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1. If Include Part Marker text markers is selected in the MIDI File Options the resulting MIDI file will have text markers Then in PowerTracks Pro Audio in the Bars window you ll see the descriptive text markers HA Bars 1 A Chorus 1 9 B i7 Bass EDS SSS SSeS bruns FRR Piano EIR Guitar DM BRR Strings jl RRR Melody jl NBL soloist I UOU UALL DR BR S TY YY YT TT For example at bar 3 there is an A Chorus 1 marker to indicate a part marker a ow AW E os h e MaM substyle and chorus 1 Reset to factory settings improved Reset to factory settings also offers to nuke the drum kit and MIDI Driver choice making the return to factory settings complete Return lo Factory Settings Return ALL To Factor Settinge INCLUDING MIDI Drivers and patch maps Cancel If you choose ALL settings all settings will be reset to factory Options Return to Factory Settings If you choose MOST settings the patch map and drum kit will be left intact and not reset 52 Chapter 17 Other New Features Play Selected Area as a Loop function f Click on the Loop button Shift click on the Play button or press F10 Play Selected Area as Loop and the program will play a selected region and loop the selection For example you can select bars 10 and 11 and then press F10 and bars 10 and 11 will play looped To use this function Select a region on th
2. DAN DIN A spOX Version 2005 for Windows Deum en eC a JOE 2 CSL LECIE Copyright PG Music Inc 1989 2005 All rights reserved PG Music Inc License Agreement CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE COMPLETING THE INSTALLATION OF THIS SOFTWARE USAGE OF THE SOFTWARE INDICATES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS LICENSE A The program may only be used on a single machine B You may transfer the program and license to another party if the other party agrees to accept the terms of this Agreement If you transfer the program you must either transfer all copies whether in printed or machine readable form to the same party or destroy all copies not transferred This includes all modifications and or portions of the program merged into other programs C You may receive the program in more than one media Regardless of the type or size of media you receive you may install or use the media on a single machine D The program including any images applets photographs animations video audio music and text incorporated into the program is owned by PG Music Inc or its suppliers and is protected by international copyright laws and international treaty provisions You may not use copy or transfer the program or any copy modification or merged portion of the program in whole or in part except as expressly provided for in this license If you transfer possession of any copy
3. If your song has 1 and 2 endings or multiple verses of lyrics multi line lyrics can be displayed so you ll see all verses on the same Fake Sheet Full Stereo or Mono support for Audio Track You can now choose between mono or stereo for the audio track and the audio plug ins work for mono or stereo Tracks can be edited in either format and converted from stereo to mono or vice versa Enhanced Audio Plug in Effects Enhanced audio plug in effects are included for EQ Peak Limit and Reverb Selective Humanize option for the Melody Embellisher There is a new option for the Embellisher to only humanize the timing of the music 1f the timing was stiff to begin with This allows the Embellisher to leave the timing of human input melodies alone and humanize only the ones that were entered in step time Lead Sheet highlighting is more visible During playback the highlighting of bars on the Lead Sheet and Fake Sheet window is more visible with red rectangles to highlight the current bar Karaoke Files KAR now can be opened including lyrics The Popular Karaoke file format KAR can now be opened directly into Band in a Box just like MIDI files Chord symbols are displayed Band in a Box intelligently analyzes the chords of the song as well as the lyrics from the Karaoke files Import WAV file to Audio Track support A Mono or Stereo WAV file can now be imported to the Audio track optionally merging or replacing any ex
4. Time signature changes are now printed on the Notation Lead Sheet Chapter 2 Summary of New Features fi Favorite Folder Open Song button By opening a song using the Favorite Folder Open Song you first select the folder from a list of recently used folders and then you can directly open the song from that folder This allows you to quickly find a song in another folder Lyric breaks hidden in Lead Sheet window For Lyrics line break and paragraph marks and are no longer shown on the Lead Sheet window Auto MIDI and Karaoke lyrics display Lyric Window now auto opens for MIDI files and Karaoke files Guitar TAB visibility is improved For the guitar tab the numbers are now more visible as a portion of the black guitar line 1s whited out when a tab fret number is drawn Notation display improved The first note in every bar is drawn farther away from the bar line Big Lyrics Window Enhancements Chords can now be displayed on a row above the lyrics on the Big Lyrics Window Separate chord colors are used for the Chords and Lyrics allowing these elements to be visually separated MIDI file text markers for part markers MIDI files are now written with descriptive Text Markers for part markers Text markers are also read in from MIDI files and displayed as Section Markers on the Notation Decibel dB scale now present in the Audio Edit Window New rest insert key In editable notation
5. Humanize none only if stiff always Humanize Only if melody is stit No humanize Only if melody is stiff The new 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 The embellisher will still add other embellishments such as grace notes anticipations turns vibrato etc regardless of the humanize settings Shift Click Region Selection To select a region of Chordsheet Notation or Audio Edit window you can now Shift click on the end point to easily select a large area To select a region on the Chordsheet or Audio Edit window Click on the starting bar Shift click on the ending bar The range from starting bar to ending bar will be selected To select a region on the Notation window Select a small region by dragging the mouse Enlarge the region by shift clicking on the end point Note Shift click is also used to enter a sharp note so the selection via shift click requires that a small region be already selected Song Name in Taskbar Hint The entire song name displayed in the taskbar hint
6. Vibrato 35 Sheep Vibrato 36 Siren Vibrato 37 Slicer Vibrato 38 UFO Vibrato 0S Chapter 9 Audio Harmonies Enhanced Chapter 10 Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics circles triangles now supported Jazz and Pop music often use certain non alphabetic symbols for chord types These include a delta triangle for major chords a circle for diminished and a circle with a slash for half diminished Also tensions like b9 and b13 are stacked vertically and contained in brackets You can now select this option and see these symbols for display printout on the Chord Sheet Notation and Lead Sheet windows The Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics can be displayed independently on the Chordsheet and the Notation or Lead Sheet windows Chordsheet Font To get the Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics on the Chordsheet choose Opt Preferences Display Options and set Chordsheet Font to Jazz Chord Symbols You ll then see a chord sheet like this w Jazz Symbols To see the Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics on the Notation Lead Sheet printout set the Notation Options The Notation will then look like this 38 Chapter 10 Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics Chapter 11 SongPicker Enhancements SongPicker Enhanced subfolder support The SongPicker has been enhanced and now can optionally display songs from sub folders For example if you get a song list of c bb it can include songs in subfolders like c bb style
7. a Box 2005 Then we ll do an in depth tutorial for the new Piano Roll window The other chapters in the manual are also tutorial style presentations of the new features Load in any song with a melody Now launch the Piano Roll window by pressing the piano roll button on the toolbar or choosing Window Piano Roll Window You ll then see the Piano Roll window Ter E m Jii imi a ore Ir re T Tet m as Fi i i i i i i i mo fy i j LETO Et a I I il i TI J par J r f 1 l i E mail i l I SILAS e DG A Drag the notes to change pitch duration or timing Insert notes by mouse click while holding down Ctrl Shift We ll explore the piano roll in detail later in the tutorial Now let s close the Piano Roll window and open the Notation window You can do this by pressing the notation button Let s hear the fourths harmonies Load in c bb Tutorial BB 2005 4 Trumpets in 4ths Harmony 219 demo This will play the melody in 4 part harmony using 4ths harmonies Let s display Jazz chord symbol graphics to this song Use the Opt Preferences menu option and click on Notation to open the Notations Options dialogue box In the Notation Options dialog Press the Jazz Fonts button to select the Jazz music font v ses 2h ut Select the Jazz Symbols checkbox Exit the Options dialo
8. converter 40 Cakewalk to BB 41 PowerTracks to BB 40 Patents 2 PG Music Inc 56 Piano Roll chord ruler 20 delete events 23 edit events 22 event selection 22 58 Index graphic event panel 22 horizontal scroll bar 25 insert events 23 keyboard pitch panel 20 note editing 21 note panel 21 note selection 21 note time ruler 20 right click contextual menu 23 track selection 18 vertical scroll bar 25 window 18 zoom button 25 Pitch Styles 36 presets 36 Preferences hot keys 53 Printing single page 49 QuickStart 10 Reset to factory 52 Select region 51 SongPicker enhancements 39 favorites button 39 StylePicker Editor 29 add new style 29 rebuild list 31 technical notes 31 Technical Support 56 Text markers 52 Transpose chordsheet 53 Tutorials Audio Harmonies 12 Piano Roll 13 QuickStart 10 Vocal Wizard 26 auto transpose 28 key 27 range of song 27 select track 27 transpose 28 vocal range 27
9. easily in Band in a Box to harmonize the Melody Soloist or Thru parts using 3 4 or 5 part voicings in 4ths We ve added presets for these harmonies so you can easily select them Use these sophisticated 4ths harmonies on your existing melodies to create a new sound Tip To quickly hear what some of the 4ths harmonies sound like look in the c bb Tutorial BB 2005 demos folder for pre made songs with 4ths harmonies 13 5 Part SaxSec in 4th 14 5 Part Brass section in 4ths 215 5 Part SaxSec 4ths amp roots 16 5 Part Concerted tn 4ths 217 3 Horns in 4ths 218 4 Trombones in 4ths 219 4 Trumpets in 4th To use the harmonies with any song choose harmonies in the range 213 to 219 Each of these is a harmony using A4ths For example Harmony 218 uses 4 trombones in 4ths y ICI i Gd Ue urias m die To make your own harmony using 4ths for the harmonies enter the Harmony Editor press the More button and select the Use Voicing in 4ths checkbox Then the harmonies will be voiced in 4ths You can make a 2 3 4 or 5 part harmony melody doubling low root note Chapter 8 Fourths Harmonies 35 Chapter 9 Audio Harmonies Enhanced TC Helicon Audio Harmonies enhanced with Pitch Styles automatic Vibrato and Scooping Now when you generate audio harmonies to your recorded vocal tracks you can select Pitch Styles which adds vibrato and scooping effects to the vocal harmonies Choose from man
