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Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! 10 MIDI Drivers Band-in-a-Box automatically detects the MIDI drivers installed in your system. The MIDI | **S

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 100When making any changes to a measure using the Edit bar settings dialog box, Band-in-a-Box will place a colo

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 101 of –90 to +100. A setting of –50 halves the tempo, a setting of 100 doubles it. Tempo can also be set by

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 102You can also preview chords from the Chord Settings dialog. Press Option+Z to launch the dialog, and then p

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 103 In addition to quick access to editing features it also includes shortcuts to major features for editing ar

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 104 Press the [Open (Change)…] button, and select the MIDI file to import. Choose a preset, and the Chord Wiza

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 105 The name of the current style appears under the name of the song in the Title window. It is also displayed

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 106 When you have made your selection, press [OK] to load the chosen style. Click on [Cancel] to return to the

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 107 The StylePicker allows easy selection of styles by category or from a complete list of all styles. For exa

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 108 It also lists Styles with RealTracks, a blend of MIDI tracks and RealTracks, with subsets for different mus

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 109Styles that are similar to the prototype are indicated with an asterisk (*). These are styles that have the

Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! 11 Click on the [CoreMIDI Help] button for detailed instructions and see the tutorial in the CoreMIDI and App

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 110 This will copy the Styles List to the clipboard. It can then be printed as a text file from any word proce

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 111To make an alias, click on the [Choose] button under the “Original Style” heading to select the original sty

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 112Stopping Songs To stop a Band-in-a-Box song; - Press the [Stop] button, or - Select the Stop option from

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 113 At the top of the screen, there is an “A.REV” (Audio Reverb) control. Click on an instrument radio button,

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 114 If you freeze the whole song, you don’t have to wait at all for the song to regenerate. Next time you play

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 115 When you do this, the song will regenerate, the tracks will get rewritten, and the song will stay frozen.

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 116Fill Patches To fill the patch boxes with your current patch settings, press the [Fill Patches] button. Thi

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 117Storing Volume, Reverb, Panning, Chorus, and/or Bank Settings You can optionally save these MIDI controller

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 118 Show Chords with push/rest chars The push character is the caret symbol (^). So a C chord with a push is d

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 119 Allow Lead In Bars People who use Band-in-a-Box for soloing practice will likely turn the lead-in off to

Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! 12 As well as essential features like on-screen notation and professional lead sheet printouts, Band-in-a-Box

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 120Metronome During Recording Select this to hear the metronome while recording. Allow Any Endings Song endi

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 121Include Forced Channel Meta Event This will include the forced channel META event. It is recognized by Powe

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 122 Turn External Keyboard’s Local On at end of session Normally while using Band-in-a-Box the “local-off” sett

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 123Save Button on main screen works as Save As The [Save] button will launch the file dialog where the location

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 124Soloist –Prefer Long phrases Set the checkbox to “true” (enabled) if you would like the Soloist to use the l

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 125 As you adjust the settings, they will be applied to the current song. The [Swap “Default”] button toggles

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 126- A soft large space, such as a concert hall with carpet, padded seats, hangings, might have medium Density

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 127sequencer, so you can drag and drop MIDI and audio (AIFF, M4A) tracks from Band-in-a-Box to your favorite se

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 128Plug-In Options To get to the DAW Plug-in options, press the [DAW Mode] button and choose the menu item “O

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 129Unfold (convert to 1 big chorus) If you have a song with 3 choruses, and want to convert it to a single lar

Chapter 2: QuickStart Tutorial 13Chapter 2: QuickStart Tutorial Creating music with Band-in-a-Box is as easy as 1-2-3! In this tutorial, you’ll se

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 130where you can type in a short memo about the song, style, etc. A red border around the [M] button indicates

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 131Your MIDI setup could also be configured to use the built-in sounds of QuickTime Musical Instruments, or a v

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 132 Press the [Harmony] button to launch the Harmony Channels dialog box.

