I think BB would be excellent for that purpose. It does everything you want,,,,,, and more.

After composing in BB, you can use Real Band to render tracks that are more realistic sounding than midi tends to be.

depending too on how involved you wish to be in the process, you can make what I call radio ready backing tracks that sound top notch professional.

Compose in BB and you can edit the key and tempo right there with a few clicks and you don't get the crappy artifacts that something converting an audio mp3 or wave will have. I love that feature.

I think it will suit your purposes nicely. My advice is to buy as far up the "food chain" as you can afford to buy since the further up you go, the more features you get and the better the tracks will be.

Mega pak is a minimum....Ultra plus or Everything on a hard drive if you can afford it. Those versions rock!!!

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