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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 two 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."

The 50 New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2005 for Windows are...

- New 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! You can now 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.
- ...and many more!


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