![]() Cuban RealTracks made with Rebeca Mauleón, Mike LeDonne Jazz Waltz Organ (love this one!), and more.New things in this version of Band in a Box: Every version of the program, like every revision of the iPhone, tweaks and improves upon what they had before. So, if you wanted your masterpiece in the key of Db in the style of a Pop song with Electric keyboard, fretless bass, drums, and a Smooth sax soloing….it can do this. The software pretty much seemlessly takes real performances and will piece them into the song. But the program has really shines in it’s use of “RealTracks”. There are quite a few midi only tracks that, depending on your setup, can sound very very good. You simply type in a chord progression, tempo, key (if you want), and then pick a style. For anyone learning jazz, or just music in general, it is an invaluable tool. These people also probably still believe we didn’t go to the moon.īand in a Box, if you read this site, I always rave about. Or maybe still dismiss it as this midi tool (which it was back in the 90s) that uses Quicktime to generate cheesy backgrounds. I still am surprised that more musicians do not know of this amazing piece of software. Like the iPhone 5, Band in a Box 2012.5 is more tweaking of an already great product. I shudder to think what next week will bring (other than actually receiving an iPhone 5 on Friday!). On Friday, PG Music unleashed Band in a Box 2012.5 for Mac. First, on Wednesday, we had Apple announce the iPhone 5. Once you start using them, the Midi Stuff is just so 1990s. Anyone buying this program needs to pony up for the Real Tracks, or at least the Real Tracks they would be using. The ability to pick a key, type a chord progression, pick a tempo, and then a style and go is amazing. I still rate Band in a Box is an ESSENTIAL tool for anyone learning Jazz. ![]() Does PG Music want us to store everything in ONE directory? Yikes! It is easy to have upwards for 5,000 band in a box files (I have something like 12,000) if you download all the free fake book changes and what not freely available on the internet. ![]() BUT if you have a subdirectory, it doesn’t open and do those files. It is a great feature, Open by Title, that shows the song name, key, tempo, and style for all the files in that directory. PG Music STILL hasn’t fixed/added a feature I think is essential, the ability to have the Open by Title be able to traverse subdirectories. Some of the new Real Tracks are amazing, and at least one (Euro Dance) is crap. I think it would be VERY useful for making practice for students and stuff. They seemed interested when I made that suggestion. I’m hoping that they add the ability to have the Woodshed stuff be able to be dumped into an audio file at some point. The Woodshed button works by you giving it a start tempo, say 120, and then tell it how fast to get to (say 240) and in what increments. I believe during the 2012.5 Beta test I suggested it would be a good idea to put it in a button and move it out front. Now, Band in a Box has HAD this function for a while, buried in the preferences somewhere. The main feature for me in this update was the Woodshed Tempo button. They also have some “SuperMidi” things, to make the midi tracks sound better.
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