Upgrade Manual

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features10
StyleMaker Enhancements
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Larger style limit.
Previous limit was 40K for styles. This is now 65K,
allowing for bigger styles.
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Copy all 'a' substyle patterns to 'b' slots.
This feature is handy when only
a volume increase tweaking is required for the 'b' substyle.
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Delete all patterns
in this row option added.
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Pattern trim routine
that deletes notes past the end of a pattern, or
(optionally) a specified distance from the end of a pattern.
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Event list
for Editing Notes in patterns using a list.
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Enhanced Song List Window.
The Song List Window (accessed by
pressing the SONG button) used to have a limit of 800 songs. This has been
enhanced to 5,000 songs, and full information shows for each song (title,
filename, stylename , Melody/ Lyric / style present status). The window
auto-sizes to fill the screen.
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Song Endings option.
The usual Band-in-a-Box ending is 2 bars appended
to the end of the song. This new option gives you an alternative to end the
song on the last bar of the song. Band-in-a-Box will still play an ending on
the chord that you specify, and the ending will occur as a 2 bar phrase
beginning 2 bars before the end of the form. This results in more natural
endings for many songs.
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New Lyric Functions
. Since there are now 2 types of lyrics (line-based
lyrics and the new note-based lyrics), we've added functions to convert
note-based lyrics to line lyrics. This will update your old songs that might
have line-based lyrics to note-based. The copy-lyrics-to-clipboard feature
has been enhanced, you can select which elements should be copied, margin
size, etc.
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Enhanced Volume Control.
When adjusting the volume of a part (say to
increase the volume) , if you hold down the Alt key while clicking on the
volume change, it will also decrease the volume of the other parts. This is
especially useful when you've reached the maximum volume of a part, but
still 'want it to be louder'. By holding down the alt key, the other volumes
get reduced, which has the desired effect. This is most useful for Melody
parts, or the THRU part that you are playing along.