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Band in a Box 2007
Band in a Box 2007

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From: PG Music Inc.
Category: Software

List Price: $99.00
Buy New: $89.99
You Save: $9.01 (9%)



New (2) from $89.99

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 reviews
Sales Rank: 1975

Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows Nt
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.6 x 1.7

MPN: PG-BBPRO-W
Model: BB
UPC: 747110004794
EAN: 0747110004794
ASIN: B0002VCUZK

Release Date: December 14, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Chords from MP3 ("Audio Chord Wizard").
  • RealDrums. We've added real audio drums to Band-in-a-Box!
  • Soundtrack Generator. Generate original, royalty-free music.
  • Generate Chords for a Melody, or an improved chord progression for a Melody - with the new "Reharmonist" feature.
  • Solos are enhanced - with the new "Melody Influenced" Soloist.

Similar Items:

  • Finale SongWriter
  • The Jazz Theory Book
  • The Real Book: Sixth Edition
  • Finale Songwriter 2007
  • Jazz Guitar Technique

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
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.
Tempo is set based on Style when choosing File | New. Instead of always resetting to tempo=140, the tempo is now the best tempo for the current Style Improved Enharmonics



Customer Reviews:   Read 9 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars A Great Program   January 13, 2008
Band in a Box has everything my husband needs for the music he uses in different music programs, he really loves it. The only problem he has with it is that it is difficult to learn how to get the combinations of back up tracks he needs. But it has all the equipment for groups and the different back up tracks. After he figures out how to make it do all the things he wants it to do, we will be ordering more up grades for it. He thinks it is a fantstic program for musicians from beginners and professionals.


5 out of 5 stars INSTRUMENT ACCOMPANIMENT   December 24, 2007
This was a gift for my brother who is a musician. He said that Band in a Box was excellent and the perfect present for him.


5 out of 5 stars A Jazz Player   August 27, 2007
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Simply put, this is a kickass product. I dig the "big piano" which helps with left hand / right hand position. Since I purchased this item, my playing has improved 10-fold over the last 3-months. Now I realize I went too long playing solo. A backing band is what I needed and now it's what I got when I come home from the old day job and plunk the ebony and ivories.


5 out of 5 stars Great Songwriting Tool   July 9, 2007
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I started with Band In A Box in the 90s when it was on DOS Diskettes. It has been my co-writer ever since. Each upgrade has taken it to new levels.

Band In A Box is like having musicians on call 24/7. And now with the "Auto Chord Wizard" I can let Band In A Box figure out the chord changes to any song within minutes.




5 out of 5 stars Excellent backing   May 30, 2007
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is an excellent software, I use it almost dayly as backing for my practice. I play jazz-guitar, and wether I want to practice improvising or comping this is a fantastic resource. I just type in the chords and choose an appropriate style. The program will produce excellent bass and druming, the 2007 version includes "real drummer" with the drums based on recorded playing of real drummers. This is an important improvements over older versions. The piano, guitar and string is OK, while if you add a melody line that is goint to sound very MIDI-like, not like live music, but sometimes it is still useful to have the melody playing.

For soloing and melody playing the comp is very good. I do not buy book/CD with backing tracks anymore. Even when I want to practice comping, it is important to have at least the bass and rythm to get an idea of how the comping sounds with a full band. Also in this respect is this software excellent.

Beware though that this is a rich program, and a such it contains much more features than you are likely to ever apply. With this rich set of possibilities, the downside is that it may be difficult to figure out how to do what you want. On one occation I sent an e-mail to the support, and got a swift and very helpful response.


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