Upgrade Manual

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 9
duration, channel) with other hot keys. This speeds up editing of notes. For
example, you can record a song using the Melody Wizard, which will have
the correct timing and durations but incorrect pitches. Then you can quickly
step through the notes of the song, using the cursor up/down keys to fix the
notes, and you'll end up with a Melody as good as if you had played it on a
MIDI keyboard.
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Notation range.
You can specify an upper limit of a note range so that
high notes won't result in an excessive number of ledger lines.
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Enhanced Event List Editing.
You can edit events including all MIDI
events and lyric events using the new Event List.
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Harmony enhancements.
You can specify a harmony to only occur for
notes longer than a certain duration. There are new options for how the
program 'fixes' the harmony when chord changes occur during a sustained
note harmony. And there's a 'use guitar voicings' harmony type that uses
real guitar chord voicings that display correctly on the guitar fretboard.
We've enhanced the existing harmonies file to take advantage of these new
features, so your harmonies will sound better.
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Solo Around The Melody option.
There's a new option for the Soloist part
to create a solo around the melody, that is solo at times when the Melody is
silent.
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Add your own chord shortcuts.
Have you found a chord that BB doesn't
recognize? If so, add it to the your chord shortcuts file, and BB will allow
you to type in that chord in the future. This also lets you define chord
"shortcuts", one letter abbreviations for longer chord names ('J" for "Maj7"
etc.).
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Read in Chords from a PowerTracks or Band-in-a-Box MIDI file.
Many of PG Music's programs have MIDI files with the chords in them.
You can open these files in Band-in-a-Box, and the chords will be imported
onto the chord sheet.