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Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun
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Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun
Band-in-a-Box is a favorite of musicians, students, and songwriters everywhere. They know that as well as creating
great accompaniments and arrangements, Band-in-a-Box has amazing wizards to save time and work, endless
opportunities for advancing musical skills, and, above all, it’s fun!
Want to play along on your computer’s QWERTY keyboard? That’s what The Wizard is for, and it doesn’t make
mistakes.
Got a recording to transcribe? The Audio Chord Wizard saves your time, your ears, and your patience by figuring
out the chords for you. In just a few minutes, you can be playing along with the recording by following the chords
on the screen.
Need to know the chords for a MIDI file? Just load the file with the MIDI Chord Wizard and turn it into a great
sounding Band-in-a-Box arrangement at the same time.
Band-in-a-Box knows chords. The Chord Substitution Wizard lets you choose 4-bar sections to substitute or
automatically substitutes chords for all or part of the song for you. Build and audition your own chords with the
Chord Builder and Chord Preview features.
Guitarists can view any part on the guitar fretboard in the Guitar Window, and use the Guitar Tutor to see how
different styles of guitar playing use different chords and positions.
The Animated Drum Kit is a MIDI feature that is fun to watch, and fun to play. You can play along on drums with
your computer keyboard, and record or overdub drum parts too! Use the Chord Breaks feature to take your own
instrumental breaks while brushing up on your timing too.
With these features, you might find that Band-in-a-Box becomes your best musical friend!
The Wizard
The Wizard is an intelligent play along feature that uses your QWERTY keyboard to play along with Band-in-a-
Box. This also allows you to record to the melody or soloist track without an external MIDI keyboard, and can even
be used to trigger the Soloist Wizard. Also, play along using the Wizard can use the harmony feature, so you can
play along live from your QWERTY keyboard in 4-part Saxophone harmony for example.
Turning the Wizard On/Off
Click on the Wz box to turn the Wizard feature On/Off, or select the Wizard Playalong option from the Song menu,
or press Option+W.
Playing the Wizard
The Wizard keys are only active during playback. The active keys are the lower 2 rows of the keyboard.
Changing Instruments / Settings For The Wizard
The Wizard is a play along instrument, so is treated just like the THRU instrument. Changing Instruments, Volume,
Reverb, etc. for the Wizard is therefore the same as for the THRU instrument. (i.e., Click on the THRU button, then
select instrument etc.) You can record the Wizard and it will use THRU harmonies if selected.
Play Regular Notes
There is now an option to play regular “non-smart” notes, for those of you up to the task of poking out actual
melodies on your QWERTY keys.
In the Song menu, toggle Wizard Uses 'Smart' Notes “Off” (unchecked) to have the Wizard provide you access to a
chromatic scale, and toggle “on” to have Band-in-a-Box provide you with notes based on the chord/key of the song.
Soloist Wizard
Additionally, you will find another great Wizard feature in the Soloist menu; the Solo Wizard. Toggling this option
“on” enables the Soloist Wizard. As you play notes on the MIDI or QWERTY keyboard, the program will play
“correct” notes in the style of the current Soloist! This means that you can play a perfect solo every time, simply by
pressing any key on your MIDI keyboard or QWERTY keys.
