a small arrow in the Styles box on the main scre

Chapter 14: Reference 238Utilities Edit Chord Shortcuts file (shortcut.txt)… / Refresh Chord Shortcuts… If you have found a chord that Band-in-a-Box

Chapter 14: Reference 239Language Selection This allows you to change language from English to another language for display. If there are other langu

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 24 So you use the “Allowable Keys” preset in this dialog, and set it to “Jazz keys,” and then the Vocal Wizard r

Chapter 14: Reference 240If a style is changed with a different feel (16th notes instead of 8th notes), Band-in-a-Box will automatically offer to expa

Chapter 14: Reference 241Display Options The [Display] button opens the Display Options dialog. Toolbars Toolbar mode settings are for the main t

Chapter 14: Reference 242For minor keys, base roman numerals on the relative major. For example in key of Am, Am is either the Im chord or the VIm ch

Chapter 14: Reference 243You 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 ha

Chapter 14: Reference 244Count-in and Metronome Options This opens the Count-in and Metronome Options dialog. Drum Lead-in options Allow Lead-In

Chapter 14: Reference 245Smart Lead-in A smart lead-in avoids playing the count-in drum sound during a Melody pickup. Lead-in drum count if drums

Chapter 14: Reference 246Write Section Text as Text Events Your section text can be included in the MIDI file as text events. Include Volume/Reverb/Ch

Chapter 14: Reference 247MIDI Input Driver Select the Driver that you would like to use for input from a MIDI keyboard. If you don't have a MIDI

Chapter 14: Reference 248MIDI Options This button opens the MIDI Options dialog. Send GM Mode On at startup / Send XG Mode On at startup You can

Chapter 14: Reference 249Song Patch Changes: Songs can be saved with patch changes. If you want to prevent specific instruments loading for a given

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 25 Set the 4 harmonies to the first vibrato setting “1 BNatural Vibrato,” and press the [PREVIEW] button. You’

Chapter 14: Reference 250These can use either Controller 0 (Bank 0), which is also know as MSB for Most Significant Byte, or Controller 32, also calle

Chapter 14: Reference 251More Soloist & More Melodist Settings The [Soloist] button launches the More Soloist & Melodist Settings dialog.

Chapter 14: Reference 252Color Selection The [Colors] button opens the Color Selection dialog. You can choose from several color sets using the 2

Chapter 14: Reference 253General MIDI Patch Edit This opens the General MIDI Patch Edit dialog, where you can make a customized General MIDI patch ma

Chapter 14: Reference 254Drum Kit If you have been unable to find a preset drum map that matches your synth's drum notes, then you may need to t

Chapter 14: Reference 255Favorite Instruments This button opens the Favorite Instruments dialog. For each of the Band-in-a-Box parts you can assign

Chapter 14: Reference 256Output Chords on Channel The [OutputCh.] button opens the Output Chords on Channel dialog. Some external music hardware de

Chapter 14: Reference 257You can also set the THRU transpose to the favorite key to transpose the THRU part so that you can always play along in your

Chapter 14: Reference 258Notation Window Options The [Notation] button opens the Notation Window Options. If the Notation window is not open the pro

Chapter 14: Reference 259Lead Sheet Options The [Lead sheet] button opens the Lead Sheet Options dialog. If the Lead Sheet window is not open the pr

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 26 Playback Control In addition to other Band-in-a-Box methods, you can start playback by double-clicking the C

Chapter 14: Reference 260Audio Settings The [Audio] button opens the Audio Settings dialog. If your PC has multiple sound cards, the [Audio Drivers]

Chapter 14: Reference 261The DMA Size and DMA Offset settings are set automatically by the auto-testing of the sound card. This test can be repeated

Chapter 14: Reference 262Guitar Settings The [Guitar] button opens the Guitar Settings dialog. The Guitar Settings dialog allows you the ability t

Chapter 14: Reference 263Big Piano Settings This button opens the Big Piano Settings dialog. This dialog allows you to set various options on the

Chapter 14: Reference 264Lyric Window Options The [BigLyrics] button opens the Lyric Window Options. Individual color elements can be picked, or

Chapter 14: Reference 265Print Options The [Print] button opens the Print Options dialog. These options are described in the Notation chapter a

Chapter 14: Reference 266Play Menu Note: Most commands in the Play menu are performed by onscreen buttons, or by the keystrokes listed to the right

Chapter 14: Reference 267Slide Tracks - This allows you to move any of the Bass, Drums, Piano, Guitar, Strings or Melody track ahead or behind by a c

Chapter 14: Reference 268Lyrics Menu Enter Lyrics at current bar - Opens the Lyric entry box at the current location of the timeline or highlight ce