10. highlighted red Therefore you can also tap the Delete key to remove accidentally inserted events Graphic Event Editing You can edit the value or time of individual graphic data items To edit the value move the mouse cursor over the top half of an event and click drag vertically To edit the time of the event move the cursor over the bottom half of an event and click drag horizontally There are two tools for inserting graphic events the Line Tool and the Pencil Tool Line Tool Move the mouse cursor over white space in the Graphic Event panel The cursor becomes a Line Tool Click and then drag a line When the mouse button is released events are inserted or modified to fit the line This illustrates the effect of the Line Tool for editing the Velocity of the first 6 notes Chapter 3 QuickStart Tutorial 15 Before Line Tool Edit After Line Tool Edit Pencil Tool Hold Shift Ctrl and move the mouse cursor over white space in the Graphic Event panel The cursor becomes a Pencil Tool Click and then drag a free form shape When the mouse button is released events are inserted or modified to fit the free form shape This illustrates the effect of the Pencil Tool for free form drawing the Velocity of the first 6 notes Before Free Form Pencil Drawing After Free Form Pencil Drawing Ae 2 Program Changes ViewE dit The Piano Roll demo song contains some embedded program change events as a demo of this new method Set th
11. mode you can now insert a rest by holding the back quote key tilde key without pressing shift then clicking on the notation window This is a way to avoid having to check the Rest checkbox first Reset to factory settings improved Reset to factory settings also offers to nuke the drum kit and MIDI Driver choice making the return to factory settings complete Transpose Chordsheet option added This is useful for non concert pitch instruments like Tenor Saxophone This option is also available on the Notation window Play Selected Area as a Loop function Shift click on the Play button or press F10 Play Selected Area as Loop and the program will play a selected region as aloop For example you can select bars 10 and 11 and then press F10 and bars 10 and 11 will play looped StyleMaker Enhancements If you don t save the style the previous style will load in instead of reverting to ZZJAZZ STY Guitar Tutor Enhancements The Guitar Chord Tutor now has an Anticipate mode which plays the next chord X beats in advance allowing time for the user to prepare the chord for playing along 11 new tutors have been added for the Alternate tunings like DADGAD Open G etc No more drum crash cymbals on Bar 1 of the song The very first bar of the song is optionally no longer considered to be following a fill so a drum crash cymbal won t be played Most drummers wouldn t play a crash cymbal on bar 1 of the
12. same SongPicker dialog Tip If you choose c as your folder the SongPicker would find every Band in a Box file on your hard drive and display it in the SongPicker You might instead find it easier to put all of your songs within a folder like c songs and have various subfolders to that And then set the SongPicker to always open up in the c songs folder Then you ll have access to all of your songs easily Use the Favorites folder button to jump to other folders easily Chapter 11 SongPicker Enhancements 39 Chapter 12 Convert Patch Lists Convert Patch Lists from PowerTracks or Cakewalk Make synthesizer patch file lists PAT files easily by converting PowerTracks Pro Audio or Cakewalk patch lists Patches on Higher Banks sc880 88 PAT aniations of Acoustic Piano Fiano 3 Honky tank E Piana 1 E Piano 2 Harpsichord Clay EG Fhodes 1 Els Rhodes 2 Piano Tw Piano Zw Piano 3w Old Upright St Sof EP Detuned ER Coupled Hps Piano 1d Band in a Box can now read a patch file list generated by PowerTracks Pro Audio or Cakewalk and convert it to a PAT file for use in Band in a Box The patch file contains the name and numbers for all patches on a synthesizer so that you can access your patches easily by name If you already have a patch list for your synthesizer from one of these other programs you can now convert it to Band in a Box format easily Converting PowerTracks patch list to Band in a Box Pat
13. signature changes Time signature changes are now printed on the Notation Lead Sheet Chapter 15 Notation Enhancements 47 Insert Bends In Notation In the Editable Notation window any note can be made into a bend by holding down the b key on the computer keyboard and right clicking on the note Notation display improved Notation display improved first note in every bar is drawn farther away from the bar line Auto Staves per Page Option Notation Print Options now has an option to allow Staves per Page setting to be automatic or not Notation PRINT Options Staves per page A W Auto Set Print to large bmp files Notation Print to Graphics command can now print to much larger BMP files This feature is only limited by available memory This allows high resolution BMP s like 2400 x 3000 To do this in the Notation window press Print then OK Print Preview l then the options buttonll Preview Options Width 7400 Pierls Height 3000 Peels Save to File Type Monn RHP You will then see a high res graphic on screen and you can save that to a BMP using the SAVE button A BMP of 2400x3000 is 300 dpi for an 8 x10 page Multi colors for Event List Different colors are used for different event types in the event list to visually distinguish notes patch changes etc The Event list for the notation colors the events differently as follows Notes st
14. to use Full Stereo or Mono support has been added for the Audio Track There are now on screen VU meters to monitor the Audio Track Multiple lines of Lyrics are now supported on the Fake Sheet and Printout Chords and Lyrics can be displayed on separate lines on the Big Lyrics Window A new Play Loop feature allows you to select an area and play it ina repeated loop The SongPicker can display in subfolders and you can add styles to the StylePicker Karaoke files KAR can now be read directly including lyrics and analysis of chord symbols and much more Important Note People familiar with the previous versions of Band in a Box will be pleased to know that we have kept the same functionality of our previous releases The new features are optional and don t interfere with familiar methods of using the program All songs styles etc are completely compatible with previous versions so that you can upgrade without losing any of your existing work 4 Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Summary of New Features New Features in Band in a Box Version 2005 New Fully Featured Piano Roll Window joj elaj ajm s wk E va ea imi cel IPA Fri te bt Trek by am T Ei E i i i i i i i i f i i j et _ LETE S L i i lt a i a i d i i i a es oe a ee i a er N il Now you can edit your tracks using the new Piano Roll window similar to the type found in many sequencer
15. 0 in your ranqe 0 in falsetto 0 too many falsetto 0 too low 0 too high Transpose NOW to D Now that the Vocal Wizard has told us the best key for this song we can either close the dialog or transpose it now to the recommended key or any other key that we have selected with the radio buttons Auho transpose to best key when a song is loaded The Vocal Wizard can also work in an automatic mode transposing a song to the best key as soon as it is loaded without having to visit the Vocal Wizard dialog This is done by checking the Auto Transpose checkbox By doing this you can insure that any song you load will be in the best key for your vocalist And if the key isn t deemed to be ideal just visit the Vocal Wizard to see an analysis of the ranges to pick an alternate key 28 Chapter 5 Vocal Wizard Chapter 6 StylePicker Editor The StylePicker is now Editable You can now add your own styles to the StylePicker list by pressing an ADD EDIT button on the StylePicker You can see all the information about the style including memo genre feel tempo range etc The StylePicker allows browsing and choosing a style from the large library of available styles Now you can add your own styles to this list including memos examples and other information about the style Technical Note All of the styles that you add will be appended to the bottom of the StylePicker under new category and style names This is because we do
16. 05 Old Folks at Home MGU This is in the key of F We ll assume that you are a male with a baritone range If so F is not a good key for this song it is too high n Li C al Wize F d ont k Choose Window Vocal Wizard or press the Vocal Wizard button on the toolbar The Vocal Wizard will open It displays color coded scores for each possible key and has determined that they key of D is the best key for that song in your vocal range which you can set in the same dialog When you call out to your piano player We can do this song in D he replies I don t play much in D Pm a Jazz player Allowable Kers Db w Eb Go jw Ab lw Bb woe OY E WF wo YT A YT E Preset Chapter 3 QuickStart Tutorial 11 So you use the Allowable Keys preset in this dialog and set it to Jazz keys and then the Vocal Wizard revises its recommendation to the key of C If you melee Auto transpose to best key when a song is loaded every song will automatically be transposed to the best key for your vocal range when loaded For now let s de select that option since we doni want songs to be transposed when loaded Note that the Vocal Wizard can also be used for instruments like Tenor Sax Trombone etc to determine the best keys for playing the melody on those instruments Let s check out the new PLAY LOOP feature On the Chordsheet select the 2 bars from 9 to 10 by dragging the mouse to make t
17. 3 G 3 to note 64E 5 With falsetto yourvocal range is 25 semitones from note 43 fa 3 fy no te be 4b 5 Best Keyes for current song with your Vocal Range lower score is better Allowable Keps i Db W Eb jv Gb W Ab iw Bb WC wD WE WF Wo Ww A WE Preset All Keps h i Eb Seore 306 i actae falzetto 3 C E Seore 30 octave 1 talsetto 3 CO F Scores 2906 octayve ttalsetto 29 Curent Song Key Auto transpose to best key when asong is loaded Gb Scores 3206 octaye ttHalsetto s2 Vocal track is on Melody Analyze Help Transpose NOW to D Close you would transpose the melody down 15 semitones i uld then be from note 50 0 4 to note 6d E 5 180 total melody notes 180i In your range O in falsetto 0 too many falsetto 0 too low D too high You can see from the screenshot that the Vocal Wizard has picked the key of D colored Green as the best key for the song using your vocal range Other recommended keys are colored yellow Un recommended keys are colored grey and include the current key of the song F Let s explore the areas of the Vocal Wizard screen There are 4 areas that require your input 1 Entering your Vocal Range Enter your Vocal Range lowest and highest note you can sing with and without falsetto Preset 68 Aba My Vocal range iz fom pies Falsetto note Baritone Male 43 G3 to 64 E5 Masimum Falsetto 5 f Save a
18. Audio dialog displays the Mono Stereo status of the recording If you want to change to from Stereo to from Mono press the Audio Options button in this dialog The Mono Stereo track status is also indicated on the Title bar at the top of the screen Enhanced Audio Plug in Effects Enhanced audio plug in effects are included for EQ Peak Limit and Reverb Import WAV file to Audio Track support A Mono or Stereo WAV file can now be imported to the Audio track optionally merging or replacing any existing audio track Choose the menu item Audio Import WAV File You then choose a WAV file to import The Import WAV dialog is then displayed which allows selection of the point to insert the WAV file and whether to merge or overwrite existing audio in the range Import Wave File When importing WAY file Overwrite existing audio Import the WAY file to this time in the song Time B f Jo Hote Bar 1 1s the start of the lead in Bar 1 is the start of the song Cancel Help Decibel dB scale now present in the Audio Window You can see the dB scale at the left of the Audio Window Chapter 14 Audio Enhancements 45 VU meters added for Audio These show the Record and Playback levels for audio allowing adjustment of microphone and speaker levels FF Bs VU Meters can be launched by pressing the VU Meters button on the toolbar The VU Meters will also open automatically when the Record Audio dialog is open
