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recorded and displayed on the screen refers to the weight assigned to that

pattern. Normally if you have three similar patterns with equal weight they will

be picked equally, but if you assign lower or higher weights in the range 0 - 8,

you can fine tune how often patterns are played.

Note: Normally weights are in the range 0 - 8. A weight of 9 may also be assigned when

you have a pattern that only occurs under certain conditions, but you want to ensure that

whenever that condition occurs that the pattern will always be picked.

The Bass and Piano / Guitar / Strings patterns are always recorded in two bar

chunks regardless of the chord duration. If a shorter chord duration is entered,

the remainder of the pattern is ignored. Patterns are also entered for the A and B

substyles.

Drum patterns are not of variable duration like the Bass and Piano patterns. The

Drum patterns are always one bar long. Longer patterns than one bar may be

chained together using bar masks (see below). When you record a new pattern

(Bass / Piano or Drums), a dialog box will be displayed with several options, all

set to defaults of 0. If you are making a simple style, or if you don't understand

all the options, just leave them at their default settings. When you record a

pattern with all the default settings, it is called a generic pattern. Generic

patterns may be picked at any time by the program.

Playback of patterns in the StyleMaker is done from the StyleMaker screen:

button plays pattern back exactly as played.

button plays pattern back as Band-in-a-Box would, e.g., on a

specific chord set by the user from a menu.

Stopping Playback:

Clicking the mouse button or pressing the < Spacebar > stops playback of the

pattern.

Erasing Patterns:

Patterns are erased by assigning a weight of zero to the pattern. Type a 0 at the pattern.

NOTE: All user styles are entered in 4/4 time.

The Band-in-a-Box Program is capable of playing back in any time signature

(via the Bar Settings option on the Edit Menu or Option+B) so user defined

waltz styles would be made as 4/4 but played as 3/4.

Editing Existing Styles

The easiest way to become familiar with the StyleMaker is to start with an

existing style and modify it. In this tutorial, we will describe several ways to

edit an existing style. These include:

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