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, automatically generating a complete professional-quality
arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings or horns in a
wide variety of popular styles. Live audio tracks can be created using
RealDrums and RealTracks.
Band-in-a-Box 2010 is jam-packed with over
50 exciting new features and enhancements! We’ve added a new
“Plug-in” mode, allowing you to easily
Drag-n-Drop
tracks between Band-in-a-Box and your favourite sequencer. RealTracks
generate much faster now, typically 3X faster. Individual MIDI or
RealTracks can be frozen (locked) to replay faster without need for
regeneration, and many more!
And that’s not all...
Band-in-a-Box is a powerful and creative music composition
tool for exploring and developing musical ideas with near-instantaneous
feedback. Over the years many features have been added to
Band-in-a-Box – Notation and Lyrics, Piano Roll, 16-channel MIDI
Multitracks, Harmonization, the StyleMaker and StylePicker, a live
performance Conductor window, Medley Maker, and 24 –substyle
Multistyles. The Soloist and the Melodist are popular “intelligent”
features that generate professional solos or even create whole new
songs from scratch. RealDrums adds the human element of a live drummer
while RealTracks add even more live session musicians, bringing the
entire Band-in-a-Box arrangement to life. The Audio Chord Wizard has
the amazing ability to analyze, extract, and show the chords from audio
recordings on-screen and then write them to the Band-in-a-Box chord
sheet.
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. Band-in-a-Box for Windows® can also record
an acoustic instrument or voice to add to the composition, with
processing through its own DirectX audio effects. Its built-in TC
Helicon audio harmonies will turn your audio track into multiple
harmony parts or adjust its pitch, with vibrato and scooping effects
for realistic vocal styles and up to sixteen choral parts.
You can print out your finished creation with lyrics, chords,
repeats
and endings, DC markings and codas, or save it as a graphics 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 any other
compressed formats you have) for a file that’s “Internet ready.” You’ll
have even more fun making automatic medleys, playing your
favorite song lists in the Band-in-a-Box Jukebox, and singing along to
your Karaoke files with CDG graphics.
New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2010 for Windows are...
- There now is a "Plug-in" mode for your favorite sequencer (RealBand, Sonar, Reaper, ProTools, FL-Studio, Nuendo and more). With
the new plug-in mode, BB is open as a small always-on-top window, and
acts as a plug-in for your favorite DAW/sequencer, so that you can Drag-n-Drop MIDI and audio (WAV) tracks from BB to your favorite sequencer. Work in your favorite sequencer, type
a progression in Band-in-a-Box, and then simply drag the track from
Band-in-a-Box to your sequencer's track at the desired track and bar
location.
- No more long waits for RealTracks to generate! RealTracks generate much faster, 3X faster on
average. A typical song with RealTracks that took 20 seconds to
generate will generate now in about 6 seconds. And if you freeze some
or all tracks in the song (see below), playback of RealTracks is almost
instantaneous.
- Freezing (locking) MIDI or RealTracks/RealDrums.
Any track can now be frozen (MIDI, RealTracks, or RealDrums). When
frozen, it won't get changed or re-generated. This saves time when
replaying previous songs, and allows you to freeze an arrangement that
you like. If you freeze the whole song, you don't have to wait at all
for the song to regenerate. Next time you play, it is ready to go.
(note: this new freeze feature is different than the previous limited
freeze feature that renders the whole arrangement to the audio track)
- Soloist generated RealTracks are now saved with the song, so you will hear the RealTracks play the same solo when you reload the song.
- RealTracks now support new features, including Shots, Holds, and Pushes. Simply type in the chords as you normally would, adding periods (…) for shots and holds, and the RealTracks will play them.
- RealTracks endings have been enhanced, and are now 4 bar endings instead of 2 bar, allowing time for a natural decay of the instruments.
- Multiple Undo support. Up to 999 levels of undo (configurable).
- Always Save all song settings.
Now all settings are saved with songs, including patches, reverbs,
volume etc., so that the song will play the same way each time, without
having to set this in the Save With Patches dialog.
