Pg Music Band In A Box 2008 5 Windows Instruction Manual
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- PG Music Inc. License Agreement
- Table of ContentsPG MUSIC INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT 2TABLE OF CONTENTS 3CHAPTER 1: WELCOME TO BAND-IN-A-BOX! 7What is Band-in-a-Box? 7Installing Band-in-a-Box for Windows 8MIDI Setup 8Audio Setup 14CHAPTER 2: QUICKSTART 17Step 1 – Typing in the Chords 17Step 2 – Choosing a Style 20Step 3 – Play your song! 22CHAPTER 3: BAND-IN-A-BOX 2008.5 23Welcome to Band-in-a-Box 2008.5! 23Summary of New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2008 23Summary of New Features Added in Band-in-a-Box 2008.5 29CHAPTER 4: THE MAIN SCREEN 39Main Screen Overview 39Status Bar 41Synth Window / Piano Keyboard 42Title Window 48Chord Sheet Area 50CHAPTER 5: GUIDED TOUR OF BAND-IN-A-BOX 53Loading and Playing Band-in-a-Box Songs 53The Conductor Window 61Add Real Instruments – RealDrums and RealTracks 62Add a Melody – MIDI and/or Audio 64Add a Solo - “The Soloist” 68View and Print Notation 70Piano Roll Window 73Lead Sheet Notation Window 81The Guitar Window 86Big Piano Window 90Play the Jukebox 91Import a MIDI File 93Automatic Songs - “The Melodist” 94Make Your Own Songs 95Saving Your Work 106Burn Your Own Audio-CD 108CHAPTER 6: BAND-IN-A-BOX POWERGUIDE 110Opening Files 110Global Song Overrides 113Chord Entry 113Part Markers and Substyles 119Repeats and Endings 119Playing/Pausing/Stopping Song
- Chapter 1: Welcome to Band-in-a-Box!
- Chapter 2: QuickStart
- Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2008.5
- Chapter 4: The Main Screen
- Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box
- Loading and Playing Band-in-a-Box Songs
- The Conductor Window
- Add Real Instruments – RealDrums and RealTracks
- Add a Melody – MIDI and/or Audio
- Add a Solo - “The Soloist”
- View and Print Notation
- Piano Roll Window
- Track Selection
- Keyboard Pitch Panel
- Note Panel
- Graphic Event Panel
- Snap-to-Grid
- Note Duration
- View/Insert Channel
- Ghost Notes
- View/Edit Graphic Data
- Controller Type
- Cursor Location Info Panel
- Chord Ruler and Note Time Ruler Panel
- Note Editing
- Splitter Bar
- Edit Events
- Insert Events
- Delete Events
- Right-Click Contextual Menu
- Horizontal Scroll Bar, [+] and [-] Buttons
- Vertical Scroll Bar, [+] and [-] Buttons
- Zoom Buttons
- Lead Sheet Notation Window
- The Guitar Window
- Big Piano Window
- Play the Jukebox
- Import a MIDI File
- Automatic Songs - “The Melodist”
- Make Your Own Songs
- Saving Your Work
- Burn Your Own Audio-CD
- Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide
- Descriptive Hints
- Opening Files
- Global Song Overrides
- Chord Entry
- Part Markers and Substyles
- Repeats and Endings
- Playing/Pausing/Stopping Songs
- Additional Patches
- Changing Volume, Panning, Reverb, Chorus, Bank
- Edit Functions
- Highlighting Regions
- Copy and Pasting a Section of Chords
- Copying Chords to the Windows Clipboard
- Pasting Chords from the Windows Clipboard
- Additional Copy function for Chords/Melody
- Copy Rests
- Erase From.. To..
- Intro Bars – Auto Generate (or Remove)
- Insert / Delete Bars
- Set Time Signature (range of bars)
- Transpose
- Song Memo…
- ‘Jazz Up’ The chords
- ‘Jazz Down’ The chords
- Edit Dialogs
- Chord Settings
- Settings for Current Bar
- The number of beats per bar, tempo changes, patch, style, and harmony changes can be made by selecting the Settings For Current Bar option on the Edit menu or by pressing F5 after you have selected a bar to edit.
- Example: A song in 4/4 time with a single bar of 6/4 time.
- Key Signature Change
- Style Changes
- Song Settings Dialog
- Options and Utilities
- Highlighting Regions
- Applying Styles
- MultiStyles in Styles (“+” Styles)
- MultiStyles in Songs
- RealDrums Styles
- Breaks - Rests, Shots, and Held Chords
- Song Settings Dialog
- Vary Style in Middle Choruses
- If set to “Yes,” the song will play in substyle “b” throughout the Middle Choruses. The Middle Choruses are considered all choruses except the first and last ones.
