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. Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a complete professional quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings in a wide variety of popular styles-jazz, pop, country, classical and more. Over 50 features new to this version!

Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program for your multimedia computer.

You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your "on demand" backup band. 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, Lyrics, Melody Tracks, Harmonization, and a programmable StyleMaker. The Soloist and the Melodist are 2 major "intelligent" features; the Soloist generates professional quality solos over any chord progression, the Melodist can create songs from scratch with Chords, Melodies, Intros, Solos, and even a Title! Band-in-a-Box for Windows can also record an acoustic instrument or voice to add to the composition, with processing through DirectX audio effects.

Its built-in audio harmonies will turn your audio track into multiple harmony parts and even adjust its pitch by tracking the Band-in-a-Box Melody track. 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.

You can print out your finished creation with repeats and endings, DC markings and codas, or save it as a graphic 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 other compressed formats for a file that's internet-ready.

PG Music Band-in-a-Box 2005 Features:

• Fully-Featured "Piano Roll" Window: Now you can edit your tracks using the new "Piano Roll" window, similar to the type found in many sequencer programs. Edit the Melody or Soloist tracks with greater ease and precision. There are 2 panes in the window-one for notes, and the other for controllers, velocity, and other data. All notes and controllers are displayed as blue bars on a grid. You can change note duration and pitch by selecting and dragging with your mouse
• Alternate Guitar Tunings added: The Guitar window now supports alternate tunings, including DADGAD, Drop D, Double Drop D, Open G, and 11 others! You can also select "Nashville High Strung" tunings, which tune certain strings up an octave. The new tunings are supported in Styles, Chord Diagrams, Guitar Tutor, Notation, Tab, and Printout. Learn how to play these tunings by watching the on-screen Guitar Fretboard or Notation/Tab Window. Easily change any style to use the alternate tuning that you want
• New Harmonies added with voicing in 4ths: Modern Jazz harmonies often voice chords in 4ths. For example, a C chord with C melody might be voiced C, G, D, A, E. Now you can select 4ths voicings easily in Band-in-a-Box to harmonize the Melody, Soloist, or THRU parts using 3, 4, or 5 part voicings in 4ths. We've added presets for these harmonies, so you can easily select them. Use these sophisticated 4ths harmonies on your existing melodies to create a new sound
• "Auto Endings" added for Styles without Endings: If you've made a style, and haven't included an ending, a 2-bar ending can now be generated automatically, based on the style. This makes it easier to make complete styles using the Style Wizard, which makes a style by analyzing a MIDI file
• Make Synthesizer Patch file lists (.PAT files) easily by converting PowerTracks or Cakewalk Patch lists: Band-in-a-Box can now read a patch file list generated by PowerTracks or Cakewalk, and convert it to a .PAT file for use in Band-in-a-Box. The patch file contains the name and numbers for all patches on a synthesizer, so that you can access your patches easily by name. If you already have a patch list for your synthesizer from one of these other programs, you can now convert it to Band-in-a-Box format easily
• "Jazz Chord Symbol Graphics" (circles, triangles) now supported: Jazz and Pop music often use certain non-alphabetic symbols for chord types. These include a delta (triangle) for major chords, a circle for diminished, and a circle with a slash for half-diminished. Also, tensions like b9 and b13 are stacked vertically and contained in brackets. You can now select this option, and see these symbols for display/printout on the Chord Sheet, Notation, and Lead Sheet windows
• TC-Helicon Audio Harmonies enhanced with Pitch Styles (automatic "Vibrato" and "Scooping")" Now, when you generate audio harmonies to your recorded vocal tracks, you can select pitch styles, which adds vibrato and scooping effects to the vocal harmonies. Choose from many vibrato/pitch presets, including "Ballad," "Broadway," "Pop Diva," and more
• StylePicker now editable: Add your own styles to the StylePicker list by pressing an ADD/EDIT button on the StylePicker. You can see all the information about the style, including memo, genre, feel, tempo, range, etc.
• "Vocal Wizard" displays the best song keys for your vocal range: This feature helps you choose the best song key for your vocal range. Open the Vocal Wizard, enter your vocal type (baritone, tenor, etc.), or choose a custom range. Then the wizard analyzes the song and recommends the best keys for that song. Options available to "include/exclude falsetto range," "restrict choices to these keys [...]" and "transpose now"
• Non-Destructive Audio Track Editing: With previous versions of Band-in-a-Box, any changes to the audio track would be permanent, even if you didn't save the song. Now the changes are non-destructive and only become permanent if you save the file
• Support for multiple sound cards: For the audio track, you can now choose which sound card to use, if you have more than one
• Multiple lines of lyrics supported on fake sheet and printout: If your song has 1st and 2nd endings or multiple verses of lyrics, multi-line lyrics can be displayed, so you'll see all verses on the same Fake Sheet
• Full stereo or mono support for audio track: You can now choose between mono or stereo for the audio track and the audio plug-ins work for mono or stereo. Tracks can be edited in either format, and converted from stereo to mono or vice versa
• Enhanced audio plug-in effects: Enhanced plug-in audio effects are included for EQ, PeakLimit, and Reverb
