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Available for both Mac and Windows. You will receive the version you specify in the check-out process.
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(Windows Users will receive Band in a Box 2008, described below. Mac users will receive both Band in a Box 11 for OS 9 and Band in a Box 12 for OS X. Please note that the Mac version features may vary from the description below.)
See the new features in Band in a Box here.
The MegaPak includes everything you get with Band in a Box, plus all of the style disks and soloist disks, along with a MIDI fakebook and video tutorials! A great value and must have for anyone who is serious about making great music!
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 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."
Includes:
Band in a Box 2008
Styles Sets 0-76
RealDrums Sets 1-3
Soloist Sets 1-11 & 16-20
Melodist Sets 1-8
Real Pedal Steel
Real Acoustic Guitar
Tenor Sax soloing (RealSax)
Band-in-a-Box Video Tutorial PAK
New Features:
Band-in-a-Box 2007 is here with over 50 cool new features!
There are many exciting new features in Band-in-a-Box 2007. We’ve added RealDrums - these are audio drum styles that replace the MIDI Drum track with actual recordings of top studio Jazz/Rock/Country drummers! These are not “samples” of single drum hits; they 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, exactly as you’d hear if the drummer was in the room with you. The results are dramatically better than MIDI. They sound like a real drummer, because they are recordings of a real drummer.
And adding a real instrument to the mix makes all of the Band-in-a-Box parts sound more authentic. As well as improved drum sounds, you are hearing the exact rhythms played by the drummer, including features not seen in MIDI (subtle drum rolls, variations in ride cymbal taps, complex fills, etc.). A “RealDrums” dialog allows you to set whether you want to hear RealDrums with all styles, no styles, or somewhere in between. We include a huge library of RealDrums styles in the Regular Upgrade and Band-in-a-Box Pro packages and ALL of the RealDrums styles in the MegaPAK Upgrade or MegaPAK First-Time purchase packages.
And we’ve added an amazing “Chords from MP3” feature (Audio Chord Wizard). This amazing feature automatically figures out the chords from any MP3, WAV or WMA audio file, and displays them in Band-in-a-Box. Just load in any MP3 file and you’ll instantly see the chords in Band-in-a-Box.
The Audio Wizard also figures out tempo, bar lines, key and fine-tuning from the MP3, WAV or WMA file. There’s also a new Soundtrack feature that allows you to generate new royalty-free music of a specified length for use in home or corporate videos, soundtracks, etc. A “Reharmonist” feature figures out a chord progression for any melody. This allows you to create a new chord progression or enhance an existing one. Solos are enhanced with features that allow the solo to be influenced by the melody, just as a musician does. Other great new features: Save as MP3, batch MP3/WAV/WMA generation, TranzPort® wireless controller support, Auto-memo generation, Chord Breaks, Practicing Window, Melodist/Soloist/Notation enhancements… and much more.
- 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 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. Adding a real instrument to the mix makes all of the Band-in-a-Box parts sound more authentic because the realism of the drum part has the effect of improving the overall sound. As well as improved drum sounds, you are hearing the exact rhythms played by the drummer, including features not seen in MIDI (subtle drum rolls, variations in ride cymbal taps, complex fills, etc.). And the tracks intelligently play differently at faster/slower tempos, so you hear
appropriate playing for the current tempo (not seen in MIDI drums). Change tempos or volumes during playback, using the same tempo/volume controls as MIDI. And best of all, we’ve seamlessly integrated the RealDrums into Band-in-a-Box, so you just use the program as you normally do, and you will hear RealDrums instead of MIDI drums, according to your preferences. We include a huge library of RealDrums styles to get you started, and all of the RealDrums styles are available in the MegaPAK Upgrade or
MegaPAK First-Time purchase package.
- Chords from MP3 (“Audio Chord Wizard”). 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 file and you’ll instantly see the chords. In addition to the chords of the song, the PG Audio Wizard also figures out: the tempo of the file; bar lines throughout the song; fine tuning detection (e.g., 5 cents sharp from A440); key of the song; and it can even stretch the file to different tempos while preserving pitch.
- An included Audio Piano Roll display serves as a helpful guide to transcription. Once you have the Chords from MP3, you can auto-sync the file with Band-in-a-Box, so you can hear the original MP3 playing in sync with the bar lines in Band-in-a-Box.
- Soundtrack Generator. Need to generate some original, royalty-free music for any occasion? The Soundtrack feature allows you to generate music in the style you choose for any length of time you specify. As the “producer,” you select the genre, duration, instruments, and fade-in/fade-out options. The Soundtrack adjusts the tempo to match the settings. In seconds, you can generate a WAV, WMA (Windows Media), or MP3 music clip of any duration, in the genre of your choice!
- Generate Chords for a Melody, or an improved chord progression for a Melody with the new “Reharmonist” feature. This feature generates a chord progression based only on the melody for a
complete or portion of a song. Use the feature interactively by displaying a menu of possible chord progressions and audition them to choose the best one. Hear new chord progressions for existing melodies,
or discover the chords for new melodies.
- 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 solo generated by its Soloist feature… Choose the melody influence (%) to control how much the solo will be influenced by the melody, 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 allows you to control Band-in-a-Box (and many other programs) through walls from 30 feet away! 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 of the song are displayed in time on the backlit LCD screen. Selectable transpose lets the TranzPort® show chords in a non-concert key (e.g., E b Alto) while the computer shows concert pitch—great for jam sessions! Or display the scrolling lyrics of the song
on the TranzPort® for a wireless Karaoke session! Note: the TranzPort is sold separately.
- Audio Settings dialog. Makes it easy to mute, solo, or change the volume of the audio track, similar to the control of the other instrument parts in Band-in-Box.
