To create an accompaniment, users enter the chords of a song, choose a musical style (jazz, pop, classical, rock and so on), and the software automatically creates a complete arrangement with piano, bass, drums, guitar and strings. It can be used by players of all instruments, as well as singers. $88.īand-in-a-Box is an "intelligent" accompaniment software program that generates musical arrangements based on parameters set by the user. 2004 Music Teachers National Association, Inc.
MLA style: "Band-in-a-Box." The Free Library.And best of all, when the song is playing, the chords or lyrics of the song are displayed in time on the backlit LCD screen. Select/mute/solo tracks and volume/tempo changes are all supported. * 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 now allows you to control Band-in-a-Box 2007 through walls from 30 feet away! The backlit LCD provides a two-line readout, while buttons and a wheel allow control of many Band-in-a-Box features. Choose the melody influence (%), and one of several presets to control the type of influence (pitches/rhythms/note density, etc.). A strength (%) setting allows you to control how much the solo will be influenced by the melody. The result is a much better solo generated for the song. Now Band-in-a-Box can also allow the melody to influence the type of solo generated by its Soloist feature.
When musicians solo for a song, the solo is typically influenced by the melody as well as the chords. * Solos are enhanced - with the new "Melody Influenced" Soloist. Or use the feature interactively by displaying a menu of possible chord progressions for a portion of the melody, and audition them to choose the best one using the "Bar Reharmonist." Generate an entirely new chord progression for a complete song, or a portion of a song. This feature generates a chord progression in the genre that you choose, based only on the melody. * Generate Chords for a Melody, or an improved chord progression for a Melody - with the new "Reharmonist" feature. Need to generate some original, royalty-free music for backgrounds, home videos, slide shows, voiceovers, jingles, themes, underscoring scenes or entr'acte, dance routines, ceremonies or any occasion that calls for musical accompaniment? The Soundtrack feature allows you to generate music in the style you choose for any length of time you specify. Just load in any MP3, WAV or WMA file and you'll instantly see the chords in Band-in-a-Box. This is one of the all-time most requested features for Band-in-a-Box, and now 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. * Chords from MP3 ("Audio Chord Wizard").
They sound like a real drummer, because they are recordings of a real drummer. The results are dramatically better than MIDI. For example, choose a brushes style, and you will now hear lush Jazz brushes.
These are not "samples," but are full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars, playing along in perfect sync with the other Band-in-a-Box tracks. 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. Watch the Band-in-a-Box 2007 New Features: