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

1. Feel like adding vocals to your Band in a Box song Or a live guitar part No problem with version 9 You can easily record a track of CD quality audio using the new audio features Plug in your guitar or a microphone to your soundcard press the Microphone record button in Band in a Box and Band in a Box will add your track to the song You can overdub the audio parts to add in harmonies etc The MIDI and audio tracks are compatible with other sequencers and sound programs like PowerTracks Pro Audio SoundForge Cubase or Cakewalk so your full MIDI and Audio performance can be used in these other programs Save Song as wave file WAV Band in a Box normally exports it songs as MIDI files Now you can directly export the song as a WAV file as well This is referred to as rendering the file from MIDI to audio Once you have it as a WAV file you can send it to others or put it on the Internet and they will hear it exactly as you did Or use CD burning software to save the WAV file onto a conventional audio CD so your Band in a Box creations will play in standard audio CD players Save song in Internet formats There are many new formats for saving audio files that take up less space than a wave file Band in a Box can save files directly in these compressed audio formats using the drivers that come with Windows Note you must have already have these drivers with your Windows system they are not included with Band in a Box
2. Move Lyric ahead to timeline Last Chorus Move Lyric back to timeline Timeshift Lyrics ticks Insert Beatla in Lyrics Delete Beat s from Lyrics Edit Lyrics as Event List Line based Lyrics Copy Line Lyrics to Note Lyrics a Move Line Lyrics to Note Lyrics Auto Update all songs in folder to Mote based Lyrics Move Lyrics Up or down rows Erase Line based Lyrics only Entering Lyrics on a note by note Basis Eee o Fiems ee i Word Based Lyrics Button OE ET lyrics by pressing Ctrl L or pressing the Lyrics button on the Notation toolbar When you do this you ll see that the notation window is open and a lyric edit window has appeared on top of the notation toolbar Let s enter the Lyrics for the first 4 bars of the song Old Folks at Home The Lyrics are Way down u pon the Swa nee Ri ver When you press the lyrics button the lyric edit window opens up and the current note or group of notes at the same time are highlighted In this case it s Chapter 5 Lyrics Features 37 highlighting the first note of the song We type Way in the lyric window and then move to the next note We can do this by pressing ENTER or TAB Shift TAB gets us moving back one note You can enter each word or syllable as it corresponds to the notes Way down u pon the Swa nee Ri ver would be the syllables you d enter Note that a hyphen is put at the end of syllables and a backslash is put at the end of a ph
3. lt Set Recording Properties Test Recording Level U Meter Record Audio From Start of Song C From Bar 10 Chorus fi flag End M Overdub undenying Audio Also Record MIDI No MIDI recording C Also Record MIDI to Melody Also Record MIDI to Soloist MV Show YU Meter while recording Recording VU is on the Recording Panel most soundcards M Cancel Help Before you begin recording you ll need to Fk lt Set Recording Properties 1 Set the Recording Properties this tells your soundcard and BB what sources you would record from You d normally be recording from a microphone or a line in plug into your soundcard and you select those items A soundcard is capable of recording from the following sources e Microphone plugged into the soundcard e g vocals sax e Line in e g Guitar or Mixer e CD ROM player this would record the audio from an audio CD normally you wouldn t be doing this in BB e Outgoing MIDI not used when recording audio tracks but is used if Rendering the whole BB song to Audio This is an important point to understand when using audio in BB The soundcard is capable of recording the outgoing MIDI that is being sent from your soundcard out to the speakers When recording an audio track vocals etc you d almost never want to record the outgoing MIDI as well or it would bleed onto the audio 25 track whereas when Rendering the whole composition to a sing
4. 14 render audio 15 Big Piano Overview 61 Settings 61 Using 61 Big Piano Window 61 chorus 76 compression 71 de ess plugin 89 Delay 75 distortion 73 Distortion 74 Echo 75 Echoplex See effects 71 enhancer plugin 82 EQ 78 exciter Plugin 83 Expander 73 expansion 74 Flange 77 Gain Change 79 Graphic EQ 79 Guitar Enhancements automatic guitar chord solos 44 convert to chord 45 convert to note 47 guitar harmony option 47 guitar part 45 guitar tablature 44 re channel Melody to guitar channels 45 set guitar track 44 Guitarist 48 chord solo 48 chord types 55 Index 125 generate chord solo 48 Guitarist Maker 52 Guitarist window 48 strumming settings 54 Harmony Enhancements 65 convert harmony to notation 65 new options 65 overview 65 hum filter 80 Introduction 6 Lyrics 36 Big Lyrics options dialog 40 Big Lyrics window 39 Busker format 40 copy lyrics to clipboard 40 entering lyrics note by note 37 lyric edit window 37 lyric event list 38 lyrics menu 36 new lyrics features 36 note based lyrics functions 42 New Features Summary 7 Notation Enhancements Overview 63 Notation Enhancements 8 63 Other New Features 67 custom chord shortcuts 68 enhanced song list 68 fly by hints 67 126 jazz up or jazz down chords 67 polyphonic adjust of Melody tracks 69 quick copy option K 70 read in chords 68 solo around melody 67 song endings option
5. 15 Patch is Jazz Electric Guitar Range 0 frets 16 Guitarist 16 Strum 80ms 17 Guitarist 17 ChordTypes Best 100 OK 50 Ady 25 Unusual 0 18 Guitarist 18 Barre 0 Embellish 7th 9 No open strings 19 Guitarist 19 IV OK to change existing guitar channels ea Fa Cancel Help Here are the steps needed to generate your Chord Solo Information press Edit to change these Create Chord Solo in a style similar to Jazz Guitar 5 frets 2 Jazz bultar single position 1 Mazz Guitar advanced chords Select the Guitarist to Use In the main list at the left of the Window you see the List of Guitarists that are already defined For example you can see that Guitarist 2 is called Jazz 48 Chapter 7 The Guitarist Guitar single position That will create chord solos that stick to a single position on the guitar neck whenever possible Track t Melod s 2 E oases hd Select Melody or Soloist track You d normally want the Guitar Chord solo to be written to the Melody track but you can also select the Soloist track as the destination 3 Guitar Patch Jazz Electric Guita gt Confirm the Selection the Guitar Patch The Guitarist that you pick see item 1 will already have chosen the guitar patch to use but you can over ride it with this setting Generate Guitar Chord Solo Create Chord Solo in a style similar to Track to use Melody r Generate 1 Jazz Guitar 5 frets a Whole So
6. Layaye TIJUANA STY Tijuana 70s Pop Swing Memo A 60s and 70s fast Mexicali Pop shuffle swing style 5 instruments marimba nyl guitar 2 acoustic guitars acoustic bass amp drums Happy Tijuana feel Tempo 180 Examples The Happening any Jazz swing tune Green Onions 110 Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation PG Music Inc Contact Information PG Music Address and Phone Numbers Band in a Box Copyright 1989 1999 PG Music Inc All rights reserved Band in a Box is a trademark of PG Music Inc PG MUSIC INC 29 Cadillac Avenue Victoria B C V8Z 1T3 Canada Email sales pgmusic com Internet www pgmusic com phone toll free 800 268 6272 888 PG MUSIC or ph 250 475 2874 fax toll free 1 877 475 1444 or fax 250 475 2937 Technical Support 250 475 2708 Hrs 9 00am Midnight Eastern Time GMT 5 00 Email support pgmusic com Pt PG Music Inc Contact Information 111 PG Music Inc Music Software Programs PG Music Inc is a leading innovator of computer music software that is easy powerful and fun As a registered PG Music Inc software user you will receive regular updates on all of our latest programs so please be sure to register Band in a Box Windows Mac intelligent music software Simply select the style of song you d like to create and Band in a Box will automatically generate a complete song in that style in the key and tempo you want complete with intro chords
7. MIDI system MIDI piano or sound module as if the pianist was in your home Program notes and Biographies provide a wealth of information The onscreen piano keyboard lets you see the music as it s played learn the music by watching the keyboard or slowing down the performance Other functions Stop Pause Rewind Slow Motion Tempo Changes Transposition Volume and Velocity Background playback lets you listen to your favorite music while you work in other programs PLUS Music Trivia Game Guess the Song Musical Dictionary and much more The Pianist is indispensable an embarrassment of riches Piano amp Keyboard The Pianist Volume II Windows Mac classical piano performance program By popular request we ve recorded 200 more fabulous classical pieces for The Pianist program many titles were suggested by our customers on registration cards This Volume 2 upgrade includes a new version of the program plus the 200 new pieces all played by world class concert pianists It adds to your existing program doubling the number of pieces to over 400 200 selections from the great composers by popular request Did you know All of the performances in the PG Music Inc Pianist Performance Series are recorded live to MIDI on an 88 note weighted piano keyboard These brilliant performances are never edited or quantized you hear them exactly as played by our top professional piano artists 118 PG Music Inc Mus
8. Many of PG Music s programs have MIDI files with the chords in them You can open these files in Band in a Box and the chords will be imported onto the chord sheet To import the chords from a PG Music MIDI file i e a MIDI file made by Band in a Box PowerTracks or some other PG Music programs choose the menu item File Open Special Import chords from MIDI file or clipboard The chords will then appear on the leadsheet starting at bar 1 overwriting any chords that were there previously Enhanced Song List Window The Song List Window accessed by pressing the SONG button used to have a limit of 800 songs This has been enhanced to 5 000 songs and full information shows for each song title filename style name Melody Lyric style present status The window auto sizes to fill the screen 68 Chapter 13 Other New Features Song Endings option The usual Band in a Box ending is 2 bars appended to the end of the song This new option gives you an alternative to end the song on the last bar of the song BB will still play an ending on the chord that you specify and the ending will occur as a 2 bar phrase beginning 2 bars before the end of the form This results in more natural endings for many songs For example the song Old Folks At Home is a 32 bar chorus song from bar 1 to bar 32 It ends with the last Melody note on bar 31 with the word home but Band in a Box normally plays a 2 bar ending starting at the end of bar 32 and go
9. Middle option 4 Press Ok and the Solo will be generated playing riffs at times when the Melody isn t playing 5 Tip For added effect add a guitar chord solo to the Soloist part using the Chord Solo button on the Guitar and choosing Solo as the destination or simply choose a Guitar Harmony like 32 J Pass Add your own chord shortcuts Have you found a chord that BB doesn t recognize If so add it to the your chord shortcuts file and BB will allow you to type in that chord in the future This also lets you define chord shortcuts one letter abbreviations for longer chord names J for Mayj7 etc The text file c bb Shortcut txt allows you to add new chord shortcuts Note that this file doesn t ship with BB or it would overwrite your file The file c bb pgshortc txt should be used only by PG Music for shortcuts supplied by PG Music You can add your own shortcuts in a text file you can make called c bb shortcut txt If you find a chord that BB won t accept like Csus2 when it expects C2 instead you can enter this on a single line without the quotes Csus2 C2 Then Band in a Box will enter the chord C2 if you type in Csus 2 These allow someone to type in Csus2 and the program will accept it You can also use it for shortcuts like if you entered maj7 Band in a Box would let you type Cj for CMaj7 See the file c bb pgshortc txt for examples of shortcuts Read in Chords from a PowerTracks or Band in a Box MIDI file
10. Sace Sip Fae ae e G L Distortion Add some grit before filtering When Distortion is set to a value of 1 there is no distortion The Auto Wah distortion has a razzier sound than the Band in a Box Soft Distortion plugin The Auto Wah distortion takes a mathematical root of all the sample values This raises the amplitude of small sample values When set to 2 Distortion takes the square root of all values A value of 3 takes the cube root of all values and a value of 10 takes the tenth root of all values a very nasty sound indeed Lo Freq Hi Freq The filter s lower and upper frequency cutoff limits Quiet audio input levels allow the filter to drop to the Lo Freq cutoff and very high input levels will pin the filter at the Hi Freq cutoff Wah effects usually sweep the filter in a range somewhere between 100 and 2000 Hz The wah effect doesn t sound very traditional if the frequency settings go too high or low If the Wah effect is too dark on quiet notes try increasing Lo Freq If the wah effect is too bright on loud notes try decreasing Hi Freq Lo Thresh Hi Thresh The lower and upper thresholds that will modulate the filter within its frequency range In the pictured example input signals below 36 dB are filtered at 168 Hz Input signals above 12 dB are filtered at 1538 Hz Levels between these thresholds will sweep the filter between the Hi and Lo Frequency settings producing a Wah effect Resonance
11. Soloist Disk Set 3 Jazz Soloist Disk Set Soloist Disk Set 4 Rock Soloist Disk Set Soloist Disk Set 5 Bluegrass Soloist Disk Set Soloist Disk Set 6 Killer Pop amp Older Jazz Soloist Disk Set 7 Blues Pop Funk amp More Soloist Disk Set 8 Killer Jazz Waltz Older Waltz Jazz Fusion Soloist Disk Set 9 Blues Guitar Country Piano and Pop Melodist Disk Set 2 Country Pop and EZ Listening The MIDI Fakebook Traditional Original Jazz and Pop 50 Songs Classical 200 Songs Bluegrass 50 Songs 112 PG Music Inc Music Software Programs PowerGuide CD ROM Video Windows Mac video instruction for Band in a Box Both Volume 1 Basics and Volume 2 Advanced of the popular Inside Band in a Box training videos with program author creator Peter Gannon on one convenient CD ROM Everything you need to become a power user from easy setup to hot tips and advanced techniques Included in the Band in a Box MegaPAK creating and working with songs generating solos entering and printing notation MIDI driver setup creating new harmonies creating new Soloists creating new Styles and much more Inside Band in a Box with program creator Peter Gannon PowerTracks Pro Audio Windows integrated digital audio and MIDI workstation PowerTracks Pro Audio is a professional fully featured Digital Audio MIDI workstation packed with features for musicians students amp songwriters With s
12. Windows Mac piano performance program The Latin Pianist is a music software program containing over 50 Latin and Salsa pieces recorded live to MIDI by popular Latin pianist Rebeca Mauleon Santana editor of Sher Music s Latin Real Book in a wide variety of Latin Piano styles The Latin Pianist includes authentic piano songs and styles such as Conga Cumbia Merengue Son Mambo Cha Cha Guaracha Samba Partido Alto and much more With the onscreen piano keyboard you can see exactly what the pianist is playing Slow down the piece or step through it chord by chord Learn the music note for note by watching the notes onscreen or load the MIDI files into your favorite programs This program is hot Hot HOT Authentic Latin and Salsa stylings hot piano performances PG Music Inc Music Software Programs 121 The Modern Jazz Pianist windows Mac piano performance program The Modern Jazz Pianist is the software that makes it too easy to learn how to be a great jazz pianist Top studio musicians Renee Rosnes Miles Black Ron Johnston and Brad Turner perform over 50 tunes in a wide variety of modern jazz styles such as those by Herbie Hancock Fred Hersch Cedar Walton Mulgrew Miller and many others With the on screen piano keyboard you can see exactly what the pianist is playing Slow down the piece or step through it chord by chord Learn the music note for note by watching the notes on screen or load the MIDI files
13. any slow 12 8 blues or non blues STONESHF STY StoneShf Blues ala Stones Memo This med tempo shuffle blues has a jam like feel and features Keith Richards style Guitar and Billy Preston Gospel style Piano 5 insts ac Piano el Bass OD Guitar amp LiveMIDI Drums Organ at b T 125 Examples Stone Blues Bad Mama Blues STRAYSHF STY StRay Shuffle Blues Memo Big loud and proud blues shuffle a la Stevie The b section features Guitar Bass amp comp 4 insts el Bass el Guitar Organ at b amp LiveMIDI Drums T 105 Examples Pride and Joy Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation 97 STRAYSTS8 STY StRay Straight 8ths Memo A 4 instrument med tempo st 8 blues style featuring organ fills thru out W el Bass el Guitar LiveMIDI Drums amp Rock Organ T 125 Examples Why I Sing the Blues Watermelon Man TAJMALL STY TajMall St 8 Blues Memo This med tempo blues is based on a repeating Bass rhythm which gives it a slight Latin flavor Sparse Guitar comp 4 insts el Piano el Bass el Guitar amp LiveMIDI Drums T 145 Examples Teeny Weeny Bit Styles Disk 17 Unplugged Styles for Band in a Box Introduction and Overview Styles Disk 17 Unplugged is a set of 26 new all acoustic styles featuring modern and classic Bluegrass Blues Boogie Folk Ballad Rock Funk Waltz Jug band Samba and much more To get that natural feel we asked San Francisco session player Marty Cutler to assist us w
14. drums More intense at b T 98 Examples Could Be Dancin any medium1 6ths BGEE_BAL STY BGees 70s Pop swing Ballad Memo A smooth slow simple 70s amp 80s Pop Rock swing ballad a la BGees 5 instruments acoustic piano frt bass acoustic guitar drums and strings Slightly louder at b T 75 Examples After the Lovin How Do You Mend BLONDYI1 STY Blondy1 Pop Techno Memo Smooth 80s amp 90s Pop Techno style with 5 instruments electric piano 6 guitar 28 electric bass 36 strings 49 amp drums Bass plays quarter notes at a octaves at b Disco feel at b T 108 Examples Take My Breath Away C_COWBOY STY Cowboy Country Style Memo Cowboy Country Style ala Alan J or Hank W 5 instruments drums bass piano acoustic guitar amp muted guitar T 115 160 Examples Chattahoochie Tall Tall Trees Jambalaya C_DRIVIN STY Drivin Country Rock style Memo Upbeat drivin Country Rock style a la Dwight Y Brooks and Dunn Leroy P 5 Instruments drums bass organ acoustic guitar and elec guitar T 110 140 Examples Fast As You Rock My World Oughta Be A Law Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation 107 C_GARTH STY Garth Country Ballad Memo Contemporary Country Ballad Style a la Garth B Keith W etc 5 Instruments piano bass drums acoustic guitar and strings at b T 80 126 Examples If Tomorrow Never Comes Don t Close Your Eyes C_HAG STY Hag Country Classic style M
15. light drums Softer at a At b drums soft backbeat amp higher strings T 85 Generic Example Tune Here There and Everywhere MINISTRY STY Ministry Praise and Worship style Memo Bouncy swing style with 5 insts piano bass drums big back beat at b ac guitar easy folk strum amp organ easy at a fuller at b T 95 Generic Example Tune Raindrops MORNING STY Morning Praise and Worship style Memo This style has a Pop Latin feel 5 insts ac piano el bass mt guitar drums amp choir Vocal background throughout Section b is more intense T 104 Generic Example Tune Everybody s Talkin PRAISE STY Praise Praise and Worship style Memo This is a simple 3 4 Praise and Worship style with 5 insts ac guitar strumming organ piano drums amp bass T 95 Generic Example Tune Amazing Grace or any slower 3 4 tempo tune 104 Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation REVEALED STY Revealed Praise and Worship style Memo Med slow pop 16ths with a warm string section and arpeggiated guitar sound 5 insts ac guitar fr bass Atmosphere 100 strings 50 T 105 Generic Example Tune We Are the World REVIVAL STY Revival Praise and Worship style Memo This is a medium fast rock style with 5 insts ac piano el bass drums strat guitar and organ T 155 Generic Example Tune Jesus Is Just Alright SAVED STY Saved Praise and Worship style Memo This is an exuberant Congregation
16. or Guitar harmonies since it would be unrealistic for those instruments to change the inner voicings in this manner If you de select the option to Make new harmony with new chord the voices that would conflict with the new chord merely stop playing instead of changing to new notes There s a use guitar voicings harmony type that uses real guitar chord voicings that display correctly on the guitar fretboard Setting the Use Guitar Harmony Voicings checkbox means that guitar chord voicings will be used instead of any other voicings specified in the Harmony Maker Check out Harmony 32 J Pass for an example of this We ve enhanced the existing harmonies file to take advantage of these new features so your harmonies will sound better Many harmonies have been changed including Harmonies 32 J Pass 6 7 8 16 25 26 30 32 35 36 49 50 107 108 and more 66 Chapter 12 Harmony Enhancements Chapter 13 Other New Features Fly by Hints Band in a Box now has the popular yellow text windows that pop up when you are passing the mouse over buttons and other controls These can be set to display brief or detailed descriptions of the selected controls To access the settings for the fly by hints Choose options Preferences 2 Text Hints M Show text hints W Show comprehensive hints Delay before hint 790 ms Show hints for 24000 ms From here you can enable disable the hints and enable comprehensive lo
17. position you could de select the Auto Set and then set the guitar position to 12 position M OK to change existing guitar channels In case you already have a guitar track that has guitar channels for example if it was already played on a guitar controller as a single string guitar part then you might want to tell BB not to change the guitar positions of the notes that it finds Normally you d want to set the OK to change existing guitar channels to true Press OK to generate the Solo To illustrate this let s generate a guitar solo to an existing Melody We could pick any Melody for this let s pick the file GIT_TEST MGU which should be found on your BB directory This file has a single melody with no chords in it Let s generate a Chord Solo for the song GIT_TEST MGU Chord Solo Press the Guitar Chord Solo button to launch the Guitarist 2 Jazz Guitar single position Select Guitarist 2 Jazz Guitar single position Make sure that the Range is set for Whole Song and that the Preferred Fret Position is set to 5 this should be the defaults unless you ve changed them Press OK to generate the solo You ll then see a dialog box like this O Guitar Chord Goll Gtitten pieces lly There were 1 037 notes on the track and with the chord solo there are now 1 579 50 Chapter 7 The Guitarist This tells you that that the solo has added a solo to the track adding about 500 notes to the existing 1 0
18. 5 5 5 5 5 64 Uel C 4 C E C C E B B A E E Edit Lyrics Update Edit Soloist The Event List allows you to edit insert and delete notes Double click on an event to edit it or press Edit Insert puts an event before the current event Append puts an event at the end of the track Update redraws the notation screen Edit Lyrics Edit Soloist Edit Melody selects which track to edit 64 Chapter 11 Notation Enhancements Chapter 12 Harmony Enhancements Harmony Enhancements Overview Convert Harmony Part to Notation track Previously if you added a harmony the harmony parts wouldn t be seen on the notation you would only see the lead part Now you can write the harmony part directly to the notation track so you can see it and print it out just like any other part Note these features are all described for the Melody track but apply equally to the Soloist or THRU part To convert a melody or Soloist track to a Harmony do the following 1 Select the Harmony that you want to use 2 Choose the menu item Melody Convert Harmony to Melody track 3 Choose the range that you d like to convert either the whole song or a portion of the song 4 Your harmony will now be written to the track and you ll get a confirmation dialog Message Harmony conversion completed successfully There were 1 039 notes on the track and with harmomy there are now 5239 The harm
