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Automatic Music Accompaniment

Band-in-a-Box is intelligent music accompaniment software for your MIDI music system or PC sound card. The award-winning Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (i.e. - C, Fm7, C13b9), choose the style you would like played by the band, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest!

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Amazing Vocal Harmonies!

You can apply a harmony to the audio part - allowing you to automatically create up to 4 part vocal harmonies from your singing. And don't worry if your singing is not in perfect tune, Band-in-a-Box can now "fix" vocals to the correct pitch - automatically! Simply record your vocal part, choose a harmony, and Band-in-a-Box will generate the vocal harmony part for you! Band-in-a-Box generates the harmonies using the world-leading TC-Helicon Vocal Technologies engine. Once you have recorded a vocal part into Band-in-a-Box, you can use this feature in many ways, including:

1. Record yourself singing into a Band-in-a-Box file. Create a vocal harmony for part or all of the song by selecting a Band-in-a-Box harmony and choosing the Generate Audio Harmony option. You can now hear yourself singing in perfect harmony!
2. Did you hit a few "out-of-tune" notes when you recorded your singing to Band-in-a-Box? Fixing your "out-of-tune" singing is easy, by instructing the program to correct the pitches to the Melody track

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Repeats, First & Second endings, DS/DC al Coda

You can now add these repeats and endings so that the Lead Sheet window will display and printout using 1st/2nd endings. There's a NEW Wizard that will intelligently add 1st/2nd endings automatically for you. Now you can view and convert your current song collection to include 1st/2nd endings in lead sheet format! To view a lead sheet in 1st/2nd endings format, simply select the "FakeSheet" checkbox on the Lead Sheet window, and Band-in-a-Box will display the Fake Sheet using 1st and 2nd endings. You can add your own repeats and endings by right-mouse-clicking the Repeats-Endings option.

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Copy Dialog has Additional Functions

Copy, Repeat X times, with Transpose - The Edit-Copy dialog now has additional fields, allowing you to define the number of times to repeat each copy and define the number of semitones you transpose. For example, you could have a 16 bar section, copy it 3 times with a semitone transpose each time. Or, take a single 4 bar phrase, and copy it 11 times, transposing up a 4th each time, generating the same 4 bar phrase in all 12 keys!

Copy Dialog has additional functions - In addition to the above, the Edit-Copy dialog has "insert bars at destination option" which allows a copy to also insert bars at the destination point. This is handy to create a repeat, for example, by copying 8 bars and then inserting the 8 bars at the destination copy point. Additional enhancements to the Edit-Copy dialog include:

• copy 1st chorus to whole song
• copy to specific chorus
• include part-markers/bar settings
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Hybrid Styles

There's a new "Hybrid Styles" feature that allows you to play and create a style that has instruments from up to 5 different styles! You can, for example, play a song with a Reggae bass, Rock drums, Salsa piano, or any combination of up to 5 styles that you want. Create a name for your "Hybrid Style" and you can save it with the song so that it will play that way in the future.

DirectX Instrument Synthesizer Support

Software synthesizers allow Band-in-a-Box to play high quality sounds directly through your computer sound card, without requiring any external MIDI hardware. Most new software synthesizers are released as "DXi plug-ins," so they will work in a standard way with many programs. Connecting Band-in-a-Box to the software synth as a plug-in provides several advantages over the previous method of connecting as a MIDI driver. The plug-in allows Band-in-a-Box to merge/synch in any existing audio file (vocals etc.) with the synth output. You can also directly render your performance to a .WAV file using the DXi plug-in. Sampler-based synths allow you to assemble a huge, customized library of instrument samples to use with Band-in-a-Box. Examples of popular DXi synths include the RolandED HyperCanvas, LiveSynth, or VSampler.

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New Band-in-a-Box 2007 (Windows)

• New Drum Loops! Realistic, pre-recorded drum performances.
• Automatically detect chords from mp3 files!
• Audio Wizard detects tempo, meter and bar lines from mp3 files!
• Soundtrack feature generates royalty-free music for your video!
• ... and much more!

Band-in-a-Box Pro 2007 for Windows includes 2007 version, Styles Sets 0-3, RealDrums Set 1, Soloist Set 1, Melodist Set 1 & BONUS 12-PAK.

Band-in-a-Box MegaPAK 2007 for Windows includes 2007 version, Styles Sets 0-66, RealDrums Sets 1-3, Soloist Sets 1-11 & 16-18, Melodist Sets 1-8, the Band-in-a-Box Video Tutorial PAK & BONUS 12-PAK.

Band-in-a-Box version 12 (Mac OS X)

• This exciting new version of Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh runs "Native" in OS X (10.2 or higher).
• We have a huge number of new and improved Styles, Soloist, Harmonies, and Song Demos.
• Program operations are much faster, including up to 3 times faster notation redraws.
• Export your Band-in-a-Box files and import them into Apple's GarageBand.

Band in a Box is also available as Lab Packs or Site Licenses for educational purposes. Please contact our Educational Sales Department for details.

Band in a Box is developed by PG Music.