Q. Is anyone using it to compose for live performance, Film, or Musical theater productions? If so, how is it useful for these types of productions? I compose at home with Cubase.
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THe answer is yes to all of the above of those questions. The best answer to a musical question is to have some musical examples to listen to. The best place to look would be the User Showcase Forum
( http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/postlist.php?Cat=0&Board=usershowcase ), which has about 400 songs composed by forum members (about 100 new songs per month!). These songs were arranged using Band-in-a-Box, and then finished in a DAW (RealBand, SOnar, CUbase, GarageBand etc.). So you'll be hearing Band-in-a-Box tracks + user added tracks (e.g. vocals).

If you browse those, and listen to them, you'll get a feel of who is using the program, and for what. Note that the User Showcase is only for original songs, so you wouldn't be hearing popular Broadway tunes for example.


>>> Can I use Biab and Cubase together? Is so, why would I ?

Yes. You can drag and drop files from Band-in-a-Box to Cubase. You would do this as part of the normal workflow of creating a finished production. Start the song in BB, generate the tracks, move them to Cubsae, then record additional parts yourself (vocals etc) in Cubase, or edit the RealTracks. THere's a video showing the workflow of transferring songs to a DAW on the main Mac BB page http://www.pgmusic.com/bbmac.demos.htm (the video is called ) Band-in-a-Box DAW Plug-in mode.

Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.