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At the end of recording, you get an option to
Overdub with the underlying audio.
Playing the Audio File.
Now you can play the Audio file that you've recorded.
The size of the audio file will be displayed at the top of the screen. If you
haven't saved the song yet, your window title will look like this. In the example,
above, the song is titled NoName.SG1, and there is a 3.4mb .WAV file
associated with the file, and that's 38 seconds of audio. The total duration of the
song is 3 minutes and 20 seconds.
You should save the song, give it a name of "My First Song". Then the window
title will look like this…
Once the song is saved, the wave file will be called with the same name as the
song, that is "My First Song.wav". So if you ever need to work with the .WAV
file in another program, you can just directly edit the wave file. If you do this,
make sure the .WAV stays a 44K mono .WAV file.
Applying Audio Plugins
When you've recorded audio, you'd likely want to apply some type of effect to
the audio recorded. The usual one is Reverb. Choose the Audio Plugin that you
want from the Audio -Plugins menu. For Reverb, choose the Reverb option.
You'll then see a plugin with its own settings, specific to the type of plugin. The
plugins are described in Appendix A of the manual. There is also extensive on-
line Help, accessed from the plugin directly. Inside the plugin, you can Preview
the plugin effect, and if you like it, you can then Proceed with processing the
entire .WAV file. You can UNDO the plugin effect from within Band-in-a-Box
by choosing Edit-Undo.
Technical Note for Programmers: Writing Band-in-a-Box Audio Plugins.
External Audio Plugins can be easily written for Band-in-a-Box. When BB calls
the plugin, it writes an c:\bb\input.txt file that includes information such as the
tool number for the plugin, and the name of the input wave file and the output
wave file. The plugin gets registered on the BB menu by including a small
P^NNN.INI file, where NNN is the name of the Plugin's EXE. If you have a