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BAND-IN-A-BOX PRO
for Windows
AUTO-ACCOMPANIMENT SOFTWARE
Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program,
which means that you can go from nothing to complete song arrangements in as
little as a few seconds. Simply enter chords to a song, choose a style of music,
and Band-in-a-Box does the rest, generating a full band arrangement complete
with Bass, Piano, Drums, Guitar, Strings, and more. You can arrange, listen to,
or play along with songs in hundreds of musical styles. The MIDI and audio
tracks that Band-in-a-Box creates are automatically played out through your
computer's built-in sound card or synthesizer, and the music notation is
displayed in a lead sheet window.
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Band-in-a-box Pro New Features PDF
Band-in-a-box Pro New Features Video
Video Overview of Band-in-a-box
Band-in-a-box "Tips & Tricks" Video
Using the Roland VSC with Band-in-a-Box
Band-in-a-box Quickstart Tutorial
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Band-in-a-Box is a unique and flexible program with a broad range of uses.
It is a powerful and creative music composition tool for exploring and
developing musical ideas with near-instantaneous feedback. Amaze friends
and family by coming up with your own original songs in as little as a few
minutes! Band-in-a-Box is also an excellent educational tool, used both by
professional musicians to sharpen their skills, and as a learning aid by
people with little or no musical background. It's also an essential
program for practicing your instrument in a full band setting - you play
your instrument while Band-in-a-Box takes the place of the other members
in your band. And of course, people use Band-in-a-Box just to have fun!
While the basic concept behind Band-in-a-Box has remained
the same since it was first conceived over 20 years ago, hundreds of
innovative features have been added. The list of things that you can do
with Band-in-a-Box is endless! The Soloist, Melodist, and Audio Chord
Wizard are examples of amazing "intelligent" features; the Soloist
generates professional quality solos over any chord progression, the
Melodist can create entire songs from scratch with Chords, Melodies,
Intros, and Solos (even a Title!), the Medley Maker can combine songs to
create interesting medleys, and the Audio Chord Wizard can figure out the
chords in any audio file (wave files, MP3, WMA, etc.).
In addition to these and many more amazing features, over
the years Band-in-a-Box has expanded from originally being a Jazz oriented
program, to encompass a diverse range of musical genres including Pop,
Rock, Latin, Country, Classical, World, Blues, Bluegrass, New Age, Techno,
and much more. There is something for everyone! Over 1500 styles are
currently available from PG Music and more are always being developed,
many based directly on customer requests. Moreover, since each style is a
large database of musical patterns and ideas, the song arrangements will
always be fresh, never sounding exactly the same each time. |
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What do I need to get started using Band-in-a-Box? |
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General system requirements (Band-in-a-Box for Windows).
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Band-in-a-Box runs on Windows 98 (98SE preferred), NT, ME,
2000, XP, and Vista, and requires a minimum of 128MB available RAM (256MB
or greater preferred). You should have a minimum of about 150MB of free
hard disk space. This doesn't include the RealDrums, which require more
hard disk space - about 600-900 MB per RealDrums set when decompressed. It
is possible to decompress only some of the RealDrums styles on each set if
you are low on hard disk space. If you are planning on recording digital
audio tracks with your songs (e.g. vocals), this will also require a
little more hard disk space, about 10 MB per minute of recording. |
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Sound card and MIDI sound source.
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Band-in-a-Box is largely a MIDI program, and therefore
requires a MIDI sound source (MIDI synthesizer). As mentioned, you don't
need any special equipment; your computer most likely has a sound card and
MIDI sound source built-in. In addition, we include a high quality
software MIDI synthesizer with Band-in-a-Box that anyone can use - the
Roland VSC. |
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External MIDI controllers.
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As mentioned above, you can use an external MIDI
synthesizer as your sound generator. You can also use a MIDI keyboard,
MIDI guitar, or MIDI wind controller to record or play live along with
Band-in-a-Box. This is certainly not a requirement to use Band-in-a-Box,
but it can augment your experience and aid in practicing and composition.
For example, you could enter chords using MIDI Chord Detection, or record
melodies and edit them in the Notation Window. The most inexpensive and
convenient MIDI keyboards are simply MIDI controllers which don't generate
sound by themselves. Most are simple to use - simply connect them to a USB
port on your computer and select the MIDI Input Driver in Band-in-a-Box.
Other synths you connect with MIDI cables and/or a MIDI interface. |
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Audio playback and recording.
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For audio playback and recording, advanced users can
benefit from having a dedicated sound card or audio interface - in other
words, a sound card that is separate from the one that might have come as
part of your computer's motherboard. If you will be doing audio recording,
you can plug in your equipment directly to the sound card (often stereo
1/8" jacks), or for better results with "built-in" soundcards, use a
pre-amp or mixer and plug that into your sound card's line-in jack. You
may wish to have headphones for monitoring. |
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Speakers.
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This may sound obvious, but it is often overlooked... A
good set of amplified speakers or headphones can make a world of
difference, especially if you are using a laptop computer |
Other software programs. |
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You certainly don't need any other programs to use
Band-in-a-Box, however many people use a sequencer in conjunction with Band-in-a-Box. This is because you can save your
Band-in-a-Box songs as standard MIDI or wave files which can be imported
into other programs for further editing. You can import these files into a
multi-track sequencer/digital audio editor, then
fine-tune your performances, record extra audio tracks, add digital audio
effects, and so on. |
Quick Demos using Band-In-A-Box and separate sequencing
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These demos were quickly put together using the following
processes.
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Used the Audio Chord Wizard to
provide a rough chord structure. |
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Sent the resulting chords to BIAB. |
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Erased the Audio Wave file in BIAB. |
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Cleaned up the chords in BIAB. |
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Added extra chords in BIAB. |
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Auditioned various Styles to suit. |
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Saved various choices as Standard
MIDifiles |
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| Sequencing software |
Opened a MIDIfile saved from BIAB |
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Added Melody line. |
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Saved as completed MIDIfile. |
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Cut and Paste the Melody line to
other versions of MIDIfiles saved from BIAB |
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Saved them as completed MIDIfiles |
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The following Demo MIDIfiles are provided to show how the
same melody can be applied to various styles. They are GS files, so you
should use a GS compatible module or GS playback emulator (Roland VSC-MP1)
to hear all capabilities such as enhanced tones, "brush" drum kits and
added effects. You could also embellish these files using your own talent
by adding other parts, changing instrumentation, quantisation, RealTracks,
etc.
| Moon River |
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3,
4,
5,
6,
7 |
| What A Wonderful World |
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4,
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System Requirements
Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Minimum 128 MB RAM
150 MB hard disk space minimum, plus about 1 GB per RealDrums Set.
Digital audio recording requires more hard disk space, about 10 MB per minute of
recording.
Sound card or MIDI module.
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