Upgrade Manual

Audio Track Recording

Band-in-a-Box has a single audio track. It is a 44 K mono track (CD quality).

This allows you to record vocals or other instruments using a microphone or

line-in from a mixer or guitar.

To record audio to your song, first prepare the Band-in-Box song (i.e. type in the

chords or load in an existing song).

Then press the microphone button (or choose menu Audio-Record). This

launches the Audio Record Dialog

Before you begin recording, you'll need to:

1. Set the Recording Properties, this tells

your soundcard (and BB) what sources you would record from. You'd normally

be recording from a microphone or a line-in plug into your soundcard, and you

select those items.

A soundcard is capable of recording from the following sources:

•

Microphone

–plugged into the soundcard e.g. vocals, sax

•

Line –in

. e.g. Guitar or Mixer

•

CD-ROM

player – this would record the audio from an audio CD, normally

you wouldn't be doing this in BB.

•

Outgoing MIDI

. (not used when recording audio tracks, but is used if

'Rendering' the whole BB song to Audio.) This is an important point to

understand when using audio in BB. The soundcard is capable of recording

the outgoing MIDI* that is being sent from your soundcard out to the

speakers. When recording an audio track (vocals etc.), you'd almost

never

want to record the outgoing MIDI as well (or it would 'bleed' onto the audio