User Guide

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box
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Add Audio Effects
You can add professional audio effects like reverb, echo, and compression by
choosing a plug-in from the Audio menu (Audio | Plug-in). Band-in-a-Box comes
with a large selection of high quality audio effects built-in, and DirectX plug-ins
are supported.
The plug-ins apply audio effects or utilities such as compression to the already recorded audio part. A typical plug-
in dialog is shown. The [Preview] button will play a short sample of the processed track, and the Edit | Undo
command will restore the original track if applied before another edit is performed.
Press the [Play] button to hear your results!
Saving Your Work
Now that you have produced a great sounding song, it is time to save it as a Band-in-a-Box file, as a MIDI file, a
Karaoke file, or as an audio wave file.
The [Save] button saves your song in Band-in-a-Box format. Band-in-a-Box accompaniments are saved
with the file extension *.sgu. If a melody has been recorded the file extension will be *.mgu. The audio
track, if present, is saved as an associated wave file with the song name and the extension *.wav.
The [.MID] button will save your file in Standard MIDI File format. These files can be played in any
MIDI file player.
If you have recorded an acoustic instrument, Band-in-a-Box can render the MIDI data to a wave file (*.wav) and
merge it with your live audio recording to produce a complete digital audio file.
Press the [.WAV] button and Band-in-a-Box will render the song arrangement to an audio wave file.