- Other Audio enhancements. There is now punch-in audio recording to punch-in record or overdub a section of audio. You can now hear the existing audio part when you are overdubbing. A new Audio-Offset feature synchronizes any point of the audio file with bar 1 of the Band-in-a-Box song. The Audio settings dialog is now accessible from the MIDI Drivers dialog or Audio menu.
- Batch-convert a folder of songs to Audio files (MP3, WAV, or WMA). Convert an entire folder of Band-in-a-Box songs to Audio files with a single command. The resultant audio file names are based on either the original file name or the song title name.
- Chord “Breaks” is a great feature for practicing tempo control. Select the # of bars, say 4, and Band-in-a-Box will play for 4 bars and then will rest all instruments for the next 4 bars. During the silence, you keep playing, trying to stay in tempo. Drummers can mute the drum part and play along. The band comes back in after the 4 bars, and you’ll know how well you have maintained the tempo. Once set, this feature works automatically with all songs until you turn it off.
- The Keyboard “QWERTY” Wizard now works with MIDI keyboard input. The Keyboard wizard always plays correct notes, and is a fun way to play along with Band-in-a-Box as well as enter melodies, by playing notes in correct rhythm and fixing the pitches afterwards. Now you can also use a MIDI keyboard to play the Keyboard Wizard. The MIDI keyboard also sends volume information, so it’s a better choice (if you have one).
- Automatic Memo-Generation. The Song memo has been enhanced, with a “summary” checkbox that automatically displays a full summary of the song (title/tempo/patches used in the song), as well as other special features, such as substyle patch changes or harmonies.
- A new “Practicing window” allows convenient “one-click” access to many Band-in-a-Box features that help you with practicing, including Ear Training, games, Metronome, CopyMe, Sight Reading, 101 Riffs series, and more.
- The Soloist has been enhanced. You can now select “Genres” of soloists (e.g., Modern Jazz) and you can also filter to show/not show soloists from sets that you don’t have. Expanding on the “trade 4’s” feature, you can now “Trade 2’s” or “Trade 8’s.” Soloist suggestions have been enhanced.
- QWERTY Input is now compatible with international keyboards (non USA). Previously some keyboard chord shortcuts were not recognized on international keyboards.
- Lead Sheet “Lyric Text Block” A large text block can now be appended to the Lead Sheet window and Printout. This is ideal to append song lyrics as a text entry, multiple verses of lyrics, or any other text information.
- Fakesheets can now optionally include the 2-bar song ending.
- Auto Piano Hand-Splitting. The Piano part now displays on both clefs, using intelligent hand-splitting routines that dynamically change the split point. This happens automatically. You can also manually split a piano part on a Melody or Soloist track using the intelligent hand-splitting routines. The left/right hands display in red/blue on the big piano, and on bass/treble clefs on the notation. Import a piano MIDI file to the Melody track to get a split-hands display and printout!
- Notation enhancements. When mousing over notes, summary information about the note is displayed. Lyric entry now has buttons to enter line or paragraph breaks. Guitar chord diagrams are improved. Polyphonic (chord) notation spacing is improved. There is now a filter for the Event List Editor, allowing you to, quickly spot all patch changes. Hot key support is added to delete or insert notes in the Event List.
- DXi features are enhanced. Lower latency settings for VSC DXi are now possible. Looping during playback is now seamless while using DXi/VSTi soft synths. Recorded melodies now automatically adjust for latency. While using DXi or VSTi, all playback information is routed to the DXi/VSTi, including the option to route the THRU part from your MIDI keyboard. The “Panic” button feature is enhanced to reset a “hung” DXi/VSTi driver. Latency selection has been simplified, with informative messages added. ASIO4All support has been enhanced, with messages to detect/correct silent output.
- A Patch list is now provided for the Roland VSC DXi synth, and the list of DK/PAT files supports newer sound cards.
- MIDI Latency Calibration. There is now a “Latency Calibration” dialog that allows you to accurately set your soft synth’s latency by listening to 2 tones a fifth apart. The MS GS Wavetable synth is now auto-set to correct latency.
- There is a function to auto-determine the correct key of a song, given only the melody.
- Yellow “Fly-By Help Hints” have been expanded throughout the program.
- Chord Entry and Editing are enhanced. “Nudge” Chords feature allows moving a range of chords by any number of bars/beats. A “Fold” routine converts a single large chorus to multiple smaller choruses, with optional tag ending. A Search/Replace Chords feature is added, including support for asterisks (*) as wildcards. Also a “simplify Jazz chords” option will simplify chords like C13#11#5 to C9. Deletion of chords over a range of bars can be done by selecting the range and pressing DELETE.
- The Stylemaker now displays patch numbers for the parts on the main window. Moving notes in notation on the StyleMaker notation now plays the note on the current instrument.
- Melodist has been enhanced. Melodists can be filtered by “Genre” (e.g., Dixieland) and you can filter to show/not show Melodists from sets that you don’t have.
- Direct Render to MP3 button in Render Dialog renders the Band-in-a-Box song to MP3 in a single step.
- Auto-detect and prevent THRU channel conflicts on program boot-up.
- New buttons added for setting “no-harmony” in harmony dialogs, loading “song demo” on Style menu and more.
- Jukebox option added to stop the Jukebox when set is completed.
- StylePicker now auto-rebuilds when new styles have been added.
…and many more!
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Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Minimum 16MB RAM
32MB RAM recommended.
35-135MB Hard Drive space.
PC Soundcard or MIDI module.
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Mac OS9, OS8, OS X*
16 MB of available memory
* Band-in-a-Box version 11 runs under OSX but may have timing problems using
QuickTime, so it is recommended that OSX users reboot under OS9 to run Band-in-a-Box version 11 without playback timing problems.
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