PG Music Band in a Box - 2011 (Windows) User Manual download pdf (Page 11)

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 11

Audio Rendering Enhancements

In addition to the “Direct-to-Disk” Audio Rendering, there are other

enhancements to the Rendering function. You can specify a number of seconds

of silence at the beginning of the file and specify a number of seconds to wait

at the end to accommodate the decay of the final sound. You can also choose

to exclude the 2 bar count-in from the file.

File Associations

New menu items have been added to Associate (or remove Associations for)

the file types for Band-in-a-Box songs and styles in Explorer. Once set, this

means that you can double click on a song or style in Explorer and Band-in-a-

Box will open up with that song or style.

File Selection Dialog Enhancements

The custom file selection dialog has been enhanced. There is a Search button

allowing you to find a file in the directory. The dialog box now opens with the

current file highlighted

in the list. There is a

favorite directories

feature that

lets you quickly return to a directory that you've used recently. There is a

Desktop

button that quickly changes the current directory to the desktop.

You can now

open a song without typing the extension

. For example, to

open the song MySong.MGU you just have to type MySong, without having to

type .MGU.

Long file names

are now better supported for NT/2000 and XP.

Animated Drum Window Enhancements

The popular drum window has been enhanced. The drums that you play now

show up in

green

(the computer played drums are red). There is an option to

display all the QWERTY names

on the drums at the same time, so that you

can see what keys to hit without having to mouse over the instrument. The

drums can be

moved off-screen

without snapping back to the middle.

Guitar Styles Enhanced

We've added a new database for the Guitar Styles. This allows styles to be

made using the

Jazz Guitar “highest-4-strings-comping mode”.

This plays

chords usually on the 4 highest strings, and it plays several chords over a single

chord. For example, for 2 bars of Cmaj7 it might play Cmaj7-Dm7-Ebdim-

Em7, all played as half notes. This database plays with some new styles on

Styles Set 27, and can also be played with any song using the Guitar Tutor.

Studying the patterns that are played helps guitar players build up their chord

vocabulary, especially by learning the moving chord lines that this chord

database plays over the same chord.

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