19. NUMPAD keypad repeatedly cycles through playing the same note on all 6 strings Save the song as a BB song The guitar information is stored on channels 11 to 16 of the Melody track so it will be saved with the correct information You can make a MIDI file which will preserve this information as long as the Melody Track Type menu item is set to Guitar That ends the guitar portion of the tutorial Let s input some Lyrics to Old Folks at Home Load in the song Old Folks at Home MGU We ll add lyrics for the first 4 bars Way down upon the Swanee River Open up the Notation and choose the Melody track so that you can see the Melody for the first 4 bars of Old Folks at Home 18 Chapter 3 Quick Start Tutorial Bip Pic sims it Click on the Lyrics button on the notation window this is an L button on the notation toolbar or press Ctrl L The lyric edit will open up Use ENTER to advance by a chord and Shift TAB to move back by a chord When the highlighted note is on the note for the word Way i e Bar 1 Beat 1 then type Way into the edit and then press Enter to move to the next chord and type down lt ENTER gt then continue with the rest of the notes until you have entered the lyrics for the first 4 bars They should now look like this Apa a eee SSF a E EES on the _ ee ay down u p Leadin 2 You can adjust the height of the lyrics by pressing the Notation Options button and setting the
20. Note based lyrics Previous versions of Band in a Box had lyrics based on a line at a time We ve added note based lyrics This allows more accurate placement of lyrics as you can place a word under each note As you enter the lyrics the note is highlighted and pressing the TAB or Enter key moves to the next word Note based lyrics are saved with the MIDI file so you can use them in your other MIDI programs Big Lyrics Karaoke Window We ve added a Big Lyrics Window to Band in a Box Selectable font font size and Window size This is great for singalongs or Karaoke Style Selection Enhancements Selecting a style to use for your song has been made much easier and more fun When you open the new StylePicker Window it shows you which styles would work best in your song highlighting all styles that have a similar tempo genre and feel to your Chapter 2 Summary of New Features 7 song You can preview styles before loading them so you can hear what they ll sound like in your song The window remembers the style and genre that you ve used and will return to it the next time you visit the window Big Piano Window We ve added a new Big Piano Window showing you the notes of any track on a piano keyboard You can set the size of the Window range of the piano and number of octaves to display You can also display notes names or guide notes showing the scale notes of the current key Notes can be displayed using a different color f
21. Quick Start Tutorial Find these buttons on the main screen Va Find the microphone button this is the way to launch the recording of audio il There is a button that allows you to set your Recording inputs This is essential since you need to select Microphone or Line in if you plan on recording audio Find the playback audio settings button this allows you to view levels of playback and also can lead to the Recording Panel by choosing Options Properties Recording Look at the new audio menu with access to all of the new audio features Play Lyrics Melody Soloist Audio GM User Harmony Not n Help gt Drums Volume Pan Record Audio and MIDI Melody Fl EOE Eol Record Audio and MIDI Soloist Plugin gt Copy 1st chorus to whole song Kill entire Audio Erase Audio Choruses Erase Region of Audio Adjust Output Level of Audio Quick Adjust level of region of Wave file permanent Timeshift Audio ms Insert Beat s in Audio Delete Beat s from Audio Render MIDI to Stereo WAY file etc Playback Mixer Playback YU Meter Recording Mixer Recording YU Meter Audio Options Locate the Render MIDI to Stereo wav menu item This allows you to convert a BB song to a wav file with all of the BB music on it The other items on the menu allow utility functions to erase delete insert portions of the audio that have been recorded Let s record an audio section Note We
22. Resonance adds a loudness peak at the cutoff frequency When the filter sweeps around this loudness peak emphasizes resonates with 88 Appendix A Audio Plugins harmonics at the cutoff frequency High resonance has a biting synthetic effect Low resonance is mellower sounding Release The time it takes for the filter to track note loudness decay Adjust to taste Filter Mode The 2 pole filter has a more gradual high frequency attenuation slope than the 4 pole filter Each setting has a unique sound Filter Tracking e Linear Filter cutoff frequency linearly tracks the input signal Linear may be better on instruments with wide dynamic range e Exponential Filter cutoff frequency exponentially tracks the input signal level This causes more sudden filter changes and may be preferable on smooth musical parts with little dynamic variation De Ess Reduce sibilance ssss consonants and fricatives lip smacks or tongue clicks in vocal or speaking tracks It can be nice to record a bright vocal with plenty of air in the sound But when high frequencies are emphasized sibilance can become irritating The De Esser can reduce the level of sibilance and fricatives without reducing the bright air tone on sustained notes Frequency Hz Threshold dB Release m5 E Preview is Secs o Previous Copy Faste Save Preset Help Cancel Appendix A Audio Plugins 89 This plugin works like
23. The Guitarist about 50 delay A delay of 0 also sounds good and has the added advantage that it doesn t shift the actual time of the Melody note relevant if you keep re generating the solo on the Melody track Pressing the PLUCKED or STRUMMED button sets these settings to preset values Chord Types To Include Chord Types to Include Best Chords 100 Good Chords 50 Advanced Chords 25 Unusual Chords 0 Bare Chords 0 Include Open Strings Never OF to include chords with thi 27 4 notes 100 or notes i100 pr 100 ET fioo A 5 notes FA E notes 100 You can decide which types of chords should be included in the chord solo Chord Types Best Good Advanced Unusual Barre Open Strings e Best Chords are the most commonly played chords by pro guitarists e Good chords are popular alternate chords e Advanced chords are chords that are difficult to play or have advanced voicings e Unusual chords are voicings that should be avoided in most cases but have some uses e Barre chords are chords that require the index finger to be played in a Barre position e Include Open Strings can be set to Never Sometimes Favor If set to Never no chords that require and open string will be played if set to Favor it will play open strings whenever possible and sometimes is a middle ground setting Include Chords with this of Notes You can select the of notes for chords to be included in the chor
24. Use the cursor left right keys to change the note s start time duration channel or velocity depending on the setting of the Right Left Cursor Edits field in the Notation Options Dialog 5 Press the Escape Key or STOP button when you re done Notation range You can specify an upper limit of a note range so that high notes won t result in an excessive number of ledger lines This is set in the Notation Options using the setting called Max Ledger Lines The default is 6 which would show a maximum of 6 ledger lines above the treble clef staff Enhanced Event List Editing You can edit events including all MIDI events and lyric events using the new Event List The newer event list is more tightly integrated into Band in a Box You can edit the Melody Soloist Lyrics or StyleMaker Patterns using this Event list The event list is launched from the Notation Window by pressing the event list button You then see the event list window Chapter 11 Notation Enhancements 63 Track Displayed is Melody ene eee eee ee x EEE rte a ARE ARE ABE CARE CARE ARE ARGO AR AE EAR AR ARE AREAS ABE ARE AP Patch Change 27 Jazz Electric Guitar Ch 4 Hote ES 64 Uel 75 Dur 13 Ch Hote BS 71 Uel 116 Dur 63 Ch Hote 72 Vel 162 Durs 45 Ch Pitch Bend 200 8 29 semitones Ch 4 Insert Hote 72 Vel 1606 Dur 232 Hote 71 Yel 164 Dur 71 Append Hote 72 UVel 164 Dur 64 78 1 Delete 69 64 6 g 6 6 p
25. a high frequency limiter limiting loudness of high frequencies without affecting low frequencies Frequency Adjust the crossover point for the De Ess function Frequencies below this setting are not limited and freqencies above are limited Threshold The high frequency limit threshold Zero dB would offer no limiting and 96 dB would cut almost all high frequencies out of the signal Loud sibilance can be rather quiet compared to the lower frequencies Threshold may need to be set pretty low to get the desired result Release The time required for the high frequency limiter to recover A short release time may bounce back too fast after a fricative A long release time may pump the highs too much 90 Appendix A Audio Plugins Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation Styles 0 14 are documented in Appendix E of the Band in Box 8 manual Styles 19 is included in the upgrade package to Version 9 of Band in a Box not included with a first time purchase of the program Styles Disks 0 3 are included with the Pro version of Band in a Box Other Styles Disks are sold separately as add ons to Band in a Box Styles Disk 15 Nashville Country Styles for Band in a Box Introduction and Overview As usual we paid a lot of attention to your requests for Country styles as posted in the PG Music Forum Styles wishlist We enlisted Nashville session player Mike Harrison to assist with our latest styles disk f
26. ac Bass amp LiveMIDI Drums T 105 Examples Any Shuffle or Swing blues ELJAMES STY ElJames Basic Blues Shuffle Memo Based on the basic repeated Guitar riff this 4 inst shuffle blues style features Otis type Honkytonk Piano fill at b el Guitar el Bass amp LiveMIDI Drums T 105 Examples Goin to New Orleans Any med shuffle HOWLINW STY HowlinW Drivin St 8 Blues Memo A St 8 primitive blues style a la Howlin or Stones 4 insts ac P el B OvDrv Guitar amp LiveMIDI Drums Driving quality Piano maintains steady rhythm Off beat Guitar shots T 105 Examples Any med tempo st 8 blues JB_BRASS STY JB_Brass Funky Blues Memo Similar to JBrown Sty with Brass Section instead of guitar A St 8 funky blues style in the mode of James B With Brass Section and syncopated organ fills Brass Section el Bass Rock Organ amp LiveMIDI drums Tempo 120 Examples Sex Machine Popcorn JBROWN STY JBrown Funky Blues Memo A St 8 funky blues style in the mode of James B With spare rhythm Guitar chops and syncopated organ fills el Guit el Bass Rock Organ amp LiveMIDI Drums T 120 Examples Heard It Through the Grapevine any St 8 blues JERYLEE STY JeryLee Fast Boogie Blues Memo A fast St 8ths Piano trio style featuring lots of wild R amp R Piano fills ala Jerry Lee Piano ac Bass amp LiveMIDI Drums T 180 Examples Great Balls of Fire Roll Over Beethoven 96 Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentati
27. are boosted when mid frequencies get louder than the HF Expander Threshold Reduce this control to increase the High Frequency boost HF Time Align Advance high frequencies in time This may make percussive tracks more interesting but can also introduce mid frequency notching effects HF Time Align is occasionally useful but leave HF Time Align at zero for the purest result Bass Balance Adjust relative levels in the Bass band Peak Limit Enable Peak Limit to avoid clipping on hot signals Operation Many musicians graphic equalizers are permanently set to the smiley face curve bass and highs boosted with mids cut It may seem silly that the smiley face setting is so common but indicates a very common taste in sound The Enhancer makes ear candy easy to accomplish Cut the mid level 3 to 12 dB according to taste Kick up the low bass if it makes you happy Then adjust HF Exp Thresh to increase brightness As with any effect the Enhancer usually works best in moderation Exciter Add harmonics to high frequencies without affecting low frequencies The Exciter is basically a high frequency fuzz tone Appendix A Audio Plugins 83 Used conservatively the Exciter can brighten some types of audio Add some air to vocal horn hihat or acoustic guitar Exciter usually works best on monophonic tracks Exciter can sound distorted and aggravating if over used Exciter can sometimes brighten old low fidelity
28. cassette tapes by adding some highs which do not exist on the tape Frequency Hz Hi Freg Level dE W Peaklimit jo Previous Copy Faste Save Preset Preview f2 E Secs Stop Help Cancel Frequency The cutoff point for high frequency distortion It is best to adjust Frequency to include only the top octave which is present in the source audio For instance if a track has frequency content up to 5000 Hz try a Frequency setting around 2500 Hz This will create new harmonics primarily above 5000 Hz where they are least likely to interfere with harmonics in the original source audio Hi Freq Level The level of the extra harmonics If Frequency is set properly this control will typically be in the 12 to 12 dB range Excessive use of this effect can sound very bad Hi Freq Level should be adjusted for a subtle effect Pitch Shifter Transpose audio pitch without changing play length 84 Appendix A Audio Plugins Semitones Cents Granularity m5 O O Q o Previous Copy Faste Save Preset Preview 20 Secs Stop Help Cancel Semitones Cents Set the pitch shift amount Granularity The size of individual time slices which are pitch shifted When transposing down the Pitch Shifter occasionally deletes a snip of audio to preserve tempo When transposing up an occasional snip of audio is repeated to preserve tempo The Pitch Shifter uses a pattern matching process to locate
29. higher range of soloing Let s redo that part of the solo using a higher fret position We ll press the CHORD SOLO button again and de select Chapter 7 The Guitarist 51 the auto set position button and choose the 12 position Since we only want to regenerate this for the choruses 4 to 6 We set the range to Part of Song and the range to start at chorus 4 bar 1 and range of 96 bars This will rewrite the solo by first removing the existing guitar chord solo if any and then generating a new one Technical Note Since some of the guitarists can be assigned to strum the chords in a delayed fashion if you repeatedly re generate the solo the melody will become more and more delayed The solution s would be to choose Edit Undo Solo prior to re generating the solo or picking a Guitarist that doesn t delay the strum The Strum delay status is indicated on the Info panel of the Select Guitarist screen Once you have generated a Guitar chord solo The chord solo is now part of the notation track You can edit it like any other part by deleting inserting notes etc Nt You can use the special guitar features discussed earlier to change the guitar voicings or replace a note with a chord or vice versa The solo will be saved with the song MGU and exported to a MIDI file with the string positions intact because we use channels 11 to 16 for the Guitar part You can remove the solo at any time even after the solo has been saved
30. last this is called The Guitarist This feature auto generates a guitar chord solo for any melody in many different guitar styles It is discussed in detail in the next chapter Chapter 6 Guitar Enhancements 47 Chapter 7 The Guitarist With Band in a Box 9 you can now generate a guitar chord solo for any melody BB will intelligently arrange the melody to a guitar chord solo by inserting real guitar voicings throughout the piece You can select from among many Guitarists to create your arrangement And you can define your own guitarists choosing parameters such as strum speed types of voicings pop jazz embellishments and many more Chord Solo You launch the Chord Solo function from the Guitar Window using the Chord Solo button An alternative is to select the Melody Generate Chord Solo item Select Guitarist Window Once you press the Chord Solo button you ll see the Select Guitarist Window Generate Guitar Chord Solo Create Chord Solo in a style similar to Track to use ce ony 1 Jazz Guitar 5 frets a 2 Whole Song 2 Jazz Guitar single position Guitar Patch Jazz Electric Guita Part of Song Preferred Fret Position 5 Pop w Barre chords v Auto Set 6 J Pass 4 notes 6 frets M Auto Se pias fi J Pass 4 notes in position 6 James Taylor open Hemo e lea Jazz Guitar plays within the position 11 Guitarist 11 12 Guitarist 12 13 Guitarist 13 14 Guitarist 14 15 Guitarist
31. ll be studying over 60 topics such as Roots and Shells Block Chords Stride Piano Playing the Blues Scales Common Progressions Improvisation and more All the lessons are accompanied by practice exercises backing tracks and are further illustrated with 11 tunes included in the program The Jazz Piano MasterClass integrates interactive audio lessons with on screen piano display and notation allowing you to see and hear exactly what Miles Black is playing Jazz piano mastery at your fingertips 114 PG Music Inc Music Software Programs Master Guitar Solos Series Master Jazz Guitar Solos Volume 1 Windows guitar study program Note the program also includes the same files in Band in a Box song format Full featured program includes over 50 tunes with jazz guitar solos in the style of the great Jazz Guitarists Joe Pass Pat Metheny John Scofield and others What a great way to learn jazz guitar soloing Let a master show you solos in the styles of the greats All tunes are done in MIDI format with a complete band arrangement drums piano bass guitar Watch and learn the tunes as they play on the guitar fretboard notation and tablature Slow the music to the tempo you want or step through the solo note by note What a great way to learn Master Flatpick Guitar Solos Volume 1 Windows guitar study program Note the program also includes the same files in Band in a Box song format Full featured program inclu
32. lyric height smaller values like 7 are higher on the notation Press Ctrl L or the Lyrics L button again to get stop the entering of lyrics Now Press PLAY and open up the Big Karaoke Window by pressing Ctrl Shift L or the Big Lyrics Button on the main screen You ll now see the lyrics in a big font Chapter 3 Quick Start Tutorial 19 You can see that they are interleaved with the chord names This is called the Busker format since Buskers usually work with a sheet of chords and words only You can press the Options button to de select the show chords option and you ll just see the lyrics without chords interleaved fe Big Lyrics Options down upon the Swanee River Choose the Option Lyrics Copy to clipboard This will copy the lyrics we ve done with or without the Busker format chords interleaved to the text clipboard so that we can paste the text into other applications like Word or Notepad for future work That ends the Quick Tutorial Many other features are described in the documentation of the new features Let s check out Styles Disk 19 Note Styles Disk 19 If you ordered Band in a Box 9 as an upgrade the package includes Styles Disk 19 this is not one of the styles disks that are included in the first time purchase If you have the first time version of Band in a Box and don t have a bb styles19 directory instead use the BB SOLODEMO directory of BB for this exa
33. melody arrangement and solo improvisations Or just type in the chords to ANY song using standard chord symbols like C or Fm7 choose a style and press PLAY Band in a Box then generates a complete professional quality 5 piece arrangement of bass drums piano guitar and strings to be played back through your MIDI system or multimedia computer Record melodies and live audio tracks Band in a Box even makes your song Internet ready Add on Band in a Box Style Song amp Soloist Disks available get the works in the Band in a Box MegaPAK Styles Disk 4 25 Styles Jazz Country Pop Old Pop Ethnic Styles Disk 5 25 Styles Jazz Waltz Country Pop Ethnic Styles Disk 6 30 Styles Jazz and Latin Styles Disk 7 25 Styles Country and Pop Styles Disk 8 25 Styles Jazz Classical Pop Ethnic Country Latin Styles Disk 9 20 Styles Latin and Salsa Styles Disk 10 20 Styles Pop amp Rock Styles Disk 11 28 Styles Classical amp Classical MIDI Fakebook Styles Disk 12 27 Styles Country Swing Rock Waltz amp Boogie Styles Disk 13 20 Styles Euro Tek Dance Techno Pop Styles Disk 14 21 Styles Jazz Fusion Styles Disk 15 22 Styles Nashville Country Styles Disk 16 22 Styles All Blues Styles Disk 17 26 Styles Unplugged Styles Disk 18 20 Styles Praise And Worship Styles Disk 19 26 Styles Requested Soloist Disk Set 2 Killer Jazz Soloist Disk Set
34. pressing the F5 key at any bar For example subtle variations can be achieved by combining similar styles such as DOGFUNK STY and DOGFUNKD STY Of course combining different sounding styles will produce more dramatic variations 98 Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation Another suggestion Study how the demo tunes were done More detailed information about each style is available by pressing the Memo button of the Demo tune The Demo songs for these styles follow the same naming convention as the styles themselves So for example the DEMO song for BGWALTZ STY is BGWALTZ MGU 26 New Unplugged acoustic Styles ACBALLAD STY Acoustic Ballad style Memo A slow Ballad style a la Grisman quartet with Bass Drums Guitar Violin and Mandolin Guitar plays fills and Violin is added at b T 70 Examples Slow Ballads Lover Man Willow Weep for Me BG101_D STY Bluegrass 101 with drums style Memo Variation on Bgras101 with drums added a la Bill M Banjo Mandolin Guitar Bass and Drums Great at faster tempos T 165 Examples Foggy Mountain Breakdown Lonesome Road Blues BGRASI01 STY Bluegrass 101 style Memo Driving straight ahead Bluegrass a la Bill M with Banjo Mandolin Guitar and Bass At b Banjo in higher register and more active guitar and mando T 165 Examples Foggy Mountain Breakdown Lonesome Road Blues BGBOOGIE STY Bluegrass Boogie style Memo Acoustic style a la Bill Monroe band of the 40 s and 50 s with
35. recorded Keep Take Fa Take Again carer e i Help 3 0 ptions Copy 1st chorus to whole song Overdub underlying audio M Betam audio past last recorded If you are happy with the recording you should choose Keep Take Then the Audio will get added to the Audio Track You can listen to the results by pressing PLAY If you are then not happy with the results you can choose Edit Undo Keep Take and you will be back to where you were prior to the recording You can also choose the option to Take Again That rejects the take and starts the Recording dialog again Technical Details The recorded take is recorded to a temporary wave file called TEMP_REC WAV This resides in the BB directory or the directory of the current song Once you decide to keep the take the TEMP_REC WAV is merged with the main wave file for the program which is usually titled with the same name as the song e g MySong wav If you ve recorded only 1 chorus of the song you can choose the Shion to copy that first chorus of audio to the whole song This will fill up the whole song with audio Then you d just need to do another recording and record to the ending of the song 28 At the end of recording you get an option to Overdub with the underlying audio Playing the Audio File Now you can play the Audio file that you ve recorded Band in a Box for Windows NONAME 5G1 3 4mb WAY 0 38 3 20 The size of the audio file w
36. the best splice points When the shifter has to insert or delete pieces of audio to preserve file length it will not insert or delete snips any smaller than half the Granularity length Small Granularity has tighter timing but can sound nasty on low pitched or complex signals Large Granularity sounds smoother with possible damage to rhythmic timing A granularity of 50ms works for many types of audio a compromise between smoothness and rhythmic timing Pitch Shift Applications Re Tuning Adjust out of tune tracks with the Cents control Appendix A Audio Plugins 85 Fattening Fatten a track by slightly detuning copies of the track Fattening can be effective on many instruments including vocal solo instruments bass and snare drum Flange and Chorus are also useful for fattening but Flange and Chorus has a vibrato effect Pitch Shift fattening doesn t introduce vibrato and it also slightly disturbs the rhythm of the clone tracks which can enhance the doubled effect Transposing Pitch shift by semitones to change the key of a track Transposing uses larger shift amounts than the previous applications Audio quality can suffer with large pitch shifts if possible avoid large transpositions Monophonic instruments usually transpose better than polyphonic tracks Some instruments transpose better than others Bass horn or lead guitar shows less degradation than vocal piano or full mixes You can transpos
37. window or use the on screen Big Lyrics Button or the menu item Lyrics Big Lyrics Window You ll then see the Lyrics displayed in a window ka Big Lyrics Options F Way F7 down upon the Bb Swanee Gm7 River F F F7 Bb Gm7 F F F7 Bb Gm7 F Chapter 5 Lyrics Features 39 As you can see the lyrics are displayed interleaved with the chord names This is referred to as the Busker format since it shows the chords and lyrics in a manner similar to Busker Leadsheets ba Le EN alta lated If you set the option on the Big Lyrics Window to not display the chord symbols you ll get only the lyrics displayed fee Big Lyrics Options Way down upon the Swanee River End of Lyrics When the song plays the lyrics will highlight in a bouncing ball manner Note that the hyphens that we entered are not displayed in the Big Lyrics window and the backslashes used for end of line are also not displayed or printed The Big Lyric Options Dialog The Big Lyric Options Dialog has settings for the colors and font used for lyrics display You can set colors for text color background color and the highlight color You can also select whether you want Chords to be interleaved with the lyrics Busker Leadsheet Copy Lyrics to Clipboard Print Lyrics only This function allows you to copy the lyrics and or chords to the text clipboard By pasting into a word processor you can print out the
