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The award-winning 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. Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a complete
professional quality arrangement of piano bass drums guitar and strings in a wide
variety of popular styles. (Jazz Pop Country Classical and more.)
What is Band-in-a-Box?
Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program for your multimedia
computer.
You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from "nothing" to "something"
in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your "on demand" backup band.
Band-in-a-Box is a powerful and creative music composition tool for exploring and
developing musical ideas with near-instantaneous feedback.
Over the years many features have been added to Band-in-a-Box - Notation, Lyrics,
Melody Tracks, Harmonization, and a programmable StyleMaker. The Soloist and the
Melodist are two major "intelligent" features; the Soloist generates professional
quality solos over any chord progression, the Melodist can create songs from scratch
with Chords, Melodies, Intros, Solos, and even a Title!
Band-in-a-Box for Windows® can also record an acoustic instrument or voice to add to
the composition, with processing through DirectX audio effects.
Its built-in audio harmonies will turn your audio track into multiple harmony parts
and even adjust its pitch by tracking the Band-in-a-Box Melody track. The inclusion
of digital audio features makes Band-in-a-Box the perfect tool for creating, playing,
and recording your music with MIDI, vocals, and acoustic instruments.
You can print out your finished creation with repeats and endings, DC markings and
codas, or save it as a graphic file for web publication or to e-mail to a friend. And
when you're ready to let others hear your composition, you can burn it directly to an
audio CD. Or save your composition as a Windows Media File or in other compressed formats
for a file that's "Internet ready."
Band-in-a-Box 2009 is here with over 50 cool new features!
RealDrums.
We've added real audio drums to Band-in-a-Box! This replaces the MIDI Drum track with
real recordings of top studio Jazz/Rock/Country drummers. These are not "samples,"
but are full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars, playing along in perfect sync with
the other Band-in-a-Box tracks. For example, choose a brushes style, and you will now
hear lush Jazz brushes. The results are dramatically better than MIDI. They sound like
a real drummer, because they are recordings of a real drummer.
Chords from MP3 ("Audio Chord Wizard").
This is one of the all-time most requested features for Band-in-a-Box, and now this
amazing wizard automatically figures out the chords from any MP3, WAV, or WMA (Windows
Media) audio file and displays them in Band-in-a-Box. Just load in any MP3, WAV or WMA
file and you'll instantly see the chords in Band-in-a-Box.
Soundtrack Generator.
Need to generate some original, royalty-free music for backgrounds, home videos, slide
shows, voiceovers, jingles, themes, underscoring scenes or entr'acte, dance routines,
ceremonies or any occasion that calls for musical accompaniment? The Soundtrack feature
allows you to generate music in the style you choose for any length of time you specify.
Generate Chords for a Melody, or an improved chord progression for a Melody - with the
new "Reharmonist" feature. This feature generates a chord progression in the genre that
you choose, based only on the melody. Generate an entirely new chord progression for a
complete song, or a portion of a song. Or use the feature interactively by displaying a
menu of possible chord progressions for a portion of the melody, and audition them to
choose the best one using the "Bar Reharmonist."
Solos are enhanced - with the new "Melody Influenced" Soloist.
When musicians solo for a song, the solo is typically influenced by the melody as well
as the chords. Now Band-in-a-Box can also allow the melody to influence the type of solo
generated by its Soloist feature. The result is a much better solo generated for the song.
A strength (%) setting allows you to control how much the solo will be influenced by the
melody. Choose the melody influence (%), and one of several presets to control the type
of influence (pitches/rhythms/note density, etc.).
TranzPort® support - Wireless Remote Control support for Band-in-a-Box!
The Frontier Design TranzPort® is a wireless remote control hardware unit
(Electronic Musician Editors' Choice 2006) that now allows you to control Band-in-a-Box
2009 through walls from 30 feet away! The backlit LCD provides a two-line readout,
while buttons and a wheel allow control of many Band-in-a-Box features. Select songs and
play/stop/pause/loop. Select/mute/solo tracks and volume/tempo changes are all supported.
And best of all, when the song is playing, the chords or lyrics of the song are displayed
in time on the backlit LCD screen.
Band-in-a-Box 2009 Requirements
Windows® 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / Vista
Memory (RAM): Minimum 128MB.
Hard Disk space: 120 MB minimum for Pro version (1 GB including RealDrums).
300 MB minimum for MegaPAK (3 GB including RealDrums)
PC Sound Card or MIDI module.
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