2011 (Windows)

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features8
Multiple Tracks of Notation
Previous versions of Band-in-a-Box only allowed you to view one track of
notation at a time. Now you can view multiple tracks. Just click on the tracks
that you want, in the order that they should appear from top to bottom, and
they appear on a single staff system. Display the tracks on the Leadsheet
Window, or print them out. All of the tracks highlight with the notes in red.
Section Text and Boxed Text
You can now add custom text messages at any position in the notation track,
with optional box to appear around the text.
“Direct-to-Disk” Audio Rendering
“Audio Rendering” means converting a song to audio format, usually to a
WAV file. In previous versions this was done by recording the song as it
played, which took several minutes (i.e., the length of the song). Now you can
render directly to disk, choose the “Save As WAV” (Audio Conversion)
option, and your Band-in-a-Box file will save to disk in WAV format in 5-10
seconds! The file is saved using the high quality Sound Canvas sounds
(powered by the included Roland VSC3).
Enhanced Audio Support for Windows Media Player 8
Once you've saved a WAV file, you can compress the file for Internet use,
using the Windows Media Player format (.WMA). This is now done using the
latest compression routines from Microsoft for Windows Media Player version
8. The files are up to 50% smaller at the same great audio quality. The files
still play on Windows Media Player version 6 and higher. You can now
compress any WAV file this way from a new option in the WAV Render
dialog.