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In case our new users don't realize it, PG Music has a web page for online manuals. You can go to the Table of Contents and click on an entry, and you go right to that topic. The full manual for BIAB 2022 is https://nn.pgmusic.com/pgfiles/support/misc/manual/bandinabox_win_2022_printable_manual.pdf

The complete set of manuals, including shorter 'Essentials' manuals, and four or more years of past manuals, is here:
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thanks Matt the manuals are incredibly detailed and sometimes the nugget you need is a little 'buried' but RTM and in extreme cases RTFM really does help. so when one gets stuck that's the place to go first.

and it's often much faster than posting here.

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In addition to Matt's info on manuals, there are lots of videos for BIAB:

Band-in-a-Box® 2022 Video Demos

That first page includes most of the new 2022 videos. Clicking on "More Videos..." at the bottom of the page will go to a larger quantity of videos from the past couple of years.

PG Music also has a YouTube channel in which you can view most of these videos.

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Here is a helpful tip for browsing the PDF manuals. Use the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl + F", and this will bring up a search window in the top right hand corner. You can type in a keyword into this search field, and then use the up/down arrows to jump to each spot in the manual where this keyword comes up.


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It looks like the Search command is not working for online manuals. This is, for example, what I get after searching for "Audio"

https://www.pgmusic.com/manuals/bbw2022full/index.htm




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It looks like the Search command is not working for online manuals. This is, for example, what I get after searching for "Audio"


Thanks, I would have expected it to be indexed by now. Will double-check.


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RTM and in extreme cases RTFM really does help. so when one gets stuck that's the place to go first.

??? Did you mean, Return to Factory Settings..?

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It looks like the Search command is not working for online manuals. This is, for example, what I get after searching for "Audio"


Thanks, I would have expected it to be indexed by now. Will double-check.

seems to work fine here... great tip Matt.


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online manual search still doesn't seem t work for me

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Still not working here.


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