PG Music Band in a Box - 2009 (Windows) Manual de usuario

PG Music Inc. License Agreement 1Band-in-a-Box Version 9for Windows Copyright PG Music Inc. 1999. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features10StyleMaker Enhancements• Larger style limit. Previous limit was 40K for styles. This is now 65K,allowing for bigg

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation100 Examples: The Weight, Tears of Rage, Tupelo HoneyDOGFUNK.STY Dog Funk style Memo:

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation 101 Memo: A modern Folk-Rock acoustic style with 2 acoustic guitars, bassand drums. At 'b

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation102 Memo: Up-tempo acoustic contemporary bluegrass a la David Grismanand others. Features guitar, b

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation 103similar time-feel, such as CRYSTAL.STY with KINGDOM.STY. Of course,combining different sounding

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation104GRACE.STY Grace - Praise and Worship style Memo: This is a medium Pop 16 style with 5 insts

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation 105REVEALED.STY Revealed - Praise and Worship style Memo: Med-slow pop 16ths with a warm stri

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation106us to create some of those requested styles which might not warrant a full stylesdisk of their own

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation 10726 new 'Requested' Styles3GIT_16.STY 3 Guitars 16ths Memo: A versatile Pop-Ja

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation108C_GARTH.STY Garth - Country Ballad Memo: Contemporary Country Ballad Style a la Garth B.,

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation 109 Memo: 50s rock blues shuffle with 4 instruments - piano, bass, drums &vocal backgrou

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 11• Easy STEREO/MONO panning menu items. These allow you to quicklyset the instruments to a stereo panning or mono

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation110 Memo: The Caribbean 'Soca' style, a combination of (So)ul & (Ca)lypso,origi

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PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs112PG Music Inc. Music Software ProgramsPG Music Inc. is a leading innovator of computer music software that is e

PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs 113PowerGuide CD-ROM Video (Windows/Mac) vi

PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs114PG Music Inc. MasterClass Instruction SeriesJazz Guitar MasterClass with Oliver Gannon(Windows)

PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs 115Master Guitar Solos SeriesMaster Jazz Guitar Solos Volume 1 (Windows)guitar study programNote: the program al

PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs116 The Rock Guitarist (Windows)

PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs 117 The Barbershop Quartet (Windows)

PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs118PG Music Inc. Pianist Series Programs The Pianist (Windows/Mac)

PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs 119 The Pianist Volume III (Windows/Mac) classical piano p

Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial12Chapter 3: Quick-Start TutorialQuick-Start Tutorial For Version 9 UpgradeThe full description of the new features in

PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs120 The Blues Pianist (Windows/Mac) p

PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs 121watching the piano keyboard or slowing down the performance. All-timefavorites including:Adeste Fideles · Al

PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs122The Modern Jazz Pianist (Windows/Mac)

PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs 123The PG Music Inc. Performance Series The Bluegrass Band (Windows/Mac)

PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs124The Roland Virtual Sound Canvas (Windows/Mac)

Index 125IndexAudio Features, 21applying audio plugins, 29audio menu, 23audio options dialog, 30audio rendering, 31audio track, 21audio track recordin

Index126generate chord solo, 48Guitarist Maker, 52Guitarist window, 48strumming settings, 54Harmony Enhancements, 65convert harmony to notation, 65new

Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial 13Find these buttons on the main screen: Find the microphone button, this is the way to launch the recording ofaudio.

Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial14The Dialog usually opens up with another window at the right – this is theRecording Control .(Hint: If your soundcard

Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial 15As the song plays, you can look at the VU meters to ensure that you haven'tsung too loud and got into the red z

Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial16Use the Recording Control to select recording of OUTGOING MIDI, and de-select everything else, including microphone,

Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial 17You'll see the Select Guitarist Dialog.Choose Guitarist #2 "Jazz Guitar Single Position".(If you&apos

Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial18 STOP the song. Let's edit this chord solo a little. Open the Notation Window.You'll notice that there is

Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial 19 Click on the Lyrics button on the notationwindow, this is an L button (on the notation toolbar) , or press Ctrl L.

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Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial20You can see that they are interleaved with the chord names. This is called the"Busker format", since Busker

Chapter 4: Audio Features 21Chapter 4: Audio FeaturesAudio Features Overview• Audio Track! – Feel like adding vocals to your Band-in-a-Box song? Or al

22Even if you aren't recording an audio track, you can use the new "RenderingFeatures" to convert an all MIDI "Band-in-a-Box Song&

23Audio MenuThere is now an Audio menu, where all of the audio functions are found.The Record audio function is used to Record Audio (using a micropho

24Erase Audio Choruses will erase some of the choruses.Erase Region will erase a specified region of bars/beats of audio. Adjust Output level – quick

25Audio Track RecordingBand-in-a-Box has a single audio track. It is a 44 K mono track (CD quality).This allows you to record vocals or other instrume

26track), whereas when Rendering the whole composition to a single .WAVfile, you always want to record the outgoing MIDI. It is essential that youunde

27"hot" high signal, digital recordings need to absolutely avoid high levels, sinceany overload (clipping) of the signal will result in a ru