19. Bar of first chorus of song gets a drum cymbal crash New Hot keys added for Prefs tab dialog This allows navigation of the Prefs tab by single keystrokes Soloist Colors Patch Map Drum Kit Fav Patch OutputCh Transpose Rec Filter Notation Leadsheet Audio Guitar Big Piano Big Lyrics Chapter 17 Other New Features 53 For example you can open the Arrangement Prefs tab by the keystrokes Ctrl E to open the Prefs dialog then A to open the Arrangement Options The underlined letter of the Prefs tab items indicates the hot key Wider Harmony display boxes Harmony display boxes are wider by 64 pixels on the main screen and melodist soloist dialogs 134 Barbershop Ot close harmony This allows for display of longer harmony names Mouse Wheel Support Mouse wheel support added to the Chordsheet screen and other windows 54 Chapter 17 Other New Features Appendix A New Styles and Add Ons Styles Set 46 Requested 4 is included with upgrades to Band in a Box 2005 It is not included with a first time purchase of the program Styles Sets 0 47 are included in the Band in a Box MegaPAK Styles Sets 0 3 are included with the Pro version of Band in a Box Other Styles Sets are sold separately as add ons to Band in a Box New for Band in a Box Styles Set 44 Unplugged 2 Styles Set 45 Southern Rock Styles Set 46 Requested 4 Styles Set 47 Contemporary Country 2 Soloist Set 16 Sax
20. It is most practical to edit the Melody and Solo tracks The other tracks for the accompaniment are rewritten every time Band in a Box rebuilds the song every time you click the Play button So if you edit a backing track be sure to save as a MIDI file before rebuilding the song or your edits will be lost Cursor Location Info Panel 2214 The Info Panel shows the cursor s Bar Beat Tick and MIDI note or controller value depending Ba on the cursor location In cursor locations where a value would be nonsensical the status text values are blank For instance in the Note panel Bar Beat Tick and Pitch are displayed In the Ruler panels only Bar Beat Tick is displayed In the left Piano panel only Pitch is displayed In the Graphic Event panel Bar Beat Tick and Event Value are displayed 18 Chapter 4 Piano Roll window Snap to Grid Selections Inserted Notes or Edited Notes will snap to the grid spacing If you do not want snap to grid select NONE in the drop down menu If a track contains multiple channels Al will display MIDI events on all channels Otherwise select the Channel which you need to see If All is selected new MIDI events are inserted on the Band in a Box track s assigned channel Except for perhaps multi channel Guitar tracks Band in a Box plays all track events on the assigned track channel Therefore in almost all cases the channel of track events does not matter For instance if the Mel
21. Notes can be selected edited start time pitch duration inserted and deleted Note Selection Selected notes are Red 1 Click on individual notes to select 2 Shift click on individual notes to add to the selection 3 Ctrl click on a note to invert toggle its selection Click on white space and then drag a rectangle around notes to select a group of notes Only notes which start within the rectangle are selected If the left edge of a note is not inside the rectangle it will not be selected This is a feature not a bug 1 Shift drag a rectangle to add another group of notes to the selection 2 Ctril drag a rectangle to toggle the selection of the notes in the rectangle Note Editing Edit Note Time Stamp start time Move the cursor over the left of a note An East West cursor appears Then click drag the note to a new time horizontal dragging If multiple events are selected and you want to move all selected events use Shift click drag Otherwise a click on a note will deselect the previous selection and it will only select edit the clicked note Edit Note Pitch Move the cursor over the middle of a note A North South cursor appears Then click drag the note pitch vertical dragging If multiple events are selected and you want to transpose all selected events use Shift click drag Otherwise a click on a note will deselect the previous selection and it will only select transpose the clicked note Edit Note D
22. Settings J BGFAKE C Fgsolo5o Bluegrass Melodist Demos 3 JAZZPRAC CO BLUEJAME s0L27azz gt File name E y Patch List nave ag type Band in a B om Patch files Cancel Create a name for the PAT file e g My Patch List PAT and save it to c bb Converting a Cakewalk Ins file to a Band in a Box Pat file This is done using the same process described above for PowerTracks except that you open the individual INS file instead of a PATCHES INI file For example if you have a Cakewalk file called My Synth INS you would select this file name You would then save that converted list to c bb My Synth PAT Chapter 12 Convert Patch Lists 41 Chapter 13 Lyric Enhancements Big Lyrics Window Enhancements Chords can now be displayed on a row above the lyrics on the Big Lyrics window Separate chord colors are used for the Chords and Lyrics allowing these elements to be visually separated On the Big Lyrics Window Options dialog if you set Show Chord Symbols Above Lyrics you then see the chords written on a separate line Big Lyrics w Show chord symbols above the lyrics Listen to the thoughts that fill your mind Chord Color Yellow You can also select the color for the chords in the options dialog Multiple lines of Lyrics Supported on Fake Sheet If your song has 1st and 2nd endings or multiple verses of lyrics multi line lyrics can be displayed so you ll see all verses on th
23. a medium Bossa Nova with some horn noodling to demonstrate Piano Roll features The song contains example use of several MIDI data types with which to experiment Graphic Event Editing Graphic Event Editing Editing T iF To open the Piano Roll in the Band in a Box Window menu select the item Piano Roll Window Playback Control Click or Drag Here to Set Insertion Point the Click also stops Playback Double Click to Start Playback In addition to other Band in a Box methods you can start playback by double clicking the Chords Ruler above the Note Time Ruler When polishing edits 1t can be convenient to double click the Chords Ruler to hear a couple of bars and then click the Ruler or tap the Space Bar to stop playback and continue editing When you click or drag in the Chords Ruler it sets the Insertion Point The Insertion Point determines the location that pasted events would be added to the track It also determines the Playback Start bar if you use the Ctrl G Play from here keyboard shortcut 14 Chapter 3 QuickStart Tutorial Splitter Bar A vertical Splitter Bar sits between the Note Editing and Graphic Event panels To maximize the Note Editing panel drag the Splitter down To maximize the Graphic Event panel for more accurate Event editing drag the Splitter up Note Selection You can click on individual notes and also Shift click or Ctrl click to select multiple notes You can make a box selection by click
24. are now more visible as a portion of the black or grey guitar line is whited out when a tab fret number is drawn A portion of the tab line is not drawn near the tab fret Guitar TAB lines now print in black instead of grey The black is easier to see Guitar Tutor Enhancements The Guitar Chord Tutor now has an Anticipate mode which plays the next chord X beats in advance This shows the chord ahead of when it will be played allowing time for the user to prepare the chord for playing along On the guitar tutor there is a new setting If set to 120 the tutor chords will appear a full beat early 11 new tutors have been added for the alternate tunings like DADGAD Open G etc They can be selected from the drop down list on the tutor Type of chords to display Guitar DADGAD Guitar DADGAD Guitar Open G Guitar Double Drop D Guitar Guitar EREGHBE Guitar Freddie High Strung Guitar Pop High Strung Guitar Folk High Strung Guitar Drop D Hi 50 Chapter 16 Guitar Enhancements Chapter 17 Other New Features Selective Humanize option for the Melody Embellisher There is a new option for the Embellisher to only humanize the timing of the music if the timing was stiff to begin with This allows the Embellisher to leave the timing of human input melodies alone and humanize only the ones that were entered in step time In the Melody Embellisher dialog there is a new setting called
25. arting near the beat boundary are dark pink Notes starting on the off beat are light pink 48 Chapter 15 Notation Enhancements Patch changes are cyan Controller changes are yellow Pitch Bends are grey Track Displayed is Melody Event Type Yel 99 Dur 256 Ch Hote D 5 62 Yel 84 Dur 326 Ch Pitch Bend 000 0 49 semitones Ch 4 Hote E 5 64 Vel 94 Dur 64 Ch Hote D 5 62 Y el 90 Dur 52 Ch Hote CS 60 Yel 87 Dur 131 Ch Print one page option PrintPage The new Print Page button in the Print Preview window prints the current page only not the ees complete song or a full chorus Easy rest insertion In editable notation mode you can now insert a rest by holding the back quote key tilde key without pressing shift then clicking on the notation window This is a way to avoid having to check the Rest checkbox first Chapter 15 Notation Enhancements 49 Chapter 16 Guitar Enhancements Alternate Guitar Tunings are now supported These are described in Chapter 7 Pitch Bends are now displayed on Guitar Fretboard Pitch bends now show up on the Guitar Fretboard As the pitch bend occurs a blue line moves along the string in real time illustrating the height of the pitch bend Load in the c bb Pitch Bend demo song You ll then see pitch bends written as a blue color moving along the string Guitar TAB visibility is improved For the guitar tab the numbers
26. e View Edit control to Program and the few program changes are displayed in the Graphic Event panel Program changes are zero based For example General MIDI piano is zero rather than one The demo song intro has a flute program change Then the first chorus is trumpet the second chorus is flute and the third chorus is soprano sax Expression Controller Venco i Set the View Edit combo box to Control controller MIDI events Then select 11 Expression MSB in the controller type combo box The Expression controller is recognized by most modern synthesizers including most General MIDI synths However some older synths do not recognize this controller Expression is an alternative to 7 Main Volume MSB Use the Expression controller for individual tracks and reserve the main Volume controller for overall track loudness That way you can use the Band in a Box main window Volume controls without affecting individual notes in the track 16 Chapter 3 QuickStart Tutorial In the example shown the intro flute ostinato pattern fades in and then fades back out via the expression controllers These events were entered with the Line Tool Notice that before the trumpet comes in there is a single expression event of value 127 to kick the loudness up to normal Single controllers are inserted by moving the mouse cursor to the desired position and then clicking the mouse button ttm Play the demo
27. e Chordsheet Choose Play Play loop Highlited Section or press F10 The selected region will then play and continue looping until STOP is pressed Transpose Chordsheet option A Transpose option has been added to the Preferences Display Options Chordsheet settings Tenor Sax 14 Baritone Sax 21 Clarinet 2 Trumpet 2 Trombone Guitar 12 Bass Guitar 12 This is useful for non concert pitch instruments like Tenor Saxophone This option is also available on the Notation window StyleMaker Enhancements If you don t save the style the previous style will load in instead of reverting to ZZJAZZ STY Auto Endings added for Styles without Endings If you ve made a style and haven t included an ending a 2 bar ending can now be generated automatically based on the style This makes it easier to make complete styles using the Style Wizard which makes a style by analyzing a MIDI file To hear an example load in the song c bb Tutorial BB 2005 No Ending MGU This song uses NOENDING STY a style that doesn t have an ending An ending will be generated automatically for this style No drum crash on Bar 1 option The very first bar of the song is optionally no longer considered to be following a fill so a drum crash cymbal won t be played Most drummers wouldn t play a crash cymbal on bar 1 of the song This is optional and is set in Preferences Arrangement Options First