Chapter 14: Reference 269 Copy Line Lyrics to Note Lyrics converts line-based lyrics to note based lyrics. It is imprecise, because the line-based ly

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 27Note Editing Move the mouse cursor over the left side of a note, then click-drag horizontally to edit the note

Chapter 14: Reference 270Melody Menu Track Type Normally you'd leave the track type set to Single. But you can set it to: - Multi (16) -Chan

Chapter 14: Reference 271Edit Melody submenu Import Melody from MIDI File allows you to import MIDI data from a file (*.MID) into the Melody track. I

Chapter 14: Reference 272 - Resolution. Choose the division you would like the track quantized to. Choosing 16 will Quantize to 16th notes. - S

Chapter 14: Reference 273Remove Harmony (or guitar solo) from Melody Track removes a harmony from a track, providing that the harmony was put there by

Chapter 14: Reference 274Soloist Menu Track Type Normally you'd leave the track type set to Single. But you can set it to: - Multi (16) -C

Chapter 14: Reference 275saxophone), extra legato playing, playing more on top of the beat, playing straighter 8th notes than usual swing 8th notes.

Chapter 14: Reference 276Quantize Soloist opens the Quantize Soloist Options dialog. The Humanize Soloist Part… feature is an advanced version of thi

Chapter 14: Reference 277Audio Menu The Record Audio function is used to Record Audio using a microphone plugged into your sound card or a guitar (or

Chapter 14: Reference 278Edit Audio submenu Copy 1st chorus to whole song copies the first chorus to the rest of the song. The Kill entire Audio men

Chapter 14: Reference 279 Audio Harmonies & Pitch Tracking opens the Generate Audio Harmonies dialog. There are three uses of the Audio Harmonies

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 28 Program Changes The Piano Roll demo song contains some embedded program change events as a demo of this new

Chapter 14: Reference 280GM Menu The GM functions work on MIDI sound devices that support the GM (General MIDI) standard, which includes most newer M

Chapter 14: Reference 281Auto-Send GS Mode On at startup sends a Roland GS system on message when the Band-in-a-Box program boots up. Auto-Send XG Mod

Chapter 14: Reference 282Run Other Program submenu Sound card Volume / Playback VU Meter launches the Windows mixer to adjust volumes on your sound c

Chapter 14: Reference 283Harmony Menu Melody Harmony (select)… This option brings up the complete Harmony styles list, and allows you to choose one

Chapter 14: Reference 284Allow Melody Harmony Toggle this option “On” to allow harmonies on the Melody MIDI channels. Allow Thru Harmony Toggle this

Chapter 14: Reference 285Not’n Menu Notation/edit/note roll mode moves the notation window through its various entry modes. Print... brings up the

Chapter 14: Reference 286Window Menu Notation (or chords) Window toggles between the notation and the chordsheet views. Movable Notation Window opens

Chapter 14: Reference 287Chord Substitution Dialog (choose your own) This allows you to see a list of possible chord substitutions for the current cho

Chapter 14: Reference 288Help Menu Index Lists all of the Help topics. Type in a keyword under the “Index” tab to go to the topic you want. Topic Se

Chapter 14: Reference 289What add-ons do I have?… One of the greatest strengths of Band-in-a-Box is the ability to add-on and enhance the program thro

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box Version 2005 29Modulation Controller Set the View/Edit combo box to “Control” (Controller MIDI Events). Then select “1 Mod

Chapter 14: Reference 290Keystroke Commands - Hot Keys It’s often faster to use keystrokes instead of using the mouse. For example, there are keystro

Chapter 14: Reference 291Looping / Song Navigation Keystrokes NUMPAD 1 Toggle looping on/off. NUMPAD 2 Open Loop Section Settings dialog. Ctrl+NUMPA

Chapter 14: Reference 292F8 Play pattern on chord F10 Edit pattern options F6 or Shift+F6 Change instrument Cursor Keys Move around screen Alt+F4 Qui

Chapter 14: Reference 293Select Thru Harmony Alt+F11 Favorite Thru Harmonies Ctrl+F11 Allow Thru Harmony Shift+F11 Turn song Embellisher on/off. Ctrl+

Chapter 14: Reference 294Notes: - It is not necessary to type upper or lower case. The program will sort this out for you. - Any chord may be enter

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Index 296Index A2 Transpose, 133 Alias substitutions, 237 Alternate Guitar Tunings, 62 Guitar Tutor, 63 selecting, 63 audible drum count-in, 245 Audio

Index 297Clefs, 129 Clipboard, 149, 231 Color Schemes Changing, 32, 252 Combos Favorite, 255 Convert patch lists Cakewalk to BB, 88 PowerTracks to BB,

Index 298Harmonize to MIDI Melody, 160 Harmony, 34 creating, 187 selecting, 33 test chord, 188 velocity boost, 188 Harmony Maker, 187 Harmony Menu, 28

Index 299multiple lines, 58, 124 Lyrics Menu, 268 line-based lyrics, 268 Lyrics options, 127 Main Chordsheet font size, 31 number of rows, 31 select f

Table of Contents 3Table of Contents PG MUSIC INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT...

