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For creating from scratch, I think nothing beats Band in a Box. Especially for beginners to create music. Great for beginners before moving into DAW recording. It's a way beginners coming from the background of analog recording with multitrack recorders with a limited number of tracks; they can bring many of those multitrack techniques into BB to extend track count, bounce tracks and increase the number of instruments in much the same way they did with their analog multitracks.
I think most people are unaware that BB can produce a song with dozens of tracks and dozens of different instruments, at CD quality and no loss of quality to the audio without having to use another program.
All of the same dxi,vst and audio effects available in RealBand are also available in BB. I think that another advantage to using BB over RB for creation to a beginner that processes like panning, gain changing, fading, etc are more similar to working with presets and beginners can spend more time making music than learning DAW programming. I see it as a beginning and more conducive to motivating the artist with successful production of music rather than frustrations of not being able to get the music in your head into a format that produces the audio you hear because of technical computer skill limitations.
Band in a Box is a great place to begin your creation journey and allows you to enjoy success as you grow into the more complex areas of production.
BIAB 2025:RB 2025, Latest builds: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop; Windows-10-64 bit, Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz CPU and 16 GB Ram Memory.
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Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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I use only BIAB. About 3 or 4 times a year I try to use RB and end up frustrated. It is not a good DAW for all the reasons already stated by others. I have tried a few times to use the Multi-Riff feature which is brilliant and should be included in BIAB!
+1 on that Cheers ian
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Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Joined: Mar 2003
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Being on the Mac side I don't even have the RB option, but from what I've heard about Multi-Riff I would be delighted to see that feature incorporated into BIAB. On both platforms.
UltraPAK 2021, 27" late 2012 iMac, 16 GB RAM, OSX 10.15.7
Logic Pro X 10.6.3
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Like many others I find BB is much faster to create and generate the initial draft of a song. I may or may not take the song into RB to add bits, make use of multi riff etc then I set everything to the same volume (90) and centre each track. I then export tracks to .wav and pull the tracks into a daw either Sonar or Reaper depending what I intend doing to the tracks. Then I check all is about the same volume and it is all down the middle. After that I start the editing (chopping up parts maybe moving or deleting them or whatever) adding extra midi parts (I have been using Sonar for many years and find creating midi parts simpler in Sonar where I also have a far greater choice of VST instruments) and start the mixing processes.
I have heaps of time on my hands but I find it easier and faster and more consistent to do things this way.
Tony
HP i7-4770 16GB 1TB SSD, Win 10 Home,
Focusrite 2i2 3rd Gen, Launchkey 61, Maton CW80, Telecaster, Ovation Elite TX, Yamaha Pacifica 612
BB 2022(912) RB 2022(2), CakeWalk, Reaper 6, Audacity, Melodyne 5 Editor, Izotope Music Production Suite 4.1
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Joined: Apr 2016
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Hi Charlie what you said below is really important especially that Biab allows you to be successful despite a lack of understanding or while you are working on an acquired production skill and in this sense is very motivational,great insight thanks
Band in a Box is a great place to begin your creation journey and allows you to enjoy success as you grow into the more complex areas of production.
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I'm a little late to this party, and don't have time to read all the posts (what I did read was thoughtful) because I have an early gig today, so excuse me if I'm being redundant. First of all, there is more than one right way to make music, so my way is best for me and may not be best for you. I like my apps separate. Band-in-a-Box (auto accompaniment), MIDI sequencer, notation and DAW. If I am going to use BiaB, I generally start with it, export what I want to keep as a MIDI file and work with that using an old version of Master Tracks Pro. If I want to add audio I'll use a DAW and for what I need, Power Tracks Pro Audio works great. If I want a chart, I'll use an old copy of Encore which works great with Master Tracks Pro. I like separate apps because I work better at one phase at a time (not a great multi-tasker). I find my concentration level to be deeper that way and the output better. Of course I could work on more than one phase in Real Band, but with separate apps, I find the interface less cluttered, no menus with sub menus and sub-sub-menu choices which leaves me to have more time with my hands on musical instruments and less time with my hands on the computer. I have a web page on how I make backing tracks for my duo. Feel free to use what you like and ignore the rest http://nortonmusic.com/backing_tracks.htmlOf course YMMV. Insights and incites by Notes
Bob "Notes" Norton  Norton Music
https://www.nortonmusic.com
100% MIDI Super-Styles recorded by live, pro, studio musicians for a live groove
& Fake Disks for MIDI and/or RealTracks
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Video: Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: VST3 Plugin Support
Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac® now includes support for VST3 plugins, alongside VST and AU. Use them with MIDI or audio tracks for even more creative possibilities in your music production.
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Band-in-a-Box 2025 Italian Version is Here!
Cari amici
È stata aggerate la versione in Italiano del programma più amato dagli appassionati di musica, il nostro Band-in-a-Box.
Questo è il link alla nuova versione 2025.
Di seguito i link per scaricare il pacchetti di lingua italiana aggiornati per Band-in-a-Box e RealBand, anche per chi avesse già comprato la nuova versione in inglese.
Band-in-a-Box 2025 - Italiano
RealBand 2025 - Italiano
Band-in-a-Box 2025 French Version is Here!
Bonjour à tous,
Band-in-a-Box® 2025 pour Windows est disponible en Français.
Le téléchargement se fait à partir du site PG Music
Pour ceux qui auraient déjà acheté la version 2025 de Band-in-a-Box (et qui donc ont une version anglaise), il est possible de "franciser" cette version avec les patchs suivants:
BIAB 2025 - francisation
RealBand 2025 - francisation
Voilà, enjoy!
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