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 133Setting the Harmony Channels Melody Harmony Channel A Always uses the Melody channel. Melody Harmony Channe

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 134Trumpet players and other Bb instruments should set Concert Pitch Adjust to -2 (i.e. minus 2). Alto Sax and

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 135Click on the [Vocalist] button if you have such a device connected to your MIDI system. Band-in-a-Box will

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 136Use Tap in click to start: This option is used to control when the next song starts and allows you to contr

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 137Chapter 7: Notation and Printing Band-in-a-Box offers a variety of notation and printing features for viewing p

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 138 Options The options button launches the Notation Windows Settings dialog, where notation display options ar

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 139 Exploring the Standard Notation Current Time position. This vertical line, called the time bar, indicates th

Chapter 2: QuickStart Tutorial 14 Enter Chords Using the Chord Builder Press the Chord Builder button to open the Chord Builder dialog with a list

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 140Notation Modes There are 3 modes to the Notation window, 1.Standard Notation Mode To display or print notation

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 141The purpose of auto-durations is to allow you to enter a lead sheet style melody by clicking only once per note

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 142 This mode is similar to the Editable Notation mode, except the beats begin right on the bar line. You can als

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 143 Transpose The Transpose setting lets you adjust the Notation window to display notes either higher or lower

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 144The chord vertical position affects the printout, not the display, it controls how high the chords will be prin

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 145- The Channel # and Velocity settings determine the MIDI channel and velocity of inserted notes. Play Inserted

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 146 Printing is accessed with either the [Print] button in the Notation window, or the one on the main screen t

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 147Printing Lead Sheet Style Printing Your created songs can be printed out in the style of a lead sheet style.

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing 148Include Chords. If selected, this will include the chords of the song on the lead sheet. Remember that you ca

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 149Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features Band-in-a-Box puts a lot of musical talent in your hands, whether it’s t

Chapter 2: QuickStart Tutorial 15Loading an existing Band-in-a-Box format song Press the [song] button. The first time you use this button, Band

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 150The left of the screen has the list of the Melodists. In this example, the “Swing Tenor” is selected. This

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 151- If you'd like a Pedal Bass figure during the intro and at the end of sections, select the Insert Bas

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 152 The next section of the Melodist Screen allows you to select whether you want to generate the “Whole Song”

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 153 The Melodist Jukebox will continuously generate new songs, and play them in jukebox fashion. You can set t

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 154they might not ordinarily use. And if you're stuck at a certain bar, see what BB will generate/regener

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 155Automatic Solo Generation – “The Soloist” Pick any song or chords in any style, and choose a “Soloist.” Ba

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 156yourself at any time. Note that only one solo can be saved. You can’t generate a bunch of different segmen

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 157 Around Melody option. This option for the Soloist part creates a solo around the melody, that is, at times

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 158Tip: You can have these values preset to the values you'd like by first selecting the range of bars th

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 159“Refresh Soloist” option (Shift+F7) is like telling the soloist “It's OK, you can play whatever you lik

Chapter 2: QuickStart Tutorial 16 This window shows styles listed by categories. RealStyles are styles entirely made with RealTracks and RealDrums

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 1601. Select the Guitarist to Use. In the main list at the left of the Window, you see the list of Guitaris

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 1617. Press [OK] to generate the Guitar Chord Solo. You'll now see a message box confirming that a chord

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 162Technical Note: Since some of the guitarists can be assigned to strum the chords in a delayed fashion, if y

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 163The guitar will display information on channels 11 to 16 on strings 1 to 6 if Multi-Channel Mode is set to =

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 164The note names will get displayed in up to two positions, depending on the settings for Show Notes at Aeolia

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 165Original (unembellished) Melody… Embellished Melody… As you can see in the notation examples, the embellis

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 166 “Live Auto-embellish during every playback” is the same setting that is on the main page checkbox. If ena

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 167Embellisher Settings The settings contain a number of parameters that affect the embellishment. They can be

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 168 Vibrato: Vibrato can be added according to the additional vibrato settings available in the “More” dialog.

