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Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 for Macintosh

MIDI tracks for bass, drums, piano, guitar and strings can now be edited, and saved with the file. If you freeze a

track, edits can still be made to it, because it is only frozen from Band-in-a-Box making changes to it (you can still

edit it), so that the MIDI track will be saved to the file. So you can customize the bass part to match a certain song,

and save it with a frozen bass part, so that Band-in-a-Box won’t overwrite your edits. This includes RealCharts – if

you wanted to edit the notation of a RealTracks solo for example.

To edit a MIDI track (bass, drums, piano, guitar, strings), or the MIDI part of a RealTracks that has a

RealChart (MIDI transcribed solo), simply open up the Notation window (or Piano Roll window), and click on

the track and edit it. Make sure to Freeze the track by pressing the Freeze button and choosing Freeze for that track,

or right-clicking on the instrument at the top of the screen and choosing Freeze. Now your edited tracks will save

with the song.

Multiple Undo Support.

Up to 999 levels of Undo are supported (configurable). The default number of undos is 99. If you need to change

this, it can be done in Preferences “Number of Levels

of Undo.” The range can be 5 to 999. You can also

choose Edit | Redo to redo an undo.

RealTracks Enhancements

No more long waits for RealTracks to generate!

RealTracks generate much faster, 3X faster on average. A typical song with RealTracks that took 20 seconds to

generate will now generate in about 6 seconds. And if you freeze some or all tracks in the song (see below),

playback of RealTracks is almost instantaneous.

This “speedup” feature works “automatically;” you should just notice that generation of RealTracks is much faster.

This feature uses CPU resources during playback. If you have a multi-core machine, you may not notice this at all,

since it will use different cores than the main Band-in-a-Box thread. If you have an old machine, low on memory,

slow hard drive etc., you can disable this “speedup” feature. This will insure that your machine is doing less CPU

work during playback. This is done in RealTracks Settings dialog.

Optional Jazz Triads

For RealTracks, many Jazz comping styles now play triads (instead of 7ths) when simple triads are entered, instead

of “jazzing them up” to 7ths chords (e.g. Guitar: Freddie, Wes Piano: some Jazz, all Stride, Rehearsal).

If you prefer this “the old way,” where triads are automatically “jazzed up” when comping using Jazz RealTracks,

then you can set the Prefs-Realtracks settings option to force 7ths for triads.

Soloist generated RealTracks are now saved with the song, so you will hear the RealTracks play the same solo

when you reload the song.

When you generate a solo using RealTracks, Band-in-a-Box will remember this, and when you go to save the song,

Band-in-a-Box will ask you if you want to save that solo (and thereby freeze the Soloist track). If you say yes, then

the solo will play instantly the same way when the song is reloaded. Of course you can freeze the soloist track

yourself at any time. Note that only one solo can be saved. You can’t generate a bunch of different segments of

solos; only the last one will be saved.

Shots, Holds, and Pushes

RealTracks now support new features, including Shots, Holds, and Pushes. Simply type in the chords as you

normally would, adding periods (…) for shots and holds, and the RealTracks will play them.

Note: You need the installer that creates a LibraryM/Holds folder in your RealTracks folder.

The “H” column of the RealTracks Assign dialog tells whether the RealTrack styles supports Shots, Holds, and

Pushes. If the column is blank, the selected RealTracks style has Holds, Shots, and Pushes available. If there is an

“n,” holds are available from PG Music but not installed. If there is a “-,” no holds are available for this style.

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