Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Band in a Box 2006...
Right on schedule, PG Music announced the release of Band in a Box 2006. Some of the new features in Band-in-a-Box 2006 for Windows include a new "Conductor" feature for live looping during playback. While your song is playing you can now easily control the playback (looping or jumping to another section) with a single key on your QWERTY or MIDI keyboard. The TC-Helicon Audio Harmonies have been enhanced with "Unison Harmonies" and a Choir Feature. If you have a pro audio soundcard, you will be glad to see that ASIO support has been added allowing you to use a software synthesizer with almost no latency. As well, VST support has been added so you can now use VST and DXI soft synths. Styles can now have different instruments for each substyle (finally!)
I've never been a fan of the notation features, as I usually export to Sibelius, but for a quick score, there are some notation enhancements such as support for symbols like section letters, slurs, legato, accents, staccatos, crescendos and more. Just in case there wasn't enough packed into this program, the Ear Training feature has been enhanced with "Pitch Invasion" and "Music Replay" games. I guess this will be useful if you get bored, or have kids that want to practice their music skills.
You can find out the full list of new features here. If you already own Band in a Box, you can purchase the upgrades from us. If you have Band in a Box 2005, you can purchase the Band in a Box Upgrade. If your version of Band in a Box is older than 2005, then the Crossgrade is what you are looking for. Band in a Box MegaPak 2005 owners will want to get the MegaPak Upgrade and if you don't have the MegaPak but want all of the styles, soloists and everything else PG Music has made for Band in a Box, consider buying the MegaPak Crossgrade - it is an excellent value and will upgrade you to the MegaPak from any version of Band in a Box.
- Kelly
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Monday, November 21, 2005
Free Sonic ReFills from M-Audio!
Until the end of the month, US customers can get three free Sonic ReFills from M-Audio when they buy any qualified M-Audio Keyboard! Be sure to downl
oad the rebate form
if you order any of the following qualified keyboards:
- eKeys 37
- Keystation 49e
- Keystation 61es
- Keystation 88es
- Keystation Pro 88
- M-Audio O2
- M-Audio Ozone
- MK-425C
- MK-449C
- MK-461C
- Oxygen8
- Ozonic
- Radium49
- Radium61
- Kelly
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Melodyne 3 - coming soon, save by buying Melodyne 2 now!
Celemony announced that they will be shipping Melodyne 3 later this month. Melodyne3 offers a new algorithm that allows any type of audio material to profit from Melodyne's unique editing functions and sound quality; in other words, Melodyne is no longer limited to the editing of melodies but can handle homophonic and polyphonic textures. Melodyne3 also offers fully automatic analysis of the audio material, powerful macros for the correction of intonation and timing errors, and numerous improvements in the user interface.
With all of these new features comes higher price, but you beat the price increase! If you purchase Melodyne 2 now at the old price, you will get a free upgrade to Melodyne 3 from Celemony - in other words, you can buy Melodyne 3 at the Melodyne 2 price.
Melodyne is the ideal audio editor for anyone that needs to adjust or correct pitch, or wants to manipulate audio as if it were MIDI. It is a favorite here at Kelly's Music, and we can highly recommend it for advanced audio editing, and as a versatile creative tool.
This offer is valid while supplies last on both Melodyne Cre8 and Melodyne Studio.
- Kelly
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Thursday, November 03, 2005
Photoscore 4.1
Neuatron has released Photoscore 4.1, a free upgrade for Photoscore 4 owners. New features include support for up to 100 different languages for text recognition, extensive improvements to recognition accuracy and the ability to read a far greater range of styles and qualities of originals.
A new automatic scanning and recognition feature removes the hard work of choosing scanner settings and you can now save to WAV or AIFF audio files directly from Photoscore.
Photoscore 4 is the ideal music scanning program for Sibelius users, as you can import your Photoscore files directly into Sibelius for further editing and arranging.
- Kelly
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