User manual PG MUSIC BAND-IN-A-BOX VERSION 1

[. . . ] Band-in-a-Box® Version 10 for Windows® Copyright PG Music Inc. License Agreement CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE COMPLETING THE INSTALLATION OF THIS SOFTWARE. USAGE OF THE SOFTWARE INDICATES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS. LICENSE A. The program may only be used on a single machine. [. . . ] "Snap" setting allows you to select audio by snapping to a 16th note (or a triplet in swing styles). The Play Selected Area plays the selected area, and stops at the end. The other instruments are all muted, you just hear the audio part. 48 Chapter 10: Audio Features Enhancements Direct X Plugins · There is also support for DirectX Audio plugins ­ so you can apply your favorite DirectX plugin to the digital audio track. There are many shareware and freeware DirectX plugins available on the Internet in addition to the hundreds of commercially available DirectX plugins offered by top DSP companies. To process a WAV track with a DirectX plugin, choose Audio | Plugins | DirectX plugin. Apply DirectX Audio Plugins (or more precisely, "Audio Transform Filters") to a track. There are many commercial, shareware, and freeware DirectX Audio Plugins available, offering a wide choice of audio processing options. This feature requires that you have Microsoft DirectX installed. Note that this functionality will be of no use to you until you have at least one DirectX plugin installed into your system. You can download the latest version of Microsoft DirectX, from www. microsoft. com. If you are using Windows 98 or another later version of Windows, it is easy to find the most recent version of DirectX using the Windows Chapter 10: Audio Features Enhancements 49 Update feature in the Start menu. As of the writing of this document, DirectX Version 7. 0a was the most recent publicly available download. There are many places on the web to look for DirectX audio plugins. Try a keyword search on DirectX Audio to get started. · Rendered audio files now have the option to include a 'count-in', and the size of a rendered file is displayed onscreen. To set this option, on the Render Audio Dialog set the option to "include a countin" in the rendered file. If you don't want any count-in, but you also don't want silence at the beginning of the track. For example, if you want to start right away at bar 1 then turn the lead-in 'off' in Options | Preferences. . . dialog. ) Save as Windows Media File · Save as Windows Media for Internet Streaming. You can now convert your Band-in-a-Box composition to a Microsoft Windows Media Audio file (. WMA). These files can be highly compressed which allows you to make streaming files (e. g. , for Internet use) with good fidelity, with higher bitrates achieving CD-quality. To save your Band-in-a-Box composition as a MS Windows Media Audio (WMA) file: Press the . WAV button, then the 'Save as WMA' button. This renders the file to a stereo WAV file, and then launches the Convert to WMA dialog, as shown below: 50 Chapter 10: Audio Features Enhancements There are options to save the file to a specific filename and destination folder, to select a resolution (quality) for the file, and even a space to fill in the appropriate Title, Author, Copyright, and Song Description credits. [. . . ] puts it all together in the PG Music Inc. This blockbuster collection includes every PG Music Inc. These are the "top of the line" versions of all of our PG Music Inc. programs complete with every software add-on, bonus, and accessory. [. . . ]