The award-winning
Band-in-a-Box V.12 for PC 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.) With Band-in-a-Box, you can input a typical song in just two minutes. You'll quickly build up a large library of your favorite songs!
First off, you'll get the amazing new "MIDI-file to Style Wizard", that automatically converts a MIDI file (.MID) to a Band-in-a-Box Style (.STY). This wizard has plenty of options so you can quickly make your own simple to advanced styles from a MIDI file, without any knowledge of the Style Maker required!
Twice as many instruments! PG Music has added support for General MIDI 2 standard (GM2). This GM2 support adds 128 new instruments to
Band-in-a-Box styles and songs, including ukulele, mandolin, 12-string guitar plus many new and improved piano, organ, guitar, brass and string sounds!
They've also made many new styles using the new instruments, and include updated versions of previous styles. You'll be hearing the new instruments with many of your new and existing styles. (Note: The included Roland VSC3 synth supports the new GM2 instruments, as do most newer modules/sound cards. If yours doesn't, a similar instrument from the existing 128 General MIDI sounds will be substituted.)
The Guitar Window is enhanced by adding fret display support for other instruments, including mandolin, ukulele and banjo. You'll see authentic chord voicings and melody display on the fretboard for all of these new instruments. The Style Maker has been enhanced with support for GM2 instruments, so you can make styles that use the new instruments and have correct instrument voicings displayed on the fretboard. We've also added an option for standard guitar chord diagrams to be included in the notation display, lead sheet, and printout. Choose from Folk, Pop or Jazz Guitar Chord Diagrams.
Bass players will now see bass tablature and correctly displayed bass parts on the new bass fretboard.
The
Band In A Box user interface has been enhanced, with a single dialog for all program options and song settings, right mouse support, simplified menu, additional hot keys and more.
All of the styles are enhanced! Every
Band-in-a-Box style has been improved or updated with the newest Style Maker features including guitar and other fretted instrument voicings, consistent volume levels, edited patterns and more. Many of these styles and new demo songs are included with your Band-in-a-Box version 12 upgrade.
There are many new options for song navigation during playback, including a new "One-More-Time" feature that allows fine control over the song looping during live performance. For example, as the song is playing you can get it to endlessly loop the last or middle choruses with a simple hot key. Now you can control when the song ends. If the "dance floor is full", you can extend the song for as long as you like, all without skipping a beat! This is also useful for home practice, so that you can play "endless choruses" for soloing practice, and conveniently navigate the song during playback.
You can now load and play an entire MIDI file in Band-in-a-Box, including interpreting the Chords with the Chord Wizard.
Harmony notation display has been enhanced. Harmonies can now be displayed on the lead sheet window (or printed) with separate notation tracks for each harmony voice. View each harmony on a separate track, or view/print a single harmony voice! Print harmony charts for your band, or use for sight reading practice - to read/play a harmony voice along with the melody that you're hearing.
Band In A Box is a delight to use, and a "must have" for gigging musicians.
- Minimum System Requirements
- Band In A Box Version 2007.5
- Windows Version
- 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
- Minimum 16MB RAM
- 32MB RAM recommended.
- 35-135MB Hard Drive space.
- PC Sound card or MIDI module.
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