PG Music Band in a Box - 2011 (Windows) User Manual

Band-in-a-Box® Version 11for Windows® Copyright PG Music Inc. All rights reserved.

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features10- Pattern Velocity Adjust - This function adds or reduces the velocity of asingle pattern, row of patterns, or all

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 11Audio Rendering EnhancementsIn addition to the “Direct-to-Disk” Audio Rendering, there are otherenhancements to t

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features12Melodist EnhancementsThe Melodist feature creates songs with chords and melodies. We've enhancedit so that i

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 13- The “Patch File” (.PAT) file limit has been expanded to include 2,000patches, and we include a .PAT file for th

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial14Chapter 3: QuickStart TutorialQuickStart Tutorial for the Version 11 UpgradeThe full description of the new features i

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 15Let's switch between the regular music font and the new Jazz font for the musicdisplay. Open up the notation wi

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial16Let's check out the new MIDI file “Chord Wizard.” This feature allows you toread in the chords from any MIDI fil

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 17Press the Choose button, and select “Violet Song.MID.”Since “Violet Song.MID” is a Jazz Swing song, press the“Jazz St

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial18Let's associate File Types With Band-in-a-Box.Once set, this means that you can double click on a song or style i

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 19Let's use the Direct-to-Disk Render to convert our Band-in-a-Box to a WAVfile directly.Press the [.WAV] button o

PG Music Inc. License Agreement2PG Music Inc. License AgreementCAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORECOMPLETING THE INSTALLATION OF

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial20Let's check out Styles Set #27 … Jazz, Pop n’ More!Note: If you ordered Band-in-a-Box 11 as an upgrade, the pac

Chapter 4: MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard 21Chapter 4: MIDI File Chord Interpretation WizardOverviewMany people who play music by ear think of

Chapter 4: MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard22Press the [Change] Button to select the MIDI file that you'd liketo import.Once you've sel

Chapter 4: MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard 23The settings that are determined automatically for you are:- The Key Signature of the song (MIDI fi

Chapter 4: MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard24It has automatically determined that the “Violet Song.MID” file- has 2 bars of lead-in.- has 103 bar

Chapter 4: MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard 25- has the chording (comping) parts on Channels 3, 6 and 7.- has the Melody on Channel 4.- has no ot

Chapter 4: MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard26These include:Chord Resolution: (default = 2 beats)This is the minimum number of beats for a chord.

Chapter 4: MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard 27Allow Sus Chords:The setting for “Allow Sus chords” determines if chords like Csus or Bbsus7will be

Chapter 4: MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard28Once we've pressed the Interpret Chords Now button, we can see the results,by looking at the ch

Chapter 4: MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard 29If you've read in the entire MIDI file, you have 103 bars of chords on theChord sheet. This a

Table of Contents 3Table of ContentsPG MUSIC INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT 2CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 5CHAPTER 2: SUMMARY OF NEW FEATURES 7MIDI File Chord Inte

Chapter 4: MIDI File Chord Interpretation Wizard30Other Settings for the Chord WizardBand-in-a-Box and PowerTracks Pro Audio songs contain special eve

Chapter 5: Melody Embellisher 31Chapter 5: Melody EmbellisherOverviewWhen a musician sees a lead sheet that has a melody written out, he/she wouldalmo

Chapter 5: Melody Embellisher32Normal (unembellished) Melody…Embellished Melody…As you can see in the notation examples, the Embellished melody adds a

Chapter 5: Melody Embellisher 33The Live Auto-embellish during every playback is the same setting that is onthe main page checkbox. If enabled, embel

Chapter 5: Melody Embellisher34Normally the embellishment occurs live when the song is playing, and doesn'taffect the Melody permanently. But if

Chapter 5: Melody Embellisher 35AnticipationsAn anticipated note is playing a note early (“ahead of the beat”).Unembellished notesEmbellishment with A

Chapter 5: Melody Embellisher36Extra NotesExtra notes are added between melody notes. In this “before and after”example, and Eb and E note are added

Chapter 5: Melody Embellisher 37There are additional settings, in the “Embellisher AdditionalSettings “ dialog box.This allows you to set advanced set

Chapter 6: Notation Window Enhancements38Chapter 6: Notation Window EnhancementsMultiple Tracks of NotationPrevious versions of Band-in-a-Box only all

