Hi John,

I'm very impressed with all the homework you've been doing. I just wanted to clarify a couple of things.

After reading through the "Band In A Box" section in the link you gave, I note that Dr Dobbs says ...
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The latest version, Band-In-A-Box 2004. [I see that the page was written on 1 Sept. 2004.]


I just want to point out that there have been many changes to the program since 2004. If one considers half-yearly updates, there have been 16 of them since his webpage was written.

Also, where he says ...
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Almost everybody uses the digital piano because the Band-In-A-Box notation editor is lacking, to put it mildly.


I TOTALLY disagree with this statement. Although I have a keyboard connected to my computer, I rarely use it to enter music. I do all my notation entry with the mouse because I find the present BIAB notation editor is the fastest and easiest way to enter notation. It's a different process from usual score writing programs but it is very efficient! I love it.

Below is an image of a part of one of my song that I've transcribed using BIAB. After notating the song in BIAB, I printed it to a pdf file for a hard copy. For 99.5% of my notation requirements, BIAB (Windows version) does the job just fine.



From a notation perspective, BIAB limits the display to 1/16th notes as the smallest note size. To be honest, I've never found that a problem. BIAB MIDI playback and MIDI recording, on the other hand, can record much smaller value notes. It's just that they will not display correctly in notation.

Hope this information helps.

Regards,
Noel

Last edited by Noel96; 07/08/12 06:25 AM.