28. e same Fake Sheet Load in the song c bb Tutorial BB 2005 Listen Multi line lyrics Demo MGU Fake Sheet Mode Open the Lead Sheet and select Fake Sheet mode to the thoughts that fill your mind your heart It speaks te you just lis and you ll find get a Ex perts view This song has a 1st 2nd ending entered with separate lyrics for each ending Lyric Position Zz Notation Options Lyric Position allows you to vertically position the height of the lyrics You ll notice the multiple lines of lyrics for the Ist and 2nd endings Multiple lines of lyrics will also appear if there are lyrics in multiple verses choruses For Lyrics line break and paragraph marks and are no longer shown on the Lead Sheet window On the Notation window you see the paragraph line breaks for the lyrics 42 Chapter 13 Lyric Enhancements But on the Lead Sheet the marks are not shown Lyric Window auto opens for MIDI files and Karaoke files W Auto open lyrics window for songs with lyrics If you have the Lyrics Window option Auto open lyrics window for songs with lyrics selected and a MIDI file or KAR containing lyrics is opened the lyrics window will open to show the lyrics Karaoke Files KAR now can be opened including lyrics The popular Karaoke file format KAR can now be opened directly into Band in a Box just like MIDI files Chord symbols are displayed Band in a Box intelligently analyzes t
29. ed The VU Meters will close or stay open when the dialog is exited W Leave YU Meters open depending on the Leave VU Meters open setting in the Record Audio dialog i The VU meters show the strength of the signal with a dB scale and a JE VU Meters e clip indicator Clipping indicates that the signal has overloaded and will sound distorted clipped 46 Chapter 14 Audio Enhancements Chapter 15 Notation Enhancements High visibility Lead Sheet highlighting During playback the highlighting of bars on the Lead Sheet and Fake Sheet window is more visible with red rectangles to highlight the current bar If the bar is empty or in Fake Sheet mode the Lead Sheet will draw the staff lines and bar lines in red Note Color Editor for Notation Window Note Colors The Notation Options allows setting of note colors Note colors for the E dit Aoki notation window may be edited to create custom color sets using a new dialog box Absolute Rel to Chord In the default state Scriabin colors are used illustrated below but you can now edit the colors used so that you can use any color for any note Press the Edit button to enter the Note Color Editor dialog Change the colors by clicking on the color above the note name Pressing the OK Save will close the dialog and save the file is saved as c bb default NCL You can also save load different NCL files for different color sets Time
30. ere are 2 panes in the window one for notes and the other for controllers velocity and other data All notes and controllers are displayed as black gray bars on a grid You can change note duration and pitch by selecting and dragging with your mouse Piano Roll window The Piano Roll window enables precise graphic editing of note timing and duration You can also graphically edit Note Velocity Controllers Program Changes Channel Aftertouch or Pitch Bend The Piano Roll may be opened as a movable window which floats above the Band in a Box main window or it may be opened embedded in the same position as the Chordsheet Notation panels in the Band in a Box main window Ei Piano Roll PL G S M s Snap none Dur E Chan E e ct TE vars eea Taa Bree To a 17 Event Chame M ew st Gah Dt eh Hoty py dfi pdt Note Time Ruler Cursor Bar Beat Tick Note Duration i pn i ai Playback Location Marker 4 Cursor Pitch Cursor Pitch Marker Selected N ates Pitch Scrollbar zesk GREEES ey Se B Zoom To Selection Button l Pitch Keyboard Reference Pitch Zoom Buttons Cursor Position Time Marker ee Be Graphic Data Time Ruler Data Time Ruler Tio A T 7 fese E HHH Time Zoom Buttons ill Li I E Track Selection 8 dD Pia siim s Select the Track Bass Drums Piano Guitar Strings Melody or Solo
31. ernational Business Machines Corporation Other brands and their products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be noted as such PATENTS Band in a Box is protected under US Patent 5990407 The TC Helicon Harmony feature in Band in a Box is protected under US Patents 5567901 5641926 5986198 34583 296 80 173 9 PI9603819 5 0368046 0750776 6 046 395 and patents pending Printed in Canada 2 PG Music Inc License Agreement Table of Contents PG MUSIC INC LICENSE AGREEMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 SUMMARY OF NEW FEATURES CHAPTER 3 QUICKSTART TUTORIAL CHAPTER 4 PIANO ROLL WINDOW CHAPTER 5 VOCAL WIZARD CHAPTER 6 STYLEPICKER EDITOR CHAPTER 7 ALTERNATE GUITAR TUNINGS CHAPTER 8 FOURTHS HARMONIES CHAPTER 9 AUDIO HARMONIES ENHANCED CHAPTER 10 CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 12 CHAPTER 13 CHAPTER 14 CHAPTER 15 CHAPTER 16 CHAPTER 17 APPENDIX A JAZZ CHORD SYMBOL GRAPHICS SONGPICKER ENHANCEMENTS CONVERT PATCH LISTS LYRIC ENHANCEMENTS AUDIO ENHANCEMENTS NOTATION ENHANCEMENTS GUITAR ENHANCEMENTS OTHER NEW FEATURES NEW STYLES AND ADD ONS PG MUSIC INC INDEX Table of Contents nA A WwW N 10 18 26 29 32 35 36 38 39 40 42 44 47 50 5I 55 56 57 Chapter 1 Introduction This documentation covers the new features in Band in a Box Version 2005 v Chapter 2 is a summary of the new features v Chapter 3 is a Q
32. files PowerTracks stores its patch lists in a single file called PATCHES INI This file contains all of the patch lists for the synths supported by PowerTracks Band in a Box stores the patch list for each synth in a separate file with an extension of PAT To convert a PowerTracks patch file to a Band in a Box Patch file you will be choosing the c pt ptw patches ini and then choosing the synth that you want to convert to a PAT file Open INIZINS Press the Higher Banks button at the top right of the BB screen Press the Open INI INS button BB File open dialog Look im B e a E drums D PluginList ini p plugsz ini H pst fing in D Settings Sp cmp ini T patches ini pst gain ir PTW Pictures Sp dly ini pst cho ini pst greg i samples 9p deplug ini S pst dist ini pst preg i le E DsiPluginList ini Bp eq ini pst dyn ini pst ring in dxplugexclude ini p gain ini pst echo ini pstAryb ini lt li gt File name patches ini Files of type PowerTracks JINI or Cakewalk INS files Cancel 40 Chapter 12 Convert Patch Lists Choose the file c pt patches INI You ll then see a menu of synths stored in the patches INI file Select one to convert Choose a synth to convert General MIDI Roland GS MT 32 BB File Save dialog Save in E bb PEE 3101 Riffs Jazz Guitar Phrases _ 9 BLUEJ4MF O bb2004 backup CO CLASFAKE bb2004c 73 backup _ 0
33. g and you ll now see Jazz chord symbols 10 Chapter 3 QuickStart Tutorial Let s examine the improvements in the SongPicker Open the SongPicker The program may rebuild the song list prior to opening the dialog Folder C BB Look at the folder name displayed at the bottom of the dialog Always open in this folder Include Subfolders Select the checkboxes Always open in this folder and Include Subfolders If the folder name isn t already c bb press the Change button near the bottom of the dialog to change the folder to c bb Rebuild List If the program doesn t rebuild the list automatically then force a rebuild by pressing the Rebuild List button a SongPicker 2 138 songs in folder C bb The Song list will then be rebuilt displaying ALL of the songs in your c bb folders and subfolders If you have the MegaPAK this will be over 2 000 songs riffs and style demos Filter Any Column Contains bluegrass Apply Filter 29 f 2138 Songs selected in filter Use the FILTER to manage this list Set the Filter to any column For example type the word Bluegrass in the filter and press Apply Filter You ll now see a list of 29 songs all with the word Bluegrass somewhere in the title filename genre or other field Let s explore the new Vocal Wizard This determines the best keys for any song in your vocal range Load in the song c bb Tutorial BB 20
34. he Chords Ruler to set the Insertion Point useful if you wish to use the menu Edit Paste Ctrl V to paste into the Piano Roll Ifa song is playing a Chords Ruler click will stop playback Double click the Chords Ruler to start playback at the indicated bar You can also set the Insertion Point and then tap Ctrl G to start playback at the desired location Notes can be selected with the Note Ruler However the Note Ruler does not select non note events such as controllers or pitch bend 1 Click drag on the Note Ruler to select a time range of notes 2 Shift click drag to add a time range of notes to the selection 3 Ctrl click drag to invert the note selection of a time range For instance you could drag to select all notes in bars 2 thru 7 Then you could Ctrl drag to toggle off note selections in bar 4 By using the Shift and Ctrl keys very flexible time selections can be made Keyboard Pitch Panel 1 Click on a single note of the keyboard to select all notes of the clicked pitch 2 Click drag on the keyboard to select all notes in a pitch range 3 Shift click drag to add another set of notes to the selection 4 Ctrl click drag to invert a pitch selection For instance you could drag C5 thru C6 to select an octave of notes Then Shift click A3 to add all A3 notes to the selection Then Ctrl click F5 to remove all F5 notes from the selection 20 Chapter 4 Piano Roll window Note Panel Horizontal bars represent notes
35. he Track Channel Re Channel Selected Events to the View Channel When editing a multi channel guitar part or editing an imported multi channel MIDI file this command may be useful Beware that it might initially appear confusing For instance one might set the View Channel to ALL and make a selection intending to set these events to Ch 12 Then set the View Channel to 12 and of course the selected events disappear if the events had some other MIDI Channel But then when you invoke Re Channel Selected Events to the View Channel the MIDI events will reappear on the Piano Roll 24 Chapter 4 Piano Roll window Horizontal Scroll Bar and Buttons Scroll in time and zoom the horizontal display Vertical Scroll Bar and Buttons Scroll to see different note ranges does not scroll the Graphic Event Panel and zoom the vertical display Zoom to Selection Button Make a selection of notes and then click the Zoom To Selection button The vertical pitch range and horizontal time range adjusts to fill the note panel with the selected notes Chapter 4 Piano Roll window 25 Chapter 5 Vocal Wizard The Vocal Wizard displays the best song keys for your vocal range This feature helps you choose the best song key for your vocal range Open the Vocal Wizard enter your vocal type baritone tenor etc or choose a custom range Then the wizard analyzes the song and recommends the best keys for that s
36. he bars black Now press the Loop button on the toolbar or press F10 or choose the Play Play loop Highlited Section menu item The 2 bars from 9 to 10 will play in a loop We can use the new Favorite Folders feature to quickly OPEN or SAVE a song from to a different folder than we are in now wy Hold the Shift key as you click the Open button This will launch the Favorite Folder dialog allowing you to pick the folder to load from and then the typical dialog will open up This saves you the Upen time needed to navigate through the Explorer style folder choice which can be time consuming if you re hopping back and forth between folders Similarly Shift clicking on the Save As button will allow you to choose a favorite folder prior to i seeing the Save As dialog Save As The TC Helicon Harmonies are improved Let s load in the Tutorial Demo from 2004 called c bb Tutorial Audio Harmonies Listen MGU We ll now add audio harmonies and the audio harmonies will now have vibrato A After loading in Listen launch the TC Helicon dialog Choose Harmonize to the MIDI Melody and harmony 172 and click OK A Harm er type f2 H male 4pt 1dr Zup Mel Sa We Harmonies can contain the melody part Now in the TC Helicon Harmony dialog notice the new combo boxes at the bottom of the screen for Pitch Style presets vibrato and scooping 12 Chapter 3 QuickStart Tutorial a a 4 TC Helicon Harmo
