PG Music Band in a Box - 2005 (Windows) Manuel d'utilisateur

Version 2005 for Windows®  Copyright PG Music Inc.1989-2005. All rights reserved.

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 10 Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial QuickStart Tutorial for the Version 2005 Upgrade. The full descriptions of the new fe

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 11 Let’s examine the improvements in the SongPicker. Open the SongPicker. (The program may rebuild the song list pri

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 12 So you use the “Allowable Keys” preset in this dialog, and set it to “Jazz keys,” and then the Vocal Wizard revises

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 13 Set the 4 harmonies to the first vibrato setting “1 BNatural Vibrato,” and press the PREVIEW button. You’ll now h

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 14 Piano Roll Tutorial The Piano Roll window enables precise graphic editing of note timing and duration. You can als

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 15Splitter Bar A vertical Splitter Bar sits between the Note Editing and Graphic Event panels. To maximize the Note Ed

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 16 Pencil Tool Hold Shift+Ctrl, and move the mouse cursor over white space in the Graphic Event panel. The cursor bec

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 17In the example shown, the intro flute ostinato pattern fades in, and then fades back out, via the expression controll

Chapter 4: Piano Roll window 18 Chapter 4: Piano Roll window New Fully-Featured “Piano Roll” Window! Now you can edit your tracks using the new “Piano

Chapter 4: Piano Roll window 19Snap-to-Grid Selections, Inserted Notes, or Edited Notes will snap to the grid spacing. If you do not want snap-to-gr

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Chapter 4: Piano Roll window 20 Controller Type If “View/Edit” is set to “Control,” the Controller Type control becomes visible. The Graphic Data pa

Chapter 4: Piano Roll window 21Note Panel Horizontal bars represent notes. Notes can be selected, edited (start time, pitch, duration), inserted, and

Chapter 4: Piano Roll window 22 Delete a Note: Select a note (or group of notes), then tap the Delete key. Alternately, select some notes, Right-Cli

Chapter 4: Piano Roll window 23Insert Events Line Tool: With no modifier keys, the “white space” cursor is a Line Tool. Move the cursor to white spa

Chapter 4: Piano Roll window 24 selected which match the CURRENT MIDI CHANNEL. For instance, you could select all Channel 4 Modulation events, then D

Chapter 4: Piano Roll window 25Horizontal Scroll Bar, [+] and [-] Buttons Scroll in time, and zoom the horizontal display. Vertical Scroll Bar, [+]

Chapter 5: Vocal Wizard 26 Chapter 5: Vocal Wizard The “Vocal Wizard” displays the best song keys for your vocal range! This feature helps you choose

Chapter 5: Vocal Wizard 27Here you enter your “comfortable” vocal range, from lowest note to highest note. If you can sing falsetto, you can also ent

Chapter 5: Vocal Wizard 28 In the example Old Folks at Home, you can see that D is the best key (“green”), but any of the keys from G to Db are also g

Chapter 6: StylePicker Editor 29Chapter 6: StylePicker Editor The StylePicker is now Editable! You can now add your own styles to the StylePicker list

Table of Contents 3Table of Contents PG MUSIC INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 4 CHAPTER 2: SUMMARY OF NEW FEAT

Chapter 6: StylePicker Editor 30 1. Name of the Style (8 characters Maximum + .STY). You can type in the style name, or press the Choose button to

Chapter 6: StylePicker Editor 31to select which patch types will get sent out. Here we choose “Jazz Patches” for our NEWONE.STY We’re finished addi

Chapter 7: Alternate Guitar Tunings 32 Chapter 7: Alternate Guitar Tunings Alternate Guitar Tunings added! The Guitar window now supports alternate tu

Chapter 7: Alternate Guitar Tunings 33 Any melody will now display in the chosen tuning. Similarly, you can set the Soloist track to an alternate gui

Chapter 7: Alternate Guitar Tunings 34 The examples above are for DADGAD tuning, but apply similarly to all 11 alternate tunings included. Some of t

Chapter 8: Fourths Harmonies 35Chapter 8: Fourths Harmonies New Harmonies added with voicing in 4ths! Modern Jazz harmonies often voice chords in 4th

