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Is anyone using an EWI USB controller with the newest Mac version? I am really interested in buying Band In A Box, but If i can't use the EWI it's not worth it to me.
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OK, I have the non usb version.
I have the pc version of band in a box.
What the heck do you mean use it with band in a box?
Most folks use a mixer, run the output of the virtual band, lets say drums, keyboard or piano, bass, and you on the 'horn'.
So you play along right?
That's the point of the software, to provide backing tracks.
If you want to make sheet music of what you play there are other apps for that.
I messed around with trying to play keyboards through band in a box, and with some work it's ok. But why? My Korg keyboard has better sounds. I use the internal sounds from the EWI if I play that. I mix them all and my mixer is usb so I can record on my pc without problem.
Band in a box describes what the program does. Rock Band, Country Band, jazz band, whatever. Pick other instrument, layers of them, turn them off at bar x and on at bar y. Change the drummer, change the bassist..the sky's the limit.
I suspect you need to describe exactly what you want to do and see if there is a potential match.
John Conley
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Sorry, I should have siad that I am initially intereseted in being able to generate songs that I canplay along to for practice, mostly. I would love to be able to use the Garritan samples that came with the EWI to play lead parts in songs. If that weren't possible, I would like to at least be able to play sax and flute parts.
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The typical setup would be for you to take the lead.
Thus if you take a Standard like All of Me...(you can find 30 versions of it FOR Band in a Box on the net) and mute the Melody. I then have solos generated and print them out and freeze them which speeds things up. I mute that part too.
So I have a drummer, a piano player a bass player and guitar perhaps and I play along for 1 verse, on the 2nd I play the solo part it generated and on the 3rd pass I go back to melody with enhancements.
Works great no matter if you want Danny Boy or Satin Doll or I'm so Lonesome I Could Die.
The best is the fact you can speed up, slow down, and change keys or octaves with just a click or two.
As far as internal samples to play with I don't know, I suspect there is going to be some issue there, but that I can't predict. What I can predict is that if you get about 5,000 songs from the internet that play in the box, and use the whole with a mixer and some nice speakers or headphones, you have enough music to play for years.
I learned how to play horns using Band in a Box. I bet I would be no good at all unless I had the software, because it's easy to get bored. I've never wanted for music for years, as long as the box awaits...
John Conley
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My real question here is to wonder if I plug the EWI into my Mac running BAIB and do the right thing to assign myself to be the lead, will I actually hear anything? The other thread on here about using the EWI USB was mostly posts by people who couldn't get it to work at all. I was hoping that had changed.
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Hello Thorny, If you refer to the other thread you'll see the resolution at the end of the thread: Quote:
Yeah man. . I uaed BIAB 2010. In "Audio MIDI Setup" I created a new external midi device. I don't know why I did this, but Andrew, the support dude told me to. I then connect the ins and outs from my EWI USB that that new external device, which I named "virtual EWI." THEN, inside BIAB, I Choose MiDI Ports, and I get this weird blank line. I choose that weird blank line, then close everything and it work!
It's that easy! ha.
Hope that works in your case.
Thanks,
Will
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Band-in-a-Box 2025 Italian Version is Here!
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