Band in a Box (BIAB) Software: Easy to use, creative music composition tool that allows you to quickly turn your musical ideas into songs.
introduction
Over the years, music production software have made tremendous improvements with lots of features added to them. Just like FLStudio (fruity-loops at one time), even Band in the Box has improved a lot in terms of its capabilities. Band in the Box is a music production software with features like live arrangement capabilities where you just play chords and the software will provide the complete arrangement (just like an arranger keyboard). You can even use it to create complete tracks from scratch.
Created by PG Music Incorporated, the music-making software has been around for a while (first introduced in 1990 for PC computers) and has since then undergone several changes.
Who is it for?
Band in a Box can be used by music students (who want to get started with music production), musicians, songwriters and even educators.
You can create backing tracks (and jam tracks) in all popular music styles, including Jazz, Blues, Funk, Rock, Pop, Country, Folk, and more.
Band in a Box: Review
PG Music’s Band-in-a-Box accompaniment software suite allows you to make realistic backing tracks easily for your songs. Besides providing a ‘back-up band’, the software can also simulate an entire band (with or without soloists).
The software is available for windows as well as for the Mac operating systems.
Key Features:
- Automatically generates melodies and solos.
- Artist Performances by to musicians/instrumentalists.
- 1,000 modern electronic dance and Top 40/pop style loops.
- Import/Export of AppleLoops on Mac and Acid files on Windows.
- RealTracks and RealDrums that give you access to recordings by top studio musicians for use in your songs.
- Audio Edit Window displays a digital waveform for the Audio track for selecting, playing, and editing audio.
- Allows you to customize MIDI sounds and edit notes.
- Time-saving features include automatic track labels, video tutorial-help buttons, and a Piano Window to display piano notes.
- RealCombos that make it easy to assign all song tracks to the same style using a RealTracks band.
- Import an audio file, record audio, or render your song to an Audio track or export as a YouTube video.
- Instrumental Studies for guitar with performances to help you learn to play backing or lead guitar in different styles.
- Print song arrangements as a lead sheets including music notation.
- Band-in-a-Box for Windows also includes RealBand
Website: Bandinabox.com
Band in a Box Video Demo
Watch: Band in a Box demo
Band in a Box for Mac
Band in a box is available as a separate software for the Mac operating system. Though the core functionality of the software remains the same, there are some features, specific to Mac (Import/Export of AppleLoops on Mac), that are included in the version for Mac.
Band in a Box: Various Packages
The Band in a Box is available in various packages – each providing more sounds, styles, tracks, performances over the previous package.
- Band-in-a-Box Pro (Win/Mac): Includes the software with several styles, sounds, songs, tracks.
- Band-in-a-Box MegaPAK (Win/Mac): Includes everything that comes with Band-in-a-Box Pro plus more tracks, sounds, styles
Band-in-a-Box UltraPlusPAK (Win/Mac): Includes everything that comes with the Band-in-a-Box MegaPAK plus more tracks and performances
Band-in-a-Box EverythingPAK (Win/Mac): Includes everything that comes with the Band-in-a-Box UltraPlusPAK plus more Video Tutorials, MIDI Songs & Lessons
Band-in-a-Box Audiophile Edition (Win/Mac): For the audiophiles, this one includes everything that comes with the Band-in-a-Box EverythingPAK plus it features uncompressed WAV file audio.
Band-in-a-Box OMNIPAK (Windows): For Windows users, this blockbuster collection includes the Band-in-a-Box EverythingPAK and lot more sounds, tracks, styles, ane more.
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