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 169- Start the Vibrato after this many ticks: For notes that will get vibrato, the vibrato will start after th

Chapter 2: QuickStart Tutorial 17Framing the Song To tell Band-in-a-Box where the start and end of the song is, look at the middle of the Band-in-a

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 170 Play the file that you have generated. Notice the “Bossa” style of chord progression, with 2-5 progression

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features 171 The reharmonization starts at the Bar # indicated. Use the [-2] and [+2] buttons to navigate to the segmen

Chapter 9: Recording Tracks 172Chapter 9: Recording Tracks Overview Band-in-a-Box has a built-in sequencer allowing you to record and edit up to tw

Chapter 9: Recording Tracks 173The [Filter] button in the Record dialog opens the Record Filter dialog. This lets you choose which MIDI informatio

Chapter 9: Recording Tracks 174Retain Past Last Recorded You have the option to keep or erase any melody after the last recorded note. Step Edit No

Chapter 9: Recording Tracks 175Entering Notes Manually in the Notation Window You can enter melody notes directly to the track in the Notation wind

Chapter 9: Recording Tracks 176 # bars to offset from start If you want to start reading from the beginning of the MIDI file, select 0 as the offs

Chapter 9: Recording Tracks 177Additional Options for Melody/Soloist Track Manipulation of melodies is done with functions like insert/delete beats

Chapter 9: Recording Tracks 178These categories are very straightforward and you should have no trouble achieving the desired results. Remember to

Chapter 10: Audio Features 179Chapter 10: Audio Features RealTracks and RealDrums With the introduction of RealDrums and RealTracks, Band-in-a-Box

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 18 Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh Welcome to Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 There were over 50

Chapter 10: Audio Features 1803. Choose a RealTracks instrument and press [Generate Track]. Your song will play with an audio instrumental track g

Chapter 10: Audio Features 181- AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) is a lossless audio format most commonly used on Macintosh computer systems.

Chapter 10: Audio Features 182 Note that this only applies to RealTracks, since MIDI tracks have MIDI Reverb, which is set via a “REV” control. The

Chapter 10: Audio Features 183As you adjust the settings, they will be applied to the current song. The [Swap “Default”] button toggles between yo

Chapter 10: Audio Features 184 Select [Yes] to save the new preset to the chosen location. Auto Reverb Enable “Auto-Add Reverb to RealTracks” to

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 185Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun Band-in-a-Box is a favorite of musicians, students, and songwriters ev

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 186Beyond impressing your friends with your newfound improvisational prowess, this feature has practical impli

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 187Primary Program Controls Toggle Play/Pause (Space bar or multimedia Play/Pause key). Stop play, rewind t

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 188Chordsheet Overview The Chordsheet window in the Audio Chord Wizard shows the chords for the whole song on

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 189 The +/- buttons at the bottom right of the window also change the row height. Chords may be edited in th

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 19New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2010 Band-in-a-Box 2010 added over 50 cool new features! These exciti

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 190The Notes Bars display information is real and useful, but try not to assume that every displayed note-bar

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 191 Approaching Bar 5, the automatic tempo tracking begins to drift. The current position of the Location cur

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 192Completely, Horribly Wrong: Some songs have rhythms difficult for a computer to understand. Sometimes a s

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 193the vinyl record cutter was off-speed, or some record executive decided that the song was 10 seconds too lo

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 194Odd Length Bars and Drastic Tempo Changes If a 4/4 song contains occasional bars of 3/4, 5/4, or whatever,

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 195 Change Bar 10 to its desired duration. Hover the mouse over the red triangle marker at Bar 11, and the

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 196MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard Many people who play music by ear think of songs in terms of “Chords

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 197 Once you've selected the file, you can press the [INTERPRET CHORDS NOW] button. When you do that, th

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 198- The chording (comping) parts are found on Channels 3, 6 and 7. - The Melody is found on Channel 4. -

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 199Presets Chord Options When you choose one of these presets, it automatically makes a number of settings in

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Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 20 you both recently used songs/styles, and a new list of “favorites” that you select as a favorite s

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 200Using the Chord Options Presets to make settings for Violet Song.MID. For the song “Violet Song.MID,” we k

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 201 The “correct chords” for the song “Violet Song.MID.” As you can see, by comparing the two sets of chords,

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 202 Band-in-a-Box and PowerTracks Pro songs contain special events that write the exact chord names into the M

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 203Note that the program has analyzed the melody, and decided that the key should be F (this is independent of

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 204Here are two of the possible variations the Re-Harmonist has suggested for the first two bars. See a List

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 205Select the # of bars, and Band-in-a-Box will play for, say 4 bars (selectable), and then will rest all inst

