Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program for your multimedia computer.
You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your "on demand" backup band.
Band-in-a-Box is a powerful and creative music composition tool for exploring and developing musical ideas with near-instantaneous feedback.
Over the years many features have been added to Band-in-a-Box - Notation, Lyrics, Melody Tracks, Harmonization, and a programmable StyleMaker. The Soloist and the Melodist are two major "intelligent" features; the Soloist generates professional quality solos over any chord progression, the Melodist can create songs from scratch with Chords, Melodies, Intros, Solos, and even a Title!
Band-in-a-Box for Windows® can also record an acoustic instrument or voice to add to the composition, with processing through DirectX audio effects.
Its built-in audio harmonies will turn your audio track into multiple harmony parts and even adjust its pitch by tracking the Band-in-a-Box Melody track. The inclusion of digital audio features makes Band-in-a-Box the perfect tool for creating, playing, and recording your music with MIDI, vocals, and acoustic instruments.
You can print out your finished creation with repeats and endings, DC markings and codas, or save it as a graphic file for web publication or to e-mail to a friend. And when you're ready to let others hear your composition, you can burn it directly to an audio CD. Or save your composition as a Windows Media File or in other compressed formats for a file that's "Internet ready."
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Band-in-a-Box for Windows
The New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2008 for Windows are...
RealTracks. With the previous release of Band-in-a-Box, we added RealDrums. Now we’ve added three additional “Real” instruments, including Real Pedal Steel, Real Acoustic Guitar, and RealSax (Tenor Sax soloing). These tracks replace the MIDI track for that instrument, and can be controlled just like the MIDI instrument (volume changes, muting etc.). Best of all, they follow the chord progression that you have entered, so that you hear an authentic audio accompaniment to your song. These are not “samples,” but are full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars at a time, playing along in perfect sync with the other Band-in-a-Box tracks. RealTracks can be built in to the style, and would replace either the bass, guitar, piano, or strings part, or they can be generated to the Soloist (or Melody) track using the Soloist feature.
MultiStyles. We’ve added MultiStyles to Band-in-a-Box. These are Styles that can have anywhere from 4 to 24 substyles! Previous Band-in-a-Box Styles were limited to 2 substyles (“a” and “b”). Now, for example, a MultiStyle with 4 substyles (First Verse, Verse, Chorus, Break) can be used, and you select the various sections using “a”/“b”/“c”/“d” part markers. Some of our newest Styles Sets are MultiStyles, typically with 4 substyles, but some Techno Styles have 24 substyles. You can easily make your own MultiStyles, either from scratch, or combining parts from existing Styles to make a MultiStyle. For example, if you have 10 favorite Country Styles, you can quickly make a single MultiStyle that has 20 substyles available within the same song.
Audio Chord Wizard Enhancements. The Audio Chord Wizard is the amazing feature that automatically figures out the chords from MP3 files (or other audio files like WAV, WMA, and audio CD etc.). Using the Audio Chord Wizard is a great way to learn and practice popular songs, as you play along and see the chords.
We’ve added a Lead Sheet window that shows the chords for the whole song on a single screen. This allows you to click on a bar on the lead sheet to jump to that area of the song.
You can mark sections of the song using part markers, and the sections begin on a new line with a line space between, so are clearly seen. So you can then also learn the form of the song, as you can see the various intro/verse/chorus/break sections at a glance, or quickly jump to the break simply by double clicking on that part of the lead sheet.
Chord editing
The new features don't stop there, click here for more details!
Our basic Band-in-a-Box package includes Styles Sets 0-3, Soloist Set 1, Melodist Set 1, RealDrums Set 1, Real Pedal Steel, Real Acoustic Guitar, Tenor Sax soloing (RealSax)
Includes Style Sets 0-76, Soloist Sets 1-11 & 16-20, Melodist Sets 1-8, RealDrums Sets 1-3, Real Pedal Steel, Real Acoustic Guitar, Tenor Sax soloing (RealSax), The Video Tutorial PAK
Includes Style Sets 0-76, Soloist Sets 1-11 & 16-20, Melodist sets 1-8, The Video Tutorial PAK, RealDrums Sets 1-20, Real Pedal Steel, Real Acoustic Guitar, Tenor Sax soloing (RealSax)
This is the ultimate Band-in-a-Box package. It includes all of our Styles Sets 0-76, Soloist Sets 1-20, Melodist Sets 1-8, RealDrums Sets 1-20, Real Pedal Steel, Real Acoustic Guitar, and Tenor Sax soloing (RealSax), all of the 101 Riffs and Phrases Series, all of the Fakebooks, all of the Master Solos series, 50 Country Guitar Solos, 200 Folk songs, CopyMe, Duets, and The Video Tutorial PAK
Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
Band-in-a-Box 12 for Mac OS X is here! This exciting new version of Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh runs "Native" in OS X Jaguar or Panther and includes many new and enhanced features. Learn More...
Our basic Band-in-a-Box package includes Style Sets 0-3, Soloist Set 1, Melodist Set 1
Includes Style Sets 0-76, Soloist Sets 1-11 & 16-20, Melodist Sets 1-8, Video Tutorial PAK
Our brand new 'the Works' package includes everything in the MegaPAK, as well as all the 101 Riffs and Phrases, all 4 Artist Soloist Series, all of the Fakebooks, all of the Master Solos series, 50 Country Guitar Solos, 200 Folk songs, CopyMe, Duets
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