37. he chords of the song as well as the lyrics from the Karaoke files Edit Styles Opt Play Lyrics Melody Soloi New Open BB song Fs Open MIDI file FF Import Chords From MIDI file Ctrl Alt I Open Karaoke KAR File k To open a Karaoke File KAR choose File Open Karaoke KAR File from the File menu Chapter 13 Lyric Enhancements 43 Chapter 14 Audio Enhancements Non Destructive Audio Track Editing With previous versions of Band in a Box any changes to the audio track would be permanent even if you didn t save the song Now the changes are non destructive and only become permanent if you save the file If you have a song file called MySong MGU the audio track is stored in a MySong WAV file If you are editing the audio the edits are now made to a temporary WAV file called TEMPMAIN WAYV and not to MySong WAV If you save the song the changes get written to the MySong WAV audio file but if you don t save the original file is preserved Support for Multiple Sound Cards and other Audio Devices For the audio track you can now choose which sound card to use Most people have a single sound card so don t require this feature But if you have added an audio device such as a USB Audio Adapter you would have multiple audio devices and are now able to choose which one to use Choose Opt Preferences Audio and click on the Audio Drivers button to select Audio Drivers l i i wh
38. ich audio driver to use This launches the Audio Driver dialog Audio Drivers Audio Input Driver Audio utput Driver Microsoft Sound Mapper Microsoft Sound Mapper Soundhac Digital Audio Soundt Digital Audio Roland WSC Cancel Help The default and most popular choice is Microsoft Sound Mapper This is the device Windows uses for the startup sound etc but you can choose a different device in this dialog for input and output of the audio track in Band in a Box Full Stereo or Mono support for Audio Track In the Prefs Audio Settings dialog you can now choose between mono or stereo for the audio track and the audio plug ins work for mono or stereo Tracks can be edited in either format and converted from stereo to mono or vice versa Audio Track Type for THIS song Mono Preferred default track type for new songs Mono Stereo Audio Track Type for THIS song You can select Mono or Stereo for the current song You can change a project from mono lt gt stereo at any time For example if you have already recorded a MONO track changing the setting will convert the track to stereo for you 44 Chapter 14 Audio Enhancements Preferred default track type for new songs This setting mono stereo sets the default recording type for new songs that you record For example if you have a stereo microphone you should likely record in stereo 7 Track type is Mono 2 4 Audio Options The Record
39. ick drag to draw a line When the mouse button is released a series of events are inserted which follow the line slope To avoid choking the MIDI stream the maximum event density is one event per 10 ticks Repeated events of the same value are not inserted Therefore long gradual Line Tool fades have a lower density than short extreme Line Tool fades Pencil Tool Move the cursor over white space and hold the Shiftt Ctrl keys A Pencil Tool appears Shift Ctrl drag to freehand draw a curve If you don t get the curve quite right on the first pass just keep holding the mouse button and move the mouse back and forth to draw your desired freehand curve When the mouse button 1s released a series of events are inserted to follow the freehand curve To avoid choking the MIDI stream the maximum event density is one event per 10 ticks Repeated events of the same value are not inserted Therefore many freehand curves have a fairly low density Delete Events Make a selection of events with the Ruler or by clicking on events Then tap the Delete key You can also Right Click and choose the Delete Selected Events item in the popup menu Right Click Contextual Menu The pop up menu can be accessed by right clicking on the notes graphic events or any of the rulers Undo Delete Selected Events Select All Notes and Graphic Events On All Channels Select All Note Events On All Channels Cut Copy Re Channel All Events to the Track Chan
40. ing on white space and drawing a rectangle around notes Before Box Selection After Selection im 2 Note Editing Move the mouse cursor over the left side of a Note then click drag horizontally to edit the note s start time To drag a group of selected notes hold Shift while dragging the head of one of the notes and all of the selection will follow Move the mouse cursor over the right side of a note then click drag horizontally to edit the note s duration To drag a group of selected notes hold Shift while dragging the tail of one of the Notes Move the mouse cursor over the center of a note then click drag vertically to edit the note s pitch To transpose a group of selected notes hold Shift while dragging the center of one of the Notes Insert a Note Hold Shift Ctrl and then click where you want a new note Delete a Note Select one or more notes and then tap the computer s Delete key You Can also Right Click and choose the Delete Selected Events item in the popup menu Undo Mistakes You can use Edit Undo or Ctrl Z to recover from edits gone horribly wrong You can also Right Click and choose the Undo item in the popup menu If you make a mistake when inserting an event it is often easy to fix by re editing the event For instance if you intended to insert a C note but accidentally inserted a B note it is trivial to drag the new B note up to C After inserting events the new events are selected
41. is Band in a Box will then choose from many Jazz Swing type of Soloists available in BB Instead of soloist type always use Soloist D But if we want a specific soloist to always be used we can specify that soloist number You can see the soloist numbers in the Soloist dialog In this example we leave this at zero so Band in a Box will choose between many different soloists Next we describe the feel of the style Are the 8 notes straight or shuffle Is the time signature 3 4 waltz or 4 4 is it a 16 note based style tempo usually less than 120 or an 8 note style tempo usually M Style is Straight feel Wale 3 4 timer above 120 Styles is 16the notes For the NEWONE STY enter these checkboxes as above Not straight 8ths not a waltz and not 16 notes Next is the TEMPO area Here you can enter the typical tempo and the range of the tempo for the style Typical Tempo 140 Tempo Range from 120 to 190 You can assign a number for the style disk We recommend that you use numbers higher than 1 000 and pick a unique number for your styles You can then search for them easily It is not necessary to enter a Style disk Style disk over 255 i QOL When a style is chosen in the StylePicker 1t will send out patch changes on the Melody and Soloist tracks to make the song sound more authentic in that style The settings for Melody and Soloist patches allow you Chapter 6 StylePicker Editor to select which patch t
42. isting audio track Pitch Bends are now displayed on the Guitar Fretboard Pitch bends now show up on the Guitar Fretboard As the pitch bend occurs a blue line moves along the string in real time to show the height of the pitch bend Shift Click support for Selecting Region of Chordsheet Notation or Audio Window To select a region of Chordsheet Notation or Audio Window you can now Shift click on the end point to easily select a large area Colors editor for Note Colors in the Notation Window Note colors for the notation window may be edited to create custom color sets using a new dialog box Entire Song name displayed in Taskbar Hint when Band in a Box is minimized This is useful to find the name of a song playing when Band in a Box is playing in the background Multi colors for Event List Different colors are used for different event types in the event list to visually distinguish notes patch changes etc Song Picker Enhanced subfolder support The SongPicker has been enhanced and now can optionally display songs from sub folders For example if you get a song list of c bb it can include songs in subfolders of c bb like c bb styles34 You can also lock the SongPicker to always open in the same folder EG C bb so that you can use the same list to keep track of all songs on your disk Other enhancements like change folder and go up one folder are included Notation supports time signature changes
43. led to match the Chan combo box The feature can also be accomplished with the menu Edit Paste or Ctrl V action to match the Notation window which also uses a merge style of pasting Before using the main menu Edit Paste or Ctrl V first make sure the insertion marker is set to your desired paste time location This is easy to do Just click or drag in the Chord Ruler to place the insertion marker where you want it Then tap Ctrl V Re Channel All Events to the Track Channel Ch xx Re channel all notes and graphic events the entire track to the MIDI Output channel assigned for this track Sometimes this can come in handy to bring some sanity into Piano Roll editing For instance though the default Melody output channel might be Ch 4 meaning that Band in a Box transmits any events in the Melody track on Ch 4 The actual events in the Melody track might be channel 1 or a mixture of several channels For ordinary playback or note tweaking it doesn t matter if the event channels are mixed up as long as you have the View Channel set to ALL But if you wish to use Paste Replace the Paste Replace function is smart enough not to stomp on a track s events which differ from the channels of the clipboard MIDI data So if you force all events to the track channel the Paste Replace function will always replace appropriately Re Channel Selected Events to the Track Channel Ch xx Re Channel only the Selected Events to t
44. lete key Alternately select some notes Right Click and choose the Delete Selected Events item in the popup menu Splitter Bar A vertical Splitter Bar sits between the Note Editing and Graphic Event panels If you want to maximize the Note Editing panel to see more notes drag the Splitter down If you want to maximize the Graphic Event panel for more accurate Event editing drag the Splitter up Graphic Event Panel Graphically display and edit non note MIDI events This panel only shows MIDI events specified in the Chan View Edit and Controller Type controls Except for Velocity data the view is drawn staircased Blue lines extend between events This makes it easy to see the persistent effect of events if they occur to the left of your current viewing location Zero value events are drawn as small hollow squares to make them easy to identify With events such as Pitch Bend or controllers like Modulation and Sustain it is important to take care to end a gesture with a zero value event Otherwise subsequent notes will be affected with an unwanted hanging permanent Pitch Bend permanent Vibrato or Sustain Pedal locked down If you notice this just move the mouse cursor where the gesture should have ended and click in a single zero value event 4 r j a SS ET G anc dN Le j Event Selection Selected Events are red Graphic Event Ruler Time Selections The Graphic Event Ruler will only select non note events I
