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Just click here before going to Amazon , you will get a super low price and you help fellow musicians. Thank you. Lucie Musicians Retirement Fund. New Band-in-a-Box sequences usually will be added once a week and at least once a month Back to the alpabetical index and the Band-in-a-Box file of the week The Fine Print: This site contains Band-in-a-Box sequences to the chord progressions of many popular songs.

Read the associated Memo file in Band-in-a-Box click the Memo button to the right of the song title for example song titles for the Band-in-a-Box sequence of the same name. Each Band-in-a-Box sequence contains a chord progression only. There are no copyrighted melodies or lyrics in any of these sequences. The song titles are used only to identify a particular type of chord progression. Each sequence makes no attempt to copy any particular recording or arrangement of the song from which the chord progression was 'borrowed'.

The song titles used to identify a particular chord progressions are not the only songs that use that chord progression. Entering a melody for these styles is difficult using only your mouse in editable notation mode, since you need to divide the bar into the appropriate number of divisions and do calculations to determine where to put each note.

The easiest way to do it is to record the melody using an external MIDI synthesizer. If you don't have an external MIDI synth, you can do the following:. While the song is playing, tap in the time of your melody on any key in the bottom two rows of your computer keyboard. Don't worry about the pitch of each note right now. Just worry about getting the timing right.

First of all, you should understand that you can either view your song in "Fake sheet" mode or "Linear mode". This makes your song more compact, and more pleasant to read and print out. In other words, if you play your song while looking at it in linear mode, the cursor will move from top to bottom without jumping around at all. The bars that would be hidden in fake sheet mode are shown in light grey in linear mode. You could do one of the following:. Enter the following data Notice that if you were to use the first method, but you left "Generate insert new bars" unchecked, bars would be empty no chord symbols.

You would see this if you viewed your song in linear mode. To resolve the problem, make sure that the GS Wavetable and other software synths aren't selected anywhere in your setup. Leave the "Use DXi Synth" box checked. You just need to select a different output driver, it won't affect the sound through your DXi synth.

The complete error message is: "An error occurred while trying to replace the existing file: DeleteFile Failed; code 5. Access is Denied". It also refers to a specific file in the error message box. This happens if a file that the installer is trying to replace happens to be in use by the computer. Preferences Audio - Audio Driver Type. Some 'higher end' sound cards also support some additional features when using their ASIO drivers, and it may provide a benefit when recording audio.

The downside is that because of the way ASIO is designed, it has the potential to cause more problems then MME, and it can take some tweaking to get a particular ASIO driver working properly with a particular application that the manufacturer may not have tested it with.

Here are some ASIO tips One characteristic of ASIO drivers is that they can only be used by one application at a time. If you try to use two different programs at the same time, you'll likely get no sound and a variety of different errors. One indication of this is audio glitches and stuttering.

You want to set it as low as you can for good latency , but high enough so that you aren't experience any problems. It's probably best to start with a fairly high setting and lower it gradually as you use the program if you aren't having any problems.

Make sure you have installed the latest drivers available for your sound card. You should download the drivers from the manufacturer's website - don't think that a driver CD that came with your hardware has the latest drivers on it. Try changing processor scheduling to 'background services' - Right-click on My Computer and select Properties, then click on the Advanced tab or click 'Advanced System Settings' on Vista and higher and go to 'Performance Settings'.

The ideal setting is ON, because this allows low latency play-thru while the song is stopped, however it may cause problems with some drivers when always on.

Also, try setting the resampler quality to Fast. Fast will use less processing power. If you hear sound but don't actually see the video while it is playing, or if you get an error message when you try to play it, you might not have the TSCC codec installed on your computer.

Click here to download the codec. If you are having trouble playing videos on our website, see this SalesFAQ topic instead. If you are still having trouble playing the videos for any reason, we suggest reinstalling Windows Media Player. This is easiest done by downloading and installing the most recent version of Windows Media Player for your operating system. Note that If you have downloaded the video from our website, you will need to extract the file with a program such as WinZip.

Windows XP has a built-in utility for extracting files. You should then be able to then play the file in Windows Media Player. These are the folders where the 'Drums' and 'RealTracks' subfolders are located. The installer should normally be able to locate your Drums and RealTracks folders automatically, however in some cases it cannot, for example if you had manually copied and pasted the folders to a new custom location rather than installing them there. One thing to take into consideration if you are keeping a backup of your old folder, is the disk space required for the RealDrums and RealTracks.

