Band-in-a-Box for Mac
Automatic accompaniment program.
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Band-in-a-Box overview
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 so easy to use!
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, automatically generating a complete professional-quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings or horns in a wide variety of popular styles plus optional live audio tracks with RealDrums and RealTracks.
And that's not all...
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 and Lyrics, Piano Roll, 16-channel MIDI Multitracks, Harmonization, the StyleMaker and StylePicker, Medley Maker, and 24-substyle Multistyles. The Soloist and the Melodist are popular "intelligent" features that generate professional solos or even create whole new songs from scratch. RealDrums adds the human element of a live drummer while RealTracks add even more live session musicians, bringing the entire Band-in-a-Box arrangement to life. The Audio Chord Wizard has the amazing ability to analyze, extract, and show the chords from audio recordings on-screen and then write them to the Band-in-a-Box chord sheet.
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. Band-in-a-Box for Mac can also record an acoustic instrument or voice to add to the composition.
You can print out your finished creation with lyrics, chords, repeats and endings, DC markings and codas, or save it as a graphics 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 in a other compressed audio format for a file that's "Internet ready."
What’s new in version 2022.0.605
- Fixed: Saved videos of notation window were blank.
- Fixed: Make Notation Video dialog did not allow you to select Utility tracks.
- Fixed: Make Notation Video dialog did not allow you to use custom dimensions for notation videos.
- Fixed: Graphical glitches when entering chords if using PG Chords font.
- Fixed: If a track is assigned to a MIDI output port, notes should not be sent to any plugins.
- Fixed: Filter is retained when reopening the Hi-Q Patch selector dialog.
- Fixed: Utility tracks could not be exported to XML.
- Fixed: Hanging notes when stopping song (eg =BOMB.STY).
- Fixed: [Panic] button might not turn off some notes.
- Fixed: Favourites are not showing in the RealDrums picker.
- Fixed: "No Preset wanted" should appear at the top of the Hi-Q picker list.
- Fixed: Re-saving a song file with a different name would not save the user audio tracks if the original format was compressed (eg m4a, mp3).
- Fixed: Mixer might not update properly after loading some songs.
- Fixed: Possible issues with recording on slower hard drives.
- Fixed: The audio import dialog would not appear after previously importing audio.
- Fixed: Dragging an automation node should move all the selected nodes.
- Fixed: "Rosetta mode" will be displayed in About dialog if running on an ARM machine (eg M1 processor).
- Fixed: Shift+mouse-wheel will scroll the track position in the Audio Edit window.
- Fixed: Vocal synth was not working properly for English.
Band-in-a-Box for Mac
$129.00
In English
Version 2022.0.605
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Dec 26 2019
Version: 2019.0.314
Хорошо, что ББ написан в 64 бита, поскольку моя macOS Catalina тридцатидвухбитные проги не принимает. Спасибо!
Aug 19 2015
Version: 2015.0.104
Band-in-a-Box for Mac costs $129.
Upgrade from the 2014 version is $49
Several paid PAKs are also available.
Only updates are free.
Aug 19 2015
Version: 2015.0.104
This update .104 has been out for months and so it's great that MacUpdate is up to date on informing me which makes me wonder why i have a paid MacUpdate updater when it is so out of wack. So it is obvious, as with some other MacUpdate announcements that their version checker robot is out of tune.
Which makes me wonder if i will " update " my MacUpdate account with $$$$$$$.
The other gripe about MacUpdate and all other software dealers is the negligent use of FREE.
This .104 update is FREE in the sense that it is an updater to a fully purchased ( paid version ) of BinaB Mac 2015 version. Therefore it is a useless download that can not be installed unless you have the fully paid version.
Which makes me wonder if i will " update " my MacUpdate account with $$$$$$$.
The other gripe about MacUpdate and all other software dealers is the negligent use of FREE.
This .104 update is FREE in the sense that it is an updater to a fully purchased ( paid version ) of BinaB Mac 2015 version. Therefore it is a useless download that can not be installed unless you have the fully paid version.
Jul 20 2015
Version: 2015.0.103
Mac version of Band-in-a-Box 2015.0 is absolutely fantastic.
I have been using/purchasing BinaB ever since it first came out more then 25 years ago and it keeps getting better with every version. BinaB is also offered/shipped fully installed on a USB drive AND there is also an Audiophile edition on a USB drive.
What i also love about BinaB's developer is the no nonsense copy-protection that some developers use such as Steinberg use ( dongle plus it calls home ).
I rate this programme as a ten because it allows you to be musically creative by the use or help of artificial music intelligence.