• Selective Humanize option for the Melody Embellisher: There is a new option for the Embellisher to only humanize the timing of the music if the timing was "stiff" to begin with. This allows the Embellisher to leave the timing of human input melodies alone, and humanize only the ones that were entered in step-time
• Lead Sheet highlighting is more visible: During playback, the highlighting of bars on the Lead Sheet and Fake Sheet window is more visible, with red rectangles to highlight the current bar
• Karaoke Files (.KAR) now can be opened, including lyrics: The popular Karaoke file format (.KAR) can now be opened directly into BB, just like MIDI files. Chord symbols are displayed (BB intelligently analyzes the chords of the song), as well as the lyrics from the Karaoke files
• # Import WAV file to Audio Track support: A mono or stereo WAV file can now be imported to the audio track, optionally merging or replacing any existing audio track
• Pitch bends are now displayed on Guitar Fretboard: Pitch bends now show up on the Guitar Fretboard. As the pitch bend occurs, a blue line moves along the string in real time, illustrating the height of the pitch bend
• Shift-Click support for selecting region of Chordsheet, Notation, or Audio Window:To select a region of Chordsheet, Notation, or Audio Window, you can now Shift+Click on the end point to easily select a large area
• Colors editor for Note Colors on Notation Window: Note colors for the notation window may be edited to create custom color sets, using a new dialog box
• Entire song name displayed in Taskbar Hint when Band-in-a-Box is minimized: This is useful to find the name of a song playing when Band-in-a-Box is playing in the background
• Multi-colors for Event List: Different colors are used for different event types in the event list, to visually distinguish notes, patch changes etc.
• Song Picker Enhanced-subfolder support: The SongPicker has been enhanced and now can optionally display songs from subfolders. For example, if you get a song list of c:\bb, it can include songs in subfolders of c:\bb like c:\bb\styles34. You can also lock the SongPicker to always open in the same folder (EG: C:\bb), so that you can use the same list to keep track of all songs on your disk. Other enhancements, like "change folder" and "go up one folder," are included
• Time signature changes are now printed on the Notation/Lead Sheet
• "Favorite Folder-Open Song" button: By opening a song using the "Favorite Folder-Open Song," you first select the folder from a list of recently used folders, and then you can directly open the song from that folder. This allows you to quickly find a song in another folder
• For lyrics, line break and paragraph marks ('/' and '\') are no longer shown on the Lead Sheet window
• Lyric Window now auto-opens for MIDI files and Karaoke files
• Guitar TAB visibility is improved: For the guitar tab, the numbers are now more visible, as a portion of the black guitar line is "whited out" when a tab fret number is drawn
• Notation display improved: First note in every bar is drawn farther away from the bar line
• Big Lyrics Window Enhancements: Chords can now be displayed on a row above the lyrics on the Big Lyrics Window. Separate chord colors are used for the Chords and Lyrics, allowing these elements to be visually separated
• Auto-setup for Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth: Latency setting is now automatic for the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth that is included with Windows XP
• MIDI Files are now written with descriptive Text Markers for part markers: Text markers are also read in from MIDI files, and displayed as Section Markers on the Notation
• Decibel Scale now present in the Audio Window
• In editable notation mode, you can now insert a rest by holding the back-quote key (tilde key without pressing shift) then clicking on the notation window. This is a way to avoid having to check the Rest checkbox first.
• Reset to factory settings improved: Reset to factory settings also offers to nuke the drum kit and MIDI Driver choice, making the return to factory settings complete.
• "Play Selected Area as a Loop" function: Shift+Click on the Play button, or press F10 (Play Selected Area as Loop) and the program will play a selected region, and loop the selection. For example, you can select bars 10 and 11, and press F10, and bars 10 and 11 will play looped.
• "Transpose" Chordsheet option added to the Prefs-Chordsheet display options: This is useful for non-concert pitch instruments like Tenor Saxophone. This option is also available on the Notation window.
• StyleMaker Enhancements: If you don't save the style, the previous style will load in, instead of reverting to "ZZJAZZ.STY"
• Guitar Tutor Enhancements: The Guitar Chord Tutor now has an "Anticipate" mode which plays the next chord X beats in advance. This shows the chord ahead of when it will be played, allowing time for the user to prepare the chord for playing along. 11 new tutors have been added for the Alternate tunings like DADGAD, Open G, etc.
• No more drum crash cymbals on Bar 1 of the song: The very first bar of the song is (optionally) no longer considered to be following a fill, so a drum crash cymbal won't be played. Most drummers wouldn't play a crash cymbal on bar 1 of the song
• New Hot keys added for Prefs tab dialog: This allows navigation of the Prefs tab by 1-key keystrokes.
• Notation Options now has an option to allow "Staves Per Page" setting to be automatic or not
• Notation Print to Graphics command can now print to much larger BMP files: This feature is only limited by available memory. This allows high resolution BMP's like 2400 x 3000.
• Guitar TAB lines now prints in black, instead of grey. The black is easier to see.
• Harmony display boxes are wider by 64 pixels on the main screen and melodist/soloist dialogs
• VU meters added for Audio: These show the Record and Playback levels for audio, allowing adjustment of microphone and speaker levels.
• Mouse wheel support added to the Chord Sheet screen and other windows

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