If you are getting low on hard disk space, you could backup all the files within the bb folder except for the Drums and RealTracks subfolders. Note that you will need to have the WMA files, which will be present along with the wave files unless you had manually deleted them in which case you would need to reinstall them.

You can create custom keyboard shortcuts to use when entering chords. For example, if you input the chord Maj9 11 frequently, you could set the single letter 'g' to be used as a shortcut to make it easier for you to enter this chord. TXT" to specify your chord shortcuts:. Utilities Edit Chord Shortcuts File. Type the shortcuts you wish to use into this text file, with one shortcut per line.

For example: g maj9 Either 1 go to Opt. You may have added or recorded pitch bend data to the Melody track. The harmony routines are set to "not harmonize" when pitch bend data follows, since they would need to be bending those harmony notes as well.

Modulation Wheel would have a similar effect. You can look in the event list window to see if these controllers are present. Some of the notes may have a very short duration. You can set your own threshold:. You can copy the harmony to one of the "empty" harmony slots and make your modifications there if you wish. That way you don't have to worry about modifying the factory harmonies.

HAR file located in the BB folder if you do this. That way, if the file is overwritten, you don't lose your custom harmonies. If it is a VST plugin, make sure you are selecting the native version of the plugin. Once you have added it, it will appear with angled brackets at the bottom of your list of plugins. If you see a VST plugin that does not show up with angled brackets, ignore that one. A few but not all of the third-party-written plugins were coded as copy-protected and bundled with specific software not PG Music Inc.

You should check with the manufacturer that you obtained the plugin from to find out about this. Windows thinks a plugin exists if there are proper entries in the registry.

If the registry entry doesn't point to the real location of the plugin because it was deleted or moved , an attempt to connect will fail. You should try uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin. The DXi configuration file could have an error in it. If the song has a melody, the extension begins with an 'M'.

If the song doesn't have a melody, it begins with an 'S'. The third letter refers to the style that the song uses. STY and U refers to a "User" style actually, any other style. Another song file you may encounter is MGX. The song files are quite small. This means that you can store hundreds or thousands of songs without using up too much of your hard drive space. The Solo and Trio Intros are intended to be used as learning tools mainly, however it is possible to use them in your songs.

For example, you could use one of the following two methods to start your song with one of the intros. Save the intro using File Save As and type in a unique filename so you don't have to worry about modifying the original intro. If the Intro was an.

MGX file this tells you that the style was disabled , go to the Style menu and click on 'Style is enabled'. In the first bar, type in the same chord as is already there, followed by a period. This will 'rest' the chord. Change the number of choruses to 1. When asked if you want to "adjust melody to fit new of choruses", click [Yes].

If you have already entered chords and melody without leaving space for the intro at the beginning of your song, you will need to use Edit Copy chords and melody , and set first and last bar of your chorus appropriately so that bars are available for the intro. For example, you could set the first bar of your chorus to Bar 5 if you have more than one chorus. You will then be importing the intro into bars In the Import MIDI File dialog, you may need to insert 1 blank bar at the beginning to get the intro to line up properly at the beginning of bar 1.

Note that you may need to make minor adjustments to these instructions to get it to work properly for your specific situation. This may occur if one of the folders that you have your song saved in has a period in its name. To resolve the problem, remove the period from the folder name or save your song in a different folder. GS Mode gives you access to around patches. To choose the mode that you want to use, launch the VSC controller window and press either the GS or GM2 mode button stand-alone version , or press the [Setup] button DXi plugin version.

The following two files are included:. Rename the existing patches. There are two patch lists - one for GM2 mode and one for GS mode. Copy this file to your BB folder. You will then be able to select any patch on the VSC by doing one of the following:. PAT file not needed for this. PAT file. Here is what you can do if you want your song to fade out at the end. We will use a 50 bar song in our example, which you want to fade out starting at bar Open the Piano Roll window and view the Melody track you could use the Soloist track instead - it doesn't matter.

You can check this in Opt. Preferences Channels. For example, say your song uses the Bass, Piano, Drums, and Melody tracks. When you do this, the 'Controller Edit Type' combo box will appear. Choose '11 Expression MSB'. In the bottom pane of the Piano Roll window the Graphic Event Editing area , draw a descending line starting at a value of at bar 40, and ending at a value of 0 at bar Reset the expression back to at the end of your song with a single mouse click at the end of bar To resolve this problem, first find out where you have your previous version installed.

