User Guide

Chapter 4: The Main Screen
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Chorus End button: Click on the Chorus End Button to select the last bar of the chorus. The Bar
number that you select is displayed.
The number of choruses possible for a tune is 40. Click on the chorus button and choose how many
choruses you require.
As the song is playing the current chorus is displayed at in the chorus button. 2/3 shows that the second
of three choruses is playing.
If you change the number of choruses, Band-in-a-Box will offer to fill up or remove choruses of the Melody track to
match the new number of choruses.
Title window checkboxes
When the loop checkbox in the Title window is checked, the song plays endlessly until stopped by
the [Esc] key, the space bar, or the [Stop] button. At the end of the song, it plays again from the start.
Enables fake sheet mode for the chordsheet with 1
st
and 2
nd
endings and repeats. Right click to auto-
detect repeats.
The Wizard is an intelligent play along feature that uses your QWERTY keyboard as a
substitute for an external MIDI piano-style keyboard. Toggle this checkbox “on” to play along with Band-in-a-Box.
During playback, the Melody Embellisher changes timing of notes, durations, velocities, legato, as
well as adding grace notes, additional notes, and “turns.” It is turned on and off by the Embellisher
checkbox on the main screen. Embellisher settings are accessed from the menu item Melody |
Embellisher or the Embellisher button on the toolbar.
Press the [S] button, or choose Edit | Settings (for This Song)… to select additional settings for the
current song.
The [Memo] button allows you to put in a memo to a song. You can type in a memo or you can
paste text from the Windows clipboard.
Loop Section Settings
The loop button launches the Loop Section Settings dialog, allowing you to set a range of bars to loop
in Band-in-a-Box.
The LoopSec/LoopScn checkbox turns the Loop Section on/off. When it shows LoopSec a selected
range of bars repeats in an endless loop. LoopScn indicates a screen of notation is looping.
Chordsheet Area
Chords, rests, shots, holds, and part markers are entered in the Chordsheet.
The chordsheet can be viewed in the full linear view showing all bars, or optionally in fake sheet view that shows 1
st
and 2
nd
endings and repeat signs. Another option shows bars past the end of the song in gray.