Upgrade Manual

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features8
song. You can
preview
styles before loading them so you can hear what
they'll sound like in your song. The window remembers the style and genre
that you've used, and will return to it the next time you visit the window.
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Big Piano Window
. We've added a new Big Piano Window, showing you
the notes of any track on a piano keyboard. You can set the size of the
Window, range of the piano, and number of octaves to display. You can
also display notes names, or guide notes showing the scale notes of the
current key. Notes can be displayed using a different color for each note.
There's an "Auto-Octave" setting that will scan the track to be displayed,
and auto-size the piano to the largest size that would display all of the notes.
This 'Big Piano' makes it easier to learn piano parts from within Band-in-a-
Box.
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Guitar Tablature.
The notation screen now has an option for Guitar
Tablature, that displays any track in standard Guitar TAB. This can be seen
on the notation screen, leadsheet window or printed out.
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Automatic Guitar Chord Solos to any Song!
Now you can easily make
and learn a professional quality guitar chord solo to your favorite song!
Load in any song with a Melody into Band-in-a-Box (or generate a song
with a melody). Then open the Guitar Window and Press the 'Auto-
Generate Chord Solo' button . Band-in-a-Box then generates a chord solo on
guitar for that song, using the same guitar chords that the pros use. Chord
types can be selected to use standard, advanced, or embellished chords. The
chord solo plays on the correct positions on the guitar window, so you can
see the performance played on guitar. Or view it in notation, or TAB , and
print it out!
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'Jazz Up' the Chords, 'Jazz Down' the Chords.
When switching genres
(from Pop to Jazz, or Jazz to Pop) , its often necessary to change the chords
from 'Pop/Rock' chords (C) to Jazz Type chords (Like CMaj7) . Now you
can quickly do this, by new menu options called 'Jazz Up', 'Jazz Down'.
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Convert Harmony Part to Notation track.
Previously if you added a
harmony, the harmony parts wouldn't be seen on the notation, you would
only see the lead part. Now you can write the harmony part directly to the
notation track, so you can see it and print it out, just like any other part.
Notation Enhancements
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Keystroke Note Editing.
You can easily edit notes using only keystrokes
now. By stepping through the notes one-by-one, when a note is highlighted
you can change the pitch using the cursor keys, and other values (timing,