ST2 not found. Cannot write Solo. ST2 files are 'Soloist' files. They must reside in your home directory ". ST2 files are Soloist databases. Each of the Soloists are set up to use one of the. ST2 files for solo generation, and if the. The list of Soloists that you see in the 'Select Soloist' dialog is defined by the Default. SOL file. If you purchased the "Pro" package and you are trying to select a Soloist that is not included in the Pro, you will get an "ST2 not found" error.

Soloists sets can also be purchased individually. If you have purchased and installed an individual Soloist set, and you get this error when trying to use one of the new Soloists, then you most likely didn't install the Soloist into the correct directory.

The solution is to reinstall the Soloist set, making sure to select the correct destination directory. There are some Soloists that have recently been upgraded to use a more advanced and realistic sounding Soloist database not available in the Pro version. If you get a message saying something like "Wynt. Note: You should make a backup of the default. SOL file after making edits in the Soloist Maker. This can help solve or troubleshoot odd and unexplainable problems you are having with the program.

We recommend renaming the files rather than deleting them or saving a copy of them somewhere else on your hard drive so that you have a backup of your old configuration. For example, you could rename intrface. Later, if you find that you need to restore your previous settings, you can delete the new intrface. You can simply go to the Opt. Later, you can reload those preferences by selecting Opt.

Open Preferences. Preferences dialogs, and a list of the most recently accessed song and style files. This file contains the settings in the following dialogs. Preferences Patch Map Opt. Preferences Drum Kit Opt.

Preferences Fav. The two files above contain most of your program settings; it is USUALLY only necessary to delete those two files to solve most problem. Other settings files include:. This file contains the information in the Styles Style Aliases dialog.

This file has the name and location of the VSTi plugins that you have added to your plugin list. This file won't be present unless you have added VSTi plugins. This file has the name and location of the VST audio plugins that you have added to your plugin list. This file stores the current DXi plugin configuration. This file stores the current DX plugin configuration. It contains a description of the song files in that folder. Stores information about the StylePicker list other custom and third party styles found in the bb folder.

Return to Factory Settings. This will not necessarily return ALL settings to factory like deleting the files listed above will. An easy way to find the configuration files in the bb folder is by sorting the files by 'date modified'.

The configuration files will usually be the most recently modified, so will appear at the top. Some of the files listed above will not necessarily be present. For example, if you haven't ever used the guitar tuner, you will not find Tuner. BIN file. BIN to define the song list for a particular folder. This file is stored in the folder with your song files.

One or more of the solutions below should resolve the problem. BIN file was somehow marked as 'read-only' after it was created. One way this may have occurred is if you had changed the properties of the folder in question to read-only, and said 'Yes' when asked if you wanted to apply the changes to all subfolders and files.

Right-click on the folder and select Properties. If Read-only is checked, uncheck it and click [Apply]. If you are asked if you want the changes to apply to all subfolders and files, say yes. If you have multiple song folders, you should change the properties of the folder at the "top level" the folder that contains all of your song folders within it.

You may be able to resolve the problem by simply deleting the SongListTemp4. BIN file from the folder you are having trouble with.

If you have Windows or XP Professional, one possibility is that an administrator on the computer has changed the permission settings for the folder s containing your songs to disallow read or write access.

If you are logged on as an administrator, you can check the security and permissions settings by right-clicking on the folder, selecting properties, and clicking on the Security tab.

If not, set it as your default by right-clicking on it and selecting 'Set as default'. Check this in Opt. This allows you to avoid the higher latency delay between when you press a note on your keyboard and when you hear the note play of software synths, provided you are able to select a low latency MIDI driver hardware synth, rather than soft synth. If you have this setting unchecked, then the thru part will be routed to the DXi synth during playback.

All MIDI data bytes have a range of 0 thru The MIDI status bytes all have values between and , so it is illegal to send data bytes bigger than , or they will be misinterpreted as status bytes note on, note off, controller, etc.