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 206- Auto-Scanning the track to be played, and adjusting the display octave on the guitar fretboard to insure

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 207Note Display Options: If MIDI Thru is selected (Default=On), the Guitar will display the music played on a

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 208Show out-of-range notes: If set, any note will be displayed on the guitar, regardless if it is the range o

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 209 Using the Guitar Tutor Enable the Chord Tutor display by setting that checkbox. This will silently displa

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 21QuickStart Tutorial Using the New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2010 and 2010.5 Quick Song Settings The

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 210compatible with the substitution, etc.). Or you can enable the “Auto-Substitution“ feature and the substit

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 211Auto-Chord Substitution Dialog You can quickly auto-generate substitutions for an entire song or portion of

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 212If you'd like Band-in-a-Box to only generate for a certain range of bars, you should first highlight t

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 213Choose one of the substitutions that you would like, and press the [Do Substitutions now] button (or double

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 214 Drum Display All the General MIDI percussion instruments are shown. Acoustic Bass Drum Bass Drum 1 Sid

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 215 Drums that you play show up in blue (the computer played drums are red). There is an option to display al

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 216Drums are grouped on the computer keyboard by category. The kick, snare, and hi-hat sounds are on the lowe

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun 217Randomize: Enables the Randomize checkbox to send random velocity levels when playing by mouse or computer

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 218Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions Band-in-a-Box offers users the ability to program many of its mo

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 219 Using RealDrums in Styles You can assign a RealDrums style to replace the MIDI drums in an existing Ban

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 22 DAW Plug-in Mode There is a “Plug-in” mode for your favorite sequencer (GarageBand, ProTools, Logi

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 220 Using RealTracks in Styles RealTracks can be assigned to any Band-in-a-Box instrument part in a style

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 221Volume and Timing Offsets The volume and the timing of the RealTracks or Soloist parts can be adjusted t

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 222 A patterns This row is for 1 bar drum patterns for the “a” substyle. B patterns This row is for 1 ba

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 223It firsts scans the chord to see how long that chord is going to last without a chord change. For examp

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 224 The Band-in-a-Box Program is capable of playing back in any time signature (via the Bar Settings option

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 225that pattern to be played more or less often relative to the other patterns. The 2 patterns with a weig

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 2262. The easiest way is to import strings from another style that already has strings. This allows you t

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 227Drum Pattern Entry Drum Pattern Entry screen is where the Drum patterns are made To enter the Drum Edito

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 228 drop down menu. When you exit the box, you will see that the box has a border indicating that an alter

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 2296. pattern played on 6th of 8 (6, 14, 22...) 7. pattern played on 7th of 8 (7, 15, 23...) 8. pattern

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 23- They play back the same way each time, so if you like a solo, you can “freeze it.” - If you sen

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 230Bass Pattern Options Relative Weight Usual Setting = 5 Set this number higher/lower if you want the p

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 231Playback Beat Mask Usual Setting = 0 Set the beat mask to a beat from 1-4, if you want the pattern to

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 232 If you're making a simple piano pattern you'll only need to record pattern(s) on the A 8 beat

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 2333. pattern played on 3rd of 4 bar (3, 7, 11, 15..) 4. pattern played on 4th of 4 (4, 8, 12, 16, 20...)

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 234where the center of the pattern is considered to be. If checked, the center of the pattern will be move

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 2352 -beat and 1 -beat still record 2 and 1 beat patterns. The new style is made as a waltz, and will play

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 236Melody Patch If set to other than 0 all melodies will be played on the specified instrument. If you&apo

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 237Resolution Styles can either have Triplet (swing eighth notes) Straight (even eighth or sixteenth notes

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 238 Multistyle(s) Enter the name of a style: zzjazz, or multiple styles separated by semicolons: zzjazz;z

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 239Intelligent Guitar Styles Would you like to hear some realistic, accurate MIDI guitar from Band-in-a-Box

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 24 MIDI tracks for bass, drums, piano, guitar and strings can now be edited, and saved with the file.