Chapter 9: Audio Harmonies Enhanced 36 Chapter 9: Audio Harmonies Enhanced TC-Helicon Audio Harmonies enhanced with Pitch Styles (automatic “Vibrato”

Chapter 9: Audio Harmonies Enhanced 37Style Name Description 1 B Natural Vibrato This is a very subtle vibrato along with pitch effect that causes

Chapter 10: Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics 38 Chapter 10: Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics “Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics” (circles, triangles) now supported! Ja

Chapter 11: SongPicker Enhancements 39Chapter 11: SongPicker Enhancements SongPicker Enhanced – subfolder support! The SongPicker has been enhanced a

Chapter 1: Introduction 4 Chapter 1: Introduction This documentation covers the new features in Band-in-a-Box Version 2005. 9 Chapter 2 is a summary

Chapter 12: Convert Patch Lists 40 Chapter 12: Convert Patch Lists Convert Patch Lists from PowerTracks or Cakewalk! Make synthesizer patch file lists

Chapter 12: Convert Patch Lists 41 Choose the file c:\pt\patches.INI. You’ll then see a menu of synths stored in the patches.INI file. Select one to

Chapter 13: Lyric Enhancements 42 Chapter 13: Lyric Enhancements Big Lyrics Window Enhancements Chords can now be displayed on a row above the lyrics

Chapter 13: Lyric Enhancements 43 But on the Lead Sheet, the marks are not shown. Lyric Window auto-opens for MIDI files and Karaoke files! If you

Chapter 14: Audio Enhancements 44 Chapter 14: Audio Enhancements Non-Destructive Audio Track Editing! With previous versions of Band-in-a-Box, any cha

Chapter 14: Audio Enhancements 45Preferred default track type for new songs. This setting (mono/stereo) sets the default recording type for new songs

Chapter 14: Audio Enhancements 46 VU meters added for Audio! These show the Record and Playback levels for audio, allowing adjustment of microphone an

Chapter 15: Notation Enhancements 47Chapter 15: Notation Enhancements High visibility Lead Sheet highlighting! During playback, the highlighting of ba

Chapter 15: Notation Enhancements 48 Insert Bends In Notation! In the Editable Notation window, any note can be made into a bend by holding down the

Chapter 15: Notation Enhancements 49- Patch changes are cyan. - Controller changes are yellow. - Pitch Bends are grey. Print one page option! Th

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 5Chapter 2: Summary of New Features New Features in Band-in-a-Box Version 2005... New Fully-Featured “Piano Roll” W

Chapter 16: Guitar Enhancements 50 Chapter 16: Guitar Enhancements Alternate Guitar Tunings are now supported! (These are described in Chapter 7.) Pit

Chapter 17: Other New Features 51Chapter 17: Other New Features Selective Humanize option for the Melody Embellisher! There is a new option for the Em

Chapter 17: Other New Features 52 Hold the Shift key as you click the [Open] button. This will launch the Favorite Folder dialog, allowing you to pi

Chapter 17: Other New Features 53“Play Selected Area as a Loop” function! Click on the[Loop] button, Shift-click on the [Play] button, or press F10 (

Chapter 17: Other New Features 54 For example, you can open the Arrangement Prefs tab by the keystrokes - Ctrl+E to open the Prefs dialog, then - A

Appendix A: New Styles and Add-Ons. 55Appendix A: New Styles and Add-Ons. Styles Set #46 – Requested 4 is included with upgrades to Band-in-a-Box 2005

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Index 57IndexAlternate Guitar Tunings, 32 Guitar Tutor, 33 selecting, 32 Audio enhancements, 44 import wave, 45 multiple sound cards, 44 non-destructi

Index 58 multiple lines of lyrics, 7 multiples sound card support, 6 non-destructive audio edits, 6 notation time changes, 7 note colors editor, 7 pat

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 6 Patch List Converter Make Synthesizer Patch file lists (.PAT files) easily by converting PowerTracks or Cakewalk

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 7Multiple lines of Lyrics Supported on Fake Sheet and Printout! If your song has 1st and 2nd endings or multiple ve

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 8 “Favorite Folder-Open Song” button! By opening a song using the “Favorite Folder-Open Song,” you first select the

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 9Auto “Staves per Page” Option! Notation | Options now has an option to allow “Staves per Page” setting to be auto