38. 00 notes You ll notice that the guitar doesn t add a chord to every note it intelligently decides which notes to add chords to The playback will begin automatically and you ll see the guitar voicings on the Guitar neck For example at Bar 8 the chord is a C dim and BB has voiced a Bb melody note with a 4 note Guitar voicing of the notes Bb E C and G KeyofAm Frack Displayed is Melody 3 a T be 10 C 8 lel cisimis This particular solo will be played in a single position because those are the parameters of this particular guitarist Other Guitarists will play in a range of positions Guitarist 1 or in open position e g Guitarist 8 As you listen to the solo you ll notice the following 1 Some of the notes are left as melody and some are assigned to chords 2 A wide variety of guitar chords are used including some advanced chords All of them are popular chords played by real guitarists there are no theoretical chords 3 The chords are strummed to simulate a real guitar player 4 The Track Type for the Melody has been set to Guitar so the notation shows TAB and the MIDI file will be saved with the Guitar Channels 11 16 preserved which preserves the fret positions Note All of these items can be customized in the Guitarist Editor described below Let s Re Do Part Of The Solo At A Higher Fret Position This particular song GIT_TEST MGU has 6 choruses and the last 3 choruses have a much
39. 0ms 1 second Positive values move the audio track ahead negative values move it back Insert Beats in Audio and Delete Beats in Audio are used to insert silence or remove parts of the audio track You can specify the region to use For example if you decide to add an extra 2 bars to the intro in Band in a Box and you ve already recorded an audio track you should insert 2 bars 8 beats ina 4 4 time signature in the audio track as well Render MIDI to Stereo WAV file This command launches the dialog that allows you to Render convert the BB song with or without an audio track to a stereo WAV file This rendering is discussed in detail elsewhere Audio Options Dialog this allows you to set options for the audio track and is discussed elsewhere Audio Settings Ea Audio Track Render WAY Mono 44K Stereo 44K DMA Size bytes fo DMA Offset bytes fo fo Get from soundcard Offset in ms po V When opening songs show message if WAY file not found Cancel Help 24 Audio Track Recording Band 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 instruments using a microphone or line in from a mixer or guitar To record audio to your song first prepare the Band in Box song i e type in the chords or load in an existing song Then press the microphone button or choose menu Audio Record This launches the Audio Record Dialog Record Audio
40. 69 stereo mono panning 69 time display 69 volume control enhancements 69 Parametric EQ 79 Peak Limit 73 PG Music Address 111 Tech Support 111 pitch shifter plugin 84 Quick Start Tutorial 12 Band in a Box primer 12 Rendered 71 Reverb 74 Ring Modulation 78 Style Selection Enhancements 57 StylePicker window 57 Stylemaker Enhancements 10 StyleMaker Enhancements 59 copy all 59 delete row 59 event list editor 60 pattern trim 59 Index
41. 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 Sw IV Prototype Style Defaults to current style You can see a lot of new information on the Style Picker screen The current style of the song is listed at the top of the window in this case it is the Jazz Swing Style ZZJAZZ STY This is referred to as the Prototype Style The prototype style can be changed to the current style that is highlighted by pressing the Change Prototype Button Styles that are in a Similar Feel to the Prototype will be indicated with a asterisk These would be styles that have the same feel triplets eighth sixteenths and a similar tempo range Styles that have a similar range but a different tempo range are marked by a caret symbol So you can quickly see styles that are similar to Jazz Swing in this example The Styles J_BASIE J_DIXIE could be substituted with a perfect match so are marked with an Styles like J DJANGO are marked with a because they sound best in a much faster tempo than the prototype style Jazz Swing Chapter 8 Style Selection Enhancements 57 For each style you see the following information the example will describe the J_DIZZY STY DIZZY sw 68 175 Jazz Dizz Style GDE 5 The asterisk or tilde indicates if the style is a perfect or good match to the prototype style as described previously Sw indicates that the style is in a Swing feel vs Ev for Even feel of the beat The 8 indicates that the style is an 8
42. Band in a Box Version 9 for Windowse y Band in a Box for Windows C B1 WAZZDEMO MGU 5 05 File Edit Styles Opt Play Lyrics Melody Soloist Audio GM User Harmony Not n Help J Combo Bass Piano v3 Drums 2 Guitar _ String Melody Soloist _ Thru Instrument Reverb Chorus Bank0 LSB Mf P lt noharmony gt Acoustic Piano g F E isla i i Cail als al GAS goo tase E Big Lyrics ak Options Really Big Lyrics a Heg All J_WALTZ2 W sw F Jazz J_WESGRY Latin J_WESWLZ W sw J WYNT 2 ie WYNT i Country Folk J LAURA 7 Classical J BAS amp BR Key of Cm Track Displayed is Melody gt a ray 3 gr Fusion 14 J EASY Blues 16 J MD_WLZ W cy ee Unplugged 17 J OLEO P amp Worship 18 J SONICE ee J WINDOW V m TAZCOOL JAZCOOL JAZFOURS Ab JAZOUINT JAZSAMBA z b Ss JAZSINP xJAZSW2_G ESS EES EES oi Me Style Prototype Style J_WYNT_K i Category Styles II PE o o EEE mst OD CO CO CO o co co 00 00 00 0o 0o 0o oo 12 Copyright PG Music Inc 1999 All Rights Reserved PG Music Inc License Agreement PG Music Inc License Agreement Program 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
43. Bandwidth The relative width of each filter One hundred percent bandwidth is approximately one octave wide Ten percent bandwidth is about one tenth of an octave wide and 200 bandwidth is about two octaves wide Gain The boost or cut of each band If Gain of a band is set to zero that filter is not calculated So if you only need two bands of correction leave the four other bands at zero and the equalizer will ignore the unused bands processing faster Other Effects Gain Change Gain Change offers several useful tools to modify track levels Constant Gain Radio Button With Constant Gain enabled the same gain is applied to the entire selected region of a track Pre Normalize Pre scan each file and determine how much gain should be applied to raise the level of the track to 0 3 dB full scale A little headroom is left at the top because some DA converters in computers and CD players do not perform very well with full scale levels Gain Change The amount of boost to be applied to the track If Pre Normalize is enabled the boost is added to the normalize boost and can cause clipping unless Post Peak Limit is enabled Post Peak Limit An instant attack program dependent release Peak Limiter If you want a very hot track try enabling Pre Normalize set Gain Change to 6 dB with Peak Limit enabled This will give you a clean track that is hotter than a firecracker For special effects like ultra sustain guitar or wall of drums tr
44. Examples Liza Jane Oklahoma Borderline C_WORKIN STY Workin Man Country Memo Med tempo Workin Man Country Style a la Merle H or Elvis 4 Insts Drums Bass Piano amp Elec Guitar Tempo 95 160 Examples Workin Man Blues That s Alright Mama Mystery Train C_YOKEM STY Rockabilly Country Memo Rockabilly Country Style a la Dwight Y or Elvis 5 Insts Drums Bass Organ Elec Guitar and Acoustic Guitar Tempo 125 160 Examples Little Sister Styles Disk 16 All Blues Styles for Band in a Box Introduction and Overview This is a collection of 23 great new Blues styles featuring funky blues piano sounds in the style of DrJon some great Stevie Ray styles with strat guitar organ and fender bass Clapton styles with bass and guitar riffs BeeB rock and shuffle styles a Chuck B style featuring the repeated guitar riff down and dirty slow blues styles a la Curtis Muddy and Elmore a Stones shuffle blues jam a dynamic James B with horns groove up tempo Jitterbug fast 24 bar blues wild and crazy Jerry Lee piano and more There s a good mixture of shuffle swing 8ths and straight 8ths rhythms This styles disk features over 20 blues styles that we felt were most needed using your feedback and requests from the PG Music forum Styles wishlist ALL of the solos that are included in the demos are auto generated by Band in a Box Only the melodies are composed by musicians Bonus Styles Disk 16 also includes 80 Blues Jam tun
45. Guitar Tempo 80 126 Examples Grandpa Somebody Should Leave Mama He s Crazy C_BLUE STY Classic Country Shuffle Memo Classic Country Shuffle Similar To C_Clasic Sty but with more edge 5 Instruments Drums Bass Piano Elec Guitar and Acoustic Guitar Tempo 90 130 Examples Walkin After Midnight Crazy Arms C_BWILLS STY Up tempo Country Memo Up tempo Country Style with Fast Pickin Guitar on chorus b Insts Drums Bass Acoustic Guitar Elec Guitar and Piano Medium to Fast Tempos 90 160 Examples Orange Blossom Special My Window Faces The South Right Or Wrong C_CAJUN STY Country Cajun Memo Drivin Country Cajun style a la Buckwheat Zydeco 4 Insts Drums Bass Piano Accordian and Elec Guitar Tempo 110 160 Examples Hey Good Lookin C_CLASIC STY Classic Country Shuffle Memo Grand Ole Opry Classic Country Shuffle Style 5 Instruments Drums Bass Piano Elec Guitar and Steel Guitar Tempo 90 130 Examples The Key s In The Mailbox Crazy Arms C_GEORGE STY Sad Country Ballad Memo Sad Country Ballad style a la George J 4 Insts Drums Bass Piano Acoustic Guitar Tempo 80 100 Examples He Stopped Loving Her Today Tennessee Whiskey C_GIRL STY Contemporary Country Memo Girl Country style a la Mary C Trisha Y 5 Insts Drums Bass Piano amp 2 Acoustic Guitars Tempo 90 120 Examples She s In Love With The Boy You Never Had It So Good C_HANK STY Country Honkytonk Memo Country Honkytonk sty
46. HUF STY ChuckB Blues Shuffle Memo There are 5 insts in this med fast swing shuffle blues a la Chuck Honkytonk Piano fills el Guitar lick ac Bass LiveMIDI Drs Rock Organ at b Bass in 2 at a in 4 at b T 185 Examples Joint Was Rockin Mabeline CLAPTONIL STY Claptonl Rock Blues Memo This is a British hard rockin blues style which features the Bass amp Guitar playing a busy riff thru out Drs a la Ginger 4 insts OvDrv Guitar el Bass LiveMIDI Drs Rock Organ T 130 Examples Crossroads Scuttlebuttin CLAPTON2 STY Clapton2 Rock Blues Memo Similar to the Brit Rock blues style Clapton this variation features a steady Guitar comp rather than the busy Bass line 4 insts OvDrv Guitar el Bass LiveMIDI Drs Rock Organ T 130 Examples Crossroads Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation 95 CURTISM STY Curtis M Slow Blues Memo A very slow New York funky 70 s blues style a la Curtis Straight 16ths 5 insts el Piano Guitar el Bass LiveMIDI Drums Organ at b T 75 Examples Any slow blues The Thrill is Gone DRJONROK STY DrJon Rock Blues Memo This 5 inst st 8 rock blues style features Piano a la Dr Jon and simple Guitar comp It has a New Orleans blues jam feel ac Piano el Bass el Guitar LiveMIDI Drums Organ at b T 110 Examples Any med tempo St 8ths blues DRJONSHF STY DrJon Shuffle Blues Memo A 2 handed full Piano blues trio style in the mode of the Doctor with ac Piano
47. In a Manger The First Noel God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman Hark The Herald Angels Sing It Came Upon a Midnight Clear O Christmas Tree The Twelve Days Of Christmas We Wish You a Merry Christmas What Child is This and many more Fill your home with wonderful piano music this Christmas The Gospel Pianist wWindows Mac piano performance program The Gospel Pianist is a music program with over 50 Gospel Style piano standards played on MIDI keyboard by top gospel pianists Plus we ve also included Music Trivia questions Guess the Song game program notes pianist biographies all on disk and much more The Gospel Pianist is a powerful program for playing and studying a piano style that is both universally appealing and which underlies much of the blues jazz and popular music played today An on screen piano keyboard shows you exactly what the pianist is playing Slow down the piece or step through it chord by chord Learn the music note for note by watching the notes on screen Load the MIDI files into your favorite programs for future study We ve included all your favorites recorded by top Gospel pianists playing in a wide variety of Gospel piano styles Amazing Grace By and By At The Cross Go Tell it on the Mountain Will the Circle Be Unbroken Sweet Chariot Wade in the Water Give Me That Old Time Religion and many more Powerful Gospel performances with that old time spirit The Latin Pianist
48. Mac piano performance program Over 90 great piano performances of the worlds best loved children s songs presented with the care artistry and craftsmanship that will spark the interest of young and old alike The words are displayed in a large Karaoke style display while the song plays so you can sing along Includes piano arrangement tutorials Easy to understand examples from within the actual performances illustrate a host of techniques used by real pianists to create arrangements Work through the tutorials yourself to learn about these and other methods Alternating Bass Broken Chords Vamping Syncopation Parallel 3rds Embellishments Mozart bass Stride accompaniment Passing Chords Bent Notes Chorale Style Modulations Sing along with the world s best loved children s songs The Christmas Pianist Windows Mac piano performance program The Christmas Pianist contains great piano performances of over 50 all time favorite Christmas songs and carols ideal for listening or sing along The words are displayed in a large Karaoke style display while the song plays so you can sing along Windows version The on screen piano keyboard lets you see the music as it s played learn the music by 120 PG Music Inc Music Software Programs watching the piano keyboard or slowing down the performance All time favorites including Adeste Fideles All Through The Night Angels We Have Heard On High Away
49. Move Lyric ahead to time line If you have a note based lyric that you want to time shift backward you can click on the time line at the destination that you want and then choose this item Move Lyric back to time line works in a similar manner You can also shift lyric times using the Lyric Event list Timeshift Lyrics Insert Beats Delete Beats are functions that apply to the entire lyric track and are useful when you re inserting bars or beats into the song and need to move the lyrics around to keep them in sync There are functions for Line based Lyrics at the bottom of the Lyrics menu 42 Chapter 5 Lyrics Features Line based Lyrics Copy Line Lyrics to Note Lyrics Move Line Lyrics to Note Lyrics Auto Update all songs in folder to Mote based Lyrics Move Lyrics Up or down rows Erase Line based Lyrics only Copy Line Lyrics to Note Lyrics This converts line based lyrics to note based lyrics It is imprecise because the line based lyrics don t correspond to individual notes But you can edit the positions of the note based lyrics using the event list or the Move Lyric back ahead to time line functions discussed above Move Line lyrics to Note Lyrics works like the Copy Line lyrics to Note Lyrics function except it erases the Line based lyrics Auto Update all songs in folder to Note Based lyrics will update an entire folder worth of songs copying the Line Lyrics to Note Lyrics Only Note based Lyrics get displa
50. Series Jazz Guitar MasterClass with Oliver Gannon Windows instructional music program The Jazz Guitar MasterClass is a fully featured instructional music program containing interactive guitar lessons Master jazz guitarist Oliver Gannon is your teacher in this software program designed to illustrate basic skills to the beginning guitarist while enhancing the skills of more advanced guitarists You ll be studying 60 lessons with topics such as Chord Voicings Inversions Right Hand Techniques Comping Scales Modes Arpeggios Common Progressions Improvisation Chord Melodies and more Each lesson has an accompanying exercise and a tip on how to practice it The lessons refer to the 10 program tunes which feature common chord progressions in a variety of styles and tempos There are also reference sheets and practice backing tracks The Jazz Guitar MasterClass integrates interactive audio lessons with on screen guitar display and notation allowing you to see and hear exactly what Oliver Gannon is playing Everything you need to master jazz guitar Jazz Piano MasterClass with Miles Black Windows instructional music program The Jazz Piano MasterClass is a fully featured instructional music program containing interactive piano lessons Master jazz pianist Miles Black is your teacher in a software program designed to illustrate basic skills to the beginning pianist while enhancing the skills of more advanced pianists You
51. T 120 Examples Fly Through the Country Reach NGR_D STY NGR with drums style Memo Similar to NGR with drums added Acoustic bluegrass rock fusion ala Newgrass Revival with banjo mandolin guitar bass and drums More driving at b T 120 Examples Fly Through the Country Reach NUGRASS STY Nugrass style Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation 101 Memo Up tempo acoustic contemporary bluegrass a la David Grisman and others Features guitar banjo mandolin amp bass a substyle is more syncopated than b T 160 Examples Ride the Wild Turkey Gingeng Sullivan SWAMPROK STY Swamp Rock style Memo An acoustic style ala groups like Dave M amp Bon J with banjo guitar bass drums amp fiddle At b add fingerpicked banjo amp heavier drum backbeat T 100 Examples Don t Drink the Water Dead or Alive WRYCODER STY Wry Coder style Memo Bouncy acoustic style a la Ry with guitar piano mandolin bass and drums In the b substyle guitar plays bluesy fills and drums get slightly less busy T 90 Examples Tamp Em Up Solid How Can You Keep From Moving Styles Disk 18 Praise and Worship Styles for Band in a Box Introduction and Overview In response to your many requests for Styles in the Praise and Worship genre we are glad to bring you these 20 great new contemporary styles Today s Praise And Worship scene has an abundance of great groups who play very hip exuberant and contemporary Pop Rock
52. a GUITAR CHORD SOLO to an existing song Load in a song with a Melody on it We suggest the song GIT_TEST that should be in your c BB directory If it isn t there choose the song Old Folks at Home or any other song with a Melody Open the Guitar Window Ctrl Shift G Chord Solo Press the Chord Solo button or alternatively you could choose menu Melody Convert Melody to Guitar Chord Solo 16 Chapter 3 Quick Start Tutorial You ll see the Select Guitarist Dialog Generate Guitar Chord Solo Create Chord Solo in a style aa aE RE Cae aE aE Eh S PORTE RAL SEE Rs Track to use Melody Generate z t Whole Song 2 Jazz Guitar single position Guitar Patch Jazz Electric Guitar e ae adh Part of 5 3 Jazz Guitar advanced chords a ong 4 Jazz delayed strum Preferred Fret Position 5th f a a3 5 Pop w Barre chords Bar 6 J Pass 4 notes 5 frets Crone fi T J Pass 4 notes in position z oO James Taylor open Hemo bars Jazz Guitar 5 frets Choose Guitarist 2 Jazz Guitar Single Position If you ve been already changing these setting make sure that the other settings haven t been changed from their defaults and that the Fret Position is at 5 Track is Melody and Generate is set to Whole song You ll now see a confirmatory dialog indicating that a chord solo has been added The music will begin playing and you can hear the chord solo added to your song In this case the whole solo is usin
53. ack Adjust Audio Track volume by fo dB If the audio track Volume isn t in balance with the MIDI tracks adjust the level of the audio track to put it in balance A setting of 6 dB would make the audio track twice as loud It s quickest to do this with a small sample of the wave file Once you have the volume in balance you can record Render the whole file This process takes as long as the song takes to play in real time 3 4 minutes for a typical song Setting the Recording Properties E Recording Control Options Help Recording MIDI CD Line In Microphone Balance pF 4 Balance FI Balance e 4g Balance p F a Balance pI Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume Robe fg ute all V Select T Select T Select B16 Mixer 220 These settings would be correct for recording MIDI if you use a soundcard for MIDI select line in instead if you use an external module bile ite eae When you press this the Rendering will begin The file will be rendered with the name stored in the field above If your BB song is called My First Song the Rendered wave file will be called _My First Song wav The Rendered WAV files are always named beginning with an Underscore character so you can easily identify them OF course you can rename them afterwards and can use the choose button to choose a completely different name for the wave file Don t call it My First Song wav since
54. added a harmony the harmony parts wouldn t be seen on the notation you would only see the lead part Now you can write the harmony part directly to the notation track so you can see it and print it out just like any other part Notation Enhancements Keystroke Note Editing You can easily edit notes using only keystrokes now By stepping through the notes one by one when a note is highlighted you can change the pitch using the cursor keys and other values timing Chapter 2 Summary of New Features duration channel with other hot keys This speeds up editing of notes For example you can record a song using the Melody Wizard which will have the correct timing and durations but incorrect pitches Then you can quickly step through the notes of the song using the cursor up down keys to fix the notes and you ll end up with a Melody as good as if you had played it on a MIDI keyboard Notation range You can specify an upper limit of a note range so that high notes won t result in an excessive number of ledger lines Enhanced Event List Editing You can edit events including all MIDI events and lyric events using the new Event List Harmony enhancements You can specify a harmony to only occur for notes longer than a certain duration There are new options for how the program fixes the harmony when chord changes occur during a sustained note harmony And there s a use guitar voicings harmony type that uses real guitar chord voic
55. al up tempo 8ths rock style with 5 insts ac piano 2 bass 34 drums guitar 28 and organ 19 More intensity at b T 155 Generic Example Tune Higher and Higher SPIRIT STY Spirit Praise and Worship style Memo Medium fast shuffle style with 5 insts piano bass drums guitar amp brass section Spirited congregational feel At b more intense add hand claps amp tamb T 175 Generic Example Tune Leroy Brown TWILAI STY Twilal Praise and Worship style Memo This is a fast 3 4 rock style with 5 insts piano bass drums PolySynth GM 91 amp slow strings T 180 Generic Example Tune Jesu Joy of Man s Desiring WORSHIP STY Worship Praise and Worship style Memo A slow 16th Pop Rock ballad style with 5 insts el piano 6 bass 36 guitar 28 drums strings 50 The a section is un busy Busier with big back beat at b T 85 Generic Example Tune Rainy Days and Mondays Styles Disk 19 Requested Styles for Band in a Box Introduction and Overview Note Because these styles use some of the newer Stylemaker features you must have Band in a Box Version 8 0c or higher for these styles to work properly Over the past year we ve been reading your suggestions for styles as posted in the www pgmusic com Styles Wish List page We realized that it was time for Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation 105 us to create some of those requested styles which might not warrant a full sty
56. an make an echoed track sound fatter by beating the pitch of the delayed signal against the unmodified pitch of the original signal Old tape based echo units such as Echoplex had cheap tape transports These units had a lot of wow and flutter in the tape speed which wobbled the pitch of the echo That is one reason tape based echo units sounded fatter and more musical than many modern digital delay units Adjust the modulation controls to emulate this aspect of a tape based echo unit Feedback EQ Old tape echo units did not have flat frequency response Sometimes highs would fade away before lows and on other units the lows would die away before the highs The Echoplex was designed to have a peak in the upper midrange with low freq and high freq rolloff The Echoplex was excellent for many guitar and voice effects giving a spacious sound without making the musical lines muddy Enable Feedback EQ to emulate some of the old tape based echo effects The Feedback EQ only affects the signal on the delay line it doesn t affect the tone of the dry signal The Feedback EQ is a three band cut only parametric EQ It is a cut only effect to avoid runaway feedback at extreme settings For a bright echo decay assign one or more of the EQ bands to cut lows and mids For mellow echo decay assign EQ bands to cut highs Chorus A chorus of voices sounds thick because each individual voice has slightly different pitch and timing The Chorus e