28 If you've set the 'SHOW VU Meter"option, then the Recording VU Meter will open up and display during recording,so you can monitor th

29 At the end of recording, you get an option toOverdub with the underlying audio.Playing the Audio File.Now you can play the Audio file that you&apo

Table of Contents 3Table of ContentsPG MUSIC INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT 2TABLE OF CONTENTS 3CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 6CHAPTER 2: SUMMARY OF NEW FEATURES 7N

30look at the Delay plugin, i.e. the P^.DLY.INI file and then look at a sampleINPUT.TXT file that BB writes prior to launching the plugin, and the sma

31A Band-in-a-Box song called "My Song.MGU" will have the associated wavefile called "My Song.wav". If BB loads this song file, an

32If you use an external MIDI module (Sound Canvas etc.) as your MIDIDriver …You should connect a cable from the audio out of the Sound Canvas to the

33 Test the WAV file by playing it, to ensure that the MIDI is beingrecorded, and the volume levels are correct, and that the volume of the audiotrac

34When you press the Render button, a dialog will popup indicating that theRendering is proceeding. You can STOP this at any time, and if you stop ite

35From this dialog, you can choose the type of compression that is appropriate(from the available drivers). You can save your settings as named preset

Chapter 5: Lyrics Features36Chapter 5: Lyrics FeaturesNew Lyrics FeaturesNote-based lyrics.Previous versions of Band-in-a-Box had lyrics based on a &q

Chapter 5: Lyrics Features 37Entering Lyrics on a note-by-note Basis. You can enter note-basedlyrics by pressing Ctrl-L or pressing the Lyrics button

Chapter 5: Lyrics Features38highlighting the first note of the song. We type "Way" in the lyric window, andthen move to the next note. We ca

Chapter 5: Lyrics Features 39From here, you can edit lyrics, or INSERT new lyrics , or APPEND lyrics to theend of the track, or DELETE lyrics. A singl

Table of Contents4New Lyrics Features 36Other Lyric Functions 42CHAPTER 6: GUITAR ENHANCEMENTS 44CHAPTER 7: THE 'GUITARIST' 48Select Guitari

Chapter 5: Lyrics Features40As you can see, the lyrics are displayed, interleaved with the chord names. Thisis referred to as the "Busker format&

Chapter 5: Lyrics Features 41This dialog has options to allow "printing" (i.e. copying to clipboard) of note-based and/or line-based lyrics.

Chapter 5: Lyrics Features42Other Lyric FunctionsOn the Lyrics menu, you can see a number of Lyric functions. These all apply tonote-based lyrics. The

Chapter 5: Lyrics Features 43Copy Line Lyrics to Note Lyrics. This converts line-based lyrics to note basedlyrics. It is imprecise, because the line-b

Chapter 6: Guitar Enhancements44Chapter 6: Guitar EnhancementsGuitar Tablature.The notation screen now has an option for Guitar Tablature, that displa

Chapter 6: Guitar Enhancements 45• Tablature is shown on the Notation.• When saving the file as a MIDI file, any notes on the "Guitar Channels (1

Chapter 6: Guitar Enhancements46On the Guitar Window, you will notice some new buttons.Ch- and Ch+ are the Convert to Chord Buttons. The hotkeys for

Chapter 6: Guitar Enhancements 47You can see that a chord has been inserted with the G melody note on top. It ispresent on the guitar neck, notation a

Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist'48Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist'With Band-in-a-Box 9, you can now generate a guitar chord solo for anymelody

Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist' 49Guitar, single position". That will create chord solos that stick to a singleposition on the guitar neck w

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Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist'50 Select the Main Guitar Position touse. BB has a setting called Auto-Set that will set the main guitar position

Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist' 51This tells you that that the solo has added a solo to the track, adding about 500notes to the existing 1,000 no

Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist'52the auto-set position button, and choose the 12 position. Since we only want toregenerate this for the choruses

Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist' 53• The Guitarist is selected from the "Num" field.• You can title the Guitarist using the Title "

Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist'54Looking at the settings above (for Guitarist #2), these would be interpreted asfollows:- If a note occurs and it

Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist' 55about 50% delay. A delay of 0% also sounds good, and has the added advantagethat it doesn't shift the actu

Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist'56Embellishment types allows setting of the types of embellishments to do:• "Pop" Guitarists should be s

Chapter 8: Style Selection Enhancements 57Chapter 8: Style Selection EnhancementsStyle Selection Enhancements. Selecting a style to use for your song

Chapter 8: Style Selection Enhancements58For each style, you see the following information:(the example will describe the J_DIZZY.STY)• The asterisk (

Chapter 9: StyleMaker Enhancements 59Chapter 9: StyleMaker EnhancementsLarger style limit. The Previous limit was 40K for styles. This is now 65K,all

Chapter 1: Introduction6Chapter 1: IntroductionThis documentation covers the new features in Band-in-a-Box Version 9.! Chapter 2 is a Summary of the N

Chapter 9: StyleMaker Enhancements60 There is an event list for Editing Notes in patterns using a list editor.To access this, press the Notation Ed

Chapter 10: Big Piano Window 61Chapter 10: Big Piano WindowBig Piano Window OverviewBig Piano Window. We've added a new Big Piano Window, showing

