A superb software solution to help inspire and enliven your composition.
Band-in-a-Box
SuperPAK combines Band-in-a-Box 2007.5 Style Sets 0-68 RealDrums 1-10 Soloist Sets 1-11 & 16-20 Melodist Sets 1-8 and Video
Tutorial PAK for a comprehensive MIDI music-making experience.
Band-in-a-Box Version 2007.5
Whether
you're a working musician wanting a simplified way to flesh out new ideas or an aspiring songwriter who wants an affordable
way to create songs but can't afford the thousands of dollars worth of gear to record music the traditional way Band-in-a-Box
is an affordable fun-to-use MIDI music software solution. This award-winning series turns your computer into a ready-to-go
back-up band. You choose the length of songs the chords you want to use placing them where you want and then you can add your
melodies or choose ready-to-go intuitive accompaniments from the plethora of styles found in the included Soloist Melodist
and RealDrums Sets.
One of the bigger updates in the 2007.5 version is a major overhaul to RealDrums which replaces
the MIDI drum track with actual recordings of quality studio Jazz/Rock/Country drummers. More than samples they are full recordings
from 1 to 8 bars which perfectly sync with other Band-in-a-Box tracks giving your song ideas a more realistic feel. They will
instinctively adjust to changes in tempo/volume and you can even add third party WAV files or create styles that control fills/post-fills/pattern
lengths/substyles etc.
Other enhanced features in this music production software include MP3/WVA/WMA generation; Audio
Chord Wizard which can analyze an audio file and figure out the chords for you; "Reharmonist" which generates chord progressions
in the genre you choose for all or part of a song; auto-memo generation; a melody influenced soloist that allows you to choose
how much the melody will influence the pitch rhythm note density and more of the solo; and a Soundtrack Generator for producing
original music that you can tweak to fit any style of film or video. You also get support for TranzPort a wireless remote
control that works up to 30 feet away so you can work on a piano while cueing up your "virtual bandmates". Improvements have
been made to the notation audio dialog practice and chord functions as well as better DXi features. There's just loads of
fun to be discovered with this product.
Style Soloist Melodist Sets
For those unfamiliar with
the Band in the Box products the Style Soloist and Melodist Sets are add-on collections of pre-made sample material that can
be used to generate accompaniment to your song. They cover just about every genre of music giving you even more inspiration
to compose. Say you choose a Pop style the Soloist and Melodist features will create solos and melodies that are appropriate
to that type of song for you to work with. It's as easy as a push of a button.
Inside the Video Tutorial PAK
Oliver Gannon's Songwriting with Band-in-a-Box
Oliver Gannon's Secrets of the Stylemaker
The Simplifying Chord
Progressions tutorial
A New Features Video outlining the newest features of the latest release
The Soloist & Melodist
Tutorials for the power users
and the popular Practicing with Band-in-a-Box great video instruction for effectively using
Band-in-a-Box for soloist improvisation and accompaniment skills.
PG
Music Band-in-a-Box SuperPAK Specifications:
- Memory (RAM): Minimum
128MB
- Hard Disk space: 300MB minimum for MegaPAK (3GB including RealDrums)
- PC Sound
Card or MIDI module
PG Music Band-in-a-Box SuperPAK Features:
- Includes:
- Band-in-a-Box 2007.5
- Style Sets
0-68
- RealDrums Sets 1-10
- Soloist Sets 1-11 16-20
- Melodist Sets 1-8
- Video Tutorial PAK
Features
- Fully integrated RealDrums replaces the
MIDI Drum track with tons of real recordings of top studio Jazz/Rock/Country drummers lasting from 1 to 8 bars that play in
perfect sync with the other Band-in-a-Box tracks
- Change tempos or volumes during playback using the same
tempo/volume controls as MIDI
- PG Audio Wizard automatically figures out the chords tempo bar lines and
key from any MP3 WAV or WMA (Windows Media) audio file and displays them and can even stretch the file to different tempos
while preserving pitch
- Audio Piano Roll displays notes from imported files so you can hear the original
MP3 playing in sync with the bar lines in Band-in-a-Box and add your own parts to it (i.e. Strings RealDrums)
- Soundtrack
Generator lets you create style depth length and instruments used to create original soundtrack music
- Generate
chords for a melody or an improved chord progression for a melody with the new "Reharmonist" feature
- New
"Melody Influenced" Soloist lets you choose a strength (%) setting allows to control how much the solo will be influenced
by the melody or choose melody influence (%) and one of several presets to control the type of influence (pitches/rhythms/note
density etc.)
- TranzPort Wireless Remote Control support
- Audio Settings dialog makes
it easy to mute solo or change the volume of the audio track
- Punch-in audio recording
- Hear
existing audio parts when overdubbing
- New Audio-Offset feature allows you to synchronize any point of
an imported audio file with bar 1 of the Band-in-a-Box song
- Audio settings dialog accessible from the MIDI
Drivers dialog or Audio menu
- Batch-convert a folder of songs to Audio files (MP3 WAV or WMA)
- Chord
"Breaks" feature for practicing tempo control
- The Keyboard "QWERTY" Wizard now works with MIDI keyboard
input
- Automatic Memo-Generation
- New "Practicing Window" allows "1-click" access to Ear
Training dialog games (Pitch Invasion etc.) Metronome CopyMe Sight Reading 101 Riffs series and more
- Expanded
"Trade 4's" feature lets you do "Trade 2's" or "Trade 8's."
- Soloists can be filtered by Genre to show only
melodists in that genre or filtered to show/not show soloists from sets you don't have
- QWERTY Input is
now compatible with international keyboards
- Large text block can now be appended to the Lead Sheet window
and printout
- Fakesheets can now optionally include 2-bar song ending
- Auto Piano Hand-Splitting
with left/right hands displayed in red/blue on the piano and on bass/treble clefs on notation and even provides a display
and printout on imported piano MIDI files
- Notation enhancements including smoother summary information
lyric entry guitar chord diagrams Event List Editor filter and Hot Key support
- Several DXi features have
been enhanced
- Panic button feature enhanced to reset a "hung" DXi/VSTi driver
- Simplified
Latency selection
- Better ASIO4All support
- Patch list (.PAT) now provided for the Roland
VSC DXi synth and the list of available synth DK/PAT files is enhanced to support newer sound cards
- MIDI
Latency Calibration
- Function to auto-determine correct keys of a song using only the melody
- Yellow
"Fly-By Help Hints" expanded throughout
- Enhanced Chord Entry and Editing
- A "Fold" routine
converts a song with a single large chorus to multiple smaller choruses with optional tag ending
- Search/Replace
Chords feature added
- Chord deletion over a range of bars can be done by selecting the range and pressing
DELETE with no confirmation dialog is required
- Stylemaker displays current patch numbers for the parts
on the main window.
- Melodists can be filtered by Genre to show only melodists in that genre or filtered
to show/not show melodists from sets you don't have
- Direct Render to MP3 button: Renders Band-in-a-Box
song to MP3 in a single step using your Roland VSC DXi (or other DXi/VSTi synth)
- Feature on program boot-up
detects and prevents conflicts with the THRU channel and other Band-in-a-Box instruments
- Convenient buttons
for setting "no-harmony" in harmony dialogs loading "song demo" on Style menu and more
- Jukebox option stops
Jukebox when set is completed
- StylePicker auto-rebuilds when new styles have been added
Hire these "virtual bandmates" to jam with and see where your creativity takes you! Pick them
up today!
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