57. anced to the bar beyond the copy This speeds up song entry For example if you re entering a song that has a repeating section of chords for 8 bars Type in the first 8 bars of chords and then move to bar 9 and then type k lt ENTER gt The last 8 bars will be copied to bar 9 16 and the cursor will be moved to bar 17 so you re ready to continue with the tune If you get to bar 25 and would like the chords from 1 8 to be copied to 25 32 type k 1 and this will copy 8 bars from bar 1 to bar 25 The chords always get copied The Melody Soloist and Lyrics also get copied if these items are set in the Edit Copy from to dialog 70 Chapter 13 Other New Features Appendix A Audio Plugins DSP Effects A Primer Band in a Box is capable of producing high quality rendered DSP effects in software These effects are designed to simulate outboard effects i e rack mount devices or stomp boxes without the additional cost of extra equipment Since each software effect is actually a small program they are much more flexible than the hardware they simulate providing for many more parameter changes and presets than are usually available in outboard equipment Additionally unlike most hardware outboard effects software DSP effects are applied directly to the digital waveform and require no analog to digital conversion process to impact a track the result no A to D noise These features combine to make
58. ano comping bass and drums Sight reading was NEVER so much fun before the Jazz Soloist series Start the program playing slow it down to a tempo that you can sight read the solos at and then read along with these great jazz solos You ll be improving your reading and playing while having FUN at the same time The on screen notation scrolls ahead so you can sight read without interruption Musicians studying improvisation typically learn by copying other soloists performances There are several key ingredients for this process to work correctly hearing the solos seeing and printing the music and they are all offered together in this program Includes the standalone Jazz Soloist program PLUS files in Band in a Box format Windows users can see print the notation in the standalone program and Band in a Box Mac users can see print the notation in Band in a Box Learning to solo has never been so much fun PG Music Inc Music Software Programs 123 The Roland Virtual Sound Canvas Wwindows Mac software MIDI synthesizer The Virtual Sound Canvas is a software application for Windows and Macintosh that directs MIDI file data in real time through the CPU of a sound capable computer rather than the MIDI processor chip of an existing sound card This high speed software adds a sophisticated musical enhancement for a dramatic improvement in the performance of MIDI files and any PG Music Inc program with the true instrument fi
59. ar chords There may be 5 10 chord variations available for each note For example a Cmaj7 chord with a single melody G note on top at the 5 position might show this display originally on the guitar and notation FC Frack Displayed is Melody z 10 BIDIP G S M S Chord So When you press the Ch button you now get a guitar chord 46 Chapter 6 Guitar Enhancements Track Displayed is Melody 40 7 3 9 i i B D P G S M S You can see that a chord has been inserted with the G melody note on top It is present on the guitar neck notation and TAB If you continue to press the Ch button you get different variations of the chord Nt The N and N buttons work in a similar manner except they convert to a single guitar note Pressing the buttons repeatedly will change the note to be displayed on a different string at the same pitch These functions are useful for preparing a guitar track to be displayed exactly as you d like to see it on guitar Guitar Harmony Option The Harmony editor has a new option that allows a Harmony to be assigned as a Guitar Harmony In this case the harmonies chosen will always be playable on guitar For example Harmony 32 J Pass has been assigned to a guitar harmony So if you choose Harmony 32 you ll hear realistic Guitar chords The harmony features are discussed in more detail elsewhere The Guitarist Automatic Guitar Chord Solos We ve saved the best new Guitar feature for
60. ase on individual instruments Peak Limit This checkbox adds a Peak Limiter to the output of the compressor making compressor clipping impossible The Peak Limiter has instant Attack and program dependent release With Peak Limit disabled a slow Attack setting could cause compressor clipping on fast loud transients Some classic old style tube compressors had fairly long attack time perhaps 100ms and fairly short release time perhaps 250ms This gives a pumping sound which is prized by many musicians It is not a transparent compressed sound rather a pleasing special effect Settings in this range can easily cause transient distortion unless Peak Limit is enabled Gate Expander An Expander increases the difference between soft and loud sounds The Band in a Box Expander is a downward expander which means it does not affect loud signals but reduces the level of quiet signals Threshold Signals below threshold are attenuated but signals above threshold are not affected Ratio Adjust how drastic the attenuation is below threshold At 1 2 Ratio a 6 dB reduction of input level yields a 12 reduction in output level At 1 10 Ratio a 6 dB reduction in input level would have a 60 dB reduction in output level effectively chopping off or gating low level signals Modest Ratio settings can subtly reduce low level noises between musical notes and phrases without having obvious undesirable side effects High Ratio settin
61. ayed at the top of the screen e g 4 58 Polyphonic adjust of Melody tracks This function will convert a polyphonic track to a monophonic track by eliminating note overlap optionally preserving the double stops chords in the track For example if you have a Melody that has a lot of notes that overlap each other for example a G note that lasts 2 beats followed by an A note a beat later Chapter 13 Other New Features 69 Choosing the command Melody Eliminate Note Overlap will cut the duration of the G note to a little less than 1 beat in duration so there is no note overlap Choosing the next option on the menu will preserve double stops so that notes that start at near the same time as in a chord or double stops are not considered to be overlapping and therefore not truncated Omit Lead In if Intro is present If a song has an intro its usually not necessary to play the 2 bar lead in count There s a new option to always OMIT the lead in if an intro is present _ Play lead in even if Intro Present This option is set on the Options Prefs Dialog Normally if there is an intro to the song you don t need a count in K Quick Copy Option By simply typing K at a bar followed by ENTER key you can instantly copy the last 8 bars to the current position By adding additional keys in the K command you can customize this e g Typing K12 3 would copy from bar 3 for 12 bars to current position The current position is adv
62. bass banjo guitar amp Mandolin Walking bass and guitar runs at b T 50 120 Examples Heavy Traffic Ahead Foggy Mountain Special BGWALTZ STY Bluegrass Waltz style Memo An acoustic up tempo Bluegrass 3 4 time style with bass banjo guitar amp mandolin At b crosspicked guitar mandolin fills and chordal banjo T 90 180 Examples Blue Moon of Kentucky Tennessee Waltz BGWALTZD STY Bluegrass Waltz with drums style Memo Alternate to BgWaltz Sty with light simple drums added Up tempo Bluegrass in 3 4 time At b crosspicked guitar mandolin fills amp chordal banjo T 90 180 Examples Blue Moon of Kentucky Tennessee Waltz BIGPINK STY Big Pink style Memo In the style of The Band Van M Bob D this acoustic style features acoustic rhythm guitar piano bass and drums At b add 2nd guitar T 80 Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation 99 Examples The Weight Tears of Rage Tupelo Honey DOGFUNK STY Dog Funk style Memo Mandolin driven funk groove style with a 16th note shuffle feel With mandolin guitar acoustic bass and fiddle Fiddle plays staccato chops at a fills at b T 100 Examples Butterfat Dawgfunk DOGFUNKD STY Dog Funk with drums style Memo DogFunk Sty with drums added Mandolin driven funk groove style with a 16th note shuffle feel mando g b drs amp fiddle T 100 Examples Butterfat Dawgfunk DOGSAMBA STY Dog Samba style Memo A modern New Acoustic Samba in t
63. beat pattern This means that all of the information past 8 beats less 50 ticks will be deleted This feature is useful to erase busy playing that is present near the end of a pattern and also delete notes that are just taking up space in the style Chapter 9 StyleMaker Enhancements 59 LP There is an event list for Editing Notes in patterns using a list editor To access this press the Notation Editor for the Style Maker then press the button Track Displayed is Thru You can then edit the notes of the current pattern using an event list 60 Chapter 9 StyleMaker Enhancements Chapter 10 Big Piano Window Big Piano Window Overview Big Piano Window We ve added a new Big Piano Window showing you the notes of any track on a piano keyboard You can set the size of the Window range of the piano and number of octaves to display You can also display notes names or guide notes showing the scale notes of the current key Notes can be displayed using a different color for each note There s an Auto Octave setting that will scan the track to be displayed and auto size the piano to the largest size that would display all of the notes This Big Piano makes it easier to learn piano parts from within Band in a Box halk The Big Piano Window is launched or closed by pressing the Piano Icon on the toolbar at the right middle of the screen or pressing Ctrl Shift N or choosing Notation Big Piano Window Once launched you
64. bes have soft distortion because overloaded signal peaks are not abruptly whacked off with a straight line Instead overloaded signal peaks are gently rounded off There is only one control Gain Increase Gain to increase the amount of Soft Distortion Reverb Reverb is the spacious sound of multiple reflections in a room In most rooms reverb has three distinct phases The listener first hears the direct sound from the instrument Then he she hears a group of distinct echoes first reflections from the walls and ceiling 74 Appendix A Audio Plugins After the first reflections comes a build up of more closely spaced echoes from secondary reflections bouncing between the room surfaces As the reverb decays the echo density builds up into a final sheen of hundreds of ever quieter echoes The Reverb knobs can be adjusted to emulate various types of rooms Pre Delay The delay before the onset of first reflections Rvb Time The time it takes for reverb to decay Reverb Time is usually measured as RT6O the time it takes for reverb to decay to a level 60 dB below the dry signal level Rvb Density The density of low level echoes near the end of the reverb tail High density settings add a sheen to the sound HF Decay The rate at which the high frequencies die away as the reverb decays Rooms with hard surfaces do not have much high frequency decay but rooms with soft absorbtive surfaces have more high frequency decay M
65. ch more Learn the riffs licks and tricks 116 PG Music Inc Music Software Programs The Barbershop Quartet Windows multimedia vocal program The Barbershop Quartet is a professional fully featured music program containing all time favorite Barbershop songs and an interactive multimedia history of barbershop singing in America We ve recorded each voice tenor lead baritone and bass on a separate track allowing you to listen to each part independently Powerful multimedia features let you study the arrangements hear the music and sing along with a top barbershop quartet Made with the assistance of SPEBSQSA the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America Inc Sing along to the songs that made America a singing nation The Bach Chorales Windows multimedia vocal program The Bach Chorales is a professional fully featured music program containing inspiring performances of Bach s famous Chorales Listen to a professional choral ensemble sing some of J S Bach s greatest compositions complete with a detailed multimedia history of the life and times of Johann Sebastian Bach See the music notation on screen as you listen to the audio performance Print out engraver quality notation for further study Powerful multimedia features let you study the arrangements hear the music and sing along with a top choral ensemble The foundations of vocal harmony PLUS multimedia fu
66. d solo In the example above chords with 2 6 notes will be included Chapter 7 The Guitarist 55 Embellish Chords Embellish how often i oo A Embellizh types ths Sths Hone Sth fths gthg Embellishment types allows setting of the types of embellishments to do e Pop Guitarists should be set to use 9ths only This will change C7 chords to C9 and Cm7 to Cm9 e The 7ths 9ths setting should be used for Jazz This adds the embellishments of C to Cmaj7 and Cm to Cm7 e The 7 9 11 13 embellishment should be used for Advanced Jazz Guitarists and add 1ths and 13ths voicings If you make changes to the Guitarist settings you need to manually save them by pressing SAVE AS and then finding the BB home directory and saving the file as c bb default git E t Import Copy Paste xport ar Individual Guitarists can be copied pasted exported or imported to from disk 56 Chapter 7 The Guitarist Chapter 8 Style Selection Enhancements Style Selection Enhancements Selecting a style to use for your song has been made much easier and more fun When you open the new StylePicker Window it shows you which styles would work best in your song highlighting all styles that have a similar tempo genre and feel to your song You can preview styles before loading them so you can hear what they ll sound like in your song The window remembers the style and genre that you ve used and will return to it the next time you
67. de select the recording of the rest of the inputs Audio CD microphone in and MIDI All of these selections are done from the Recording Panel of your Windows soundcard Mixer This is launched from the Rendering dialog Here is the Rendering to WAV dialog Render to Audio File Save the WAY file with this name CAB My First Song WAW Re Render to WAY File d Test way Save in other Audio format Test other I Merge in Audio Track Adjust Audio Track volume by jo dE This will render convert the BB song Thl lt Set Recording Properties to a WAWY or other audio file Ifyou use a SOUNDCARD for your MIDI sounds make sure the RECORDING PROPERTIES are set for MIDI RECORDING If you use an EATERNAL MODULE for MIDI sounds Sound Canvas etc connect an audio cable fram the ouput of the module to the line in jack on the soundcard and set the RECORDING PROPERTIES of the soundcard to LINE IN RECORDING Close Cancel Help Rendering is a 3 step process Set the inputs to record your outgoing MIDI This would be MIDI if you use a soundcard for MIDI and line in if you use an external module SEE Press the RENDER to WAV file button and wait as the song is recorded rendered in real time 32 Test WAY oo Test the WAV file by playing it to ensure that the MIDI is being recorded and the volume levels are correct and that the volume of the audio track if any is in balance with the MIDI tr
68. delity found in a Roland GM GS format wavetable synthesizer Windows requirements Windows 95 98 with Pentium 166 MHz Pentium II or equivalent Macintosh requirements OS 7 55 or later with PowerPC 603e 133 MHz or higher PG Music programs sound spectacular SC PRO Editor Librarian windows Mac utility program Full featured Editor Librarian for Roland Sound Canvas and other Roland GS Products On screen programming for easy patch edits and storage built in mixer MIDI file player and more Sound Canvas editing made easy 124 PG Music Inc Music Software Programs Index Audio Features 21 applying audio plugins 29 audio menu 23 audio options dialog 30 audio rendering 31 audio track 21 audio track recording 25 compressing the WAV file 34 Internet song formats saving 21 main screen 22 other audio formats 34 overdub 27 playing the audio file 29 save song as wave 21 set recording properties 25 start point 27 test recording level 26 using with other audio programs 35 writing audio plugins 29 Audio Plugins 71 Auto Wah 87 Chorus 76 Compressor 71 De Ess 89 DSP primer 71 Echo 75 Enhancer 82 Equalizers 78 Exciter 83 Gain Change 79 Gate Expander 73 Hum Filter 80 Pitch Shifter 84 Reverb 74 Ring Modulator 78 Soft Distortion 74 auto wah plugin 87 Band in a Box guitar chord solo 16 lyrics 18 main screen 12 record audio 13 recording control 14 recording level
69. ding 50 tunes with guitar flatpick solos in styles similar to Doc Watson Jerry Reed and others Since guitar is such a visual instrument it is easiest to learn by watching the on screen guitar as a flatpick master plays these great solos Slow the music to the tempo you want or step through the solo note by note View or printout the material in notation and tablature The easiest way to learn Multimedia CD ROM Performance Series The Blues Guitarist Windows multimedia guitar program The Blues Guitarist is a professional fully featured music program containing studio recordings of great electric blues guitar music Listen to hot session players perform great sounding blues music while you learn the riffs licks and tricks See the music notation on screen as you listen to the audio performance or watch the on screen guitar Learn the music by slowing down the performance or print out engraver quality notation and tablature for further study PLUS biographies history trivia and much more The thrill of electric blues PG Music Inc Music Software Programs 115 The Rock Guitarist windows multimedia guitar program The Rock Guitarist is a professional fully featured music program containing studio recordings of great Rock electric guitar music Listen to hot session players perform great sounding Rock music while you learn the riffs licks and tricks See the music notation on screen as you listen to the audio pe
70. drivers You can save your settings as named presets by using the Save As button For example if you choose Microsoft ADPCM as the compression method and choose 44K you ll get a 4 1 compression and a bit rate of 43K second You can save this as a preset called MS ADPCM44K or whatever name you like Using the Audio Rendered Stereo WAV file with other programs In the example above we have Rendered a stereo 44K wave file called _My First Song wav This file can be read directly into other programs For example from Media Player or Real Player Plus you would choose File Open Most audio programs have a similar ability to read a 44K Stereo WAV file These programs are able to convert and process the wave file into other formats including the latest Internet formats See these programs for details and requirements for converting files For example Microsoft has the Windows Media Tools available from www microsoft com that can convert WAV files to ASF or WMA files 35 Chapter 5 Lyrics Features New Lyrics Features Note based lyrics Previous versions of Band in a Box had lyrics based on a line at a time We ve added note based lyrics This allows more accurate placement of lyrics as you can place a word under each note As you enter the lyrics the note is highlighted and pressing the TAB or Enter key moves to the next word Note based lyrics are saved with the MIDI file so you can use them in your other MIDI p
71. e Let s check out Styles Disk 19 CHAPTER 4 AUDIO FEATURES Audio Features Overview Using The New Audio Features Audio Items on Main Screen Audio Menu Audio Track Recording Applying Audio Plugins Audio Rendering CHAPTER 5 LYRICS FEATURES Table of Contents 29 31 36 New Lyrics Features Other Lyric Functions CHAPTER 6 GUITAR ENHANCEMENTS CHAPTER 7 THE GUITARIST Select Guitarist Window Guitarist Maker Strumming Settings CHAPTER 8 STYLE SELECTION ENHANCEMENTS CHAPTER 9 STYLEMAKER ENHANCEMENTS CHAPTER 10 BIG PIANO WINDOW CHAPTER 11 NOTATION ENHANCEMENTS CHAPTER 12 HARMONY ENHANCEMENTS CHAPTER 13 OTHER NEW FEATURES APPENDIX A AUDIO PLUGINS DSP Effects A Primer APPENDIX B STYLES DISKS 15 19 DOCUMENTATION Styles Disk 15 Nashville Country Styles for Band in a Box Styles Disk 16 All Blues Styles for Band in a Box Styles Disk 17 Unplugged Styles for Band in a Box Styles Disk 18 Praise and Worship Styles for Band in a Box 4 Table of Contents 36 42 44 48 48 52 54 57 59 61 63 65 67 1 71 91 91 94 98 102 Styles Disk 19 Requested Styles for Band in a Box 105 PG MUSIC INC CONTACT INFORMATION 111 PG MUSIC INC MUSIC SOFTWARE PROGRAMS 112 INDEX 125 Table of Contents 5 Chapter 1 Introduction This documentation covers the new features in Band in a Box Version 9 v Chapter 2 is a Summary of the N
72. e added reverb chorus and panning mainly on the guitars The Demo songs for these styles follow the same naming convention as the styles themselves So for example the DEMO song for PRAISE STY is PRAISE MGU 20 New Praise and Worship Styles BROWNSVL STY Brownsvl Praise and Worship style Memo Slow Pop 16ths w 5 inst piano bass drums 9 guitar 28 amp organ 19 a sec is quiet and un busy At b add guitar busier organ tamb amp claps busier drums w 16th feel T 75 Generic Example Tune Yesterday CRYSTAL STY Crystal Praise and Worship style Memo This is a slow 16ths Pop Rock style with 5 insts clav frt bass elec drums 25 Fr Horn amp Strings Backbeat at a Bigger sound at b T 72 Generic Example Tune The Long and Winding Road FAITH STY Faith Praise and Worship style Memo Combines 2 styles in one funky swing 16ths at a double time driving feel with bass in 4 at b 5 inst piano bass drums guitar amp organ T 120 Generic Example Tune You Won t See Me FOREVER STY Forever Praise and Worship style Memo Soft amp gentle Pop 8ths style with 5 insts el piano frt bass strings 50 strings 49 amp un busy drums a sec string bg s b sec higher strings and more intensity T 68 Generic Example Tune Hello FORGIVEN STY Forgiven Praise and Worship style Memo This is a soft acoustic folk pop style with 5 insts el piano bass drums nylon guitar amp ac g
73. e pre recorded Karaoke tracks to match a vocalist s range If you have a MIDI sequence in E and want to make it easy on the sax soloist you could temporarily transpose the MIDI to Eb or F After recording the sax transpose the MIDI back to E and do a semitone audio pitch shift on the sax track to bring the solo into the proper key Harmonizing Harmonizing is possible but can be a lot of work Harmonizing is most practical on melodically simple parts It can help to pick repeating parts like hooks and chorus melodies so you can re use the harmonized part in several locations in a song rather than laboriously harmonizing every note in every verse Make a clone of the track Open the clone in an Audio Edit window Select and pitch shift each note To make a third interval harmony line different notes in the melody need to be transposed a minor third 3 semitones a major third 4 semitones or a fourth 5 semitones It is a lot of work Best to avoid this task on busy bebop leads 86 Appendix A Audio Plugins Octave Doubling Octave doubling is great on instrumental leads especially electric guitar or sax Duplicate a track then shift the copy by one octave An octave down usually works better than an octave up If you double an octave up the pitch shifted track has very noticeable echo tremolo artifacts which may not be desirable Artifacts In science the word artifact can mean Erroneous results caused by imperfec
74. e somewhat recognizable Mix The mix between original signal and ring modulated signal Mix has an effect similar to the Modulator Amt knob Equalizers The three supplied equalizers have some common features EQ Type Passive EQ is cut only EQ which is the most common type of EQ found on guitar amplifiers and some studio quality tube equipment A band can be cut but it cannot be boosted very much Passive EQ is very gentle tone modification Turn the desired bands very high and cut the bands you don t want Active EQ is the type of EQ found on mixer boards and solid state rack mount equalizers Unity gain is in the center of knob travel Each band can be either boosted or cut by 18 dB Peak Limit If boosting bands Equalizer clipping is very likely If you are boosting a lot enable Peak Limit to avoid distortion Tone Control The Tone Control is a basic four band equalizer as commonly found on mixer strips or guitar amps It provides gentle tone modification 78 Appendix A Audio Plugins The frequencies of Lo Lo Mid Hi Mid and Hi are 80 Hz 400 Hz 2 5 KHz and 8 KHz Graphic EQ A ten band Graphic EQ with ISO centers Each band covers one octave Parametric EQ There are six independently tunable filters The Parametric EQ is the tool of choice for precise control especially handy for adjusting narrow bands for corrective surgery on problem tracks Frequency The center frequency of each bandpass filter
