Can I use the Piano Roll Window to fade out all of the tracks in a song? - 08/24/18 06:40 PM
89. Can I use the Piano Roll Window to fade out all of the tracks in a song?
One way of doing this is to save your song as a MIDI file, import the file into a MIDI sequencer such as PowerTracks Pro Audio, and use the features in that program to enter dynamics
The Piano Roll Window in Band-in-a-Box® 2005 and higher now provides another way of adding dynamics from within Band-in-a-Box®. 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 40.
- Open the Piano Roll window and view the Melody track (you could use the Soloist track instead - it doesn't matter).
- Go to the Melody menu | Track type, and select 'Multichannel'.
- Find out what channels Band-in-a-Box® is using for this particular song. You can check this in Opt. | Preferences | Channels. For example, say your song uses the Bass, Piano, Drums, and Melody tracks. By default, Band-in-a-Box® assigns these to the following channels: Bass=2, Piano=3, Melody=4, and Drums=10.
- In the Piano Roll window, select 'Control' from the 'View/Edit' combo box. When you do this, the 'Controller Edit Type' combo box will appear. Choose '11 Expression MSB'.
- Select one of the channels you found in step 3 from the 'Chan' combo box.
- In the bottom pane of the Piano Roll window (the Graphic Event Editing area), draw a descending line starting at a value of 127 at bar 40, and ending at a value of 0 at bar 50.
- Reset the expression back to 127 at the end of your song with a single mouse click at the end of bar 50.
- Repeat steps 5-7 for each of the channels from step 3.
- Your song will now fade out from bar 40 to 50.