- Allow Pushes in Middle Choruses
- Allow Rests in First/Middle/Last Chorus
- Allow Pedal Bass in Middle Choruses
- Allow Embellishment of Chords
- Tag Settings
- Options for Song Endings
- Slide Tracks
- Vary Style in Middle Choruses
- Saving Songs
- Saving Song With …
- Saving MIDI and Karaoke Files
- MIDI File Options
- Include 2 bar lead-in in MIDI file
- Write Section Text as Text Events
- Include Volume/Reverb/Chorus/Panning
- Include Forced Channel Meta Event
- Include Guitar Position Controller
- Write Soloist Part On Channel 5
- Write Harmony To MIDI File
- MIDI File Harmony on separate tracks
- Write Guitar part on 6 channels
- Save Options
- MGX Files
- Outputting MIDI to an External Device
- The Medley Maker
- The Jukebox
- The Conductor
- Chapter 7: Notation and Printing
- Exploring the Notation Window
- Chord Step Advance
- Right-click menu for Standard Notation
- Keystroke Commands
- Right-click Editable Notation menu
- Editing Note Values
- Using the Mouse to Edit Velocity and Duration
- Piano Roll Window
- Track Type
- Triplet Resolution (Swing)
- Show Bar/Beat Lines
- Show Note Durations
- Duration Line Color (Green /Blue)
- Snap to grid lines
- Scroll Ahead
- Highlight playback notes in Red
- Note Colors
- Note Names
- Notation Fonts
- Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics (circles, triangles)
- Bars/Screen
- Guitar Chord Diagrams
- Tab
- Show fret #s on chord diagrams
- Load notation layout w/songs
- Show Key Signature
- Transpose Options
- Transpose
- Clefs split at
- Max Ledger Lines
- Show Velocity Lines
- Use chord scale for enharmonics
- Engraver Spacing
- Notation Settings
- Tick Offset
- Minimize Rests
- Detect Fine Resolution Notation
- New Line each
- R/L Cursor Edits
- Bar Number Font and %
- Display Font Size %
- Chord Vertical Position
- Lyric Position
- Auto-Hand split Piano track
- [More] button
- Inserted Note Defaults
- Duration %
- Velocity
- Channel
- Play Inserted Notes
- Advanced Notation Settings
- Chord Note Separation in MS and Chord Total Separation in MS
- Glitch Duration in MS and Glitch Velocity
- Line Thickness Settings
- Show Popup Hint for Note Properties
- Confirmation Required to enter a note more than X Ledger Lines
- Defaults button
- Keystroke Note Editing
- Section Text for Notation
- Scrub Mode on Notation
- Lead Sheet Options Dialog
- Fake Sheet Mode
- Multiple lines of Lyrics on Fake Sheet.
- Lead Sheet Memo
- Harmony Notation Display
- Multi-Channel Notation (Sequencer Mode)
- Note-based Lyrics
- Lyric Document Window
- Big Lyrics (Karaoke) Window
- Print Options
- Chords
- Notes
- Staff Lines
- Treble Clef
- Bass Clef
- AutoSet Clefs
- Clef Split At
- Show Bar #s
- Template
- Bar #s Below By
- Lyrics
- Clef Sign Every Line
- Key Signature Every Line
- Print Note-based Lyrics
- Print Range
- (First Chorus/Last Chorus/Whole Song)
- Custom
- Include Lead-In
- Staves per page
- Title/Style/Tempo/Composer/Copyright
- Setup Printer
- Print Preview
- Print Multiple Songs
- Exploring the Notation Window
- Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features
- Generate Chords / Generate Melody / Generate Intros / Auto-Titles
- Chapter 9: Working With MIDI
- Take Again lets you quickly reject a take and start the recording again. Press the “A” key to do this with a keystroke.
- Cancel ends the recording session; nothing is saved. To start again press the [Rec.] button or the [R] key.
- Copy 1st chorus to whole song
- Overdub Underlying melody
- Retain Melody past last recorded
- Count-In and Metronome Options
- Recording to an external sequencer
- Importing MIDI Files to the Melody or Soloist Tracks
- Import to the Melody with the MIDI Chord Wizard
- Additional Options for Melody/Soloist Track
- Event List Editor
- Event List Filter
- Notation Window Editing
- Piano Roll Window Editing
- Note Panel
- Splitter Bar
- Edit Events
- Insert Events
- Delete Events
- Graphic Event Panel
- Chapter 10: Working With Audio
- Audio Playback Settings
- Import Audio File to Audio Track
- Audio Offset
- Audio VU meters
- Punch-In Recording
- Audio Edit Window Toolbar
- Non-Destructive Audio Track Editing
- Audio Harmonies Tutorial
- Choir Effect
- Audio Harmonies Pitch Styles (automatic “Vibrato” and “Scooping”)
- Direct-X or VST Plug-ins
- Reading the Audio and MIDI tracks into other programs
- We include 3 RealTracks with Band-in-a-Box Pro
- Assign RealTracks to Track dialog.