75. eamlessly integrated stereo digital audio MIDI recording amp built in music notation PowerTracks Pro Audio turns a typical soundcard equipped Windows PC into a music production powerhouse Up to 48 tracks of stereo recording with awesome effects amp audio plug ins You can record up to 48 tracks of CD quality audio vocals guitar etc or MIDI using your soundcard and microphone Monitor audio levels with stereo VU meters for Input and Output Full screen Lead Sheet notation display and printout enter edit display music in standard music notation with chord symbols lyrics amp Karaoke style Big Lyrics window On screen piano keyboard amp guitar fretboard show notes as they are played Comprehensive support for guitar including tab display and printout and built in Guitar Tuner Cool animated 3D Drum Kit window play and record the dynamic drum kit with your computer keyboard Great Jukebox player with user controls Seamlessly integrated digital audio and MIDI workstation 2 Volumes of MultiTracks play along CD ROMS now available Now you can have full length 4 5 minutes songs recorded by top studio musicians Each MultiTracks volume comes with 3 CD ROMs packed full of great live recordings of Jazz Blues and Rock songs Each song is conveniently provided in MultiTracks format with each individual instrument recorded on a separate track PG Music Inc Music Software Programs 113 PG Music Inc MasterClass Instruction
76. eaturing these 22 great new contemporary and classic Country styles Most of the styles use 5 instruments and many feature multiple guitar sounds which were inputted from a MIDI guitar controller Some of the styles cross over into the Pop Rock genre Other highlights are sparse and uncluttered contemporary Country ballads a la Shania Judds and GeoJones classic Country shuffles an up tempo fast pickin guitar style a drivin Cajun style a la Buckwheat Zydeco contemporary Country Rock a la Judds or Shania a train beat style a la Vince G a Country honky tonk style a la Hank Jr a Rockabilly style a la Dwight Y a Hillbilly Country blues rock style a la Marty S and much more ALL of the solos that are included in the demos middle chorus are auto generated by Band in a Box Only the melodies are composed by musicians More detailed information about each style is available by pressing the Memo button of the Demo tune Many of these Demo tunes were saved with some added reverb chorus and panning mainly on the guitars The Demo songs for these styles follow the same naming convention as the styles themselves So for example the DEMO song for C_Cajun Sty is C_Cayun Mgu Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation 91 22 New Nashville Country Styles C_IOBAL STY Contemporary Country Ballad Memo Contemporary med tempo Country Ballad Style a la Judds Reba McIntyre Instruments Piano El Piano at b Bass Drums and Acoustic
77. elody parts or the THRU part that you are playing along Chapter 2 Summary of New Features Easy STEREO MONO panning menu items These allow you to quickly set the instruments to a stereo panning or mono panning Total time for song in Minutes and seconds are now displayed at the top of the screen e g 4 58 Polyphonic adjust of Melody tracks This function will convert a polyphonic track to a monophonic track by eliminating note overlap optionally preserving the double stops chords in the track If a song has an intro its usually not necessary to play the 2 bar lead in count There s a new option to always OMIT the lead in if an intro is present K Quick Copy Option By simply typing K at a bar followed by ENTER key you can instantly copy the last 8 bars to the current position By adding additional keys in the K command you can customize this e g Typing K12 3 would copy from bar 3 for 12 bars to the current position The current position is advanced to the bar beyond the copy This speeds up song entry and more Chapter 2 Summary of New Features 11 Chapter 3 Quick Start Tutorial Quick Start Tutorial For Version 9 Upgrade The full description of the new features in Version 9 of Band in a Box are provided elsewhere This tutorial is a quick start tour of the new features in Version 9 Band in a Box Overview It is assumed that you are somewhat familiar with the previous release of Band in a Box If n
78. emo Classic Country style a la Merle H or Clint B 5 Instruments drums bass piano acoustic guitar and electric guitar T 105 145 Examples Okie From Muskogee Better Man C_PIANO STY Country Piano Ballad style Memo Contemporary Country Ballad style a la Trisha Y or Matraca B 4 instruments piano amp acoustic guitar at a Bass amp cello added at b T 70 90 Examples Walkaway Joe I Swear Lying To The Moon C_RICKY STY Ricky Fast Classic Country Memo Uptempo Classic Country style a la Ricky S 5 instruments drums bass piano acoustic guitar amp electric guitar with wild fills T 120 160 Examples Country Boy Orange Blossom Special C_UPTOWN STY Uptown Country Honyktonk Memo Country Honkytonk style a la Patty L with a driving guitar amp bass sound 5 Instruments drums bass electric guitar acoustic guitar and muted guitar T 115 160 Examples Blueside Of Loveless Six Days On The Road C_VINCE2 STY Vince 2 Country Boogie Train Memo Uptempo Country Boogie Train Beat style ala Vince G or Tractors 4 Insts drums bass piano elec guitar T 150 180 Examples One More Last Chance Baby Likes To Rockit CELTICI STY Celtic 1 Contemporary Celtic Memo Contemporary med fast 12 8 triplet feel Jig or Re electric 4 instruments acoustic guitar banjo acoustic bass amp percussion Full guitar strum simple acoustic bass and banjo off beats T 125 Examples Irish Washerwoman Morrison
79. ent position If set to 5 for example the chords will be limited to chords that can be played within the current position and up to 5 frets away from the current position e Force Open Position forces all of the guitar voicings to the open position The exception is when the Melody notes are so high that they can t be played using open position voicings If the Melody is in a high range and you want a forced open position you should likely transpose the Melody to a lower octave prior to generating the solo On New chord 50 ticks Beat 1 Beat 2 ticks Beat 3 10 ticks Beat 4 j 50 ticks Passing Note 50 ticks The settings for Note duration thresholds to get a chord refer to the length that a note must be before a chord will be generated Chapter 7 The Guitarist 53 Looking at the settings above for Guitarist 2 these would be interpreted as follows If a note occurs and it is the First Note of a New Chord and the note is not followed by another note for at least 50 ticks 120 ticks 1 quarter note then a chord will get voiced 90 of the time Ifa note occurs not the first note of a chord that is on Beat 1 of a bar and the note is not followed by another note for at least 50 ticks 120 ticks 1 quarter note then a chord will get voiced 90 of the time Similar interpretations for notes occurring on Beat 2 3 and 4 You can see that the threshold is higher for notes on beat 2 and 4 which is ho
80. es featuring every conceivable blues chord progression You will find them in 2 folders BlueJamC 94 Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation 80 tunes in the key of C and BlueJamF the same 80 tunes in the key of F Turn on the BB Jukebox and wail Because these are specifically Blues styles typing in a C or a C7 chord will have the same effect the Stylemaker will respond with a bluesy lick based on a C7 type of chord If you specifically want a Major only chord you should type in a specific chord such as C2 C6 Cmaj7 C69 etc Of course all other chords are also supported Another suggestion study how the demo tunes were done More detailed information about each style is available by pressing the Memo button of the Demo tune The Demo songs for these styles follow the same naming convention as the styles themselves So for example the DEMO song for CURTISM STY is CURTISM MGU 23 New Blues Styles BEEBROCK STY BeeB Rock Blues Memo This St 8ths back beat rock blues style features 5 insts el Piano el Bass el Guitar LiveMIDI Drums amp Strings at a amp b Sparse fills amp comps from the Guitar T 106 Examples The Thrill is Gone Any St 8th rock tune BEEBSHUF STY BeeB Blues Shuffle Memo This blues swing shuffle features off beat snare drum rhythm 5 insts Piano ac Bass overdrive Guitar fills LiveMIDI Drums Organ w fills at b T 130 Examples Caledonia Everyday I Got the Blues CHUKS
81. ettings is zero You can over ride these settings if you know what you re doing Otherwise just press the Get From Soundcard button and they ll set themselves Offset in ms lo The Offset in MS is not a setting that gets set automatically It defaults to zero This allows you to adjust the timing that the soundcard plays audio in relation to MIDI Normally you d leave this at zero but if you need to fine tune the sync between audio and MIDI you could change this setting W When opening songs show message if WAY file not found When Opening songs show message if WAV file not found A Band in a Box song called My Song MGU will have the associated wave file called My Song wav If BB loads this song file and it can t find its associated file it will put up a message to that effect If that message is distracting and for some reason you don t have the wave files that were recorded with the songs then you can disable that message Reading the Audio and MIDI tracks into other programs If you have a BB song that has an Audio Track as well and want to export that song to a sequencer like PowerTracks Pro Audio Cubase or CakeWalk you can do it as follows e For a Band in a Box song called MySong MGU the associated WAV file audio track will be called MySong wav e You should make a MIDI file by pressing the MID button Save the MID in the same folder as the song Then your sequencer can read the entire file by do
82. ew Features v Chapter 3 is a Quick Start Tutorial v Chapters 2 13 and Appendix A B describe the New Features in detail This major new upgrade to Band in a Box includes over 50 new features We ve added a full featured digital audio track so you can add live vocals or guitar playing to your song There s also an intelligent style selection wizard which shows you what styles would work best in your song highlighting all styles that have a similar tempo genre and feel Guitarists will love the guitar enhancements tablature display and a great automatic feature that creates a pro quality guitar chord solo to any melody displayed perfectly on the guitar fretboard There s a new Big Lyrics Window with selectable font and size and a Big Piano Window that displays a piano with large size keys and optional note names And much more Read on for details There have been many improvements and added features in Version 9 0 for Windows 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 All of 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 6 Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Summary of New Features New Features in Band in a Box Version 9 are Audio Track
83. ffect attempts to mimic this effect by adding pitch and time modified copies to the source signal 76 Appendix A Audio Plugins Delay The average delay between original and chorus signals Feedback The amount of delay which is routed back to the delay input High Feedback settings make tunnel or tight steel cable effects Modulation Rate The rate at which pitch is wobbled Random Make the modulation Rate slightly unstable so it has a less mechanical sound Depth The amount of pitch modulation If Depth is set too high the effect will have an objectionable out of tune sound At slow Rate you can use high Depth settings but at fast Rate lower Depth settings are recommended Flange A distinctive hollow whooshing effect It is caused by mixing a signal with a very short delay The delay causes a comb filter effect where there are many peaks and dips in the frequency response As the Flanger sweeps up and down all the peaks and dips sweep up and down with the spacing of notches constantly changing Many Flangers have controls for Delay and Modulation depth However since a Flanger acts like a filter we have implemented our Flanger with frequecy knobs instead Min Base Freq Max Base Freq These two knobs set the upper and lower limits of the first peak or notch in the comb filter To get a wider sweep set a wider distance between Min and Max Base Freq Resonance The amount of Flanger feedback High resonance
84. g Control checkboxes at the bottom we ve selected to record the input from Microphone and have de selected the other options line in audio CD We ve also de selected record of outgoing MIDI since we don t want this to bleed on to our audio track Now that we ve set the Recording Properties we can set our VU levels of the recording Test R ding Level U Met Press the Test Recording Level button to do this As this dialog displays you can test the level of your microphone testing 1 2 3 so that the VU levels are not too high should be green yellow but not red OK now we re ready to record Set the record audio to the start of the song and press RECORD You ll now hear the 2 bar count in and can record your voice singing along to Band in a Box 14 Chapter 3 Quick Start Tutorial As the song plays you can look at the VU meters to ensure that you haven t sung too loud and got into the red zone of the VU meters indicating a clipping of the sound When you ve completed recording your section say after 16 bars of singing press the ESCAPE key or STOP button on the main screen answer YES to Keep Audio Take Now press SAVE and Save your new vocal arrangement Call it Old Folks at Home With Vocals MGU Technical note There ll now be an Old Folks at Home With Vocals MGU song with just the BB MIDI information and there ll also be an Old Folks at Home With Vocals WAV audio file with the audio informati
85. g chords within the current position other Guitarists use a wider range Listen for the strumming effect on the guitar see the authentic guitar voicings on the fretboard and choice of when to voice note vs chord for the arrangements Guitar Chord Solo written successfully There were 1 037 notes on the track and with the chord solo there are now 1 575 Chapter 3 Quick Start Tutorial 17 STOP the song Let s edit this chord solo a little Open the Notation Window You ll notice that there is guitar tab displayed This is because the track type for the Melody has been set to Guitar automatically by the Chord Solo routine You can change this on the Melody menu if you don t want to see tab by setting the track type to Normal On the Guitar Window Press the Chord Step Advance buttons INS and DEL on the NUMPAD These advance and highlight a chord at a time When you have a note or chord highlighted press the Ch or Ch Insert Guitar Chord button on the guitar or 7 or 8 on the NUMPAD keypad Each time you press the Ch or Ch you ll see that the guitar chord changes to a different voicing cycling through the available 5 10 voicings possible for each chord Some notes won t have any chord voicings for example a C note on a Cmaj7 chord because it is always a passing tone Nt In a similar manner you can convert a chord to a guitar note and use the Insert Guitar Note button for this Pressing the N or 3 or 4 on the
86. gs can give more easily audible results Sometimes these high Ratio effects are useful as a special effect Attack The time it takes the Expander to respond to increases of input signal Appendix A Audio Plugins 73 Release The it takes the Expander to attenuate the signal after it falls below threshold Low Release combined with high Threshold and high Ratio can cause odd sounding decay tails Sometimes it can sound distorted This is called Gate Chatter and is a common side effect on expanders If you get Gate Chatter try more conservative settings Using Compressor and Expander Together High compression settings can raise low level noise between musical phrases to objectionable levels In these cases enable both the Compressor and Gate Expander Set the Expander to attenuate between musical phrases so the Compressor will not sound so noisy When both compression and expansion are enabled the signal passes through the Expander first then passes through the Compressor and finally the Peak Limiter 1f enabled Soft Distortion Soft Distortion is similar to the effect of over driving analog tape or tube amplifiers Hard Distortion is caused by over driving digital audio systems or solid state amplifiers Soft Distortion is mellow Soft distortion generates mostly even harmonics Even harmonics can complement musical tones and chords Odd harmonics have a raucous sound making un musical tones and chords Tape or Tu
87. h quality audio effects built in Compressor Gate Distortion Reverb Echo Chorus Flanger Ring Mod Tremolo Tone Control Graphic EQ Parametric EQ Gain Change Volume Change De Ess Auto Wah Pitch Shift Exciter Enhancer Hum Filter The Kill Entire Audio menu item is used to erase the Audio Track 23 Erase Audio Choruses will erase some of the choruses Erase Region will erase a specified region of bars beats of audio Adjust Output level quick uses the Windows Mixer to adjust the output level of the audio track You can also use the Windows Mixer directly by pressing the Speaker icon Adjust Level of WAV file permanently changes the volume of the audio track itself It uses a sophisticated peak limiting algorithm to ensure that increases in the volume do not result in clipping of the sound which would be heard as a loud distortion It accepts units of decibels dB Zero means no change in the level whereas 6 would be a doubling of the sound and 6 is a halving of the sound level Timeshift audio in ms milliseconds is used to timeshift the whole audio track a certain number of milliseconds Normally you wouldn t have to timeshift a track at all There are settings in the Audio Options Dialog see below that can adjust for synchronization differences between your soundcard and MIDI devices for example the VSC 88 has a 430ms latency But the timeshift audio command can be useful in special cases 100
88. he style of Dawg Features guitar bass mandolin amp congas The mandolin is slightly less busy at b T 140 Examples Caravan Mugavero F_ROK3_4 STY Folk Rock 3 4 style Memo Loping Folk Rock waltz with acoustic guitar bass and drums At b a 2 against 3 feel and acoustic piano joins in T 130 Examples Lucky Man Edmund Fitzgerald FOLK101 STY Folk 101 style Memo Popular Folk style of the 60s typified by PP amp M Kingston Trio amp early Beatles Nylon guitar bass and percussion At b add 2nd ac guitar arps T 110 Examples And I Love Her Where Have All the Flowers Gone FOLKIOIP STY Folk 101 with Piano style Memo Similar to Folk101 Sty with ac piano added Nylon guitar ac Piano bass and perc At b add 2nd ac guitar arps T 110 Examples And I Love Her Where Have All the Flowers Gone FOLKBLU STY Folk Blues style Memo A slow Folk blues style with finger picked guitar ac Piano bass harmonica amp drums Drum variation at b T 70 120 Examples Steamroller Blues King Bee FOLKFUNK STY Folk Funk style Memo An acoustic Diddley shuffle style with strummed guitar bass and drums At b add second guitar playing popcorn parts T 100 Examples Who Do You Love Black Cow FOLKROKI STY Folk Rock 1 style 100 Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation Memo A modern Folk Rock acoustic style with 2 acoustic guitars bass and drums At b Half time drums and Pete Townsend style s
89. ic Software Programs The Pianist Volume III Windows Mac classical piano performance program Volume 3 is packed with 170 brand new performances of Chopin Brahms Bach Liszt Debussy Ravel and many more You ll find popular selections from light opera including Delibes Lehar Rossini Gounod and Gilbert and Sullivan For duet lovers there are the complete Brahms Waltzes and Liebeslieder Waltzes If you already own Pianist 1 and 2 Volume 3 will give you the complete set of Chopin Etudes and Preludes Plus you will find new memos about the composers and their music as well as improved memos on all of the music in The Pianist This is simply a must have upgrade 170 selections including the complete Brahms Waltzes Light Opera and Duets The Pianist Volume IV Windows Mac classical piano performance program Volume 4 adds 200 fabulous selections to The Pianist program There is now more music by your favorite composers including Haydn Mozart Liszt Debussy Faur Schumann and Schubert Now listen to the complete Mozart Piano Sonatas Chopin Etudes Nocturnes Preludes Ballades and Scherzi Schumann Carnaval and Album for the Young complete Debussy Preludes complete and much more Debussy Preludes Mozart Sonatas Chopin Etudes and more The Pianist Volume V Windows Mac classical piano performance program For the first time all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas are available on this new must have volu
90. ill be displayed at the top of the screen If you haven t saved the song yet your window title will look like this In the example above the song is titled NoName SGI and there is a 3 4mb WAV file associated with the file and that s 38 seconds of audio The total duration of the song is 3 minutes and 20 seconds You should save the song give it a name of My First Song Then the window title will look like this C B1 My First Song SGU 3 4mb WAY 0 36 3 20 Once the song is saved the wave file will be called with the same name as the song that is My First Song wav So if you ever need to work with the WAV file in another program you can just directly edit the wave file If you do this make sure the WAV stays a 44K mono WAV file Applying Audio Plugins When you ve recorded audio you d likely want to apply some type of effect to the audio recorded The usual one is Reverb Choose the Audio Plugin that you want from the Audio Plugins menu For Reverb choose the Reverb option You ll then see a plugin with its own settings specific to the type of plugin The plugins are described in Appendix A of the manual There is also extensive on line Help accessed from the plugin directly Inside the plugin you can Preview the plugin effect and if you like it you can then Proceed with processing the entire WAV file You can UNDO the plugin effect from within Band in a Box by choosing Edit Undo Technical Note for Programmer
91. ing for 2 bars more For a song like this it is more natural to end the song at the end of bar 32 s To set this in BB press the Song Settings button and set the Start the ending 2 bars early to true Enhanced Volume Control When adjusting the volume of a part say to increase the volume if you hold down the Alt key while clicking on the volume change it will also decrease the volume of the other parts This is especially useful when you ve reached the maximum volume of a part but still want it to be louder By holding down the alt key the other volumes get reduced which has the desired effect This is most useful for Melody parts or the THRU part that you are playing along with Band in a Box For example let s say you re listening to a song and can t hear the Melody properly You select the Melody part and click on the volume control to increase the Melody to full volume 127 but it s still not loud enough Now you hold down the ALT key and click to continue to increase the Melody The Melody will stay at 127 but the other instruments will all drop in volume the overall effect is an increased prominence of the Melody beyond full volume Easy STEREO MONO panning menu items These allow you to quickly set the instruments to a stereo panning or mono panning Choose these items directly from the GM Menu Set Panning to MONO and Set Panning to Stereo Total time for song in Minutes and seconds are now displ
92. ing the following inside your sequencer e Open the MIDI file e Import the WAV file track into the sequence Note PowerTracks Pro Audio version 6 automates this it recognizes that this is a BB file with a wave file associated with it and will read them both in In earlier versions of PowerTracks Pro Audio and other sequencers like CakeWalk you ll need to do steps 1 and 2 as above Audio Rendering ee You can Render a MIDI file to an Audio WAV file by pressing the WAV button or choosing Audio Render to wave file The Process of Converting a MIDI file performance in Band in a Box is referred to as Rendering It involves Recording the MIDI performance in real time as a stereo WAV file The process differs from usual audio recording in that you aren t recording from an input source of a microphone or line in but instead are recording the OUTPUT of the MIDI as it goes out your soundcard to your speakers note if you use an external MIDI module as your driver then you would be recording from the line in to the soundcard If you use your soundcard as your MIDI driver It is essential that when you Render the file you have selected the correct inputs and are recording the outgoing MIDI and not recording the mic or line in 31 If you use an external MIDI module Sound Canvas etc as your MIDI Driver You should connect a cable from the audio out of the Sound Canvas to the line in on the soundcard and then