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 240Since in these cases the guitarist is usually fingering the 4th note and muting it, if you want to see w

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 241Let's hear our Shearing harmony playing as we develop it. To do this, we need a song with a melody

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 242For the Shearing Quintet harmony, we will set the patches as follows: Channel A: Piano Channel B: Vibes

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 243Use Close Harmony This only applies to 2 and 3 part harmonies. If set to =0, then it will use only clos

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 244 10 easy steps to make a Soloist: 1. Bring up the Soloist window by pressing the [Solo] Button or Shift

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 245The Melodist Maker In addition to the Melodists supplied with the program, this module lets you define o

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 246 The ST2 area allows you to select the associated ST2 database for the Melodist. Here are some ST2 Melo

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 247The next section of the Melodist Maker allows you to select options that control what type of melody wil

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 248Mix Minor and Major Chord Progressions Default= = 0 Typical 'major key” chord progressions have

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 249The Guitarist Maker The [Edit…] button in the Guitarist Selection window launches the Guitarist Editor,

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 25 Assuming that you have the Holds files for the RealTracks that you are generating, then you just u

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 250you want a “forced open position,” you should likely transpose the melody to a lower octave prior to gen

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 251Strum Delay: If the Delay start time is left at zero, the strum will end at the original time of the me

Chapter 12: User Programmable Functions 252 Embellishment types allow setting of the types of embellishments to do, - “Pop” Guitarists should be

Chapter 13: CoreMIDI and Apple DLS Synth 253Chapter 13: CoreMIDI and Apple DLS Synth CoreMIDI and Apple DLS Synth Tutorial Selecting a MIDI Driver

Chapter 13: CoreMIDI and Apple DLS Synth 254 Specific details of your Audio MIDI Setup screen will differ from this example, depending on your MID

Chapter 13: CoreMIDI and Apple DLS Synth 255Band-in-a-Box MIDI Port Selection for External Devices This example shows Band-in-a-Box configured to

Chapter 13: CoreMIDI and Apple DLS Synth 256 Inter-Application Communication with IAC or Virtual Ports Virtual Ports can be used to “pipe” Band-in-

Chapter 13: CoreMIDI and Apple DLS Synth 257Next, launch your third party MIDI application, and select IAC as the input port. This is often done i

Chapter 14: Reference 258Chapter 14: Reference Band-in-a-Box Menu About Band-in-a-Box gives important program information such as the version and

Chapter 14: Reference 259File Menu New is used to blank the Chordsheet and start a new song. Open song… is used to open an existing song. Open Fi

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 26 To do this, press the Audio Reverb button, and adjust the various parameters. You can then save

Chapter 14: Reference 260Save Standard MIDI File makes a standard midi file. You can save in Type 1 (multi-tracks) or Type 0 (single track) files.

Chapter 14: Reference 261 Rename any Song on Disk… or Rename Current Song on disk… allows you to rename files. Delete a Song from Disk… deletes a s

Chapter 14: Reference 262Edit Menu Edit | Undo and Edit | Redo allow you to undo or redo most operations. Edit | Cut functions like a delete comma

Chapter 14: Reference 263Copy From…To… / Copy Rests / Erase From… To… One of the best ways to copy chords is the Copy From… To… command, or pressin

Chapter 14: Reference 264Song Menu Title/Key/Tempo/Embel… Opens the Main Settings dialog. This dialog offers you the option to set the title, key

Chapter 14: Reference 265Additional Song Settings These additional song settings are saved with the song. Vary Style in Middle Choruses De

Chapter 14: Reference 266For example, in Jazz Swing, since the B substyle is Swing, all of the middle choruses will have swing bass. (The A substy

Chapter 14: Reference 267 Solos should have a “bluesy” feel. Check this setting for solos with more syncopation, flatted thirds, and sevenths. Allo

Chapter 14: Reference 268Styles Menu Use this list for a quick pick from the list of 24 original Band-in-a-Box styles. You either can pick a musi

Chapter 14: Reference 269User Menu Load Style From Disk… Go to the file dialog and open a style from the Styles folder. Load Favorite Styles… Open

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 27Tempo swapping of similar RealTracks You can use this feature either automatically or manually. If

Chapter 14: Reference 270OK to Load Styles w/ songs Normally this is checked so that songs load with the associated style. But let’s say we’ve dis

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

Chapter 14: Reference 272Quantize Melody… The Quantize Melody… and Quantize Soloist…menu commands open the Quantize dialog, where all or part of

