The first thing I would say is that I believe you have quite wrongly gained the impression that Band-in-a-Box is difficult to use. It isn't! Read what PG Music say themselves:

"Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use!

Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose the style you’d like, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest, automatically generating a complete professional-quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings or horns in a wide variety of popular styles plus optional live audio tracks with RealDrums and RealTracks."

Having quoted that, I will concede that it is a huge program and there are many functions and subtleties that even a seasoned user never gets around to using. Also it depends what you are using it for, how many of these you need.

However, it isn't a bad idea to listen to other people's files and there are six other forums on the PG Muisic site where you can do that and read about the techniques they used.

In addition, there are many other websites, webrings and forums where people make their files available for download; one even has a huge archive although it is mainly midi based tracks. Use your search engine to find these.

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