93. ings that display correctly on the guitar fretboard We ve enhanced the existing harmonies file to take advantage of these new features so your harmonies will sound better Solo Around The Melody option There s a new option for the Soloist part to create a solo around the melody that is solo at times when the Melody is silent Add your own chord shortcuts Have you found a chord that BB doesn t recognize If so add it to the your chord shortcuts file and BB will allow you to type in that chord in the future This also lets you define chord shortcuts one letter abbreviations for longer chord names J for Maj7 etc Read in Chords from a PowerTracks or Band in a Box MIDI file Many of PG Music s programs have MIDI files with the chords in them You can open these files in Band in a Box and the chords will be imported onto the chord sheet Chapter 2 Summary of New Features 9 StyleMaker Enhancements 10 Larger style limit Previous limit was 40K for styles This is now 65K allowing for bigger styles Copy all a substyle patterns to b slots This feature is handy when only a volume increase tweaking is required for the b substyle Delete all patterns in this row option added Pattern trim routine that deletes notes past the end of a pattern or optionally a specified distance from the end of a pattern Event list for Editing Notes in patterns using a list Enhanced Song List Window The Song List Window acce
94. internal software based DSP effects an indispensable tool for the computer audio engineer Real time effects can aid in both the recording and playback process while rendered effects are used more in the mix down process Band in a Box offers rendered effects which aids in this mix down process Rendered effects are effects that are applied to tracks after the recording process and when applied take some time to generate before the affects can be auditioned They are generally of much higher quality than their real time counterparts Rendered effects are also much easier to create so there is usually more of them and a more varied selection of different effects to choose from Tip When using more than one effect on a given track it is best to plan the order in which you apply the effects as the order in which they are applied can significantly vary the end result e g Compression Expansion is usually added last whereas Reverb or Echo is added after Distortion and or Chorus etc The Band in a Box effects plug ins are all accessed under the AUDIO menu What follows is a list of some of the rendered effects and the user definable settings that Band in a Box ships with at the time of this writing with more being added all the time Compressor A compressor can squeeze the dynamics of a performance In other words compression reduces the difference between loud and soft parts of a track Compression is useful fo
95. into your favorite programs for further study It s too easy to learn from these great jazz pianists The New Age Pianist windows Mac piano performance program This program includes over 70 New Age and New Age Jazz style piano pieces performed by top New Age Artists This is a beautiful collection of solo piano compositions inspired by the natural world Learn all about New Age piano music where it came from and how it s played A full range of piano techniques are presented from the ambient music style of George Winston to the New Age Jazz styles of Chick Corea and Keith Jarret PLUS a photo album of stirring nature scenes and much more Over 4 hours of beautiful music perfect for playing in the background while you work in other programs Beautiful piano music inspired by nature The New Orleans Pianist Windows Mac piano performance program In a theme similar to The Blues Pianist we have created The New Orleans Pianist This program has a huge library of over 50 New Orleans style piano music standards played on MIDI keyboard by top New Orleans Pianists Henry Butler Jon Cleary Tom McDermott Joel Simpson and David Torkanowsky This is the wonderful rolling bluesy New Orleans piano style made famous by Professor Longhair and Dr John Includes on screen music notation and printout ability Windows version so that you may learn every nuance of the pieces Plus we ve included music trivia q
96. ith this project which features driving mandolins acoustic guitars banjos fiddles and acoustic bass inputted from a MIDI guitar controller Marty has worked with us on other PG Music programs such as The BlueGrass Band and the Bluegrass Soloist Disk You asked for great sounding acoustic styles We got em You ll find styles emulating groups like the great David Dawg Grisman Dave Mathews Bon Jovi Newgrass Reunion Ry Cooder There are also classic driving straight ahead Bluegrass styles ala Bill Monroe Folk Rock ala The Band or Van Morrison a James Taylor Latin style 60s Folk styles ala Limeliters Kingstons amp PP amp M up tempo Appalachian with fast fingerpickin banjo licks a new acoustic Grisman type Samba slow Folk blues with finger picked guitar and lots more These modern and classic styles feature 4 or 5 instruments and they all use acoustic instruments only That s why we re calling them Unplugged see we re getting you ready for Y2K We picked the styles by using your suggestions and requests from the PG Music forum Styles wishlist Incidentally at WWw pgmusic com it s now possible to hear and download the demos for any of our 475 Band in a Box styles ALL of the solos that are included in the demos are auto generated by Band in a Box Only the melodies are composed by musicians Here s a tip for those of you who would like to have more style variation within a tune try combining similar or different styles by
97. ix The proportion of dry signal to the reverb Peak Limit A peak limiter to avoid signal clipping With most reverb settings clipping is not a danger so the Peak Limiter defaults to OFF If extreme reverb settings cause clipping enable the Peak Limiter A large hall will have long Pre Delay long Rvb Time and moderate Rvb Density A hard large room such as a Gymnasium would have high Rvb Density and little HF Decay A soft large room like a concert hall with carpet padded seats and hangings would have medium Rvb Density and high HF Decay A small hard room such as a tile washroom would have short Pre Delay medium to long Rvb Time high Density and low HF Decay A small soft room such as a large living room would have short Pre Delay short Rvb Time medium to low Density and high HF Decay Echo Echo A thinner effect than Reverb Short echoes can sound like a tunnel and long echoes can sound like the Grand Canyon Delay The time between the original signal and the first echo Appendix A Audio Plugins 75 Feedback The number of times the echo will repeat Mix Relative balance between the original signal and the echoes Modulation When Modulation is enabled the pitch of the echo is modulated or wobbled Rate The speed at which the pitch is modulated Random Make the modulation Rate slightly unstable so it has a less mechanical sound Depth The amount of pitch change Slight pitch modulation c
98. le WAV file you always want to record the outgoing MIDI It is essential that you understand this Technical Note This is only true if you are using the soundcard for your output MIDI driver If you have an external MIDI device like the Roland Sound Canvas the outgoing MIDI doesn t get recorded you d need to route it back into the line in to record the MIDI When you press the Recording Properties Dialog you ll see the Recording Properties panel of your soundcard s Mixer E Recording Control Options Help Recording MIDI CD Audio Line In Microphone Balance Balance Balance Balance Balance P FOe FU e FH P FU E fF 4A Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume rot ot fot F Mute all I Select T Select IV Select AWEB4 Mixer 220 The Panel displayed here is the typical panel that soundcards use Newer soundcards like the SoundBlaster Live have additional panels From this panel you can set the recording level for the items you want to record Since we are discussing recording of an audio track this is usually vocals guitar etc We ll be using a microphone input or a line in Let s assume we re using a microphone We select the check box to record the microphone Select We de select the items that we re not using recording outgoing MIDI CD audio recording and line in recording Then we set the level of the recording input for the microphone Test R ding Level U Met To do thi
99. le you can quickly find out what Pop Rock Classical etc styles would also work in that feel and tempo and preview how they would sound without leaving the dialog What starts out as a jazz tune can quickly change to another genre complete with new style new tempo and new patches for Melody 58 Chapter 8 Style Selection Enhancements Chapter 9 StyleMaker Enhancements Larger style limit The Previous limit was 40K for styles This is now 65K allowing for bigger styles The larger style limit can only be loaded in by BB version 9 If you are designing styles for older versions of BB you should keep the size to 40K There is anew command to Copy all a substyle patterns to b slots This feature is handy when only a volume increase tweaking is required for the b substyle You can access this from the Style menu in the StyleMaker with Copy all a patterns to b substyle The item to Delete all patterns in this row option is added on the Style menu in the StyleMaker The Pattern trim routine deletes notes past the end of a pattern or optionally a specified distance from the end of a pattern This can be accessed from the Pattern trim Pattern command tim Pattern This trims the pattern by erasing the notes after the of beats select less the of ticks selected Trim the pattern after i 1 beats less i ticks 120 ticks beat Cancel Help In the dialog displayed we are trimming 50 ticks from an 8
100. le a la Hank Jr or David Alan C 5 Insts Drums Bass Piano Acoustic Guitar and Elec Guitar Tempo 100 140 Examples You Never Even Called Me By My Name Family Tradition 92 Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation C_HBILLY STY Hillbilly Country Blues Rock Memo Hillbilly Country Blues Rock Style a la Marty S 5 Instruments Piano Bass Drums Elec Guitar and Acoustic Guitar Tempo 130 150 Examples Hillbilly Rock Six Days On The Road C_JUDDS STY Contemporary Country Rock Memo Contemporary Country Rock Style a la The Judds Dixie Chicks 5 Instruments Piano Bass Drums and 2 Acoustic Guitars Tempo 110 138 Examples Have Mercy I Feel Lucky C_JUKBOX STY Country Honkytonk Memo Country Honkytonk style a la Alan J Mark C Brooks and Dunn 5 Insts Drums Bass Piano Acoustic Guitar and Elec Guitar Tempo 115 160 Examples Don t Rock The Jukebox Working On My Next Broken Heart C_LEROY STY Contemporary Country Blues Rock Memo Contemporary Country Blues Rock Style a la Leroy P or Delbert McC 4 Instruments Piano Bass Drums amp Elec Guitar Tempo 100 130 Examples Hearts Desire Everybody Knows C_PICKIN STY Up tempo Country Memo Up tempo Country Style with Fast Pickin Guitar on chorus b 4 Insts Drums Bass Elec Guitar and Piano Medium to Fast Tempos 110 160 Examples One Way Rider Country Boy That s What I Like About You C_ROCKIN STY Contemporary Country Rock Memo Medium Contemporary Countr
101. les disk of their own You ll find many of those styles in Styles Disk 19 including Brazilian Can o Contemporary Celtic African Soca Caribbean Soul Calypso a great new Jazz Ballad style Reggae and we even answered a request for a Peanuts style The sound of groups like TijuanaBr SergioM B Gees Blondy Elvis BennyG quintet BMarley and more are all represented Speaking of more you told us how much you liked Styles Disk 15 Country sO once again we enlisted the assistance of Nashville guitarist and producer Mike Harrison Styles Disk 19 has 8 great new Country styles in the mode of groups like GarthB VinceG DwightY MerleH RickyS including all new Contemporary Country Ballads Country Honkytonk Train beat Cowboy Drivin Country Piano Ballad and Classic Country You can learn more about the new styles by pressing the Memo button on the Demo tune or by reading the descriptions below Many of these Demo tunes were saved with some added reverb chorus and panning mainly on the guitars The Demo songs for these styles follow the same naming convention as the styles themselves So for example the DEMO song for BGEE_BAL STY is BGEE_BAL MGU Many of the demos feature a Solo in the middle chorus which was created by one of the Band in a Box Soloists The memo usually references which one was used Our style name convention uses the character to indicate brushes One of these styles J LIONEL STY uses the brushe
102. ll assume we re recording vocals using a microphone Alternatively you could be recording a guitar using the line in on your soundcard Load in a song like Old Folks at Home MGU or any song Press the microphone button to start recording or choose the Audio Record audio menu item You ll now see the Audio Recording Dialog Chapter 3 Quick Start Tutorial Record Audio Record Audio From Start of Song From Bar 1 Tag m Chorus End gt Overdub undeniying Audio f Recording Control X Options Help Recording Balance MIDI Balance CD Audio Balance Dan Line In Balance e F Microphone Balance e F Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume es Cnn M Show VU Meter while recording fin Hote all Select T Select J Select M Select Recording YU is on the Recording Panel most soundcards x AWE64 Mixer 220 Record Cancel Help 51 The Dialog usually opens up with another window at the right this is the Recording Control Hint If your soundcard doesn t open with the recording control shown and instead shows the playback control you ll need to select Options Properties Recording in the menu of this Mixer or upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows 98 E If the Recording Control has not launched you can manually launch it by pressing the Recording Control button on the audio dialog As you can see from the Recordin
103. ll see the Big Piano Window Big Piano Key of Eb Track rr is Melody Era e gt REM so picsims These are the default settings for the Big Piano Window These can be customized using the Settings button The Big Piano Window displays a single track on the piano The piano can be sized by dragging the bottom of the Window to enlarge it vertically The key of the song in this case Eb is displayed at the top The range of the piano is set automatically based on the actual notes in the track to show the largest possible piano The notes of the scale in this case Eb are circled on the piano with the note names included The root of the scale is colored in red As the song plays scale tones are colored green other notes are colored yellow The name of the note that the mouse cursor is over is highlighted at the top of the window Clicking on the Big Piano plays a note using the THRU part and this can be recorded or sent to the Notation Window when entering notation You can select the track to use by clicking the BDPGSMS line of buttons The Settings dialog allows you to set the various options on the Big Piano Chapter 10 Big Piano Window 61 62 Big Piano Settings Scale Tone Absolute Hone You can set a specific range for the Big Piano a starting note and a of octaves by over riding the auto settings Show Out of Range notes ensures that all notes will be played on the big piano If Send Note
104. lyrics in the font of your choice 40 Chapter 5 Lyrics Features This dialog has options to allow printing i e copying to clipboard of note based and or line based lyrics With either option you can choose to include the chord symbols or not have double line spacing and margin settings Process Lyric Lines cleans up the display of lyrics by inserting removing extra spaces in line based lyrics By doing this function on the first 4 bars of the song you d get the following to Paste into your word processor This is the Busker Leadsheet referred to in the previous section Old Folks At Home F Way F7 down upon the Bb Swanee Gm7 River etc etc Chapter 5 Lyrics Features 41 Other Lyric Functions On the Lyrics menu you can see a number of Lyric functions These all apply to note based lyrics There is a sub menu at the bottom of items that apply to line based lyrics The note based lyrics functions are Enter Lyrics at curent bar Ctrl L Big Lyrics Window Ctrl Shift L Copy Lyrics to Chipboard Copy Tet chorus Lyrics to whole song Erase all Lyrics Erase Note Lyrics only Kill Lyrics Choruses Move Lyric ahead to timeline Move Lyric back bo timeline Timeshift Lyrics ticks lnsert Beatla in Lyrics Delete Beats from Lyrics Edit Lyrics as Evert List Line based Lyrics Erase all Lyrics Erases note based and Note based Lyrics Erase Note Lyrics Erases only the note based lyrics
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106. mple To try out the new styles from Styles Disk 19 press the OPEN button and load in a song from c bb styles19 Once you have a song loaded in the directory will be set to c bb styles19 You can then press the SONG button to see a full list of the songs Since the songs are shipped as short file names let s convert them to long file names using the title of the song as the new file name Choose File File Utilities Auto Rename to Long File Names Use the default settings After pressing OK the songs will be converted to long file names The program may then rebuild the songlist doc file Now load in the demo songs for styles disk 19 and listen to the new styles Press the JukeBox button to hear all of the styles demo ed This is the end of the tutorial The next sections examine the features in detail 20 Chapter 3 Quick Start Tutorial Chapter 4 Audio Features Audio Features Overview Audio Track Feel like adding vocals to your Band in a Box song Or a live guitar part No problem with version 9 You can easily record a track of CD quality audio using the new audio features Plug in your guitar or a microphone to your soundcard press the Microphone record button in Band in a Box and Band in a Box will add your track to the song You can overdub the audio parts to add in harmonies etc The MIDI and audio tracks are compatible with other sequencers and sound programs like PowerTracks Pro Audio SoundForge Cubase
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108. ng 2 Jazz Guitar he qle position Guitar Patch Jazz Electric Guita Part of Song strum Preferred Fret Position jo 5 Pop w Barre chords fi 2 v Auto Set 6 J Pass 4 notes 6 frets lV Auto Se Chorus J Pass 4 notes in position _ 6 James Taylor open a an Jazz Guitar plays within the position 11 Guitarist 11 12 Guitarist 12 13 Guitarist 13 14 Guitarist 14 15 Guitarist 15 Patch is Jazz Electric Guitar Range 0 frets 16 Guitarist 16 Strum 80ms 17 Guitarist 17 ChordTypes Best 100 OK 50 Ady 25 Unusual 0 18 Guitarist 18 Barre O Embellish 7th amp 9 No open strings 19 Guitarist 19 Information press Edit to change these Generate i Whole Song C Part of Song Set ha Bar fs Chorus fi bars Select the Range of the song to use You can either generate a chord solo for the whole song or just a region of the song In either case remember that you need to have an existing melody to work with of course you can use the Melodist to generate a Melody if you don t have one Chapter 7 The Guitarist 49 Preferred Fret Position Select the Main Guitar Position to use BB has a setting called Auto Set that will set the main guitar position for the solo for you based on the key signature For example in the key of C BB will choose the 5 position as the best position for the chord solo to be played But you can over ride this for example if you wanted the solo to be in the 12
109. ng tips You can set the delay time before the hint appears and the duration of the tips in milliseconds Jazz Up the Chords Jazz Down the Chords When switching genres from Pop to Jazz or Jazz to Pop its often necessary to change the chords from Pop rock chords C to Jazz Type chords Like CMaj7 Now you can quickly do this by new menu options called Jazz Up Jazz Down Choose the menu item User Jazz Up or User Jazz Down to do this e Jazz Up This function simply converts triads to 7 chords producing a leadsheet more suitable for Jazz If you have a song with triad chords like C or Dm you can choose to Jazz Up the chords When you do this you get an option of whether you d like to see Maj7 Maj6 or Dominant 7 for the major triads e Jazz Down This function converts 7 chords to triads for a leadsheet more suited to Pop music Solo Around The Melody option There s a new option for the Soloist part to create a solo around the melody that is solo at times when the Melody is silent Solo Mode C Normal Trade4 s dat C Solo Wizard s Custom To solo around the Melody do the following Chapter 13 Other New Features 67 1 Open up a song that has a Melody preferably a sparse Melody with some space in it that a Soloist might be able to jump in 2 Press the Soloist button Select the Solo Mode Around Melody 3 Set the Soloist to play in All Choruses and un check the Mute Melody in
110. note feel vs 16 note feel Jazz Dizzy Style is the full name of the style SD 5 indicates that the style is found on styles Disk 5 Here s how to use the Dialog L Launch the dialog by pressing the STY button or Ctrl F9 You can search for styles similar to the one you are prototyping by looking for ones with the asterisk or caret symbol When you find one that you d like to test out double click on it and you will hear a preview of your song in the new style M Preview on Double click Note you must set the option Preview on Double Click for this to work Alternatively you can press the PREVIEW button As you hear the style playing you can control playback by pressing the PREVIEW button to play or STOP The Tempo can be set at the top You can REDUCE or EXPAND the duration of the chords useful when changing the feel of songs If the Prompt With Preview item is set the program will ask you if you want to change the feel of the song s melody or auto reduce expand the chord durations when the styles change When the new style is prototyped patches appropriate to the new style get loaded in as long as you have the Auto Change Melody Soloist Patch So when you load in a Chopin Piano Style the Melody patch of your song will change to Piano This allows the song to blend in with the new style The new style picker window is a useful and fun way to audition new styles If you load up a song in a jazz swing sty
111. ns Since anything can be played on the Guitar Part in a Style this is not always possible For the discussion of the new Guitar Track features we ll refer to the Melody part They apply equally to the Soloist part however and all of the commands are available for either the Melody or the Soloist Track Melody Re channel to Guitar Channels menu command This takes a Melody and converts it to Guitar Channels 11 to 16 When it encounters a chord it will determine the fret position that it s most possible to play that chord with Otherwise if its a single note it will play it at the current position at the guitar neck If you want to convert an existing Melody to a customized Guitar part this command is a good starting point and you can edit the track further to achieve a better result Guitar Convert to Chord Convert to Note O40 412 ic 47 43 Chord Solo Ch i Nt f Ntt Chapter 6 Guitar Enhancements 45 On the Guitar Window you will notice some new buttons Ch and Ch are the Convert to Chord Buttons The hotkeys for these are NUMPAD 7 and NUMPAD 8 When you press these buttons the current note on the Melody track gets highlighted and the note gets converted to a guitar chord This is a real guitar chord with a proper voicing that a pro guitarist would play if he she was doing a chord solo with the original note as a melody note You can repeatedly press the Ch or Ch buttons to toggle between available guit
112. on JITERBUG STY Jiterbug Fast Blues Shuffle Memo A 5 inst Sw 8 instrumental jam style at a fast tempo Also in the mode of Stevie Ray Guitar is less busy than Jiterbug2 W ac Piano el Bass el Guitar LiveMIDI Drums amp Organ T 215 Examples Stray Cats Rock Around the Clock JITRBUG2 STY Jitrbug2 Fast Blues Shuffle Memo A variation on Jiterbug Sty this version features busier Guitar 5 insts ac P el B el G LiveMIDI Drums amp Organ T 215 Examples Rip It Up Rock Around the Clock JONLEE STY JonLee Slow Blues Shuffle Memo Real gritty slow Chicago urban blues in the style of JLH Features Guitar riff with Honkytonk Piano fills 4 insts Honkytonk Piano strat Guitar el Bass amp LiveMIDI Drums T 95 Examples Goin to Chicago Any slow blues shuffle MOJO24BR STY Mojo 24 bar Fast Blues Memo A fast 24 bar swing shuffle blues with ac Piano el Guitar el Bass amp LiveMIDI Drums Organ at b T 240 Examples Got My Mojo Workin Any fast 24 bar blues MUDYSLOW STY MudySlow Slow Blues Memo A very slow 12 8 blues a la Mud 5 insts ac Bass Guitar LiveMIDI Drums amp Organ pad ac Piano fills at b T 65 Examples Tobacco Road Any Slow Blues SLOARPBL STY Slow Arpeggio 12 8 Blues Memo Triplet style ac Piano and a smooth Sam Cook feel are the main features of this slow 12 8 style 5 insts ac Piano el Bass g amp LiveMIDI Drums Rock Organ at b T 65 Examples It s a Wonderful World
