How can I combine multiple Band-in-a-Box songs to make a medley, or copy and paste part of one song into another?
In Band-in-a-Box 2008 and higher, you can do this using the Medley Maker feature (File menu | Medley Maker). Note that Band-in-a-Box can optionally create transition bars between your songs to make it smoother. Band-in-a-Box 2007 and earlier do not have a single feature that will make a medley automatically, however it could be done in a number of steps. You need to copy the chords separately from the melody, solo, and lyrics. You can copy the chords from one song to another by simply highlighting the chords in one song, selecting Edit | Copy, then opening the other song and selecting Edit | Paste. Adjust the number of bars per chorus accordingly in the destination song. There are two ways you could copy the melody/solo/lyrics from one song to another. Say that “song 1” is the file you are copying from, and “song 2” is the file you are copying to (the destination file) and you want to copy the melody: First Method – Copy and paste notation into song 2. This doesn’t copy lyrics • In Son
There isn’t a single feature in Band-in-a-Box that will do this automatically, however it can be done in steps. You need to copy the chords separately from the melody, solo, and lyrics. You can copy the chords from one song to another by simply highlighting the chords in one song, selecting Edit | Copy, then opening the other song and selecting Edit | Paste. Adjust the number of bars per chorus accordingly in the destination song. There are two ways you could copy the melody/solo/lyrics from one song to another. Say that “song 1” is the file you are copying from, and “song 2” is the file you are copying to (the destination file) and you want to copy the melody: First Method – Copy and paste notation into song 2. This doesn’t copy lyrics • In Song 1, open the Notation Window (Melody track), and toggle into editable notation mode by pressing the [N] button. • Find the start of the section that you want to copy and highlight a small region (it doesn’t matter how much) starting at that loc
There isn’t a single feature in Band-in-a-Box that will do this automatically, however it can be done in steps. You need to copy the chords separately from the melody, solo, and lyrics. You can copy the chords from one song to another by simply highlighting the chords in one song, selecting Edit | Copy, then opening the other song and selecting Edit | Paste. Adjust the number of bars per chorus accordingly in the destination song. You could use the following method to copy the melody/solo/lyrics from one song to another. Say that “song 1” is the file you are copying from, and “song 2” is the file you are copying to (the destination file) and you want to copy the melody: • Open Song 1. • Determine how many bars from the start of the song the part is that you want to copy. If you have “Include 2 bar lead-in in MIDI file” checked in the Edit | Preferences dialog, add 2 bars to account for the lead-in. • Take note of how many bars you want to copy. • Mute all tracks except for the Melody t