So if you want to encode values bigger than , the MIDI spec uses two or more data bytes. Pitch Bend uses two data bytes. The 7 bits of the MSB most significant byte and the 7 bits of the LSB least significant byte are combined to make a 14 bit possible range of values. Fourteen bytes can count from 0 thru A Pitch Bend of zero is considered to be halfway up in that range, so most software subtracts from the 'true 14 bit value' to display the pitch end value.

There is a pitch bend range controller message that tells a synth how far to stretch a note in response to pitch bend messages.

Many synths have a front-panel setting for that if you push enough buttons. The pitch bend data is the same number range in all cases 0 thru , but the synth just stretches its pitch a different interval in response to the pitch bend data. Some synthesizers may ignore the LSB in Pitch Bend messages, and only have actual pitch bend locations. Even if a synth doesn't transmit or receive the LSB, that data value is just treated like it is zero. So if you had a controller that only sends pitch values, the received numbers if you slowly move the pitch bend wheel up would be 0, , If you slowly move the pitch bend wheel down, the received numbers would be 0, , , on down to A synth which ignores the LSB would pretend that the LSB is always zero, regardless of what value the sequencer is actually transmitting.

Both Pitch Bend data bytes are encoded in each single Pitch Bend message. The MIDI spec also provides for higher-resolution of other controllers if you send two consecutive messages. It is questionable how many synths can respond to hi-res information.

For instance, in theory you could transmit continuous values 0 thru for controller 1, if sending message pairs of controller 1 for the MSB, and controller 33 for the LSB.

The trick would be finding a synth that does something other than ignore controller It most likely means that your system resources are low. If you continue to experience problems, close background programs before running the program. Click on each item listed in the window, except for "Explorer" and "Systray", and press [End Task]. You have to do this one item at a time.

When you are finished, only Explorer and Systray should appear there. There are some additional suggestions for freeing up system resources in this FAQ topic. To do this, simply open the Lead Sheet window, press the [Memo] button, and type in your lyrics. If your song has repeats, 1st-2nd endings, or multiple verses of lyrics, multiple lines of lyrics can be displayed so you'll see all verses on the same lead sheet. Here are the basic steps for entering multiple lines of lyrics:.

Type your lyrics using Note-based Lyric entry mode in the Notation Window. The Notation Window shows your whole song in linear form, including all choruses and repeated bars. You must use Note-based lyrics, and not Line-based lyrics. Press [OK]. If you are having trouble, note the following:.

This is intentional. If you want it to be displayed, modify one of the lines of lyrics so that it is slightly different - for example, you could add a space or hyphen - somwhere. If you press [Print] from the Notation Window or use File Print , the printout will be in linear non-Fake Sheet mode and multi-line lyrics will not be displayed. Also, if you are getting an error like this, you are most likely getting other errors whenever a file needs to be saved in the bb folder.

This should resolve the problem completely without having to do anything further. As long as you have done the above three steps, you shouldn't still be experiencing this problem. To do this, right-click on bbw. Or to set it permanently, right-click on it Properties Compatibility Run as admin. Disabling User Account Control would also resolve the problem. This is done in Control Panel User Accounts On Windows 7, the 'entirely off' setting is most applicable. Make sure "read-only" is unchecked, and press [Apply].

You may be asked if you want the changes to apply to all subfolders and files - yes. For instance, on Windows XP Professional, you would:. Windows XP Home doesn't give you the same control over permissions for individual user accounts, because "Simple File Sharing" is always enabled.

For limited users, you may need to copy the bb folder to the Shared Documents folder. All user accounts can read and modify any folders or files that are in the Shared Documents folder. For more information, right-click on a folder, select 'Sharing and Security', and click on the 'Learn More' link in that dialog. There is a way you can disable simple file sharing on Windows XP Home, however that is beyond the scope of this article. The chord symbols will show up in all PG Music Inc.

Note that if you load a. Chords will not be saved into the new file. One possiblility is that you have modified your drum kit, but you did not assign a MIDI note number to one or more of the drum sounds. Go to Opt. Preferences Drum Kit , and check to make sure that none of the drum sounds have been assigned to "0". For General MIDI drum kit definitions, the default note number for the Bass drums is 35, and the default note number for the Snare drums is Assuming that you are not using a non-General MIDI synth, you can set the bass and snare drums to those values.

Note that this will return some settings back to factory defaults. See this FAQ topic for information on which settings are affected by this file. You can record the MIDI performance in real time as a stereo.

