2012 (Macintosh)
Table Of Contents
- PG Music Inc. License Agreement
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: QuickStart Tutorial
- Chapter 3: Summary of New Features
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- All New 32-bit PPC Carbonized Engine.
- Odd-Time Signature Support.
- Maximum Number of Soloists increased
- New Count-In Options
- Harmony – Low Root Feature.
- Strauss-in-a-Box
- Transform 4/4 Melody to a Waltz 3 /4 \(“Strauss-
- Transform “Waltz” Melody to 4/4 \(“De-Strauss” t
- Bass player plays better “5ths
- Load Previous Style, Load Next Style.
- “Chase Volumes” added for playback.
- Drum count-in options
- StylePicker Enhancements.
- StylePicker Dialog “show all” button
- Mono/Stereo menu options
- Video and Audio Memo support
- Soloist “Note-Density” option.
- Dedicated menu items added on GM Menu
- New Hot Keys
- Configuration Files
- About Hot Key Names on the Menus
- New Program Hints Added
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- Chapter 4: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box
- Chapter 5: The Main Screen
- Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide
- Chapter 7: Notation and Printing
- Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features
- Chapter 9: Recording Tracks
- Chapter 10: Built-in Drums
- Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions
- Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards
- Chapter 13: CoreMIDI and QuickTime OS X
- Chapter 14: Reference
- PG Music Inc.
- Index
- Registration Form
Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide 89
Setting the Harmony Channels
Melody Harmony Channel A Always uses the Melody channel
Melody Harmony Channel B Default =11
Melody Harmony Channel C Default =12
Thru Harmony Channel A Always uses the Thru channel
Thru Harmony Channel B Default =13
Thru Harmony Channel C Default =14
Band-in-a-Box already uses 7 channels (Bass, Drums, Piano, Guitar, Strings,
Melody and Thru channels). Adding these 4 harmony channels produces
potentially 11 channels of information. If you have a modern module that
receives on all channels, then you can use these defaults.
Older modules capable of playing only 8 parts at once (like an MT32 or a Korg
M1) won't be able to take advantage of the harmony using different instruments.
In this case you should set the harmony channels as follows:
Melody Harmony Channel A Uses the Melody Channel, no need to set.
Melody Harmony Channel B Need to Set equal to Melody Channel.
Melody Harmony Channel C Need to Set equal to Melody Channel
Thru Harmony Channel A Uses the Thru Channel, no need to set.
Thru Harmony Channel B Need to Set equal to Thru Channel.
Thru Harmony Channel C Need to Set equal to Thru Channel.
If you do this, then you don't need to do any other modifications to your Band-
in-a-Box setup, because it is not using any new channels.
MIDI Output to an external device.
Some external music hardware devices require chords played in root position to
drive them in real time.
An example of this is the Digitech Vocalist. It will let you sing into a
microphone and harmonize your voice according to the chords that are input to
the device. Band-in-a-Box now has the capability of outputting a separate
channel with the chords in root position to support such external devices
automatically. There are also settings such as complexity of chords, output
channel, velocity, and note range. Band-in-a-Box will also drive “RealTime
Arrangers” like the Roland RA series.
The best way to accomplish this is to access the M | Output chords to external
device… menu item. You will then be given a window like the following: