#Band in a box pro 2013 download professional
#Band in a box pro 2013 download download

You could also enter melodies note by note and select harmonies to go with them.

The basic concept is to enter a song as chords and then the built in accompanying 'patterns' would provide background for you to play live against. All these programs came with great documentation and were intuitive enough so you could get great results in very little time and could keep the music as simple or advanced (complex) as you liked or had time for.

#Band in a box pro 2013 download professional

For professional solo or duo acts this will be great, as all the other programs were, for making backup tracks for live performance. I've bought all their programs since they started producing them. This seems another superb music program from PG MUsic. It is truly remarkable that this is now available for about $100. Think of BIAB as an adventure be clear about what you want to do with it, and invest the time and energy to get up and running for that with relevant features and capabilities of BIAB. You can have BIAB play with or without the melody you can change the tempo you can have a solo generated or create your own solo (with a mike or a Midi connection) and print it if you like. I was also printing leadsheets, which you can do for any tune in BIAB. BIAB Help has a bunch of tutorials, but I just started exploring the menus, and within an hour or so I was getting the idea of trying different instruments and styles. Once you have BIAB installed, just double click a tune in your folder of downloaded tunes it will open in BIAB, and you can start experimenting. For mostly Jazz standards, look for Phillips Realbook there's more than one version of BIAB realbook, however. Google 'BIAB tunes,' and 'JUSTCHORDS.' JUSTCHORDS is not just chords, since many of the tunes include the melody.

#Band in a box pro 2013 download download

A very good first step is to download tunes in the BIAB format from the Internet there's lots out there for free. Unless you're a musical and technological genius, don't expect to master BIAB anytime soon. Part of the beauty of it is the richness of its features and all those possibilities to be explored. in music theory' is not the right way to think about BIAB. It took me about one week to acquaint myself with enough features of BIAB to serve my purposes very well, though there are a whole lot more possibilities for even those limited purposes than what I'm yet able to exploit. My knowledge of music theory is pretty basic (at the level of Music Theory for Dummies). I purchased BIAB mainly for play-along with Jazz tunes in various styles and with various backing instruments, with and without the melody.