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46. more polished professional sound in the harmonies and even to create strange special effects Have you ever harmonized with a flock of sheep The following table provides a list of the presets as well as descriptions to help you decide when to use them 36 Chapter 9 Audio Harmonies Enhanced Style Name 1 B Natural Vibrato This is a very subtle vibrato along with pitch effect that causes the harmony voice to slightly scoop up into some notes making it seem more distinct from the lead voice A warm and pleasant vibrato 22 Slow Ballad Vibrato A style typical of slow Pop ballads of the 1970s Use this on slow songs only because the vibrato isn t triggered on short notes 23 Slow Gospel Vibrato The big sound of the southern US Gospel singer 24 Smooth Pop Vibrato A smoother Pop vibrato 25 Soprano Vibrato The vibrato sound of a Classical soprano 26 Tremolo Vibrato No pitch modulation just amplitude modulation 27 Warm Vibe Vibrato A warm and quick vibrato sound 28 Memphis Scoop Vibrato A style typical in ballads of a certain singer from Memphis Long scoops into some notes and a strong slow vibrato 29 Changing Scoop Vibrato A style typical of a certain tambourine man This one works best on slow songs if you just speak the lyrics without singing them 30 Country Scoop Vibrato A style that mimics that Country flip sound on note onsets 31 Jungle Vibrato 32 Landing Vibrato 33 Motorbike Vibrato 34 Nervous
47. mp Name User Preset middle C is note 60 26 Chapter 5 Vocal Wizard Here you enter your comfortable vocal range from lowest note to highest note If you can sing falsetto you can also enter the highest falsetto note and the of falsetto notes that would be acceptable as falsetto notes You can also select a preset like Baritone Male or Contralto Female Or you can select one of 8 User Preset slots which allow you to enter and save a custom range if you press the Save Preset button 2 Selecting the keys that would be lt allowable Allowable Keps wW Db Ww Eb wW Gb W Ab fw Bb WE wo WE WF iw G iw A WE Preset all Keys Most musicians have favorite keys so this area allows selection of keys that would be acceptable for the Vocal Wizard to choose For example if we choose Jazz keys we ll see that the Vocal Wizard now recommends the key of C instead of D 3 Setting the range of the song to analyze usually the whole song Range Whole Song C Part of Sang Set Range Normally you d want to analyze the whole song but this allows you to select a partial range 4 Selecting the track to analyze You d usually pick the Melody track but can also choose the Soloist track Vocal track is on Melody Melody Peas You can then analyze the Melody by pressing the 2 Analyze button Most functions automatically re analyze the song but pressing the Analyze button f
48. n t want editing of the main style list BBW LST provided by PG Music because we update that list frequently ourselves and the updated list would overwrite your changes The edits that you make in the StylePicker editor will stay permanently and not be overwritten by future versions of Band in a Box In the StylePicker at the bottom left there is an Edit button Pressing this button launches the StylePicker Editor When you first launch it there won t be any styles added so you ll see a screen with only a blank category with no styles on it StyloPicker Cditor ladd your own styles to the Styla Picker c b1 foldarW_USER LS3 Aiala Move Down Add New Style ooo Add Hew Category The category here is called My Styles you can change the name using the yellow Category Name area For this example change the name to Favorite Jazz Let s add a Style to the list AUG NEC SE Press the Add New Style button MENEZ ST A style has been added called NONAME STY You now need to fill in all of the information in PINK to supply the information for the style you have added Note For this example we ll add a Jazz style called NEWONE STY This style is included in the C BB folder This information includes Chapter 6 StylePicker Editor 29 30 Name of the Style 8 characters Maximum STY STY name 8 char name ST NONAME STY Choose You can type in the style name
49. n and Lead Sheet windows TC Helicon Audio Harmonies enhanced with Pitch Styles automatic Vibrato and Scooping Now when you generate audio harmonies to your recorded vocal tracks you can select pitch styles to add vibrato and scooping effects to the vocal harmonies Choose from presets including Ballad Broadway Pop Diva and more StylePicker now Editable You can now add your own styles to the StylePicker list by pressing an ADD EDIT button on the StylePicker You can see all the information about the style including memo genre feel tempo range etc Vocal Wizard finds the best song keys for your vocal range This feature helps you choose the best song key for your vocal range from your vocal type baritone tenor etc or a custom range The wizard analyzes the song and recommends the best keys for that song There are options to include exclude falsetto range and restrict choices to these keys Non Destructive Audio Track Editing With previous versions of Band in a Box any changes to the audio track would be permanent even if you didn t save the song Now the changes are non destructive and only become permanent if you save the file Support for Multiple Sound Cards For the audio track you can now choose which sound card to use if you have more than one 6 Chapter 2 Summary of New Features Multiple lines of Lyrics Supported on Fake Sheet and Printout
50. n addition it will only select the type of MIDI events specified in the Chan View Edit and Controller Type controls When you make a Ruler Time selection ONLY THE VISIBLE events in this time range are selected Other MIDI events in this time range are not selected 1 Click drag on the Ruler to select a time range 2 Shift click drag to add another time range to the selection 3 Ctrl click drag to invert the selection of events in the time range For instance you could drag to select bars 2 thru 7 then option drag to toggle off selections for bar 4 Itis very flexible Individual Graphic Event Selections 1 Click on an event to select it 2 Shift click on an event to add it to the selection 3 Ctrl click on an event to invert toggle the selection of that event Edit Events Edit Event Value Move the cursor over the top half of an event A North South cursor appears Click drag vertically to scale event values To scale a selected group of events Shift click drag vertically on one of the events in the selection Edit Event Time Move the cursor over the bottom half of an event An East West cursor appears Click drag horizontally to slide the event in time To slide a selected group of events Click drag horizontally on one of the events in the selection 22 Chapter 4 Piano Roll window Insert Events Line Tool With no modifier keys the white space cursor is a Line Tool Move the cursor to white space and then cl
51. nel Ch 4 Re Channel Selected Events to the Track Channel Ch 4 Cancel Popup Undo Duplicates the Band in a Box Edit Undo or Ctrl Z action Delete Selected Events Deletes any selected events highlighted in red This can also be accomplished by tapping the Delete key Select All Notes and Graphic Events If the Chan combo box is set to All this item will select ALL EVENTS on ALL CHANNELS all events in the track Otherwise ALL EVENTS are selected which match the CURRENT MIDI CHANNEL Select All Note Events Of Current Channel right click the Note Panel or Note Ruler If the Chan combo box is set to All this item will select ALL NOTES on ALL CHANNELS but it will not select any non Note events Otherwise ALL NOTES are selected which match the CURRENT MIDI CHANNEL Select All Note Events Of Current Channel right click the Graphic Event Panel or Graphic Event Ruler If the Chan combo box is set to All this item will select ALL GRAPHIC EVENTS of the CURRENT VIEW EDIT TYPE on ALL CHANNELS Otherwise ALL GRAPHIC EVENTS of the CURRENT VIEW EDIT TYPE are Chapter 4 Piano Roll window 23 selected which match the CURRENT MIDI CHANNEL For instance you could select all Channel 4 Modulation events then Delete to easily remove all of those events from the Track Cut Copy selected events to the clipboard and then remove them from the track Can also be accomplished with the menu dit Cut or Ctrl X action If yo
52. nformation is stored in a file called A USER LS3 This is a text file but it is better to edit it using the StylePicker editor Open Save Ag You can also make other LS3 files using the StylePicker editor using the Save As and Open buttons You can also erase an LS3 file from disk Band in a Box will load in all of the LS3 files that are in the bb folder in alphabetical order and append them to the StylePicker list Chapter 6 StylePicker Editor 31 Chapter 7 Alternate Guitar Tunings Alternate Guitar Tunings added The Guitar window now supports alternate tunings including DADGAD Drop D Double Drop D Open G and 11 others You can also select Nashville High Strung tunings which tune certain strings up an octave The new tunings are supported in Styles Chord Diagrams Guitar Tutor Notation Tab and Printout Learn how to play these tunings by watching the on screen Guitar Fretboard or Notation Tab Window Easily change any style to use the alternate tuning that you want In this discussion we ll be referring to DADGAD tuning a Popular alternate tuning The same reasoning applies to all of the other alternate tunings available There are 4 ways you can use Band in a Box playing in DADGAD or any alternate tunings 1 See any Melody or Soloist track displayed in DADGAD tuning This will display on the guitar fretboard tab and printout 2 See guitar parts chording etc in DADGAD tuning using c
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54. ny x hi elo dy if oce 2 if Oe 4 LI p H Umar izati Ori Dry Voice o 100 Level Pitch el eee 3 M Gender Gender Gender Gender 1 il J Ey 1 O E 2 i mm PREVIEW GENERATED 4 h BNaturalvik 2 BalladRocky i 3 BroadwayVib E Croonervib _ 2 BalladRockyil A 3 Broadwayvib 4 ClassicRkyvib 6 Crognervib 6 DeenJazevib Pitch Style presets 7 Discreetvin Vibrato and Scooping o Folkvib t Set the 4 harmonies to the first vibrato setting 1 BNatural Vibrato and press the PREVIEW button You ll now hear these harmonies generated from MIDI notes in the BB harmony but with various types of vibrato and scooping pitch effects On held notes the vibrato is essential for a natural vocal sound PREVIEW Now let s move on to the Piano Roll Tutorial Chapter 3 QuickStart Tutorial 13 Piano Roll Tutorial The Piano Roll window enables precise graphic editing of note timing and duration You can also graphically edit Note Velocity Controllers Program Changes Channel Aftertouch or Pitch Bend The Piano Roll may be opened as a movable window which floats above the Band in a Box main window or it may be opened embedded which occupies the same position as the Chordsheet Notation panel in the Band in a Box main window A Bur ns Snap To eda Pitch Scrollbar m gpr Er EE Let s load the song PianoRolIDemoSong MGU This is
55. ody track is set to transmit on channel 4 all events on the Melody track will be sent on channel 4 regardless of the actual channel of each track event Note Duration Set the default duration of new inserted notes It is easy to mouse edit a note s duration after a note is inserted so it is usually sufficient to select a typical note duration that makes sense for your purposes and then mouse edit the duration of exception notes after they are inserted View Edit Graphic Data View Edit vici B Determine what graphic data to view or edit in the bottom Graphic Data panel Choose Velocity Controller Program Change Channel Aftertouch and Pitch Bend If Chan is not set to All only the selected channel events will be displayed Chapter 4 Piano Roll window 19 Controller Type If View Edit is set to Control the Controller Type control becomes visible The Graphic Data panel will display the chosen controller type If Chan is not set to All only the selected channel events will be displayed Chord Ruler and Note Time Ruler Panel There are two top rulers The top Chord Ruler displays chords and the Playback Location Indicator The Note Time Ruler displays bars and bar subdivisions When zoomed in more subdivisions are displayed When zoomed out fewer subdivisions are displayed Chords Ruler _ Insertion Point Playback Location Indicator Note Ruler Click or Drag in t