113. on If copying this file from one computer to the next you d need to copy both the song and the WAV file Adjust the volume of the wave file using the Audio Adjust volume permanent command or just use the playback Volume Control That s the end of the record audio portion of the tutorial Let s RENDER a BB song to audio Rendering a song involves recording the outgoing MIDI and converting it to a WAV file This is separate from the recording of an audio track as we ve done in the previous tutorial though you can include any audio track in the final rendered wave file Load in one of your favorite BB compositions WAY Press the Render to WAV button or choose Audio Render to WAV a ae dhdddbedboddbddboddbddbeedbddbded Save the WAY file with this name NBM ol folks at home WAY el Re Render to WAY File Test way Test e IV Merge in Audio Track Adjust Audio Track volume by fo dB This will render convert the BB song R lt Set Recording Properties to a WAV or other audio file lf you use a SOUNDCARD for your MIDI sounds make sure the RECORDING PROPERTIES are set for MIDI RECORDING If you use an EXTERNAL MODULE for MIDI sounds Sound Canvas etc connect an audio cable from the ouput of the module to the line in jack on the soundcard and set the RECORDING PROPERTIES of the soundcard to LINE IN RECORDING C Ses Pees Dee AWE64 Mixer 220 This
114. ony may be removed from the track at any time even after you ve saved and re loaded the song This is done from the menu item Melody Remove Harmony from the Melody track Harmony Maker enhancements These new options are present in the Harmony Maker by pressing the More button Chapter 12 Harmony Enhancements 65 Additional Harmony Options Use Close Harmony i comm ae Use Passing Chords melody Ea Lowest Harmony Hote Overall Harmony Octave Yolume Adjust of Entire Harmony Ho Harmony if duration less than 200 OK to make new harmony with new chord Use Guitar Harmony Yoicings OF Cancel Help You can specify a harmony to only occur for notes longer than a certain duration Many harmonies like the Garner Piano harmony previously harmonized every note This produced un realistic harmonies since a piano player like Garner wouldn t harmonize notes of a short duration You can specify a harmony to only occur for notes longer than a certain duration In the example of Garner we set the threshold to 200ms notes shorter than that will not be harmonized There are new options for how the program fixes the harmony when chord changes occur during a sustained note harmony Most harmonies have a feature that changes the pitch of the harmony voices under the Melody note when the chord changes if the underlying voice wouldn t be a chord tone This sounds unrealistic for certain types of harmonies like Garner
115. opens the Render Dialog and the Recording Control panel Chapter 3 Quick Start Tutorial 15 Use the Recording Control to select recording of OUTGOING MIDI and de select everything else including microphone line in and audio CD Re Render to WAY File Now press the Render to WAV file button This begins the process of recording the outgoing MIDI to WAV The Rendered wave file name is shown at the top It will be called _Old Folks at Home WAV in this example Note that the underscore at the beginning is a convention that BB uses to indicate that this is a Rendered wave file Press the STOP Render button after about 10 seconds so that we can test the level TES MAN Pressing the Test WAV allows us to hear the WAV played by the Windows Media Player Re Render to WAY File n l l If we re satisfied with the recording levels and playback then press the Re Render to WAV but this time let it play for the whole song and it will auto stop at the end We ve now rendered the whole song to audio We now have the Rendered WAV file in a file called c bb _Old Folks at Home wav We can work with this file in any other programs that we have converting it to other audio formats for example Save in other Audio format We can also make a compressed wave file of this directly inside the BB Render dialog if we want This is discussed elsewhere That ends the Render to Audio Portion of the tutorial Let s Add
116. or Cakewalk so your full MIDI and Audio performance can be used in these other programs Save Song as wave file WAV Band in a Box normally exports it songs as MIDI files Now you can directly export the song as a WAV file as well This is referred to as rendering the file from MIDI to audio Once you have it as a wave file you can send it to others or put it on the Internet and they will hear it exactly as you did Or use CD burning software to save the WAV file onto a conventional audio CD so your Band in a Box creations will play in standard audio CD players Save song in Internet formats There are many new formats for saving audio files that take up less space than a wave file Band in a Box can save files directly in some of these compressed audio formats using the drivers that come with Windows Note you must already have these drivers with your Windows system they are not included with Band in a Box Using The New Audio Features You can do the following with the new Audio Track in Band in a Box L 2 Add an audio track to your Band in a Box song such as vocals guitar sax etc Process the Audio track using Audio Plugins like reverb chorus etc over 20 plugins included Export the Audio and MIDI track to sequencers like PowerTracks Pro Audio Cubase or Cakewalk for further work Chapter 4 Audio Features 21 Even if you aren t recording an audio track you can use the new Rendering Features
117. or each note There s an Auto Octave setting that will scan the track to be displayed and auto size the piano to the largest size that would display all of the notes This Big Piano makes it easier to learn piano parts from within Band in a Box Guitar Tablature The notation screen now has an option for Guitar Tablature that displays any track in standard Guitar TAB This can be seen on the notation screen leadsheet window or printed out Automatic Guitar Chord Solos to any Song Now you can easily make and learn a professional quality guitar chord solo to your favorite song Load in any song with a Melody into Band in a Box or generate a song with a melody Then open the Guitar Window and Press the Auto Generate Chord Solo button Band in a Box then generates a chord solo on guitar for that song using the same guitar chords that the pros use Chord types can be selected to use standard advanced or embellished chords The chord solo plays on the correct positions on the guitar window so you can see the performance played on guitar Or view it in notation or TAB and print it out Jazz Up the Chords Jazz Down the Chords When switching genres from Pop to Jazz or Jazz to Pop its often necessary to change the chords from Pop Rock chords C to Jazz Type chords Like CMaj7 Now you can quickly do this by new menu options called Jazz Up Jazz Down Convert Harmony Part to Notation track Previously if you
118. ot here is a brief primer Band in a Box is an automatic accompaniment program Type in the chords to any song like C or Fm7b5 pick a style and press PLAY Band in a Box or BB as it often referred to then automatically generates a full backing arrangement of piano bass drums guitar and strings This allows you to by typing in the chord progressions quickly build up a library of songs Over the years BB has added new features such as a Notation Window Notation Printout Melody track auto Harmonization and a StyleMaker allowing you to create your own styles With recent releases of BB version 7 8 we added major new features called The Soloist and The Melodist BB can using the Soloist automatically generate a professional quality solo improvisation along to any chord progression This is written to the Soloist Track The Melodist creates songs from scratch including Chords Melodies and even a Title Explore BB Version 9 0 OK let s begin to explore BB version 9 0 We ll begin the tutorial in earnest when we get a song playing with the new guitar audio lyric style selection and guitar features But first let s just look around the main screen Boot up the program and look at the main screen There are several new areas visible on the main screen e New Buttons for Version 9 e New Menu Items e New Windows There are new audio features allowing you to record an audio track along to any song 12 Chapter 3
119. ou adjust Threshold so it would cause maximum gain above 24 dB the Ratio knob is automatically reduced Similarly if you adjust Ratio to cause maximum gain above 24 dB the Threshold knob is automatically adjusted Attack The time it takes for the compressor to respond to increases of level To compress individual notes in a track set Attack to low values To gently compress the overall level of a track set Attack to higher values At low Attack settings each note will be modified which can keep the notes in a phrase more consistent At high Attack settings individual notes are not affected Individual notes can retain their emphasis but the overall level of the track 1s controlled Release The time it takes for the compressor to respond to decreases of level Low Release settings allow the compressor to spring back quickly after a loud note High Release settings cause the compressor to wait awhile before raising gain after a loud note 72 Appendix A Audio Plugins Use low Release settings to compress individual notes Use high Release settings to compress the overall level of a track Very fast Attack and Release settings can sometimes cause intermodulation distortion on full range mixes For instance on a track with both kick drum and hihat the kick drum might audibly pump the level of the hihat notes It is a good rule of thumb to use moderate Attack and moderate to long Release on mixes but use shorter Attack and Rele
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121. r leveling a performance If sections of a performance are too loud and other sections too soft compression can level the performance Appendix A Audio Plugins 71 Compression can make a signal loud and punchy This is desirable when preparing music for noisy environments such as club music car music radio and television sound or small computer multimedia speakers The Band in a Box compressor is an upward compressor An upward compressor works by making quiet signals louder A downward compressor works by making loud signals softer Downward compression is useful in analog boxes but a digital downward compressor can reduce the resolution of a signal Threshold Set the level where compression begins Below Threshold the signal is boosted a fixed amount Above Threshold as the input gets louder the gain is gradually reduced Gain is always unity at O dB full scale input level Ratio Adjust how drastically the compressor behaves At a 2 1 ratio an input change of 6 dB would yield an output change of 3 dB An input change of 12 dB would yield an output change of 6 dB At a 10 1 ratio the difference between loud and soft signals is reduced An input change of 6 dB would yield an output change of only 0 6 dB and a 12 dB change would yield an output change of 1 2 dB At high ratios loud and soft signals come out almost the same level The 32 bit processing has a maximum gain of 24 dB which is adequate in most cases If y
122. rase to indicate a line break The notation now looks like this Opt Z N Print M Note Rest Mono Clean LoopScn B D P G s m s L You can see that the lyrics are written under each word Lyric Position You can control the height that the lyrics are written by the setting in the Notation Options called Lyric Position A setting of 10 puts the lyrics directly under the treble clef higher values put them lower down Lyrics Event List You can edit the lyrics using an event list as well This allows you to enter lyrics at any point not just tied to a note e Once you press the button you then press the Edit Lyrics button You can then see the Lyrics Event List 38 Chapter 5 Lyrics Features Edit Lyrics Edit Insert Append Delete Edit Notes Sme Help From here you can edit lyrics or INSERT new lyrics or APPEND lyrics to the end of the track or DELETE lyrics A single lyric event can be 128 characters So note based lyrics can be entered using the note by note method or fine tuned with the Lyrics Event List Tip Lyrics can be used to store other types of text information for example you could use them for comments about sections of the music Big Lyrics Window Once you have the lyrics entered for the song you can view the lyrics in a Big Lyrics Window Launching or closing the Big Lyrics Window Press Ctrl Shift L to launch the
123. re loaded by choosing Melody Remove Harmony part Guitarists can be customized using the Guitarist Maker This is described in the next section Guitarist Maker Guitarist Haker Edit Selection Window When you launch it you ll see the available options The Guitarist Maker is launched from the Guitarist 52 Chapter 7 The Guitarist N 2 Jazz Guitar single position p flee Gutar single postion ee Guitar Patch Chord Types to Include Frets to Move Force Open Position Best Chords 100 On New chord 50 ticks o z Good Chords 50 Beat 1 5o ticks po x Advanced Chords Beat 2 150 ticks po Unusual Chords 0 Beat 3 110 ticks 70 5 ae arre Chords Beat 4 ia Li Lie Include Open Strings Passing Note 50 ticks OK to include chords with thi TT si Time threshold to get a chord ms fioo 00 4 notes Time to Previous Note 00 notes 5 notes 100 z 3 notes 100 x Gnotes 100 x Strumming See Ono eet eae aa MS Plucked Embellish Chords Embellish how often 100 3 a fo Delay start time of strum by Strummed Eaolan ie AREARE E Time to the next note The Guitarist is selected from the Num field You can title the Guitarist using the Title field The Memo field allows a 100 character memo about the Guitarist The Guitar Patch is selected using the Guitar Patch field Frets To Move field if set to zero the guitar chord solo will be limited to chords that can be played within the curr
124. rformance or watch the on screen guitar Learn the music by slowing down the performance or print out engraver quality notation and tablature for further study PLUS biographies history trivia and much more Hot players cool licks neat tricks The Jazz Saxophonist windows multimedia instrumental program The Jazz Saxophonist is a professional fully featured music program containing studio recordings of great jazz saxophone music Listen to hot session players perform great sounding jazz saxophone music while you learn the riffs licks and tricks See the music notation on screen as you listen to the audio performance or watch the on screen keyboard Learn the music by slowing down the performance or print out engraver quality notation for further study PLUS biographies history trivia and much more A must have program for students teachers and jazz buffs The Rock Saxophonist windows multimedia instrumental program The Rock Saxophonist is a professional fully featured music program containing studio recordings of great rock saxophone music Listen to hot session players perform great sounding rock saxophone music while you learn the riffs licks and tricks See the music notation on screen as you listen to the audio performance or watch the on screen keyboard Learn the music by slowing down the performance or print out engraver quality notation for further study PLUS biographies history trivia and mu
125. rmonic 2 120 Hz J Harmonic 3 180 Hz J Harmonic 4 240 Hz J Harmonic 5 300 Hz ry w Harmonic 6 360 Hz jo Previous Copy Faste Save Preset Preview 20 Secs Stop Help Cancel Line Frequency Set to the local power frequency USA and Canada uses 60 Hz Filters Choose the active notch filters among the lowest six harmonics of power hum Each filter is a tenth octave wide Sometimes hum is pure and sometimes hum contains upper frequency harmonics Though these notch filters are narrow they still affect your audio to some extent so it is best to use the smallest number of filters necessary to do the job For instance if there is no noticeable hum above the 180 Hz range the Harmonic 4 5 and 6 filters are not necessary and should be disabled Try a short Preview with only the first filter enabled If hum is audible in the Preview enable the second filter and Preview again Keep Previewing and enabling filters until the hum is gone Appendix A Audio Plugins 81 The Hum Filter is not very useful for buzz Buzz contains high frequency hum harmonics caused by RF interference from fluorescent lights electric motors or cheap light dimmers Sixty Hz line buzz can contain harmonics at 60 Hz intervals all the way into the high frequencies 420 480 540 600 660 720 780 840 900 Hz etc Since there are so many possible buzz harmonics in mid and high frequencies notch filters are not ve
126. rograms Big Lyrics Karaoke Window We ve added a Big Lyrics Window to Band in a Box Selectable font font size and Window size This is great for singalongs or Karaoke New Lyric Functions Since there are now 2 types of lyrics line based lyrics and the new note based lyrics we ve added functions to convert note based lyrics to line lyrics This will update your old songs that might have line based lyrics to note based And the copy lyrics to clipboard feature has been enhanced you can select which elements should be copied margin size etc With previous versions of Band in a Box the only type of Lyrics input was line based lyrics This allowed you to type in a line of lyrics that would correspond to the notation This was limited in that the Notation then couldn t change its layout to a different number of bars per line and the Lyrics weren t written to MIDI files since MIDI files expect lyrics to be done on a note for note basis With Version 9 you are still able to enter and display lyrics in line based format but now have the option to enter and display lyrics in note based format The Lyrics functions are accessed from the new menu called Lyrics 36 Chapter 5 Lyrics Features Lyrics Enter Lyrics at current bar Big Lyrics Window Ch Shift Copy Lyrics to Clipboard Copy Tet chorus Lyrics to whole song Erase all Lyrics Erase Note Lyrics only Kill Lyrics Choruses First Chorus Middle Choruses
127. ry practical Of Band in a Box s current available audio tools the Gate plugin is probably the best tool for Buzz Enhancer Dynamically brighten tracks while adjusting the relative balance of mid and bass frequencies The Enhancer is a clean effect which does not use distortion The Enhancer can be more effective than High frequency EQ for brightening tracks High frequency EQ boost can increase any hiss that might be in the audio The Enhancer boosts highs when the midrange frequencies are loud enough to mask hiss in the recording so an Enhanced track may sound less noisy than an EQ d track Audio recorded with a cheap microphone or transferred from cassette can benefit from the Bass Balance controls lahanna HF Cara Fag Hil HF Em Theth He HF Trez iky pet Q iziiHe The Enhancer processes audio in three bands Bass Midrange and High frequencies The relative levels within the bass can be adjusted The overall 82 Appendix A Audio Plugins level of the mid frequencies can be adjusted and the highs can be expanded relative to mid frequency signal level The Bass band in the Enhancer includes frequencies below 480 Hz The Midrange band is between 480 Hz and the HF Corner Frequency The High Frequency band is above the HF Corner Frequency setting Mid Level Adjust the loudness of mid frequencies HF Corner Freq The border between the midrange and high frequency bands HF Exp Thresh High frequencies
128. s Writing Band in a Box Audio Plugins External Audio Plugins can be easily written for Band in a Box When BB calls the plugin it writes an c bb input txt file that includes information such as the tool number for the plugin and the name of the input wave file and the output wave file The plugin gets registered on the BB menu by including a small PANNN INI file where NNN is the name of the Plugin s EXE If you have a 29 look at the Delay plugin i e the P DLY INI file and then look at a sample INPUT TXT file that BB writes prior to launching the plugin and the small Output txt file that the plugin writes on completion you should have what you need to write a plugin There are more DOCS available on our web site www pgmusic com and sample Delphi code to write plugins if you re interested The plugins can be written in any language since they just need to interface with BB through the Input txt Output txt and P NNN INI file Audio Options Dialog Audio Settings Audio Track Render WAY Hono 446 Stereo 44F DMA Size bytes Doo o 0 pO DHA Offset bytes Get from soundcard m Offset in ms o M When opening songs show message if WAY file not found Caneel Heb Most of the settings in this dialog are set automatically by the auto testing of the soundcard This test can be repeated by pressing the GET FROM SOUNDCARD button This includes the DMA Size and Offset settings The usual value for all of these s
129. s Jig CELTIC2 STY Celtic 2 Contemporary Celtic Memo This variation of CELTICI1 adds a second nylon guitar Med fast 12 8 Jig or Reel 5 instruments acoustic guitar nyl guitar banjo acoustic bass amp percussion T 125 Examples Irish Washerwoman Morrison s Jig ELVISI STY Elvisi 50s Rock shuffle blues 108 Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation Memo 50s rock blues shuffle with 4 instruments piano bass drums amp vocal background Piano plays strong shuffle figure T 170 Examples Rip It Up Don t Be Cruel J_LIONEL STY Lionel Slow 40s Jazz Swing Ballad Memo Non Brushes variation of J LIONEL style A slow 40s swing ballad style Smooth Vibes 5 instruments vibes piano bass guitar drums no brushes T 75 Examples Lover Man But Beautiful J LIONEL STY Lionel Brushes 40s Swing Ballad Memo A slow 40s swing ballad style a la Hamp with Benny The vibes lay down a smooth chordal pad throughout 5 instruments vibes piano bass guitar drums brushes T 75 Examples Body and Soul Misty L_CANCAO STY Latin Can o Brazilian Pop Bossa Memo Slow smooth Brazilian Pop Bossa Can o means Song 5 instruments warm pad b d nyl guitar and strings Cello at a Drums play a backbeat guitar plays bossa rhythm T 85 Examples Any Bossa wave Dindi L_VOCE STY Latin Voce Brazilian Pop Bossa Memo Pop Bossa Rumba with 3 2 Clave Pulse Drums play light backbeat 5 instrumen
130. s drum kit GS 41 For SoundBlaster users only SB with Sound Fonts will have brushes and the SB defaults to no brushes SB users need to launch the AWE Control panel the top SB BB button will do that and then you need to load in the GS Sound Font SB 16 users will not brushes available The SB AWE32 AWE64 SB Live and better will have a GS SoundFont and hence brushes available If you do not have brushes available you should use the alternate style J_LLIONEL STY which uses the standard drum kit GS 1 Once again remember at PG Music we take requests Thank you for your suggestions and keep them coming 106 Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation 26 new Requested Styles 3GIT_16 STY 3 Guitars 16ths Memo A versatile Pop Jazz Folk 16ths style with 3 acoustic guitars amp acoustic Bass no drums 4 insts 2 acoustic guitars nylon guitar and acoustic bass Tempo range from 80 150 T 100 Examples Any Pop Jazz or Rock ballad any Bossa B_GEES1 STY BGees 1 80s Disco Memo 80s Disco a la BGees 5 instruments electric piano muted guitar electric bass drums amp strings At a muted guitar riff low string pad amp sustained chords At b Disco feel higher strings T 110 Examples Any Disco tune B_GEES2 STY BGees 2 Pop 16ths Memo 70s amp 80s dance craze Pop 16ths a la BGees 5 instruments smooth electric piano acoustic guitar muted guitar low riffs bass straight 2 feel amp
131. s properly you ll need to see a Recording VU Meter that shows you the level of input on your soundcard This should be done prior to recording You do this by pressing the Test Recording Level VU Meter While this dialog is open you can sing or talk Testing 1 2 3 and you should be able to see the levels of the recording color coded as green yellow red Ideally the sounds should remain in the green and avoid the red altogether Unlike analog recording where its good to get a 26 hot high signal digital recordings need to absolutely avoid high levels since any overload clipping of the signal will result in a ruined recording When you press the Test Recording VU Meter button this launches the Windows mixer The recording settings are on the recording panel of this Mixer Note BB opens the Windows Mixer with the window titled Recording Control On some older systems Win 95 it may open with the Window titled Volume Control this is the playback window and you ll need to select the Recording Control manually by choosing Options Properties Recording Recording U is on the g paein If you don t see any movement on the VU meters then its possible that your soundcard shows its VU meters on the Playback panel the SoundBlaster Live does this In this case you should set the option Recording VU Meter to is on the Playback Panel Next you should set the start point for the recording You can record from
132. s to Notation Window is clicked clicking a note on the big piano will insert a note to the notation track if the notation is in editable notation mode Note Names and Note Colors can be used in a manner similar to the Notation settings Chapter 10 Big Piano Window Chapter 11 Notation Enhancements Notation Enhancements Overview Keystroke Note Editing You can easily edit notes using only keystrokes now By stepping through the notes one by one when a note is highlighted you can change the pitch using the cursor keys and other values timing duration channel with other hot keys This speeds up editing of notes For example you can record a song using the Melody Wizard which will have the correct timing and durations but incorrect pitches Then you can quickly step through the notes of the song using the cursor up down keys to fix the notes and you ll end up with a Melody as good as if you had played it on a MIDI keyboard To use this function you do the following 1 Open up the Notation Window Move to the note that you want to edit and then press the Chord Advance INS or DEL key on the Numeric Keypad This highlights the current note 3 With the note highlighted in red use the cursor up down keys to change the pitch of the note You hear the pitch change as the note changes Tip If the function highlights a chord and you only want a note highlighted use the SHIFT Arrow Right Left to move a note at a time 4