- Reverb control added for individual tracks with RealTracks or RealDrums, so you can easily add reverb (0 to 127) for any RealTrack. Reverb type also settable, and saved with the song.
- Bass/Treble Tone Control added for individual tracks with RealTracks or RealDrums, so you can easily adjust the bass/treble EQ for any RealTrack. Settings save with the song.
- Band-in-a-Box window is now sizable, when
size changes, chord sheet, notation, and other windows redraw in
proportion to the new size. This allows you to have BB open as a small
window on screen with other programs, and you still see a full chord
sheet. The screen size is remembered between sessions.
- New favorite songs/styles dialog, with
separate lists of ‘recently played’ and favorite songs or styles. The
previous ‘favorite’ songs/styles dialog was a list of recently used
songs/styles. Now there are 2 tabs in this dialog, showing you both
recently used songs/styles, and a new list of ‘favorites’ that you
select as a favorite songs or styles. Favorite Song/Style lists can be
edited, sorted, saved/loaded, and used with the jukebox. You can add an
unlimited # of favorites. Also, a Sort button has been added to Favorite/Recent songs/styles dialog.
- Double time and half-time support for RealTracks added. Now
you can play any RealTracks at half-time or double time. This allows
you to, for example, in a ballad at tempo of 70, to add a RealTracks
Sax solo with tempo of 140, and play it as a double time, which will
match the ballad tempo of 70. So now all of your existing RealTracks
can be used at 3 different tempos. (normal, half-time, double time)
- Automatic Tempo swapping of similar RealTracks.
If you have similar RealTracks available at different tempos, BB will
automatically choose the best one to use. For example, if you have a
ballad loaded, with an Acoustic Bass RealTracks at tempo of 60, and you
speed up the tempo to 140, and press play, BB will automatically choose
an Acoustic Bass RealTracks closer to tempo of 140, if it is the same
genre and feel. This means you can use a simple Jazz style, and play it
at various tempos, without having to set the best RealTracks based on
tempos.
- Rendering now has a Normalize option, to
normalize individual tracks or the complete arrangement. Normalizing
boosts the volume to a maximum level without distortion. Most
professional music tracks are normalized.
- RealDrums picker dialog has been enhanced, with information about Artist name, Artist bio, and RealDrums Set number.
- Songs ‘Saved-As” a different name now have the new name added to the Recently used song dialog.
- Support enhanced for non-concert instruments (Bb/Eb sax, trumpet etc.). Now when chord sheet is transposed, you can type in chords in the transposed key, and they will show up as you have entered them, instead of requiring you to enter the chords in the concert key.
- Rendering songs to audio is now much faster for songs with no MIDI, such as RealStyles.
- Rendering RealTracks no longer require you to have a DXi or VST in use.
- Lyrics enhanced.
- Undo added for entry of individual lyrics
- ‘Enter’ and ‘Close’ button added to lyric entry
- Lyrics toggle to editable notation view if lyric mode is entered in note roll mode, so that lyrics are visible.
- More Soloists are now available, up to 2000.
- RealTracks Picker dialog enhanced :
- opens up faster.
- New Columns added (tempo swappable, holds type)
- Columns are now sizable, and remember the sizes
- Rendering WAV dialog enhanced. It has a simpler layout. The Render wav file doesn't need to be in same folder – it can be in any folder/drive.
- StylePicker is enhanced. Favorites and Recent styles now appear
in this dialog as separate lists. It now has the ability to add/remove
styles as favorites. A Favorite Style indication (F) shows up for each
style. You can filter any list by only showing favorite styles. Over
time, you can build up a list of favorite styles, and only show them
when needed.
- Many messages changed to “yellow alerts” at top right of screen, so that you don’t have to respond to the message, interrupting work flow.
- And many more!
Requirements:
Windows 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / Vista
Memory (RAM): Minimum 128MB.
Hard Disk space: Minimum 400 MB. More space is required for RealDrums,
about 100 MB per set and RealTracks require about 800 MB per set.
PC Sound Card or MIDI module.