56. ong Options available to include exclude falsetto range restrict choices to these keys and transpose now Before we enter the Vocal Wizard we should have loaded in a song that has a Melody The Vocal Wizard will show you the best key s for you to sing the Melody and transpose it to this key For this example we re going to load in the song Old Folks at Home present in the c bb Tutorial BB 2005 folder The song Old Folks at Home is in the key of F Before entering the Vocal Wizard try to sing the melody We ll assume that you are a male and have a typical baritone range from note 43 G3 to 64 E5 You ll notice that the key of F is not a great key to sing this song Let s enter the Vocal Wizard Re To enter the Vocal Wizard choose the menu item Window Vocal Wizard or press the Vocal Wizard button on the toolbar This launches the Vocal Wizard Here s the dialog that you see when you enter the Vocal Wizard Vocal Wizard Enter your Vocal Range lowest and highest note you can sing with and without falsetto Range Freset My Yocal range is from Highest Falsetto note 68 Abo pits Baritone Male ed f Whole Song 43 G3 to E4 E5 Maximum Falsetto 2 5 TEEPE Save amp Name User Preset C Part of Song middle C is note 60 Set Range This melody has a range of 14 semitones from note 65 F 5 to ne te 49GB four vocal range is 21 semitones from note 4
57. ophone Older Swing and Modern Soloist Set 17 Trombone Older Swing and Modern Melodist Set 4 Jazz Melodist Set 5 Bluegrass 3 4 and Irish 12 8 PLUS Classical MIDI Fake Book Volume 2 100 Pieces And more great new programs from PG Music Note Zapper A new sight reading game for children of all ages Zap the notes as they scroll by on the music staff in this arcade style game Master Jazz Piano Swing Solos and Comping Learn soloing and comping techniques for swingin Jazz piano Video Guitar Lessons Play Like the Pros On screen video guitar fretboard notation tab and printout Y Essential Blues Guitar Vol 1 101 Riffs Essential Blues Guitar Vol 2 20 Tunes Essential Rock Guitar Vol 1 101 Riffs Essential Rock Guitar Vol 2 20 Tunes Essential Jazz Guitar Vol 3 20 Tunes Comping SARS Appendix A New Styles and Add Ons 55 PG Music Inc Band in a Box is protected by copyright and is the property of PG Music Inc and its licensors Copyright 1989 2005 PG Music Inc All rights reserved PG MUSIC INC 29 Cadillac Avenue Victoria BC V8Z 1T3 Canada Contacts E mail info pgmusic com Phone toll free in the United States and Canada 1 800 268 6272 1 888 PG MUSIC 746 8742 Or 1 250 475 2874 tolls apply Universal International Freephone Service Outside of the United States and Canada where available 800 4PGMUSIC 800 4746 8742 Fax toll free in the U
58. or press the Choose button to pick a style name from the BB folder If the style doesn t exist a lt not found gt will appear in the style list beside the style name as it does for the NONAME STY Press the Choose button and choose NEWONE STY Long Name of the style This is a descriptive name that appears on the StyleMaker and can be up to 32 characters Enter A Brand New Jazz Style Long Style Name 32 chars 4 Brand New Jazz Style Memo and Examples You can enter a memo for the style and example songs that could be played in that style The memo and example can total 200 characters maximum Enter a memo and examples for NEWONE STY This i our first style memo for a New Style E samples Works with most jazz songs We now enter settings to tell Band in a Box what Soloist it should use when making improvisations using this NEWONE STY For this we need to know the genre of the style Jazz Country and Pop etc whether it is in an even or shuffle feel and whether a soloist should be playing primarily 8 or 16 notes From the drop down combo box that appears for this Jazz Swing style newone sty we should choose Jazz Swing Triplet feel 8 notes Soloist type i azz owing riplet feel oth notes Jaz Swing Triplet feel sth notes Waltz Triplet feel Waltz Even Feel Jaz Swing Even Feel 8th notes Blues triplet feel Blues or Pop even oth feel Country triplet feel Sth notes Count even oth feel By doing th
59. orces a re analysis of the song This displays the analysis of the song 1 A purple area describes the current range of the song low note to high note and compares it to your vocal range This melody has a range of 14 semitones from note b5 F 5 to note 790G B Your vocal range is 21 semitones from note 43 iG sito note bd E 5 With falsetto your vocal range is 25 semitones from note 43 G 3 to note ba Ab 5 2 The radio buttons show each of the 12 semitone keys and show a score for each key The lowest score is the best Keys are also colored green best key yellow good key and grey bad key for the song F E F p ai C Eb inma 308 octave n E CE Erea 37 oirm triin POF Gomis 2306 cire meliha Gb Sosas FAR mimes s st I i f i i L iri m 4 oa Th E Im ET IL FUIL Y 1a r r itl i Trice Teel j mit E ji a giz a i eS WoL an fe ik ie i haba m fy Furies A LASF PRPS in talsetn Dis r jaja gir Iina le Chapter 5 Vocal Wizard 27 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 are also good keys in the selected vocal range The area in black at the bottom gives an analysis of the vocal range if the song was transposed to the chosen key For they key of D you would transpose the melody down 15 semitones The melody range would then be from note 50 D 4 to note 64 E 5 180 total melody notes 15
60. orrect chord shapes For this choose a style that has DADGAD tuning and view the guitar part 3 Use the Guitar Tutor to view DADGAD chording for any style 4 View guitar chord diagrams in DADGAD tuning by setting the Notation Options Guitar Chord to DADGAD Gee Soloist Audio GM Harmony WNokation Window Help Track Type Suitar DADGAC Single Channel Multi 16 Channel Guitar Standard tuning Piano Bass Ukulele Mandolin Banjo 5 string Violin auitar Drop O Tuning fauitar DADGAD Tuning suitar Open a Tuning Guitar DoubleDropo fauitar ETuning Guitar High Strung Guitar Drop High Strung Guitar DADSAD High Strung Guitar QpenTuning High Struma Guitar DoubleDropO High Strung Guitar ETuning High Strung To see the guitar neck displayed in DADGAD choose Melody Track Type Guitar DADGAD Tuning When you open up the guitar fretboard and choose the Melody track you ll see the DADGAD tuning 32 Chapter 7 Alternate Guitar Tunings Guitar DADGAD SthPosition KeyofF Track Displayed is Melo B DIP G s M s pusi Any melody will now display in the chosen tuning Similarly you can set the Soloist track to an alternate guitar tuning with the Soloist Track Type menu The Guitar track or piano strings are controlled by the style and will only reflect the type of tuning stored in the style Load in some alternate tuning styles included in Styles Set 44 Req
61. programs Edit the Melody or Soloist tracks with greater ease and precision There are 2 panes in the window one for notes and the other for controllers velocity and other data All notes and controllers are displayed as black bars on a grid You can change note duration and pitch by selecting and dragging with your mouse LEJ z i Tal i Alternate Guitar Tunings added The Guitar window now supports alternate tunings including DADGAD Drop D Double Drop D Open G and 11 others You can also select Nashville High Strung tunings which tune certain strings up an octave The new tunings are supported in Styles Chord Diagrams Guitar Tutor Notation Tab and Printout Learn how to play these tunings by watching the on screen Guitar Fretboard or Notation Tab Window Easily change any style to use the alternate tuning that you want New Harmonies added with voicing in 4ths Modern Jazz harmonies often voice chords in 4ths For example a C chord with C melody might be voiced C G D A E Now you can select 4ths voicings easily in Band in a Box to harmonize the Melody Soloist or THRU parts using 3 4 or 5 part voicings in 4ths We ve added presets for these harmonies so you can easily select them Use these sophisticated 4ths harmonies on your existing melodies to create a new sound Auto Endings added for Styles without Endings If you ve made a style and haven t incl
62. s34 You can also lock the SongPicker to always open in the same folder and use the same list to keep track of all songs on your disk Other enhancements like change folder and go up one folder are included SongPicker 7 138 songs in folder C bb The current folder name is displayed in the title bar with the total of songs displayed There are several items related to the folder settings at the bottom of the SongPicker Folder C bby Change Fay Up M Always open in this folder WM Include Subfolders Folder 4 6b The Current Folder name is displayed The folder can be changed either by 1 Going up a folder e g from c bb styles to c bb 2 Choosing a folder from recently used favorites folder 3 Selecting the new folder When the new folder is chosen the song list for that folder will be displayed The song list may need to be rebuilt if so the program will do that automatically Mw Always open in this folder If the Always open in this folder item is selected the song picker will always open up in the specified folder So if you put all of your songs in c songs you can make the SongPicker always open to the c songs folder lM Include Subfolders If Include Subfolders is selected the SongPicker list will contain songs from the folder and any subfolders So if you have subfolders to c songs like c songs country and c songs jazz you can see search all of these songs in the
63. song New Hot keys added for Prefs tab dialog This allows navigation of the Preferences tabs by single keystrokes 8 Chapter 2 Summary of New Features Auto Staves per Page Option Notation Options now has an option to allow Staves per Page setting to be automatic or not Print to much larger BMP files Notation Print to Graphics command can now print to high resolution BMP s like 2400 x 3000 This feature is only limited by available memory Guitar TAB lines easier to see Guitar TAB lines now print in black instead of grey so tab is easier to read Larger Harmony display boxes Harmony display boxes are wider by 64 pixels on the main screen and Melodist Soloist dialogs VU meters added for Audio These show the Record and Playback levels for audio allowing adjustment of microphone and speaker levels Mouse wheel support Mouse wheel support added to the Chordsheet screen and other windows and many more Chapter 2 Summary of New Features Chapter 3 QuickStart Tutorial QuickStart Tutorial for the Version 2005 Upgrade The full descriptions of the new features in Version 2005 of Band in a Box are provided elsewhere This tutorial is a QuickStart tour of the new features in Band in a Box 2005 Note It is assumed that you are somewhat familiar with the previous release of Band in a Box Explore Band in a Box Version 2005 First we ll take a quick tour of the new features in Band in
64. song and watch how Expression controls have been added for soft attack on some notes and loudness reduction at the end of some notes Modulation Controller View Edit MI FT Mod Wheel MSE lM Set the View Edit combo box to Control Controller MIDI Events Then select 1 Mod Wheel MSB in the controller type combo box The Modulation controller is not firmly defined but it is usually a Vibrato or Tremolo effect especially in General MIDI synths Play the Demo Song and watch how Modulation has been added to some notes to add Vibrato It is usually best to use tasteful amounts of Controllers With graphic edits too much is almost always too much Pitch Bend chen I View eck EN Set the View Edit combo box to Pitch Bend Play the demo song and watch how a few pitch bends have been inserted to scoop some note attacks sting the middle of a note or fall off some note releases More Details Please read the Piano Roll chapter for more detailed descriptions This is the end of the tutorial Thanks for taking the time to read this section The next sections examine the new features in detail Chapter 3 QuickStart Tutorial 17 Chapter 4 Piano Roll window New Fully Featured Piano Roll Window Now you can edit your tracks using the new Piano Roll window similar to the type found in many sequencer programs Edit the Melody or Soloist tracks with greater ease and precision Th