Rarely used anymore: You can "Direct Render" the performance to. We have a tutorial explaining in detail how to render MIDI to wave using each of these methods. This also covers the most frequently encountered problems.

Click here to read this tutorial. If you do not hear the audio track when you play the rendered wave file, or if it plays back at the wrong speed, here is what you need to do:. Improved: Speed of some operations when searching and filtering for styles. Updated: PDF Manuals and help routine updates. Fixed: Medleys and Thickened RealTracks were not playing in proper stereo.

Fixed: Rendering to audio with a region of bars selected renders the wrong region. Fixed: Rendering to audio with a region of bars selected causes the Choose Range dialog to appear.

Fixed: Rendering was a bit slower than necessary when exporting 16 bit, Fixed: Band-in-a-Box may become unresponsive after rendering to audio. Fixed: The Sinsy Vocal Synth would fail if using the 64 bit version. Fixed: Various audio formats would fail to import. Fixed: FakeSheet button in the Custom tool panel was not displaying the check mark.

Fixed: Crash when opening saved plugin with part marker on bar 2 and none on bar 1. Fixed: A,B does not get entered into chord sheet. Fixed: Chords being displayed in Roman Numeral without user setting. Fixed: Plugin getting stuck while connecting to bbw4. Added: context menu option in style page to use existing RT as MR. Summary of Changes for Version Build Nov 30 Fixed: Possible crash when starting playback if song contains audio track.

Fixed: Flickering in the Notation Window, especially during playback. Fixed: Flickering in the Piano Roll window. Updated: PDF manuals have miscellaneous fixes. Summary of Changes for Version Build Jan 23 Fixed: Japanese version had some chord sheet display problems.

Fixed: Band-in-a-Box might crash during bootup if there is a problem with font installation usually after upgrading Windows 7 to Windows Fixed: Band-in-a-Box might crash during bootup if an ASIO driver was previously selected, and the device is no longer connected to the computer. Improved: BootupLog. This only applies if WriteBootUpLog. Fixed: Some bars for the B section of RT were dropping out.

Fixed: Band-in-a-Box might crash when opening a song that contains note-based lyrics. Fixed: Lyrics would not display in the Big Lyrics if "Show chord symbols above the lyrics" was enabled. Fixed: Bar Lyrics and Section Text layers do not line up with bars in Notation window if there are repeats in song, and fake sheet mode is enabled.

Fixed: Possible crash if editing a text layer while using the floating Notation Window. QuickTime is only available for the 32 bit version, but is only required if using Windows Vista or earlier. Fixed: When choosing a compressed format for rendering files, and "One file per track" is enabled, the resulting files are. Fixed: The About dialog said 'for Macintosh' instead of 'for Windows'. Fixed: StylePicker: User Category list wasn't refreshing after choosing a new user category.

Changed: Default the 'include similar styles in the stylepicker' to false each bootup. Fixed: melodists were getting quantized incorrectly. Fixed: Rebuilding styles list was causing errors sometimes. Original file is preserved". Fixed: Audio will not import to a custom position if there is already audio on the Audio track.

Fixed: Importing 24bit WAV files would result in noise. Fixed: The Audio Chord Wizard was not producing any chords. Fixed: Possible crashes during playback. Fixed: Distortion in some rendered files if using "One file per track". Summary of Changes for Version Build August 14 Fixed: Using multiple monitors might cause the main tool to disappear. Fixed: Miscellaneous display fixes for localized versions of Band-in-a-Box. Fixed: Switching to the Audio Edit window during playback would reset the audio track play position to zero.

Fixed: Fretlight Guitar was not supported in the x64 bit version. The presets are shared with the 32 bit version, so saving and deleting should affect the same preset lists. Fixed: The VU Meters window was not redrawing properly. Fixed: Various access violation errors may occur in the StyleMaker. Fixed: There was a spurious "Number is out of range" error message when leaving the Guitar Settings window. Fixed: Program might freeze during bootup during "counting candidate plugins" process.

Updated: Help file, PDF docs routine updates. Added: Sending midi data to DAW. Fixed: BBW connection status was too small. Now it is a Biab player silhouette in the bottom left corner.

Added: Unfold multiple choruses. Improved: The SongPicker has sorting added. Each column can be sorted in forward or reverse order by clicking on the column. Improved: In the SongPicker, pressing the first letter jumps to that song using the sorted column. If you type more than one character within 2 seconds , such as typing ba it will jump to songs beginning with "ba". Improved: SongPicker Options window has "play when chosen" added.