Chapter 14: Reference 273Adjust Level of Melody… Allows you to increase or decrease the volume (velocity) of the Melody track without affecting th

Chapter 14: Reference 274 Convert Harmony to Melody Track Converts a single line Melody track to include the current harmony selection. Remove Har

Chapter 14: Reference 275Eliminate Note Overlap – Preserve Double Stops / Eliminate Note Overlap – Remove Double Stops eliminates note overlap whil

Chapter 14: Reference 276Soloist Menu Generate and Play a Solo... opens the Select Soloist dialog where a preset Soloist style can be selected or

Chapter 14: Reference 277 Quantize Soloist opens the Quantize dialog. The Humanize feature is an advanced version of this function. Resolution pe

Chapter 14: Reference 278Choose the division you would like the track quantized to. Choosing 16 will quantize to 16th notes. Starting at Bar# and

Chapter 14: Reference 279 Eliminate Note Overlap – Preserve Double Stops / Eliminate Note Overlap – Remove Double Stops opens a Choose Range dialog

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 28 The RealDrums button now has a menu (like the RealTracks button) to choose the RealDrums Picker D

Chapter 14: Reference 280Harmony Menu Melody Harmony… Shows the current Melody harmony selection. Click to open the Select Melody Harmony dialog.

Chapter 14: Reference 281Toggle this option “On” to allow Band-in-a-Box to embed the Save Patches and Harmonies W/Song dialog where you can chose t

Chapter 14: Reference 282 **Select MIDI Driver or Apple DLS Synth… Opens the MIDI Drivers dialog where you can choose from the installed drivers.

Chapter 14: Reference 283CoreMIDI Audio MIDI Setup launches the Apple Audio MIDI Setup dialog. **CoreMIDI (choose ports) opens the Select Ports/Ins

Chapter 14: Reference 284CoreMIDI is the OS X standard MIDI driver method. CoreMIDI facilitates communication with external MIDI devices, and it a

Chapter 14: Reference 285Type in the patch number that your synth uses for each instrument listed. For example, suppose that your sound source has

Chapter 14: Reference 286 If you already know the MIDI note numbers assigned to the MIDI drum kit you are using (check the manual for your synth or

Chapter 14: Reference 287 Choose Patch from Higher Bank… This will display a list of higher bank patches as found in *.PAT text files. Choose a .P

Chapter 14: Reference 288 This dialog displays the add-on styles and soloist disks you have installed in your Band-in-a-Box program folder. If any

Chapter 14: Reference 289GS Menu Reset Sound Canvas to Factory… resets the module to factory settings. Reset Sound Canvas And Send BB… sends a res

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 29 If you keep the default setting of “Save all settings with Songs,” you will find that all setting

Chapter 14: Reference 290 These synthesizers have 16 parts. The default is for part 1 to be channel 1, part 2 channel 2, etc., but you can change

Chapter 14: Reference 291Windows Menu Notation Window toggles between the notation and the Chordsheet views. Drum Window launches the animated Dru

Chapter 14: Reference 292Help Menu Search will list all menu items related to the search term. View Band-in-a-Box manual opens a comprehensive .pd

Chapter 14: Reference 293Save already open song to disk S Thru Harmony T Load style from disk U Paste V Set the number of lead in bars W Cut X Loa

Chapter 14: Reference 294Quick Song Settings These are for entering songs quickly in the Chordsheet and Notation windows. Typing special words, in

Chapter 14: Reference 295For example, let's change the Piano part to Rhodes Piano using keystrokes. 1. Press Ctrl+4 to select the Piano part.

Chapter 14: Reference 296New chords added: • C5b: This is C flat 5. It is spelled this way to avoid confusion. C2 C5 C4 C69 C7alt Cm7#5 Chord Sh

Chapter 14: Reference 297Drums – Demos Every RealDrums style has a Band-in-a-Box demo song, which can be loaded directly from this folder as a song

Chapter 14: Reference 298Style Demos Every Band-in-a-Box style has a demo song stored in this folder. There are a lot of them, the easiest way to

PG Music Inc. 299PG Music Inc. Band-in-a-Box® is protected by copyright and is the property of PG Music Inc. and its licensors. Copyright © 1989-2

Table of Contents 3Table of Contents PG Music Inc. License Agreement ...

