Upgrade Manual

Chapter 14: Audio Enhancements

Non-Destructive Audio Track Editing!

With previous versions of Band-in-a-Box, any changes to the audio track would be permanent, even if you didn’t

save the song. Now the changes are non-destructive and only become permanent if you save the file.

If you have a song file called MySong.MGU, the audio track is stored in a MySong.WAV file. If you are editing the

audio, the edits are now made to a temporary WAV file called TEMPMAIN.WAV, and not to MySong.WAV. If

you save the song, the changes get written to the MySong.WAV audio file, but if you don’t save, the original file is

preserved!

Support for Multiple Sound Cards and other Audio Devices!

For the audio track, you can now choose which sound card to use.

Most people have a single sound card, so don’t require this feature. But if you have added an audio device (such as

a USB Audio Adapter), you would have multiple audio devices, and are now able to choose which one to use.

Choose Opt. | Preferences | Audio and click on the [Audio Drivers] button to select

which audio driver to use. This launches the Audio Driver dialog.

The default, and most popular, choice is “Microsoft Sound Mapper.” This is the device Windows uses for the

startup sound etc., but you can choose a different device in this dialog for input and output of the audio track in

Band-in-a-Box.

Full Stereo or Mono support for Audio Track!

In the Prefs - Audio Settings dialog, you can now choose between mono or stereo for the audio track and the audio

plug-ins work for mono or stereo. Tracks can be edited in either format, and converted from stereo to mono or vice

versa.

Audio Track Type for THIS song.

You can select Mono or Stereo for the current song. You can change a project from mono<>stereo at any time. For

example, if you have already recorded a MONO track, changing the setting will convert the track to stereo for you.