PG Music Band in a Box - 2006 (Windows) Podręcznik Użytkownika

Version 2006 for Windows® © Copyright PG Music Inc.1989-2006. All rights reserved.

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 10 Convert to Harmony feature enhanced. Now when adding a harmony to the Melody (or Soloist), there are options to

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 11There’s an easier way to “Play From Bar __, Chorus ___.” Simply right-click on the bar and choose this menu it

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 12 No more “Style not found” messages! Now, when a requested style is not found, BB will intelligently substitut

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 131-Bar Lead-In Option. There’s now an option for a 1-bar lead-in, instead of 2 bars. Song List Cancel button.

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 14 More Notation improvements There’s a 3-state button to easily change between Standard, Editable, and Note Roll

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 15Printout improved. There are print templates in the print dialog to achieve various printout styles - normal/ly

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 16 Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial QuickStart Tutorial for the Version 2006 Upgrade. The full descriptions of the new fe

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 17New Main Menu Items There is a File | Open Audio command, to open WAV, WMA, MP3, WMV, or CD Audio files. The Me

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 18 - Section 4: Middle Chorus (i.e. start of chorus #2) - Section 5: Last Chorus - Section 6: Ending Let’s load in c

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 19Now let’s make some Custom sections. Normally you’d use custom sections for a song that doesn’t conform to the form

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Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 20 So now we know how to control the Conductor using a MIDI keyboard. But what if we play piano, and would like to be a

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial 21 Press the PREVIEW button to hear the effect of 16 voices singing the same part! Experiment, by changing the vibrato

Chapter 4: Conductor Window 22 Chapter 4: Conductor Window “Conductor”- Live Looping/Playback control. As the song is playing, there are now options

Chapter 4: Conductor Window 23QWERTY and MIDI Hot Keys Using the Conductor QWERTY or MIDI keys, you can: - Define and jump to up to 10 user defined

Chapter 4: Conductor Window 24 Eb5 Reduce All Volumes by 5 Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Q E5 Increase all Volumes by 5 Ctrl-Alt-Shift-W F5 ALL Mute/Unmute Alt-

Chapter 4: Conductor Window 25If you prefer to enter custom values for the section numbers, you can do this if you check the “custom” checkbox, and t

Chapter 4: Conductor Window 26 - Pause the song (Backspace). - Go back 1 chorus (Ctrl a). - Go ahead 1 chorus (Shift A). At the end of the current

Chapter 5: Melody/Soloist Sequencer 27Chapter 5: Melody/Soloist Sequencer There are 2 tracks in Band-in-a-Box to add your own recordings. These are

Chapter 5: Melody/Soloist Sequencer 28 If you click on the Lead Sheet window, you’ll see the entire MIDI file displayed on separate tracks of notatio

Chapter 5: Melody/Soloist Sequencer 29 There is a small button at the right of the track line that allows you to delete/ rechannel or merge the chann

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Chapter 5: Melody/Soloist Sequencer 30 2. Record a Melody part. At the end of the recording, pick a channel for the part that is not already used b

Chapter 6: ASIO 31Chapter 6: ASIO ASIO Audio/Software synth driver support has been added. Now there’s almost no latency (delay) for audio or softw

Chapter 6: ASIO 32 Input Channels is the total number of mono input channels that your sound card has. (Note: Band-in-a-Box groups each into a stereo

Chapter 7: Notation Symbols 33Chapter 7: Notation Symbols The Notation Symbols are entered from the Notation Event dialog, which is accessed from the

Chapter 7: Notation Symbols 34 The Event Type list box lets you choose the event type (slur, decrescendo, etc.). The Length of Event field determines

Chapter 8: VST 35Chapter 8: VST VST support added. Now you can use VST software synths and plug-ins, just as you use DirectX. Many software synths

Chapter 8: VST 36 bank, it will save all the presets you have edited. You can save individual presets, or you can build a custom bank by loading indi

Chapter 8: VST 37panel will look like the above example. Band-in-a-Box presents one “generic” slider for each adjustable parameter in the plug-in. P

Chapter 9: Piano Roll Enhancements 38 Chapter 9: Piano Roll Enhancements Overlapping note indicator Overlapping notes are displayed in bold Aqua colo

Chapter 9: Piano Roll Enhancements 39more than small-value events. This keeps the same shape of a gesture, but makes the gesture bigger or smaller.