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh 30 New in the StyleMaker In the Misc. Style Settings dialog (User | Edit Existing User Style [Patch]

Index 300Index 2 bar ending early ...87 generate...

301chord entry...40 color...

302Harmony changing ...101 setting channels...

303Mix Minor and Major Chord Progressions...248 Number of Variations ...248 Simple 1st and 2nd endings .

304part settings... 32 Part settings ...112 paste chords ...

305Soloist 10 steps ...244 custom solo...

306Lengths ...222 Piano,Guitar,Strings...231 Playba

Registration Form 307Registration Form Please register your program. Registering your PG Music software entitles you to free, unlimited technical

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 31Chapter 4: The Main Screen Main Screen Overview The main screen gives direct access to the major features and progra

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 32 Status Bar The first thing to note is that the name of the song that is open is identified in the window title at th

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 33 Selecting Favorite Instruments (Patches) To select a Favorite Instrument for a particular part, you need to select

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 34 - Click on the “Include Family” checkbox to have other offerings of similar type shown. (i.e., all Bass family pat

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 35- One by one drag the notes up to the correct melody note, holding down the Shift, Control, and Command key for shar

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 36 The [Open] button is used to open (load) songs into the program from the Open File dialog. The [Save] button is us

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 37 Use the Print button to launch the Print Options dialog and print the currently selected track of notation. Display

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 38 This opens the previous song in the folder in alphabetical order. This opens the next song in the folder in alphab

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 39You may find this to be the best way to load songs into Band-in-a-Box, since the lists give you instant access to the

Table of Contents 4 Song Settings ...

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 40 Like the favorite songs button, the favorite styles button [F] activates dialogs with “Favorites” and “Recently Play

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 41For example, the chord Gm7 in the key of F would be displayed as IIm7 (in Roman Numeral Notation), 2m7 (in Nashville

Chapter 4: The Main Screen 42 You can click on the [STY] button to choose the styles for your MultiStyle from the StylePicker window. Chordsheet

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 43Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box You can arrange, record, save, and print your own song ideas with

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 44 There is also a Find feature to help you locate songs in the list. Click on the [Find] button and then

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 45 Select Thru Harmony Press the [T] button or use the keystrokes Command+T to open the Select Thru Harmony

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 46 Pressing the [T] button allows you to choose from the full list of harmonies. Normalize MIDI If pe

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 47Change the Sound Band-in-a-Box has several instrument parts - Bass, Piano, Drums, Guitar, Solo, Strings,

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 48 Use the RealDrums Picker to choose RealDrums for the current song only. The RealDrums Picker opens from

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 49“Show if Feel does not match” will show a song where the drums are in Even feel and the style is Swing (o

5Chord Builder ...

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 50 RealDrums styles ending in a caret (^) have variations available. They are listed here. Where there ar

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 51 Click on the [Settings] button to open the RealTracks Settings dialog. In the RealTracks Settings d

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 52 You’ll see the “A.REV” (Audio Reverb) control at the top of the screen. Click on an instrument radio

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 53 This saves time when replaying previous songs, and allows you to freeze an arrangement that you like. I

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 54 This button is to turn off any notes that are stuck on. (There shouldn’t be any.) Enter the number

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 55 Use the preset Soloist settings, or choose your own Solo Mode and the Choruses where you want a solo. T

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 56 Chords Line Just as in the Chordsheet, you can type in chords using the same keystrokes. The chor

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 57 In the Editable Notation mode you can enter, move, and edit notes and rests using standard mouse techniq

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 58 You should make sure to select the print range of first chorus, to print only the first chorus of the s

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 59Play the Jukebox Use the Jukebox for continuous playback of a list of Band-in-a-Box songs. Click the [J

Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! 6 Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! Congratulations on your purchase of Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh,

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 60 Aside from the compositional values of the Melodist, the features can be used as a powerful practicing a

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 61into Band-in-a-Box and you'll see the chord symbols, and then learn the melody! You can also read t

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 62 Select the Key Click on the key select list and change the key of your song instantly. Click on “YES”

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 63 Chords can be copied, pasted, cut, or erased and new chords can be entered from the Chord Builder.