133. settings make the peaks louder and the notches deeper creating a more pronounced effect Invert Invert the delay against the original signal Invert and non Invert have distinctly different Flange sounds with the Invert version being a bit more classic With Invert enabled low frequencies are attenuated and the first filter Peak is at the Base Frequency With Invert disabled low frequencies are not attenuated and the first filter Notch is at the Base Frequency Invert might be better on guitar but non Invert may be better on bass guitar Modulation Rate The rate that the filter sweeps between the Min and Max Base Frequencies Appendix A Audio Plugins 77 Random Randomize the rate to avoid a mechanical sweeping sound Ring Modulator Ring Modulation is a strange effect which is best for non pitched sounds such as gongs unusual percussion and robot voices Ring Modulation is not very useful on ordinary melodic or chordal parts Ring Modulator is a balanced modulator or four quadrant multiplier Carrier and Modulator signals are mixed together and only the sum and difference frequencies are passed The original frequencies in each signal are supressed Modulator Freq Set the frequency of the modulator sine wave Modulator Amt The amount that the audio the carrier is modulated by the sine wave At 100 you get pure ring modulation At lower values you get partial ring modulation which makes gritty sounds that ar
134. ssed by pressing the SONG button used to have a limit of 800 songs This has been enhanced to 5 000 songs and full information shows for each song title filename stylename Melody Lyric style present status The window auto sizes to fill the screen Song Endings option The usual Band in a Box ending is 2 bars appended to the end of the song This new option gives you an alternative to end the song on the last bar of the song Band in a Box will still play an ending on the chord that you specify and the ending will occur as a 2 bar phrase beginning 2 bars before the end of the form This results in more natural endings for many songs New Lyric Functions Since there are now 2 types of lyrics line based lyrics and the new note based lyrics we ve added functions to convert note based lyrics to line lyrics This will update your old songs that might have line based lyrics to note based The copy lyrics to clipboard feature has been enhanced you can select which elements should be copied margin s1ze etc Enhanced Volume Control When adjusting the volume of a part say to increase the volume if you hold down the Alt key while clicking on the volume change it will also decrease the volume of the other parts This is especially useful when you ve reached the maximum volume of a part but still want it to be louder By holding down the alt key the other volumes get reduced which has the desired effect This is most useful for M
135. style music so these styles would be a great addition to your Band In a Box styles library even if you are not generally into Praise And Worship music We ve got styles that emulate the group sounds of a broad spectrum of the Praise and Worship genre like Rich Mullins Out of the Grey Point of Grace Michael Smith Carolyn Arends oe Chapter of Acts and more There are some great foot stompin Congregational styles that make you want to clap your hands and get right into the spirit There are slow and peaceful contemplative Pop Ballads as well as medium and fast contemporary Pop Rock Shuffle 3 4 tempo Rock Latin and Country grooves Many of our ideas for these styles came from your requests for Praise and Worship styles as posted in the PG Music Forum Styles wish list so keep those suggestions coming we really listen to and appreciate your feedback Here s a tip for those of you who would like to have more style variation within a tune try combining similar or different styles by pressing the F5 key at any bar For example subtle variations can be achieved by combining styles with a 102 Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation similar time feel such as CRYSTAL STY with KINGDOM STY Of course combining different sounding styles will produce more dramatic variations More detailed information about each style is available by pressing the Memo button of the Demo tune Many of these Demo tunes were saved with som
136. that is the name of the audio track wave file Save the WAY file with this name CAB My First Song WAV Choose 33 The file is now being rendered ta an audio file The file is recorded as the song plays so this process takes a few minutes At the end of playback the process will be completed and this dialog will close automatically REMEMBER UNLESS YOU HAVE MIDI SET TO RECORD IM THE RECORDING PROPERTIES NOTHING GETS RECORDED When you press the Render button a dialog will popup indicating that the Rendering is proceeding You can STOP this at any time and if you stop it early you ll be able to listen to the portion of the file rendered When the Render is finished a message will popup indicating the name and size of the saved file Test WAY You can then use the TEST WAV button to test the WAV file This uses Media Player MPLA YER EXE to play the wave file Compressing the WAV file using the Windows Audio Compression Manager ACM Drivers aie le lhe eels draal If you choose this option BB will launch the Windows Audio Compression Manager applet That is the same Windows dialog that launches from the Sound Recorder File Properties Convert option Sound Selection Ei Ea Name untitled d B A RETo Format Microsoft ADPCM Attributes 44 1 OU Hz 4 Bit Stereo 43 EBs 0K Cancel 34 From this dialog you can choose the type of compression that is appropriate from the available
137. the Start of the song or somewhere in the middle by choosing a bar and chorus to start the record Also Record MIDI No HIDI recording C Also Record MIDI to Melody C Also Record MIDI to Soloist In most cases you will only be recording audio so you should set this to No MIDI recording But if you want to record MIDI at the same time in a situation where you were playing a MIDI piano at the same time as you are singing for example then you could set this setting to Also Record MIDI to Melody assuming that you wanted the MIDI to get recorded to the Melody track use the Soloist setting if you want it recorded to the Soloist track Overdub underlying Audio If you have previously recorded audio on the track and want to overdub to add a harmony for example then you should select the Overdub underlying Audio It is not essential to select it at this point since you ll get another chance at the end of the recording Note that the audio track will not play during record so you d have to sing the harmony without hearing the original audio part When you press RECORD the audio recording begins 27 M Show YU Meter while recording 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 the VU meters When you are finished recording press STOP or hit the Escape Key You will then see the Keep the Audio Take Dialog p K Audio WAY file
138. the audio track There is a microphone button on the main toolbar This is used for audio recording The Record button to the left of it is used for MIDI recording 22 oist Audio GM User Record Audio Record Audio and MIDI Melody Record Audio and MIDI Soloist Plugin Copy 1st chorus to whole song Kill entire Audio Erase Audio Choruses Erase Region of Audio Adjust Output Level of Audio Quick Adjust level of region of Wave file permanent Timeshift Audio ms Insert Beat s in Audio Delete Beat s from Audio Render MIDI to Stereo WAY file etc Playback Mixer Playback VU Meter Recording Mixer Recording YU Meter Audio Options Audio Menu There is now an Audio menu where all of the audio functions are found The Record audio function is used to Record Audio using a microphone plugged into your soundcard or a guitar optionally plugged into a mixer and then into the line in on your soundcard This launches the Record Audio Dialog discussed elsewhere The next 2 items Record audio and MIDI refer to the situation where you want to simultaneously record an audio track vocals etc as well as a MIDI piano part You can record the MIDI to the Melody or Soloist track The Plugins menu command refers to running a plugin audio effect This applies an audio effect such as Reverb or Chorus to the already recorded audio part BB comes with a large selection of hig
139. tions in the measurement technique Lens Flare multiple reflections in a camera lens is a good example of a photographic artifact Similarly audio artifacts are defects introduced by a DSP process All pitch shift algorithms introduce artifacts Different pitch shift designs create different types of artifacts The best sounding pitch shift algorithms take a long time to process a tradeoff between speed and quality To complicate matters further some of the best vocal pitch shifters sound terrible on instruments and vice versa Large pitch shifts have large artifacts Polyphonic audio has more artifacts than monophonic audio The Pitch Shifter algorithm used here is a fast general duty algorithm It sounds good in some applications and not so good in others Please don t expect perfect results We haven t yet seen any perfect Pitch Shifters Auto Wah Wah effects were invented in the 60 s pedal controlled band pass filters In the 70 s envelope follower boxes became common for electric bass clavinet and guitar This Auto Wah plugin is a classic envelope follower effect Loud input signals increase the filter cutoff frequency and quiet input signals allow the filter to close down Loud notes become brighter than quiet notes Appendix A Audio Plugins 87 Dinca LoFreq Hzi Freq O Q HI LoT H 1535 iz KE Reme Gi Fees nv eo Fibs Mis Fia Tek E Poe N2 ce F P 2a de Doll Une F Eai Pirie Et 2
140. to convert an all MIDI Band in a Box Song to a WAV file You can do the following L 2 3 Convert a Band in a Box song file to a stereo 44K CD Quality WAV file with the audio track included as an option Use the Rendered WAV file in your other sequencers PowerTracks etc Convert your compositions to compressed WAV files that don t take up much space and are more suitable for Internet use Use third party CD R burning software like Adaptec EZ Creator to write the Rendered wave file to an audio CD This means you can go from a new song in Band in a Box to a completed song on an audio CD all on your PC Use third party conversion programs such as Real Player Plus or Microsoft Windows Media Tools available from www microsoft com to convert your Band in a Box compositions WAV files to the newest Internet streaming formats There are two types of Audio Features in Band in a Box L 2 The first refers to the Audio Track This is a single audio track 44K Mono track that you can use to add vocals etc The second refers to Rendering which is the process of converting a MIDI performance in BB to a stereo WAV file The Audio Track just includes your added vocals whereas the Rendered WAV file includes the entire performance MIDI and Audio Track First we ll describe the features of the Audio Track Audio Items on Main Screen If you look at the BB screen you can see the new additions for
141. trumming ala Pinball Wizard T 80 150 Examples Pinball Wizard Trains FOLKTRIO STY Folk Trio style Memo A Folk style a la Limeliters or Kingstons featuring strummed banjos amp guitars bass amp tambourine At b add bongos banjo fingerpicking amp different guitar rhythm T 170 Examples This Little Light Wimoweh JTLATIN STY JTaylor Latin style Memo Acoustic Folk pop with a Latin flavor featuring soft ac Piano Arpeggiated guitar Bass Drums and percussion Congas and Maracas Add strings at b T 110 Examples You ve Got a Friend Mexico JUGBAND STY Jug Band style Memo Acoustic Jug Band style featuring fiddle banjo guitar washboard drums and tuba At b guitar comps chordally T 100 Examples Sadie Green San Francisco Bay Blues MOUNTAIN STY Mountain style Memo Uptempo Appalachian acoustic style featuring Clawhammer style banjo guitar fiddle and bass Guitar plays fills at b T 140 Examples Little Birdie Mountain Dew any Old Time tune MOUNTN_D STY Mountain with Drums style Memo A variation of Mountain Sty style with washboard Drums added Up tempo Appalachian style w banjo guitar fiddle bass amp drums Guitar fills at b T 140 Examples Little Birdie Mountain Dew any Old Time tune NGR STY NGR style Memo Acoustic bluegrass rock fusion in the style of Newgrass Revival With banjo mandolin guitar and bass Syncopation with pushes at a Driving bluegrass feel at b
142. ts acoustic piano nylon guitar acoustic bass drums congas and strings Fuller strings and shaker added at b t 110 Examples Any Bossa Like a Lover MARLEY1I STY Marleyl Reggae Swing Memo A laid back medium tempo swing Reggae style with 5 instruments organ muted guitar overdrive guitar fretless bass and drums T 120 Examples Any Med tempo Reggae Jammin PEANUTS STY Peanuts Fast Pop 8ths style Memo Fast st 8ths Pop Jazz with left hand piano amp bass playing a repeated rhythm with pushes 4 instruments acoustic piano fretless bass drums Add strings and shots at b T 170 Examples One for Linus SERGIOIL STY Sergio 1 70s Pop Latin Memo 60s and 70s Pop Brazilian 5 instruments piano bass guitar drums percussion and strings b is more intense w Timbale figure T 102 Examples Any Rock Bossa Don t You Worry Bout a Thing SOCAI STY Soca 1 Caribbean Soul Calypso Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation 109 Memo The Caribbean Soca style a combination of So ul amp Ca lypso originated in the 70s 5 instruments drums and percussion bass kalimba and steel drums At b add guitar T 100 Examples Soca Party Highway Robbery THEMBA STY Themba Contemporary African Memo A contemporary African 4 4 style with 5 instruments percussion bass marimba kalimba Xylophone at b At b the xyl plays a 5 over 2 figure Tempo 102 Examples Angelena Hakuna Matata
143. u Track Type Guitar Single Channel Melody Maker EE Multi Channel Import Melody from MIDI File Import Melodi Hon Wliphoerd This is set from the Melody Track Type menu Hotation Window Options Track Type Guitar It can also be set from the Notation Options When you set a Track Type to Guitar e The Notation Leadsheet and Printout shows as Guitar Notation up an octave in treble clef only 44 Chapter 6 Guitar Enhancements e Tablature is shown on the Notation e When saving the file as a MIDI file any notes on the Guitar Channels 11 tol6 are preserved so that any fret positions are preserved Channels 11 to 16 correspond to strings 1 to 6 so that a G5 note on Channel 11 would be shown on the high E string at the third fret How about the Guitar Part in BB styles Most of the time when we re referring to the new guitar features in BB however we are referring to a Guitar Track that you ve input on the Melody or Soloist channel not the Guitar Part of the auto accompaniment But this Guitar Part has been enhanced as well The Guitar Part in Band in a Box is a generated part of the auto accompaniment unlike the Melody or Soloist track It is now considered to be a Guitar Track however and will also display as a guitar track with Tablature As well a special algorithm is auto applied to the Guitar Part to attempt to play it correctly on the guitar neck instead of showing impossible positio
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145. uestions a Guess the Song game program notes pianist biographies all on disk and much more Good time piano performances New Orleans style 122 PG Music Inc Music Software Programs The PG Music Inc Performance Series The Bluegrass Band Windows Mac instrumental performance program A feel good pickin and grinnin program We ve recorded virtuoso performances by top bluegrass musicians playing 50 Bluegrass standards on their MIDI equipped bluegrass instruments banjo fiddle bass guitar and mandolin These MIDI files are hot As you listen to the tunes you can single out any of the instruments using the on screen fretboard display tablature or notation PLUS Lots of Bluegrass pictures bio s and trivia all on disk and much more You ll be singing and dancing along with your computer And since it s MIDI you can slow them down to learn them at your own speed Includes Wildwood Flower Sally Goodin Cripple Creek Fire on the Mountain Pigtown Fling Red Haired Boy Jesse James and many more Dazzling performances you ll feel good all over The Jazz Soloist Windows Mac instrumental performance program Volume 1 Swing 50 pieces Volume 2 Swing 50 pieces Volume 3 Latin Blues Waltzes 60 pieces The Jazz Soloist is a music program with professional jazz quartet arrangements of over 50 songs per volume Each song features a great jazz solo played by top jazz musicians as well as pi
146. uitar T 95 Generic Example Tune The Water Is Wide GLORY STY Glory Praise and Worship style Memo This is a medium Pop Rock 8ths style with 5 insts el piano Synbass 39 strat guitar drums amp strings T 100 Generic Example Tune How Deep Is Your Love Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation 103 GRACE STY Grace Praise and Worship style Memo This is a medium Pop 16 style with 5 insts el piano bass drums muted guitar amp brass The b section is bigger and more intense T 100 Generic Example Tune I Second That Emotion HALELUIA STY Haleluia Praise and Worship style Memo Soft Pop medium tempo with 5 insts piano arps bass guitar strings amp drums a is soft with Alberti piano b big backbeat amp strat guitar added T 100 Generic Example Tune Won t Last a Day HOSANNA STY Hosanna Praise and Worship style Memo This is a medium tempo Country Swing style with 5 insts frt bass ac guitar strat guitar amp organ T 155 Generic Example Tune Blowin In the Wind JACQUE STY Jacque Praise and Worship style Memo Latin Rock style with 5 insts ac piano bass organ strat amp drums The drum figure has a Latin flavor throughout Repeated rhythmic motif at a More intensity at b T 95 Generic Example Tune Get Closer KINGDOM STY Kingdom Praise and Worship style Memo Soft pop folk 16ths w 2 ac guitars 16th strum amp 8th arps 5 insts 2 ac guitars bass strings amp
147. visit the window Pressing the STY button launches the Style Picker Window Select Style Prototype Style ZZJAZZ STY Jazz Swing Style Ed Category Styles Preview Stop t 120 Expand CABARET Show tune Rehearsal Group CHARLSTN Charleston CHUKSHUF ChuckB Blues Shuffle Classy Easy Swing with Stings Cocktail Swing w brushes Cut time funk style An alternative to the Dixieland Band built in Z7JAZZ style DrJon Shuffle Blues Different piano comping EKlugh Fusion more pushes ElJames Basic Blues Shuffle different bass drums Fats Waller Solo Piano S Works for jazz bebop Fusion Soft or standard swing Fusion Swing 16ths Fusion tunes 60 200 Errol Garner Piano Style Grover W Fusion Basie Big Band Basie Big Band Caribe Jazz Bossa Style Dixieland 2 t 175 120 210 vie Styles Disk 5 Jazz Swing Django Jazz Swing Examples Dolfin Jazz Bossa Swing combo Donna Lee All The B Evans 2 Hands Things You Are Stella By Starlight T Prompt w preview CUTEFUNK DIXILAND Ethnic Misc Euro Tek 13 Fusion 14 Blues 16 Unplugged 17 P amp Worship 18 coc mc cc ccc cc Fe RR ann B Evans L H only Herbie H comping J Smith Jazz Organ Trio Re Build Print Search Open F Preview on Double click M Auto Chanae Melody Soloist Patch Change Prototype Style Cancel Help Melody Patch Vibes IV Selected Style Defaults to current style Soloist Patch Vibes S 6 8 8 8 8 8
148. w a guitar player makes chord solos Passing notes are defined as short duration notes that aren t on the beat and are followed by a note that is on the beat In the example above passing notes will never be voiced as chords since the tick threshold is set to zero There is a further threshold applied to whether or not a note gets voiced to a chord These are durations in milliseconds Time threshold to get a chord ms Time to Previous Note 100 ms Time to the next note eo ms In the settings as illustrated if the note occurs less than 100ms after the previous note the note will not be voiced as a chord If the note is followed by another note within 80ms then the note will not be voiced as a chord Strumming Settings Strumming Speed of Strumed Chords a0 M Plucked Delay start time of strum by lo 7 Strummed If the Guitar Chord was all played at the same time it would sound as if it was plucked Guitar playing is more typically a strum Strum Speed If you set the Speed of the strum to say 80ms then the guitar chord will be strummed over a period of 80ms Strum Delay If the Delay start time is left at zero the strum will end at the original time of the melody note If you set it to 50 delay the strum will be in its midpoint at the original start time of the Melody note and if it s set to 100 the strum won t start till the time of the original note The most musical setting is 54 Chapter 7
149. y higher gain settings Appendix A Audio Plugins 79 Variable Gain These effects change gain over the selected region Fade In Level will begin at zero at the beginning of the region and rise to the original level at the end of the region Fade Out Begin at the original level then fade to zero at the end of the region Adjustable Fade Level will begin at Start Gain Percent and fade to End Gain Percent You can access the effects described here by choosing from the AUDIO menu You will be presented with the selected plug in dialog like the ones shown here Soft Distortion Reverb Ee Gain Pre Delay Rvb Time Rvb Density HF Decay Mix Preview 5 Secs nO Wet 24 dB 232 mS 1133 mS 65 50 30 Cancel 0 Previous E Preview 2 Secs Peak Limit Copy Paste Save Preset Iene rrr Paste Save Preset Cancel i Examples of Band in a Box Soft Distortion and Reverb Effects Plug ins Choose from one of the many presets available for each effect or dial up your own unique combination Press the PROCESS button to apply an effect or the PREVIEW button to audition an effect using a portion of the audio you wish to process You can save your own presets by dialing in some unique effects settings and choosing the SAVE PRESET button Hum Filter Remove hum with minimal effect on the music 80 Appendix A Audio Plugins Line Frequenc Filter f BO Hz I Hamonic 1 60 Hz 50Hz W Ha
150. y Rock style a la Shania 5 Insts Drums Bass Piano Acoustic Guitar and Elec Guitar Tempo 115 140 Examples You Win My Love C_ROSE STY Contemporary Country Rock Ballad Memo Contemporary Country Rock Ballad style a la Roseanne C Hal K 5 Insts Drums Bass 2 Acoustic Guitars and Elec Guitar Tempo 100 130 Examples Seven Year Ache C_SHANIA STY Contemporary Country Ballad Memo Slow Contemporary Country Ballad style a la Shania 5 Insts Drums Bass Piano Acoustic Guitar and Synth Strings Tempo 63 78 Examples The Woman In Me You re Still The One C_SHUFLN STY Rockin Country Shuffle Memo Medium Rockin Country Shuffle Style a la Kentucky Headhunters The Tractors 5 Insts Drums Bass Piano Elec Guitar and Acoustic Guitar Tempo 115 160 Examples Dumas Walker Old Pipeliner Appendix B Styles Disks 15 19 Documentation 93 C_SMOOTH STY Contemporary Country Memo Radio Country style a la Restless Heart or Diamond Rio 5 Insts Drums Bass Piano amp 2 Acoustic Guitars Tempo 90 120 Examples The Bluest Eyes In Texas That Rock Won t Roll C_SWEET STY Contemporary Country Ballad Memo Slow Contemporary Country Ballad style a la Leann R or Trisha Y 5 Insts Drums Bass Piano Acoustic Guitar and Strings Tempo 63 78 Examples How Do I Live C_VINCE STY Medium Tempo Train Beat Memo Medium Tempo Train Beat Style a la Vince G 5 Instruments Drums Bass Piano Elec Guitar and Acoustic Guitar Tempo 90 130
151. yed in the Big Lyrics Dialog so this feature will allow you to see these lyrics in the Big Lyrics Window Move Lyrics Up Down Rows moves a line of line based lyrics up down a number of rows Erase Line based Lyrics erases only the line based lyrics preserving the note based lyrics Chapter 5 Lyrics Features 43 Chapter 6 Guitar Enhancements Guitar Tablature The notation screen now has an option for Guitar Tablature that displays any track in standard Guitar TAB This can be seen on the notation screen leadsheet window or printed out Automatic Guitar Chord Solos to any Song Now you can easily make and learn a professional quality guitar chord solo to your favorite song Load in any song with a Melody into Band in a Box or generate a song with a melody Then open the Guitar Window and Press the Auto Generate Chord Solo button Band in a Box then generates a chord solo on guitar for that song using the same guitar chords that the pros use Chord types can be selected to use standard advanced or embellished chords The chord solo plays on the correct positions on the guitar window so you can see the performance played on guitar Or view it in notation or TAB and print it out There have been many enhancements to the Guitar functions in Band in a Box You can set the Melody or Soloist track to be a Guitar Track Gree Soloist Audio Gh User Harmony Moth Help Melodist Generate Melody and Chords shiftF5 joist Thr

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