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This feature is useful for stimulating ideas, for creating instant songs for sight
reading exercises, to demonstrate different musical styles, or for background
music.
Additional Options for Melody/Soloist Track
Manipulation of melodies is done with functions like insert/delete beats, time
shift track, copy melody from bar... to bar..., etc. Press Option+C to Copy
Chords and /or Melody over a range of bars.
Time Shift Melody.
This will move (slide) the melody a certain number of ticks. There are 120 ticks
per quarter note. For example, to give the song a more laid-back feel, time shift
it about 10 ticks ahead.
Intelligent Humanize of Melody and Soloist track.
Most quantize routines can leave the music sounding stiff and unmusical. Some
attempt to “humanize” a part by adding “randomization,” which rarely has the
desired effect since humans don't randomly change timing or volume. Band-in-
a-Box uses intelligent humanization routines that can humanize a melody from
one feel to another, from one tempo to another, and vary the amount of swing to
8th notes. The results are very musical, with natural sounding melodies.
Let's look at some of the parameters found under the Humanize menu items.
In this example, MEL | Humanize Melody was selected. This opens the
Quantize to New Tempo or Feel dialog box.