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 64 You get to the StylePicker window by pressing the [Style] button or Ctrl+F9. This launches the StylePi

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 65Frame the song Here we have selected bar one to be the first bar of the chorus and bar 32 to be the last

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 66 Press the [Record] button to begin recording. This launches the Record Track dialog box. You can punc

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 67Adding Lyrics to your song Use the menu command Edit | Enter Lyrics at Current Bar to open the Lyrics Ent

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box 68 [Save As] allows you to assign a name to the song and specify the location where it will be saved. The

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 69Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide Yes, it’s as “easy as 1-2-3” to make great music on your computer using t

Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! 7System Requirements - Mac OS X 10.4 or later. - Intel Processor. - 512 MB RAM. - About 2.5 GB free hard disk

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 70 Global settings for RealTracks are made in the RealTracks Settings dialog, which opens with the menu comman

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 71RealTracks Folder The RealTracks styles are stored in Applications/Band-in-a-Box/RealTracks by default. Yo

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 72 Many Jazz comping styles now play triads (instead of 7ths) when simple triads are entered, instead of “jaz

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 73 Pressing the [RealTrks] toolbar button and selecting RealTracks Picker Dialog. The dialog allows you to ass

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 74 Select “Disable RealTracks for this track (Force this track to MIDI)” if you want to have no RealTracks

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 75 Some RealTracks have variations available, such as the Acoustic Jazz Bass, which has variations that play i

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 76 To assign RealTracks to a style select the “Instrument” part that you want to replace with a RealTrack. T

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 77 RealStyles are styles that use only RealTracks and no MIDI instruments. These style names begin with an u

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 78 RealDrums The RealDrums feature replaces MIDI drums with audio drums recorded live by top studio drummers.

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 79RealDrums Picker Use the RealDrums Picker to choose RealDrums for the current song only. The RealDrums Pick

Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! 8 Band-in-a-Box External USB Hard Drive Band-in-a-Box, RealTracks, and RealDrums are pre-installed on the port

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 80 “Show if Feel does not match” will show a song where the drums are in Even feel and the style is Swing (or v

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 81- Set is the number of the RealDrums set that includes the style. You can type in your own comments about

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 82 The [R.Drums] button opens the RealDrums Picker to select a new RealDrums style from the list. Click on [

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 83If set to 1, almost all MIDI drums will be substituted by RealDrums. If set to 5, only RealDrum styles that

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 84 Global Volume adjust If you are finding that the RealDrums track is too loud or quiet in relations to the MI

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 85Song Settings Song settings include the title, key signature, and tempo for a song and the Band-in-a-Box styl

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 86 For example, in Jazz Swing, since the “b” substyle is Swing, all of the middle choruses will have swing bass

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 87 Allow Pedal Bass in Middle Choruses Default = This determines whether Pedal Bass effect will be allowe

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 88 When set, this song will support Shots, Holds, and Pushes for those RealTracks that have them (as shown in t

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 89Auto-Generate Intro Bars. Band-in-a-Box will automatically generate an introduction for any song from the [I

Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box! 9The first item in this menu is MIDI Settings, but they may not require any changes. We suggest that you star

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 90 Band-in-a-Box chordsheet area. As well as entering the chords for your song, the Chordsheet is where you pu

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 91 The sequence of keystrokes to enter all these chords above would be c6>am7>dm7>ab9,g9>c6/e>&g

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 92 may optionally disable the rests in the middle or final choruses (where people are likely taking solos, and

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 93This illustrates a held chord on bar 10. The chord on bar 10 is held (sustained) until the next chord on the

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 94 - If the column shows the letter “n” the Holds files are available but not installed. Check the support pag

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 95 Beat and Chord First you need to pick the beat in the bar where the setting will be applied. You can also t

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 96 Pedal Bass You can enter pedal bass with any chord. For example, if you are in the key of F and would lik

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 97Copy Rests The Copy Rests dialog is opened with the Edit | Copy Rests menu command. With this feature you c

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 98 When a new notation mode is selected a message will report the change on the main screen. Click anywhere in

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 99MultiStyles Band-in-a-Box MultiStyles have four substyles, “a” through “d.” There is a MultiStyles category i