Note: it is also possible to take and enter say 20 chords in a new 'sheet' on the remote application, and then pick a style (the mobile device contains a list.) The mobile device sends the data to the server, the server makes the m4a sound file, and transfers it back to the mobile device which then can play it back, and show the chord changes on a chord grid.

As far as new apps go.

1. Pg music is not some large company. I don't think more than a handful of people are involved in software development.

2. This caught most of us off guard a bit. If it was possible, for example, to make the 'apple' core program the same as the pc one, and it was relatively straight forward, it would have happened years ago. As it is there is obviously, or has been, some problem developing on the Mac side. For example if you have software written in C++ you 'should' be able to port it over, compile it, and sell it. But that's not yet possible.

3. Given the fact that many of the great features in Band in a Box have taken decades to show up, and given the revolutionary nature of them, I'm sure that if the iX application can be ported to Android or others it will happen.

4. Band in a Box didn't start out with all the bells and whistles. People who do not understand the application will ask for all sorts of stuff now, Lead sheets with words in large print for the visually impaired, a free parking space in Washington DC to go with the 99 cent app, more support for hip hop loops so they can dance with the iphone while wearing the free Band in a Box hat with the fake 80 buck price tag still hanging off it while the program lets them send chords to a friend at another club who's chilling...right.

This is a new product, just out of a beta test, and needs 2 things to make it worthwhile. First it has to generate sales, and not the 99 cent kind. And second it has to run on more things than an Iphone, as I for one won't ever have one, just like I would be hard pressed to take even the latest and greatest computer from the same company for free. Too locked down for John.

John Conley
Musica est vita