Chapter 10: Big Piano Window62• You can set a specific range for the Big Piano, a starting note and a # ofoctaves, by over-riding the "auto"

Chapter 11: Notation Enhancements 63Chapter 11: Notation EnhancementsNotation Enhancements: OverviewKeystroke Note Editing. You can easily edit notes

Chapter 11: Notation Enhancements64The Event List allows you to edit/ insert and delete notes:• Double click on an event to edit it (or press Edit).•

Chapter 12: Harmony Enhancements 65Chapter 12: Harmony EnhancementsHarmony Enhancements: OverviewConvert Harmony Part to Notation track. Previously i

Chapter 12: Harmony Enhancements66You can specify a harmony to only occur for notes longer than a certainduration.Many harmonies like the "Garner

Chapter 13: Other New Features 67Chapter 13: Other New FeaturesFly-by Hints: Band-in-a-Box now has the popular 'yellow text' windows thatpo

Chapter 13: Other New Features681. Open up a song that has a Melody, preferably a sparse Melody with somespace in it that a Soloist might be able to &

Chapter 13: Other New Features 69Song Endings option. The usual Band-in-a-Box ending is 2 bars appended tothe end of the song. This new option gives y

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 7Chapter 2: Summary of New FeaturesNew Features in Band-in-a-Box Version 9 are ...• Audio Track! – Feel like adding

Chapter 13: Other New Features70Choosing the command Melody- Eliminate Note Overlap will cut the durationof the G note to a little less than 1 beat in

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins" 71Appendix A: "Audio Plugins"DSP Effects - A PrimerBand-in-a-Box is capable of producing high-quality

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins"72Compression can make a signal loud and punchy. This is desirable whenpreparing music for noisy environments, su

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins" 73Use low Release settings to compress individual notes. Use high Releasesettings to compress the overall level

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins"74Release: The it takes the Expander to attenuate the signal after it falls belowthreshold.Low Release, combined

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins" 75After the first reflections, comes a build up of more closely spaced echoes fromsecondary reflections bouncing

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins"76Feedback: The number of times the echo will repeat.Mix: Relative balance between the original signal and the

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins" 77Delay: The average delay between original and chorus signals.Feedback: The amount of delay which is routed b

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins"78Random: Randomize the rate, to avoid a mechanical sweeping sound.Ring ModulatorRing Modulation is a strange ef

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins" 79The frequencies of Lo, Lo Mid, Hi Mid, and Hi, are 80 Hz, 400 Hz, 2.5 KHz,and 8 KHz.Graphic EQA ten-band Graph

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features8song. You can preview styles before loading them so you can hear whatthey'll sound like in your song. The wind

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins"80Variable Gain: These effects change gain over the selected region.Fade In: Level will begin at zero at the be

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins" 81Line Frequency: Set to the local power frequency. USA and Canada uses60 Hz.Filters: Choose the active notch

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins"82The Hum Filter is not very useful for "buzz." Buzz contains high-frequencyhum harmonics caused by RF

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins" 83level of the mid-frequencies can be adjusted, and the highs can be expandedrelative to mid-frequency signal le

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins"84Used conservatively, the Exciter can brighten some types of audio. Add some"air" to vocal, horn, hiha

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins" 85Semitones, Cents: Set the pitch shift amount.Granularity: The size of individual time-slices which are pitch

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins"86Fattening: Fatten a track by slightly detuning copies of the track. Fatteningcan be effective on many instrume

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins" 87Octave Doubling: Octave doubling is great on instrumental leads, especiallyelectric guitar or sax. Duplicate

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins"88Distortion: Add some grit before filtering. When Distortion is set to a valueof 1, there is no distortion.The

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins" 89harmonics at the cutoff frequency. High resonance has a biting, syntheticeffect. Low resonance is mellower sou

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 9duration, channel) with other hot keys. This speeds up editing of notes. Forexample, you can record a song using t

Appendix A: "Audio Plugins"90This plugin works like a high-frequency limiter— limiting loudness of highfrequencies without affecting low fre

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation 91Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 DocumentationStyles #0-14 are documented in Appendix E of the

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation9222 New Nashville Country StylesC_90BAL.STY Contemporary Country Ballad Memo: Contempor

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation 93C_HBILLY.STY Hillbilly Country Blues Rock Memo: Hillbilly Country Blues Rock Style

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation94C_SMOOTH.STY Contemporary Country Memo: Radio Country style a la Restless Heart or Diamon

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation 95(80 tunes in the key of C) and BlueJamF (the same 80 tunes in the key of F).Turn on the BB Jukebox

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation96CURTISM.STY Curtis M Slow Blues Memo: A very slow New York funky 70's blues style a

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation 97JITERBUG.STY Jiterbug Fast Blues Shuffle Memo: A 5 inst. Sw.8 instrumental jam style at

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation98STRAYST8.STY StRay Straight 8ths Memo: A 4 instrument med-tempo st.8 blues style featuri

Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation 99Another suggestion: Study how the demo tunes were done. More detailedinformation about each style