User Guide

Chapter 4: The Main Screen

This button resets General MIDI devices by sending a GM mode On message and then setting up the

Band-in-a-Box patches.

Floating Toolbars

These are Copy and Paste buttons for chords or notes. They copy to the Windows clipboard, and

paste from the clipboard.

The Folder button allows you to change song and style folders or directories from within the program.

Use the Favorite Folders button to select a folder from previously used folders. Shift-click on this button to

choose any folder.

The guitar button launches a guitar fretboard window that displays guitar notes as music is playing.

This button allows you to enter repeats, 1

and 2

endings, DS al coda, DC al coda and more. The Auto-

Find feature enters them automatically.

The [Intro] allows you to generate and insert an intro into a song with a “press of the button.”

The Big Piano button launches a Big Piano window. It will display the notes to any track (except drums) as

the music is playing.

This launches the Windows Mixer applet. Use the Windows Mixer to make global settings to your sound

card's input and output options.

Press the Guitar Chord button to launch the “Generate Guitar Chord Solo” dialog.

The Ear Training button opens the Ear Training Window that plays chord types and intervals for you to

improve your playing-by-ear.

The Vocal Wizard selects and transposes the song to the best key for a singer’s vocal range.

This button launches the Chord Options dialog box, which allows you to add chord pushes, rests, shots, and

held chords for any given bar.

The grace note button opens the Melody Embellisher dialog for customizing the Melody Embellisher.

You can convert your composition to an audio CD. Press the CD button to burn a CD with the built-in CD

burner program.

This button connects to the www.pgmusic.com

web site.

If you have a Sound Blaster card, this button runs the Creative Mixer.

This button opens the Notation window, where you can enter chords and lyrics, edit notation, and view

MIDI notation in “note roll” style.

The Lead Sheet notation is a full-screen notation window with optional Fake Sheet mode that shows 1

and

endings, repeats, and codas.

Launches the Piano Roll window for editing the Melody or Soloist tracks in a piano roll format, including

graphic controller editing.