- Table of Contents 3
- What is Band-in-a-Box? 6
- System Requirements 7
- Installation 7
- Using the USB Hard Drive 8
- MIDI and Audio Setup 8
- MIDI Drivers 10
- And that’s not all 11
- Step 1 – Enter the Chords 13
- Step 2 – Choose a Style 15
- Step 3 – Play your song! 16
- Have Fun! 17
- 30 New Features! 18
- More New RealTracks 20
- DAW Plug-in Mode 22
- RealTracks Enhancements 24
- Band-in-a-Box folder 28
- Rendering Tracks 29
- StylePicker Enhancements 29
- New in the StyleMaker 30
- Chapter 4: The Main Screen 31
- Status Bar 32
- Description of the Wizard 34
- Toolbars 35
- Title Window 38
- Chordsheet Area 40
- Chordsheet Editing Features 42
- Play Song from Chordsheet 42
- Loading and Playing Songs 43
- Change the Style 46
- Change the Sound 47
- Add RealDrums 47
- Add RealTracks 50
- Add a Melody 53
- Harmonize the Melody 53
- Play along with the Wizard 54
- Add a Solo 54
- View and Print Notation 55
- Play the Jukebox 59
- Import a MIDI File 60
- Make Your Own Songs 61
- Entering Chords 62
- Choose a Style 63
- Frame the song 65
- Set the Tempo 65
- Record a Melody 65
- Adding Lyrics to your song 67
- Add a Memo 67
- Saving Your Work 67
- RealTracks 69
- Using RealTracks 72
- Using RealTracks in Styles 75
- Styles with RealTracks 76
- Using RealTracks in Solos 77
- Saving Your RealTracks 77
- RealDrums 78
- RealDrums Picker 79
- RealDrums Settings 82
- Song Settings 85
- Key Changes (Transposition) 88
- Setting Tempo 88
- The Chordsheet 89
- Typing Chords 90
- MIDI Chord Recognition 91
- Erase Chords 91
- Insert or Delete Bars 91
- Chord Settings Dialog Box 94
- Copy Chords and/or Melody 96
- Copy Rests 97
- Erase Chords and/or Melody 97
- Part Markers 98
- Edit Bar Settings 99
- Chord Preview/Builder 101
- Chord Builder 102
- Chordsheet Contextual Menu 102
- MIDI file “Chord Wizard” 103
- Applying Styles 104
- The StylePicker 106
- MultiStyles 108
- Choosing Styles 108
- Style Aliases 110
- Playing Songs 111
- Pausing Songs 111
- Stopping Songs 112
- Audio Reverb 112
- Freeze Tracks 113
- Saving Songs 115
- Preferences – User Settings 117
- ^C. The rest character is a 118
- Soloist Prefs… 123
- Reverb Parameters 125
- Saving Settings to Presets 126
- Auto Reverb 126
- DAW Plug-In Mode 126
- Other Editing Features 128
- Slide Tracks 129
- Song Memo… 129
- MIDI Setup 130
- MIDI Settings 131
- Setting the Harmony Channels 133
- The JukeBox 135
- Notation 137
- Notation Modes 140
- Notation Options 142
- Printing 145
- LIKE THIS 148
- Launching the Melodist 149
- Editing Melodists 153
- Using the Melodist 153
- Automatic Intros 154
- Select a Soloist 155
- Solo Modes 156
- Editing Soloists 158
- Generate a Guitar Chord Solo 159
- Select Guitarist Window 159
- Redo Part of the Solo 161
- Saving the Guitar Chord Solo 162
- Guitar Settings 162
- Melody Embellisher 164
- Using the Embellisher 165
- Embellisher Settings 167
- The Reharmonist 169
- Reharmonize Part of a Song 170
- Chapter 9: Recording Tracks 172
- Step Edit Notes 174
- start 176
- Time Shift Melody 177
- Chapter 10: Audio Features 179
- Rendering Audio Files 180
- Audio Reverb Control 181
- Reverb Settings 182
- The Wizard 185
- Audio Chord Wizard Window 186
- Primary Program Controls 187
- Keyboard Shortcuts 187
- Chordsheet Overview 188
- Note Bars 189
- Opening Files 190
- Chord Detection 190
- Special Cases 191
- Bad Initial Tempo Estimates 191
- Note Bars Display 195
- Display Controls 195
- Presets for Chord Options 198
- Chord Breaks 204
- The Guitarist 205
- Guitar Tutor 208
- Chord Substitution Wizard 209
- Chord Substitutions Dialog 210
- Animated Drum Kit 213
- Drum Display 214
- Multi-Note Drums Instruments 215
- Computer “QWERTY” Drum Keys 215
- Numeric Keypad Drum Keys 215
- Drum Kit Main Window 216
- Drum Transport Controls 216
- Drum Window Settings 216
- The StyleMaker 218
- Soloists in Styles 220
- MIDI Styles 221
- Erasing Patterns: 223
- Editing Existing Styles 224
- Creating New Styles 226
- Intelligent Guitar Styles 239
- The Harmony Maker 240
- The Soloist Maker 243
- The Melodist Maker 245
- The Guitarist Maker 249
- Selecting a MIDI Driver 253
- Chapter 14: Reference 258
- File Menu 259
- File utilities… 260
- Edit Menu 262
- Song Menu 264
- Styles Menu 268
- User Menu 269
- Melody Menu 271
- Quantize Melody… 272
- Embellish Melody Dialog… 273
- Utilities 274
- Soloist Menu 276
- Resolution per bar 277
- Harmony Menu 280
- MIDI Menu 281
- GS Menu 289
- Windows Menu 291
- Help Menu 292
- Additional Hot Keys 293
- Quick Song Settings 294
- Direction 294
- During Playback 294
- Muting Parts 294
- Selecting Parts 294
- Chord List 295
- Files and Folders 296
- Band-in-a-Box 299
- 76, 221 306
- Registration Form 307
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