Improved: SongPicker Options window has option to disable sorting if you have a slow machine and more than 40, songs in a list, you might want to disable sorting. Fixed: Band-in-a-Box might prompt user to re-activate their license. Users who are still getting a message such as "program can only used on one computer" at bootup, can repair their license with this small.

Fixed: The Big Lyrics window would automatically open when opening a song that contained only section text events. Fixed: RealDrums picker might crash if no RealDrums are selected. Fixed: The letter R cannot be used in note based lyrics. Fixed: Audio base tempo would not be applied until song was reopened or Audio Edit window open prior to playback. Fixed: The SongPicker displayed a dark grey background after rebuilding.

Fixed: Various minor typos in StylePicker and Titles database as reported. SGU demos were not loading from StylePicker. Fixed: Various RealDrums transcriptions had issues with bars displaying incorrectly. Fixed: Changing the Soloist track type to Drums did not work. Fixed: DAW sync issue in Cakewalk. Fixed: DAW sync issue with non 4-bar song form. Added: Option in preferences for plugin playback in sync with DAW. Added: Audio playback through DAW driver sync option will highlight track in red when clicked.

Fixed: Bar highlighting starting at intro after first chorus. Silent gaps between riffs are now filled when necessary, giving a more legato sound to instruments that need it. This feature is on by default, but can be disabled by unchecking "Automatically fill gaps between riffs" in the RealTracks Settings window.

Improved: The RealDrums window resizing is improved. The window is no longer forced to use a single aspect ratios. Fixed: MaxPluginsToScan. Fixed: Pausing playback should not disable the Juke Box. Updated: User guide and Help. Fixed: Some additional RealTracks shots and holds are added and assigned.

Fixed: Miscellaneous minor. STY and audition file errors and typos. Fixed: Some Organs weren't tempo swapping correctly. Added: Favorites list recent files now in saved settings for all plugin instances. Added: Shortcuts to chord sheet to the plugin j[Maj7], h[m7b5], s[7sus], d[dim], S[open style picker], begin[set start bar], chorusend [sets end of chorus], end [sets number of bars], t [sets tempo], tkam [sets key signature e.

Fixed: Issues with bar highlighting. Fixed: If you change the playback location in a DAW without stopping, BB plugin ignores it with bar highlights and continues in a linear fashion. Fixed: Move deleted files to recycle bin. Added: Deletion log file. Fixed: RealDrums dragging as style drums. Fixed: Individual tracks not generating more than one chorus.

Fixed: Options drop-down cancels generation. Fixed: Double-clicking bar 1 starts from count in. Fixed: Some important flash messages were not displaying properly. The program does not support MAC-basedformats. Fixed: Silent gaps between RealTracks riffs were not being filled. Fixed: UserTracks not showing correct name, or not generating sometimes. Improved: Generating only the master works better.

Improved: Master. Improved: Names for style tracks when on melody or soloist. Fixed: Generating a loop when the style contained a soloist track wasn't working. Fixed: In some DAWs an error could occur while dragging tracks. Fixed: Blue square filled up after generating only master track. Fixed: Midi playback caused crash in some DAWs e. This only applies to WAS audio drivers when using "output always on". Fixed: The 64 bit version did not have the Drums window. TimeShift Melody to be applied to the Soloist track.

Fixed: Leaving the Leadsheet memo dialog will crash Band-in-a-Box. Improved: Windows Audio Session error should report a more informative error message on Windows If opening a. TGS or a song file that assigns the 32 bit versions of these plugins, Band-in-a-Box will automatically load the 64 bit version. Song files will also save backwards compatible.

TGS data so 32 bit versions of Band-in-a-Box will load the 32 bit version of these plugins. Fixed: Some new RealTracks were not assigned shots and holds. Fixed: Soloist not generating on first attempt. Fixed: Multiriff playback and bar highlighting. Fixed: Some audio export error messages were blank. Fixed: If using the Lyric Document window, there will be an access violation when saving the song 64 bit only.

Fixed: It was not possible to use the N key while entering note based lyrics in the Notation window. Updated: PDF and help file documentation. Fixed: Loading demo from StylePicker or loading a song when a special track was already present sometimes added an extra RealTracks special track to page 2 Fixed: Output directory error.

