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Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 76
Melody and Thru harmony assignments and the Soloist selected to play on the
song.
You can also save the instruments as “On” or “Off” for each song. For example,
you could have a song with no piano part. Usually, these settings are set to
“On,” as you would normally like all members of your “band” to participate.
Other parameters that may be saved (volume, reverb, etc.) are shown on the left
side of the window.
Storing Volume, Panning, Reverb and/or Bank Settings
You can optionally save these kinds of settings with your songs. You can make,
for example, a song with the piano a little quieter than usual, add reverb to the
melody patch, or pan the bass to one side, etc. Simply choose the parameters
you wish to be saved with a song and press the [Save Song] button when you are
satisfied with your selections.
Saving a MIDI file
Your song can be saved as a Standard MIDI file with the [.MID] button in the
toolbar, or with the menu command File | Save Standard MIDI File…, or with
the keystrokes Option+S. The file can be saved to disk or to the clipboard.
Choose which tracks get written to the MIDI File.
By muting tracks with Option+Click on the track name at the top of the screen,
you can decide which tracks get written to the MIDI file. Any track that is
muted is excluded from the MIDI file.
See the Edit | Preferences dialog for MIDI file options. For example, if you
don't want to create a MIDI file containing the first 2 bars of the 1—2—1-2-3-4
count-in you can select this option, and the MIDI file will begin directly at bar 1
without the count-in. If there is a Melody pickup, then the 2 bar lead-in will
remain in the file.
Other Edit Functions
In addition to the edit functions described elsewhere, the Edit menu has many
special options for configuring the program. These are found in the
Preferences… and Preferences 2 dialogs.
Preferences
Select Preferences from the Edit menu or press Option+P. This dialog box
allows you to set various settings. These are all saved in the Band-in-a-Box
folder in a file named Intrface.BBW.