Upgrade Manual

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial
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Pencil Tool
Hold Shift+Ctrl, and move the mouse cursor over white space in the Graphic Event panel. The cursor becomes a
Pencil Tool. Click and then drag a free-form shape. When the mouse button is released, events are inserted or
modified to fit the free-form shape. This illustrates the effect of the Pencil Tool for free-form drawing the Velocity
of the first 6 notes:
Program Changes
The Piano Roll demo song contains some embedded program change events as a demo of this new method. Set the
“View/Edit” control to “Program,” and the few program changes are displayed in the Graphic Event panel.
Program changes are zero-based. For example, General MIDI piano is zero rather than one. The demo song intro
has a flute program change. Then the first chorus is trumpet, the second chorus is flute, and the third chorus is
soprano sax.
Expression Controller
Set the View/Edit combo box to “Control” (controller MIDI events). Then select “11 Expression MSB” in the
controller type combo box.
The Expression controller is recognized by most modern synthesizers (including most General MIDI synths).
However, some older synths do not recognize this controller. Expression is an alternative to “7 Main Volume
MSB.” Use the Expression controller for individual tracks, and reserve the main Volume controller for overall track
loudness. That way, you can use the Band-in-a-Box main window Volume controls without affecting individual
notes in the track.