Over the years I’ve used BIAB to create music beds for later adding both instrumental parts and vocals. If you haven’t tried BIAB, or only heard what it could do years ago, you may be surprised. If you have the chops, you can even create your own RealTracks (called UserTracks) and RealDrums. And these “session players” don’t just play fixed riffs, but will play according to the style, key and chord progression that you have specified. These are not just sample sounds, but musical passages, 1 to 8 bars long, played by session players from Nashville and elsewhere. Over the years they added more comprehensive musical styles, more arrangement rules and moved beyond generating only MIDI data when audio was added with RealDrums in 2007, and instrument performances with RealTracks in 2008. I first used BIAB in 1990 when it was bundled with a sound card I bought (no idea which one that was!), and while it was fascinating, it could generate only very simple, “jingly” tunes similar to what a toy Casio keyboard demo sounded like. And with the newest 2019 version, even more than seven musicians can play at once. and a powerful and creative music composition tool for exploring and developing musical ideas with near-instantaneous feedback.” BIAB can complete an arrangement in seconds based on a musical style and key signature, or a chord progression you have specified, then play it with a ‘band’ of up to seven musicians who “live” in your computer. It is easy to use its basic features, but there is tremendous depth, many functions and dozens of educational and practice tools that can keep you busy for at least months, and likely years.Īccording to PG Music, the creators of BIAB, “Band In A Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program. Band-in-a-Box includes thousands of styles, songs and sounds and can supply everything from inspiration to background accompaniments to complete musical productions.īIAB is not a digital audio workstation, but like most DAWs it is a very complex program.
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