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 30Chapter 4: The Main Screen Main Screen Overview The main screen gives direct access to the major features and program set

Index 300enhanced audio plug-ins, 19 favorite folder button, 20 full stereo audio track, 19 Guitar Tutor anticipate mode, 21 harmonies in 4ths, 17 har

Index 301PowerTracks to BB, 87 Patches Allowing, 248 Patents, 2 PG Music Inc., 295 Piano Roll chord ruler, 53 delete events, 55 edit events, 54 event

Index 302Roman Numeral Notation, 84 Root, 207, 208 Sample level, 158 Save GM lyrics, 104 Saving Song with Patches, 102 Scale tones, 208 Scriabin, 114

Index 303More button, 219 part markers, 185 patch, 217 snapshot regions, 218 snapshots, 185 tracks area, 216 tutorial, 184 voicings, 219 Style Wizard,

Index 304unmute drum count-in, 245 Velocity Lines, 115 visual metronome, 245 Vocal Wizard, 199 auto-transpose, 201 key, 200 range of song, 200 select

Registration Form 305Registration Form Please register your program. Registering your PG Music software entitles you to unlimited free technical supp

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 31Personalizing the Main Screen Band-in-a-Box gives you many options to personalize the main screen. Screen Layout The Ch

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 32To make your own color scheme, click on the name of the element you wish to change (Chord Area, List Box, etc.), then cli

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 33Synth Window / Piano Keyboard The Piano Keyboard: This keyboard displays the notes (in different colors) that are being

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 34Pressing the [F] button produces a list of your favorites; the 50 most recently loaded harmonies. The keystrokes Shift+F1

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 35 The [.MID] button allows you to make a Standard MIDI File and save it to disk as a file with extension .MID or to the Wi

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 36 This button resets General MIDI devices by sending a GM mode On message and then setting up the Band-in-a-Box patches. F

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 37 The Audio Edit window displays a graphical waveform and allows editing. Hold Shift when pressing to open a moveable win

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 38Title Window The Title window shows the basic information about the current song at a glance - its title, style, key, tem

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 39 Chorus End button: Click on the Chorus End Button to select the last bar of the chorus. The Bar number that you select

Table of Contents 4 SAVING SONGS...

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 40Chord Entry The basic way of entering a song into Band-in-a-Box is to type in the chords to the song on the chordsheet (w

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 41Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box With Band-in-a-Box you can arrange, record, save, and print your ow

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 42 Band-in-a-Box SongPicker window. The folder settings are at the bottom of the SongPicker. The Current Fol

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 43you have subfolders to c:\songs like c:\songs\country and c:\songs\jazz, you can see/search all of these son

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 44 Harmonize your play along part by pressing the [T] button in the Synth window to choose a harmony, just as

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 45 The Band-in-a-Box Synth window controls instrument settings. Solo an Instrument Part While listening to Ban

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 46 Enable the Embellisher, and the Melody will be embellished as it plays. You hear a livelier, more realisti

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 47Play Along with the Wizard The Wizard is an intelligent play along feature that is controlled with the botto

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 48Use the preset Soloist settings, or choose a Mode and which Choruses to solo. The Soloist Maker [Edit…] bu

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 49 Print out any part with the Print Button. In the Print Preview window save your notation as a graphic file

5MIDI MONITOR...

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 50Note roll Notation Mode In addition to the editing features of the Editable Notation mode, in Note roll mod

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 51The Piano Roll may be opened as a movable window, which floats above the Band-in-a-Box main window, or it ma

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 52Graphically display and edit non-note MIDI events. This panel only shows MIDI events specified in the Chan,

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 53View/Edit Graphic Data Determine what graphic data to view or edit in the bottom Graphic Data panel. Choos

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 54Note Editing Edit Note Time Stamp (start time): Move the cursor over the left of a note. An east-west curs

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 55Pencil Tool: Move the cursor over white space and hold the Shift+Ctrl keys. A Pencil Tool appears. Shift

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 56Copy: Copy Selected Events to the clipboard can also be accomplished with the menu Edit | Copy (or Ctrl+C) a

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 57Vertical Scroll Bar, [+] and [-] Buttons Scroll to see different note ranges (does not scroll the Graphic E

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 58During playback, red rectangles highlight the current bar. If the bar is empty (or in Fake Sheet mode), the

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 59 This song has a 1st/2nd ending entered, with separate lyrics for each ending. Multiple lines of lyrics wil

Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! 6 Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! Congratulations on your purchase of Band-in-a-Box, the favorite of musicia

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 60 Full-page view of Band-in-a-Box MultiTrack notation. The Guitar Window This is a window for Guitar and Bass

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 61 When you have a note or chord highlighted press the [Ch-] or [Ch+] (insert guitar chord) button on the g

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 62Alternate Guitar Tunings The Guitar window supports alternate tunings, including DADGAD, Drop D, Double Drop

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 63Guitar Fretboard To see the guitar neck displayed in DADGAD, choose Melody | Track Type | Guitar – DADGAD Tu

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 64- Now, during playback, you will see guitar chords on the guitar fretboard in DADGAD tuning. The examples

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 65 The “position” button. This toggles between the two popular positions displayed with note names. When you

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 66 Band-in-a-Box Jukebox options dialog. In the Options for Juke Box dialog you’ll see a list of options that

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 67 - Songs can be added or removed from the list with the [Insert], [Append], and [Delete] buttons. - Use th

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 68 You can open an entire MIDI file into Band-in-a-Box. The chords will get auto-interpreted by the Chord Wiz

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 69 Make Your Own Songs Now that you see how much fun it is to play music with Band-in-a-Box, you’ll be pleased

Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! 7Installing Band-in-a-Box for Windows® Minimum System Requirements - Windows® 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP. - At least 16MB

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 70Choose a Key Click on the Key Select List and choose the key of your song instantly. It's easy to

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 71 Load Previous Style, Load Next Style. This function, analogous to the Load Next Song function, loads in t

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 72the song playing. This can also be done by clicking the mouse on the onscreen [-] and [=] buttons to the ri

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 73 Pressing the [Record] button will start Band-in-a-Box recording what you play on the Thru track. An audibl

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 74 The Embellisher Memo describes the current embellishment, with statistics counting the number of embellishe

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 75To start, plug your instrument or microphone into the computer’s sound card. The Line Out from electronic i

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 76 Add Audio Harmonies You can apply a harmony to the audio part – allowing you to automatically create up to

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 77Add Audio Effects You can add professional audio effects like reverb, echo, and compression by choosing a p

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 78 The Render to Audio File dialog box permits you to save your file as either a wave file (*.wav) or a Window

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 79Note: This feature requires that you have a CD-R or CD-RW drive. If your drive is not recognized by MiniBu

Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! 8 The next dialog you encounter is the MIDI Driver Setup. If the driver that was selected is not the best choice

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 80Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide This chapter is a guide to the advanced settings in Band-in-a-Box. Any user

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 81 The custom Open File dialog has several advantages over the traditional Windows dialogs: - The window is much

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 82- Use 3 for a sharp #, e.g. for F#7 type f37. - Use / for slash chords with alternate roots, e.g. C7/E (C7 w/E

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 83Copying chords to the clipboard. Select the region to copy. To select a region of the Chordsheet (or the Notati

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 84Support for other chord display types You can enter or display chords in Roman Numeral notation, Nashville notat

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 85 Play Selected Area as a Loop Click on the [Loop] button, Shift-click on the [Play] button, or press F10 (Play

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 86The “Play within loop” command allows you to quickly play a looped section. Highlight the range of bars to loop

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 87Notebook users should set “Simulate NUMPAD Keys” to “ON” in the Preferences dialog, then use the regular number

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 88 Choose the file c:\pt\patches.INI. You’ll then see a menu of synths stored in the patches.INI file. Select on

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 89- General MIDI 2 support: If you're using the Roland VSC3, or a newer Sound Canvas then choose this GM2 su

Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! 9 DirectX Instrument Synthesizer (DXi plug-in) Support Software synthesizers allow Band-in-a-Box to play high qu

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 90Muting Instruments To mute/unmute all parts as the song is playing, simply press Alt+2 or right-click on the “Co

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 91Settings for Current Bar The number of beats per bar, tempo changes, patch, style, and harmony changes can be m

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 92Tempo Change If you want to change the tempo at a certain bar of the song, then use this dialog box to type in t

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 93 This buttons opens the Edit Settings for Current Bar dialog. This button opens the Chord Options dialog where

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 94Using the StylePicker Window The StylePicker window is opened by pressing the [Style] button or the Shift+F9 ke

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 95Styles that are similar to the prototype are indicated with an asterisk (*). These are styles that have the sam

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 96 The category here is called “My Styles,” you can change the name using the yellow “Category Name” area. For th

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 97 4. We now enter settings to tell Band-in-a-Box what Soloist it should use when making improvisations using th

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 98 You will then see a rebuilt style list, and your category “Favorite Jazz” and your new style “NEWONE.STY” will

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 99Style Aliases Dialog This dialog is found in the Styles menu. Let's say you've got a new style for