65. tar tunings 5 audio harmony pitch styles 6 audio VU meters 9 auto lyrics display 8 auto Staves per Page 9 auto endings 5 Big Lyrics enhanced 8 drum crash option 8 editable StylePicker 6 embellisher selective humanize 7 enhanced audio plug ins 7 favorite folder button 8 full stereo audio track 7 Guitar Tutor anticipate mode 8 harmonies in 4ths 5 harmony boxes wider 9 hidden lyrics breaks 8 hi res bitmap printing 9 import wave audio 7 improved factory reset 8 improved notation display 8 improved tab visibility 8 Jazz chord symbol graphics 6 Karaoke file support 7 lead sheet highlights 7 loop selection 8 mouse wheel support 9 multi color event list 7 57 multiple lines of lyrics 7 multiples sound card support 6 non destructive audio edits 6 notation time changes 7 note colors editor 7 patch list converter 6 Piano Roll window 5 pitch bend display 7 Prefs hot keys 8 previous style restored 8 rest insert key 8 shift click region select 7 song name in taskbar hint 7 SongPicker subfolders 7 summary 5 tab lines more visible 9 text markers for part markers 8 transpose chordsheet 8 Vocal Wizard 6 Notation auto Staves per Page 48 color editor 47 enhancements 47 highlighting 47 hi res bitmaps 48 improved display 48 insert bends 48 multi color event list 48 print page 49 rest insert key 49 time signature changes 47 Part markers text markers 52 Patch list
66. u wish it is possible to cut from the Piano Roll and then paste into the Notation window or vice versa Copy Copy Selected Events to the clipboard can also be accomplished with the menu Edit Copy or Ctrl C action If you wish it is possible to copy from the Piano Roll and then paste into the Notation window or vice versa Paste Replace If no events are on the clipboard this item is dimmed The paste occurs at the time location of your right click Move the mouse cursor to the desired insert location Right click on the Note Panel Graphic Event Panel or any of the Rulers Then choose this item from the pop up menu Any previous event types in the paste range which match event types in the clipboard are removed before the clipboard data is added to the track If the Chan combo box is set to All pasted events keep their original copied MIDI channel Otherwise the pasted events will be re channeled to match the Chan combo box Paste Merge If no events are on the clipboard this item is dimmed The paste occurs at the time location of your right click Move the mouse cursor to the desired insert location Right click on the Note Panel Graphic Event Panel or any of the Rulers Then choose this item from the pop up menu Events from the clipboard are merged with existing data in the track If the Chan combo box is set to All pasted events keep their original copied MIDI channel Otherwise the pasted events will be re channe
67. uded an ending a 2 bar ending can now be generated automatically based on the style This makes it easier to make complete styles using the Style Wizard which makes a style by analyzing a MIDI file Chapter 2 Summary of New Features 5 Patch List Converter Make Synthesizer Patch file lists PAT files easily by converting PowerTracks or Cakewalk Patch lists Patches on Higher Banks sc880 88 PAT Band in a Box can now read a patch Variations of Acoustic Piano gt me 1 file list generated by PowerTracks or Cakewalk and convert it to a PAT Piano 3 file for use in Band in a Box The A patch file contains the name and EDan numbers for all patches on a Harpsichord synthesizer so that you can access A _ your patches easily by name If you a nades EG Bhodas 2 already have a patch list for your Biano dw synthesizer from one of these other Piano 2w programs you can now convert it to Piano Sw Band in a Box format easily Old Upright st soft EP Detuned EP2 Coupled Hps Fiano 1d Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics circles triangles supported Jazz and Pop music often use certain non alphabetic symbols for chord types These include a delta triangle for major chords a circle for diminished and a circle with a slash for half diminished Also tensions like b9 and b13 are stacked vertically and contained in brackets You can now select this option and see these symbols for display printout on the Chord Sheet Notatio
68. uested 4 to see the chording on the guitar track in alternate tunings Another way to see the guitar play chords in alternate tunings is to use the Guitar Tutor Select DADGAD tuning and enable guitar Tutor Rhythm Guitar Chord Tutor Enable Chord Tutor Display on Fretboard l Display Chords EARLY by 120 PPQ Play Chords through MIDI Guitar Patch Nylon String Guitar z Type of chords to display Guitar DADGAD When Guitar Chord Tutor is enabled guitar chords will display on fretboard and optionally will be heard through MIDI fon the THRU part Now during playback you will see guitar chords on the guitar fretboard in DADGAD tuning Chapter 7 Alternate Guitar Tunings 33 Guitar DADGAD 10th Position KeyofF Track Displayed is Melody p A Bb BEEEEE The examples above are for DADGAD tuning but apply similarly to all 11 alternate tunings included Some of the tunings are Nashville High Strung These tuning have the lowest 3 strings tuned up an octave to achieve a close sound So a DADGAD High Strung tuning would have the lowest 3 strings DAD tuned up an octave Listen to some style examples that use this tuning 34 Chapter 7 Alternate Guitar Tunings Chapter 8 Fourths Harmonies New Harmonies added with voicing in 4ths Modern Jazz harmonies often voice chords in 4ths For example a C chord with C melody might be voiced C G D A E Now you can select 4ths voicings
69. uickStart Tutorial v Chapters 4 17 and Appendix A describe the new features in detail Band in a Box 2005 for Windows is here with over 50 cool new features There s a new fully featured Piano Roll window similar to the type found in many sequencer programs This allows you to edit the Melody or Soloist tracks with greater ease and precision The Guitar window is enhanced and now supports Alternate Guitar tunings including DADGAD Drop D Double Drop D Open G and 11 others including Nashville High Strung tunings Guitar bends now show up in real time on the guitar fretboard New 3 4 and 5 part Jazz Harmonies are added with voicing in Fourths Auto Endings are added for styles that don t have endings such as styles made from MIDI files Synthesizer patch file lists PAT files can now be made easily by converting PowerTracks or Cakewalk patch lists Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics triangles for major circles for diminished and a circle with a slash for half diminished are now supported A new Vocal Wizard displays and transposes to the best song keys for your vocal range Editing of the Audio Track 1s now non destructive so changes only become permanent if you save the file The TC Helicon Audio Harmonies have been enhanced with Vocal Pitch Styles automatic Vibrato and Scooping that can be added to the vocal harmony parts Multiple sound cards are supported you can now choose which sound card
70. uration Move the cursor over the right of a note A Right Arrow cursor appears Then click drag the note duration horizontal dragging If multiple events are selected and you want to change duration of all selected events use Shift click drag Otherwise a click on a note will deselect the previous selection and it will only select edit the clicked note Insert a Note Hold the Shift Ctrl keys The cursor becomes a pencil Click where you want the note and it is inserted with a duration from the Dur drop down menu and on the channel selected by the Chan drop down menu If Snap to Grid is enabled the note is inserted at the nearest grid boundary For instance if Snap to Grid is set to quarter note inserted notes will snap to the nearest quarter note boundary There are many on screen visual cues to assist cursor positioning The Cursor Position Time Markers in the Time Rulers can assist time positioning The Cursor Pitch Marker in the Keyboard can assist pitch positioning The Cursor Location Info Panel gives precise time and pitch info Also the Note Panel has time grid markings and pitch accidentals are marked in light gray on the background If you make a mistake inserting a note you can hit the Delete key to remove the new note Alternately it is very easy to immediately drag the note to correct mistakes in time pitch or duration Chapter 4 Piano Roll window 21 Delete a Note Select a note or group of notes then tap the De
71. when Band in a Box is minimized This is useful to find the name of a song playing when Band in a Box is playing in the background Band in a Box For Windows listen best MaU 0mb via 1 19 Bar 2 Chorus ik if o Band in Eh Favorite Folder Open Song button By opening a song using the Favorite Folder Open Song you first select the folder from a list of recently used folders and then you can directly open the song from that folder This allows you to quickly find a song in another folder File Favorite Folders menu item Favorite Folders This then shows the most recently used folders allowing you to select a recently used folder Chapter 17 Other New Features 51 ow Hold the Shift key as you click the Open button This will launch the Favorite Folder dialog allowing you to pick the folder to load from and then the typical dialog will open up Open This saves you the time needed to navigate through the Explorer style folder choice which can be time consuming if you re hopping back and forth between folders Similarly Shift clicking on the Save As button will allow you to choose a favorite folder prior to E seeing the Save As dialog Save As Text Markers for part markers MIDI Files are now written with descriptive Text Markers for part markers Text markers are also read in from MIDI files and displayed as Section Markers on the Notation if Include Part Marker text markers
72. y vibrato pitch presets including Ballad Broadway Pop Diva and more When you launch the TC Helicon Audio Harmony dialog you can see that there is a new drop down combo list at the bottom of each voice You can choose a type of pitch effect combination of vibrato and scooping called a Pitch Style to be applied to each harmony voice In the example screenshot we have chosen Natural Vibrato Ballad Broadway and Crooner different vibrato types for each harmony voice The Pitch Styles are especially useful for harmonies generated from MIDI tracks because these lack any vibrato Now by applying these pitch effects you can get a natural sounding vibrato for these harmonies 1 TC Helicon Harmony wd les Melody J Voice 4 U Hurmanization Timin o 100 Pitch 0 100 Poramento Gender Gender Gender Gender a E PREVIEW GENERATE 4 BNaturalvib Biaturalvib 2 BalladRockvi HalladRock i 3 BroadwayVvib Y ce l Croonervib I Broadwayvib B 4 ClassicRkyvib 5 Croonervib 6 DeepJazzvib Pitch Style presets TDiscreetvib Vibrato and Scooping o Folkwib i Pitch Styles Preset Details one per voice Each of the four voice banks has a Pitch Styles preset selection list This control allows pitch scooping and vibrato effects to be added to the harmony voices These effects can be used to increase the naturalness of vocals processed by melody pitch tracking produce a
73. ypes will get sent out Here we choose Jazz Patches for our NEWONE STY Patch for Melody Track Jazz Patches for Melody sa ae ee e Jazz Patches for Soloist We re finished adding the NEWONE STY We could now continue adding new styles and categories for all of our new styles that are not in the list But let s see our added style on the StylePicker UK Save Press the OK Save button This exits the dialog returning to the StylePicker The StylePicker will recommend rebuilding the style list for the added styles Answer Yes to this Question This re builds the style list file according to the styles that are found in your bb directory This should only be done when you have added new styles to BB or modified the BBY LST text file Do you want to re build the file You will then see a rebuilt style list and your category Favorite Jazz and your new style NEWONE STY will appear in that category Sekai Sivke Prototype Syk I RLIGIL STY Freddi solo rerem Ay guitar chie lnic Fully MA Freia 30 Country Flock J1 AR Rork 17 chitapa Blues 33 Wong Style H ee pea a date 5 Fock Cie E aera a peta BF Ahiru Tint W Raquaimd 5 Rhyn amp Bere 40 z More Sereoth Jazz i iTA A TEA Crakieer d Tipee Dek MU agir D pani a Ee ra iph warka with nn parr egi Technical notes The i

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