Fixed: BBW sometimes not receiving message when run as administrator. This would cause some actions to hang or not work at all. Fixed: Skip grey bars when moving selector through chordsheet.

Fixed: Problem scrolling chord table when crossing PartMarker during highlight. Fixed: Some opened BB songs with realcharts on a frozen track would cause an access violation. Fixed: Generation of single tracks would hang the program if the bb folder contained the file MaxPluginsToScan. This file should not normally be present except in rare cases where a DX plugin scan failed.

Improved: Faster opening of BB song files. Improved: Installer has options for installing all plugin types. All files are now digitally signed. This will be used as the default synth in Band-in-a-Box. Fixed: The Band-in-a-Box icon was not displayed in the title bar or task bar. Fixed: VST plugins would not load if using jBridge. Added: Delete key will delete highlighted area in chord sheet. Updated: Windows tools for UI scaling on hi-res monitors. Changed: Tip for valid folders now appears only if Preference dialog is open.

Changed: Typing "," in chord sheet now shows it in generic font. Fixed: Problem with BBW pickers not opening on first click. Fixed: Shot, Hold, Rest not loading properly from saved song. Added: Attempting to generate an empty track table from options menu will call the corresponding BBW picker.

Added: Option in the Preferences dialog to set the folder for Saved Tracks. By default, this setting is turned off. SampleTank 3. Note that the bug can cause the driver to remain open after using Band-in-a-Box, so this bug fix might require you to restart your computer. This should only be necessary for Windows Vista or XP. Fixed: The Find File dialog was not displaying folders, and not loading the song chosen. Fixed: Generating multi-riffs would sometimes generate an error. Also, highlight a region of the chordsheet first to generate just that section as a multi-riff Added: Shots, holds, rests, push chords now read in from BB files.

SampleTank 2 , if not running as administrator. Fixed: Multi-channel VST plugins eg. Changed: Disabled input channels for the Standalone plugin. Added: Options menu for the Standalone plugin. Changed: Valid folder warning is now a tip. Fixed: Problem selecting special tracks in v1. Removed: Space bar controlling playback in the plugin. Changed: Tool tips now appear in status message area. Summary of Changes for Version Build Dec 21 Fixed: Soloing a track will cause lots of distortion on some computers only applies to the 64 bit version.

Also, the count-in will be played in the wrong tempo, sound distorted, and cause Band-in-a-Box to be visually out of sync. Fixed: Recording audio more than once in a song would fail with various errors such as "File not found".

Fixed: Audio output would be silent in the 64 bit version, if using ASIO with a sample rate other than Fixed: Right-clicking on a track radio might cause an access violation. Fixed: If drum notation contained micro-pegs, then the drum names would not display in the key signature for NON-editable mode.

Fixed: Song Picker Rebuild might stop on corrupted file with 0 byte size. Fixed: Xtra Set Numbers were wrong on systems set to date formats using hyphens instead of slashes. Fixed: Audio import to middle of song would fail with "File Not Found" error.

Various RealTracks and style fixes and improvements. Fixed: Plugin may not be found due to a system file missing on some computers. This exe is useful if a DAW doesn't support drag and drop, for troubleshooting, and for people who want a very simple Band-in-a-Box program just with Chordsheet and file generation, with drag and drop to Explorer. If you need these files, copy them from here to your VST folder.

Fixed: Better handling for manually inputting folder paths in Preferences. Fixed: Some chords cannot be entered with shot, hold or rests. Fixed: Bar Highlighting during plugin playback. Fixed: Problem with resizing on startup. Fixed: Invalid VST plugin error message should not say 64 bit plugins cannot be used with 64 bit version. It may appear to be closed, but an instance of bbw. UPdated: PDF and help file documentation updated. The plugin would run, but the effect was not applied to the audio track.

Fixed: Pressing space bar in the notation window should not start playback if entering lyrics or section text. Fixed: Choosing a Hi-Q patch did not load the Sforzando plugin 64 bit version only. Fixed: The Lyric Document Window was not loading song text properly. Fixed: Direct drag and drop to another application was not working. Fixed: "Normalize Mix" had no effect when rendering 64 bit version only.