- Using RealTracks in Styles.
- Using RealTracks in Solos.
- Configuring Real Tracks - RealTracks Settings Dialog
- Saving Your RealTracks
- Direct-to-Disk Audio Rendering
- Real Time Audio Rendering
- If you use your sound card as your MIDI driver …
- If you use an external MIDI module as your MIDI Driver …
- Rendering is a 3 step process:
- Using the Audio Rendered Stereo .WAV file with other programs.
- Saving in other audio formats
- Saving as Windows Media File
- Burn List
- Add Files to the Burn List
- Remove Files from the Burn List
- Change the Order of Tracks in the Burn List
- Audition Tracks in the Burn List
- Burner Controls
- Test Mode Checkbox (Simulate Burn)
- Cache Files Checkbox
- Use Burn Proof Checkbox
- Burn CD + Finalize (Make Playable CD)
- Burn CD – No Finalize (allow tracks to be added later)
- Finalize Only (Make Playable CD without adding new tracks)
- Stop Burn
- Burning Progress
- Audio Playback Settings
- Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions
- StyleMaker Pull-Down Menus
- File
- StyleMaker Toolbar Buttons
- Exploring the StyleMaker
- Drum Patterns
- RealDrums Styles
- Bass Patterns
- Piano, Guitar, and String Patterns
- Piano/Guitar String Pattern Options dialog box.
- Relative Weight (Usual Setting = 5)
- Playback Bar Mask (Usual Setting =0)
- Playback Beat Mask (Usual Setting=0)
- Roman Numeral Mask (Usual Setting = 0)
- Chord Type (Usual Setting = Any)
- Interval To Next Chord (Usual Setting = Any Interval)
- Half Octave Range (Usual Setting = Full Octave)
- Play Pattern Pushed – how often (Usual Setting = 0 %)
- # Ticks to push pattern (Usual Setting = 0)
- OK to use Macro Notes (Usual Setting = No)
- List of Piano Macro Notes (same as Guitar/String macro notes)
- Transpose Root Pattern (Usual Setting = No)
- Embellish Pattern (Usual Setting = None)
- Transpose Down Limit (Usual Setting = 6)
- Voice Leading (Usual Setting=Transpose)
- Piano/Guitar String Pattern Options dialog box.
- Guitar Styles with the StyleMaker
- Miscellaneous Style Settings
- More Settings (for Rests, Pushes, RealTracks)
- Assign Instruments to Style Dialog Box
- Advanced Editing Of Patterns
- Style Log Options
- Alternatives to Recording Patterns
- Editing Patterns
- Using the MIDI File to Style Wizard
- Advanced Settings and Preferences
- Making A RealDrums Style Using An Existing Template
- Elements of RealDrums Styles
- Elements of the Text File
- Pattern Definition
- Shots Definition
- Additional Entries in the Text File
- Alternate Styles & Expanded/Reduced Styles
- Testing Your RealDrums Style
- Using your RealDrums style in Band-in-a-Box
- Each harmony can use up to 3 channels.
- Settings For Each Voice
- Additional Harmony Options
- Use Close Harmony
- Use Passing Chords (melody) DEFAULT = 100 %
- Lowest Harmony Note
- Overall Harmony Octave
- No Harmony if duration less than nn milliseconds
- OK to make new harmony with new chord
- Use Guitar Harmony Voicings
- 10 easy steps to make a Soloist
- Custom Solo Generation
- OK to solo for an extra beat
- Overwrite existing solo in range
- Generate Solo Now
- Num
- Choose ST2 Database
- Unique Themes
- Unusual Placed Phrasing
- Simple 1st and 2nd Endings
- Choose Unusual Chord Progressions
- Force Long Phrases
- Mix Minor and Major Chord Progressions
- Chord Substitutions Throughout the Form
- Number of Variations to Choose From
- Tempo Range / Auto Tempo
- Transpose A2 Section
- Anticipations in Phrases
- Always Use this Soloist
- Force Open Position
- Strumming Settings
- Speed of the strum
- Delay start time of strum by %
- Plucked / Strummed
- Chord Types to Include
- Embellish Chords
- StyleMaker Pull-Down Menus
- Chapter 12: Tutors, Wizards, and Practice Aids
- Chapter 13: Tools and Utilities
- Chapter 14: Reference
- PG Music Inc.
- Index
- PG Music Registration Form