First of all, thank you to PG Music for staffing their online chat help on a Sunday morning.

I had a basic 12 bar bass line playing one note per beat at a very fast tempo of 180bpm (the Doors song LA Woman) is about the tempo I used for my song. I wanted each bass note to be STACCATO. Using the right-click menu access, I found the notation symbols and saw that the PERIOD is for the STACCATO notation. But using this method, I would have to update each note. So that meant 48 times. There had to be a better way.

I contacted the online chat. The answer was to enter your chord like this if for example, you have a bar where you are soloing the bass and want it STACCATO

D,,D,,D,,D

The DOUBLE-COMMA is the key. The double comma will make the note play STACCATO. I do not see this mentioned anywhere in the written documentation or online videos.

Is there any document that shows ALL of these chord entry tricks in a single format? I would also point out though that when you use this chord entry technique for STACCATO, it does not come out on the sheet music. There are no dots. So either I am still doing something not quite right, or the design is just no too good.[/i][/u][i][u] The chord sheet shows staccato but the resulting sheet music does not.

And I still don't know how to make the STACCATO apply only to the bass and not all the instruments when I unmute them. I guess that is my main complaint about Band In A Box. It is so complex. Finding out how to do a specific thing, such as STACCATO on one instrument and not the others, takes so much time, there is little time left to actually make music. [i][/i][u][/u]