RT fixes. Updated: Documentation. Summary of Changes for Version Build Dec 3 Fixed: Sometimes stopping playback would erase chord in the bar where playback started. Added: Space bar should start from the current position in the notation window. Fixed: The New Features menu items were directing to the wrong webpages. Fixed: The filter wasn't working in StylePicker for the show styles in when accessed from the Category menu.

Fixed: The StyleMaker feature to add memos, examples was incorrectly adding carriage returns sometimes. Fixed: Titles window filters for chord density and number of chords weren't working. Fixed: Pressing backslash in notation to enter section text caused garbage UTF-8 character to appear.

Fixed: Higher fret numbers showed up as garbage. Updated: PDF documentation and help files. Fixed: StylePicker would not clear the need to rebuild the styles list. Fixed: Audio harmonies would be generated with the wrong notes if selecting a range of audio in the middle of the track.

Added: Help Video button added to the Audio Harmony dialog. Fixed: The Audio Harmony dialog needed some hints. Fixed: Rendering audio while there is a region of bars highlighted in the chord sheet might cause a crash. Fixed: It was not possible to record audio using WAS audio drivers if "Output always on" was disabled.

Fixed: Band-in-a-Box might crash on bootup with error "Read Beyond end of file". Fixed: Redundant flash messages were showing. Fixed: The VJT application should print out its version number in log files.

Fixed: Band-in-a-Box should show message if the latest VJT application is not installed when the user tries to render videos. Added: Additional dialog available for detailed information in the StyleMaker fields for memo, examples, and other parameters.

These are set in the StyleMaker more dialog, a button called "Style Memos etc". Improved: Audio harmonies now used improved algorithms, and can be easily set using N voices above, M voices below and have additional functions like duplicate melody, and dup.

Improved: Lyrics will be now read from. Improved: ABC opening improvements with some accidentals, and leadin bars that occur in middle of song. Fixed: Removing a custom drums from a track would still display Drums as the name of the loop in the track.

Fixed: Quicklist drums picker sometimes showing too many drums in the list. Improved: Support for RealTracks that should be transposed only lower ie heavy metal guitars and for future improved metal guitar comping. Fixed: Some key RealTracks were incorrectly set to allow transposition. RealTracks updates. Fixed: The busy mouse cursor might remain after analyzing audio with the Audio Chord Wizard.

Fixed: Video rendering would fail if saved using Japanese characters in file name. Fixed: Clicking on the far left of the Guitar window would cause a "!!!!! Fixed: Changing a track name using the StylePicker mixer controls might open a hidden popup window.

Fixed: The About dialog was not showing the Fretlight Ready logo. Fixed: "One file per track" was being ignored when rendering a batch of songs to audio files.

Fixed: "mono" was being ignored when rendering a batch of songs to audio files. Fixed: "normalize individual tracks" was only working for MIDI tracks.

Fixed: Some typos and omissions in RealDrums Picker. Fixed: An access violation error might occur in the RealTracks Picker if quickly scrolling and double-clicking to hear demos.

Improved: Windows Audio Session error messages contain more specific information. Improved: WAS audio driver performance has been improved when using Fixed: Using a multi speaker layout eg. This only happened when using WAS as audio driver type. Fixed: If adjusting the number of choruses in your song, choosing Cancel is ignored when asked, "OK to adjust Melody track to fit new of choruses? Fixed: Changing the number of choruses was not undo-able. Fixed: Adjusting Melody or Soloist tracks to fit a new number of choruses was not undo-able.

Fixed: When saving a Hybrid style for the first time, the File Save dialog should start in the Styles directory. Fixed: "BBW. LST not found" errors when using the Hybrid Style maker dialog. Fixed: The [. STY] button in the Hybrid Style maker dialog. Fixed Bass AmericanaSlow16thsByron bad chords. Fixed: JazzBebopDannyBrushes sometimes out of sync.

Updated: Misc. Fixed: Panning the audio track did not work. Summary of Changes for Version Build Feb 15, Fixed: Mixer changes were not undoable, and would not cause user to be prompted to save their song when exiting. Fixed: The audio latency setting would increase every time leaving the Windows Audio Devices dialog. Fixed: Choosing a custom chord sheet font would ignore any color choice made in the font selection dialog.

Fixed: The Download Manager folder was instead of To do so, it is more practical a media player. All these name extensions are files openable only with BiaB. Specify better: S. The song does not have a melody. This is a song G is always present in the BiaB files. The style is a user style. The song has a melody.