Upgrade Manual

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 7
Chapter 2: Summary of New Features
New Features in Band-in-a-Box Version 9 are ...
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Audio Track! –
Feel like adding vocals to your Band-in-a-Box song? Or a
live guitar part. No problem with version 9. You can easily record a track of
CD quality audio using the new audio features. Plug in your guitar or a
microphone to your soundcard, press the Microphone record button in
Band-in-a-Box, and Band-in-a-Box will add your track to the song. You can
overdub the audio parts to add in harmonies etc. The MIDI and audio tracks
are compatible with other sequencers and sound programs (like
PowerTracks Pro Audio, SoundForge, Cubase or Cakewalk), so your full
MIDI and Audio performance can be used in these other programs.
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Save Song as wave file (.WAV)
Band-in-a-Box normally exports it songs
as MIDI files. Now you can directly export the song as a .WAV file as well.
This is referred to as 'rendering' the file from MIDI to audio. Once you have
it as a .WAV file, you can send it to others, or put it on the Internet, and
they will hear it exactly as you did. Or use "CD-burning" software to save
the .WAV file onto a conventional audio CD, so your Band-in-a-Box
creations will play in standard audio CD players.
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Save song in Internet formats.
There are many new formats for saving
audio files that take up less space than a wave file. Band-in-a-Box can save
files directly in these 'compressed audio' formats, using the drivers that
come with Windows. (Note: you must have already have these drivers with
your Windows system, they are not included with Band-in-a-Box.)
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Note-based lyrics.
Previous versions of Band-in-a-Box had lyrics based on
a "line at a time". We've added note-based lyrics. This allows more accurate
placement of lyrics as you can place a word under each note. As you enter
the lyrics, the note is highlighted, and pressing the TAB or Enter key moves
to the next word. Note-based lyrics are saved with the MIDI file, so you can
use them in your other MIDI programs.
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Big Lyrics (Karaoke) Window.
We've added a 'Big Lyrics Window' to
Band-in-a-Box. Selectable font, font size, and Window size. This is great
for singalongs or 'Karaoke' .
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Style Selection Enhancements
. Selecting a style to use for your song has
been made much easier, and more fun! When you open the new StylePicker
Window, it shows you which styles would work best in your song,
highlighting all styles that have a similar tempo, genre, and feel to your