Chapter 6: Notation Window Enhancements 39There is an option in the Leadsheet Window Options to allow you to displaythe chords above each track, or ju

Table of Contents4CHAPTER 7: JAZZ FONTS ADDED 42CHAPTER 8: AUDIO RENDERING ENHANCEMENTS 43“Direct-to-Disk” Audio Rendering 43Audio Rendering Enhanceme

Chapter 6: Notation Window Enhancements40Scrub ModeTo enable the scrub mode, from the notation window, press the [Scrub]button. Then hold the mouse an

Chapter 6: Notation Window Enhancements 41Groups of 5 notes will automatically display as groups of 3+2 or 2+3,and can be set this way manually as wel

Chapter 7: Jazz Fonts Added42Chapter 7: Jazz Fonts AddedJazz Music Fonts for Notes, Symbols, Chords and TitlesRich Siegler's Jazz Music fonts hav

Chapter 8: Audio Rendering Enhancements 43Chapter 8: Audio Rendering Enhancements“Direct-to-Disk” Audio Rendering“Audio Rendering” means converting a

Chapter 8: Audio Rendering Enhancements44Once launched, you'll see the 2 panes of the Roland VSC3. If you only see oneof the panes, then you nee

Chapter 8: Audio Rendering Enhancements 45From the WAV render dialog, you can specify a number of seconds to bepadded to the beginning and/or end of t

Chapter 9: Roland VSC3 Software Synthesizer46Chapter 9: Roland VSC3 Software SynthesizerRoland VSC3 Sound Synthesizer IncludedAn important part of “

Chapter 9: Roland VSC3 Software Synthesizer 47The VSC3 has a latency of 430ms, which means that it takes 430 millisecondsfor the VSC3 to produce the

Chapter 10: StyleMaker Enhancements48Chapter 10: StyleMaker EnhancementsThe StyleMaker is a powerful Band-in-a-Box feature that gives you controlover

Chapter 10: StyleMaker Enhancements 49 Time Signature: 4/4 Jazz Style? : No Tempo : 165 Resolution (drums)

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 5CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTIONThis documentation covers the new features in Band-in-a-Box 11.9 Chapter 2 is a summary of the new fea

Chapter 10: StyleMaker Enhancements50Choose the new menu item Pattern | Velocity Adjust (for 1 pattern, 1 row orwhole instrument), and input the veloc

Chapter 11: MIDI File Enhancements 51Chapter 11: MIDI File EnhancementsMIDI File support has been enhanced to support both Type 0 and Type 1MIDI files

Chapter 11: MIDI File Enhancements52• Choose which tracks get written to the MIDI File. By muting tracks -right mouse clicking on the track name at t

Chapter 12: Other New Features 53Chapter 12: Other New FeaturesFile Associations.New menu items have been added to Associate (or remove Associations f

Chapter 12: Other New Features54Guitar Styles EnhancedWe've added a new database for the Guitar Styles. This allows styles to bemade using the J

Chapter 12: Other New Features 55If you choose a Custom font, you can choose the size as well. If you chooseone of the preset fonts, the size will be

Chapter 12: Other New Features56To access this, press the JukeBox button, and select the Preview option. Set thenumber of bars to use for the preview.

Appendix A: Styles Sets #27, #28, #29 57Appendix A: Styles Sets #27, #28, #29Please see the on-line documentation for detailed descriptions of the sty

PG Music Inc. Information58PG Music Inc. InformationBand-in-a-Box InformationBand-in-a-Box® is copyrighted andis the property of PG MUSIC INC.All righ

Index 59IndexAudio renderingburn to CD, 44conversion rate, 44convert to WMA, 44count-in, 45delay, 45direct-to-disk, 43VSC3 installed, 43Windows Media

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION6that allows you to quickly hear a part of the notation by moving themouse over the notes.And much more …People familiar with t

Index60MIDI fileenhancements, 10MIDI File, 51chord interpretation, 21chord wizard, 21count-in, 52eliminate count-in, 10GM lyrics, 10Karaoke, 51track s

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 7Chapter 2: Summary of New FeaturesBand-in-a-Box 11 adds 50 new features and enhancements to make your musiclook an

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features8Multiple Tracks of NotationPrevious versions of Band-in-a-Box only allowed you to view one track ofnotation at a ti

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 9Melody EmbellisherWhen a musician sees a lead sheet that has a melody written out, he/she wouldalmost never play i