Upgrade Manual

Chapter 4: Piano Roll window

New Fully-Featured “Piano Roll” Window!

Now you can edit your tracks using the new “Piano Roll” window, similar to the type found in many sequencer

programs. Edit the Melody or Soloist tracks with greater ease and precision. There are 2 panes in the window – one

for notes and the other for controllers, velocity, and other data. All notes and controllers are displayed as black/gray

bars on a grid. You can change note duration and pitch by selecting and dragging with your mouse.

Piano Roll window

The Piano Roll window enables precise graphic editing of note timing and duration. You can also graphically edit

Note Velocity, Controllers, Program Changes, Channel Aftertouch, or Pitch Bend.

The Piano Roll may be opened as a movable window, which floats above the Band-in-a-Box main window, or it

may be opened embedded, in the same position as the Chordsheet/Notation panels in the Band-in-a-Box main

window.

Track Selection

Select the Track - Bass, Drums, Piano, Guitar, Strings, Melody, or Solo.

It is most practical to edit the Melody and Solo tracks. The other tracks for the accompaniment are rewritten every

time Band-in-a-Box rebuilds the song (every time you click the Play button). So if you edit a “backing track,” be

sure to save as a MIDI file before rebuilding the song, or your edits will be lost.

Cursor Location Info Panel

The Info Panel shows the cursor's Bar:Beat:Tick and MIDI note or controller value (depending

on the cursor location). In cursor locations where a value would be nonsensical, the status text

values are blank.

For instance, in the Note panel, Bar:Beat:Tick and Pitch are displayed. In the Ruler panels, only Bar:Beat:Tick is

displayed. In the left Piano panel, only Pitch is displayed. In the Graphic Event panel, Bar:Beat:Tick and Event

Value are displayed.