Chapter 1: Introduction 4 Chapter 1: Introduction Congratulations on your upgrade to Band-in-a-Box® 2006 for Windows®. This documentation covers the n

Chapter 10: New Audio Plug-Ins Added 40 Chapter 10: New Audio Plug-Ins Added PG RTA The PG Real Time Analyzer (frequency analyzer) is ONLY a frequency

Chapter 10: New Audio Plug-Ins Added 41Rhythm'n'Blues tends to be bass-heavy. Most R&B tunes have an overall negative slope, with the

PG Vinyl Tool PG Vinyl Tool can improve vinyl recordings. Vinyl discs can have many troubles, depending on their condition. Some records may be sever

Chapter 10: New Audio Plug-Ins Added 43If you must use a mixer, check if your mixer has a couple of channels with high impedance guitar inputs. Guit

Chapter 10: New Audio Plug-Ins Added 44 Rumble Filter Checkbox Cheap or worn-out turntable platters can make subsonic vibrations. Slightly warped rec

Chapter 10: New Audio Plug-Ins Added 45One might encounter a badly damaged record where the audio is so damaged that the guesses are not good enough.

Chapter 10: New Audio Plug-Ins Added 46 However, a Gaussian filter is still a low pass filter. All low pass filters reduce high frequencies along wit

Chapter 10: New Audio Plug-Ins Added 47PG Vocal Remover PG Vocal Remover can reduce the level of vocals on many commercial recordings. Operating Pri

Chapter 10: New Audio Plug-Ins Added 48 Source Recordings PG Vocal Remover works best on wave files extracted from well-made commercial audio CD’s, wh

Chapter 10: New Audio Plug-Ins Added 49Compare the dry sound against the processed sound. The maximum vocal reduction setting could be extreme enoug

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 5Chapter 2: Summary of New Features The New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2006 for Windows are... “Conductor”- Live L

Chapter 11: Harmony Enhancements 50 Chapter 11: Harmony Enhancements TC-Helicon Audio Harmonies are enhanced with Unison harmonies and a Choir feature

Chapter 12: Other New Features 51Chapter 12: Other New Features Half-speed (and slower) Audio playback without affecting pitch! Open a MP3/WAV/WMA o

Chapter 12: Other New Features 52 The Melody Embellisher has been enhanced. You can now save/load your own presets for the Embellisher. When you h

Chapter 12: Other New Features 53 For example, you could select Chorus #2 if that is the chorus that you want. The resultant MIDI file will be made

Chapter 12: Other New Features 54 The MIDI Monitor has been enhanced, with options for 1-based patch numbering and patch name display. Quick View Fil

Chapter 12: Other New Features 55If you have a Melody track and want to convert this to a harmony, with the new features of varied start times for th

Chapter 12: Other New Features 56 The Jukebox has been enhanced with a selectable time delay (in seconds) between songs. Also, the pause till MIDI/k

Chapter 12: Other New Features 57No more “Style not found” messages! Now, when a requested style is not found, BB will intelligently substitute the

Chapter 12: Other New Features 58 1-Bar Lead-In Option. There’s now an option for a “1-bar” lead-in, instead of 2 bars. This option is set in

Chapter 13: More Notation improvements 59Chapter 13: More Notation improvements The notation symbols enhancements are described elsewhere. There’s a

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 6 New symbols in notation. The notation now supports many new expression and articulation marks including secti

Chapter 13: More Notation improvements 60 Printout improved. There are print templates in the print dialog to achieve various printout styles - Norm

Chapter 13: More Notation improvements 61 There are also new print options for “number of copies to print” and “print specific page number.” The “

Chapter 14: Global Song Overrides 62 Chapter 14: Global Song Overrides “Global overrides” have been added. New options are added in Preferences [Overi

Chapter 15: Ear Training Improvements 63Chapter 15: Ear Training Improvements Great new games for ear training fun! Learning is best when it’s fun,

Chapter 15: Ear Training Improvements 64 Music Replay Music Replay develops your pitch, rhythm, and melody recognition by replaying what the program

Chapter 16: StyleMaker Enhancements 65Chapter 16: StyleMaker Enhancements Many StyleMaker enhancements. When importing an instrument from another s

Chapter 16: StyleMaker Enhancements 66 The Quantize feature now has a “Strength” of quantization option. Previously it was “all or nothing,” now you

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Index 68 Index 1-bar lead-in, 58 ASIO, 31 control panel, 31 driver dialog, 31 resampler, 31 Audio files open, 51 tempo, 51 Choir harmony, 20 Chord Bui

Index 69Unison harmony, 20 VST add plug-ins, 35 control panel, 35 select, 35

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 7 This will open an audio file in WAV, MP3, Windows Media Player (WMA, WMV) or CD Audio (CDA) format. To play it

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 8 The Melody Embellisher has been enhanced. You can now save/load your own presets for the Embellisher. MIDI N

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 9Clearer piano display. The instruments displayed on the on-screen piano now make use of higher resolutions, so t