PG Music Band in a Box - 2009 (Windows) User Manual download pdf (Page 21)

Chapter 4: Audio Features 21

Chapter 4: Audio Features

Audio Features Overview

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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 or Cakewalk ), so your full

MIDI and Audio performance can be used in these other programs.

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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.

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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:

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.

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