Band-in-a-Box 10 for Windows Adds 50 New Features
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December 6, 2000PG Music Inc. has released Version 10 of
its popular Band-in-a-Box intelligent music software for Windows with
over 50 new features including guitar tutoring, chord wizards, ear
training, digital audio production, and "Internet friendly" audio and
notation file options.
Guitarists will love Band-in-a-Box Version 10. The new Guitar Styles play
with realistic, accurate guitar strumming, picking and fingering. There's
even a "walking" Basie Big Band jazz guitar style. These are the best
sounding guitar styles ever! The Guitar Tutor analyzes any Band-in-a-Box
song, accurately displaying real guitar chords on the virtual guitar
fretboard in Pop, Jazz, Country, or Folk guitar chording styles. Guitar
Chord Soloing features new "shell" voicing and "close" voicing types, and
6-Channel Guitar Files play each string on a separate MIDI channel for
precise bends and slides.
More than ever, Band-in-a-Box is an invaluable music resource and utility.
Version 10 adds a whole new Ear Training program with both interval and
chord recognition exercises. A new Chord Builder feature permits users to
select, build and preview any popular chord before adding it to their song.
The Chord Substitution Wizard suggests all the possible chord alternatives
for any chord progression, plus notes on how the progressions are best
used.
Digital audio enhancements provide one-stop song production from concept to
finished CD. The new Audio Edit Window uses simple cut and paste commands,
the popular DirectX Audio plug-ins are supported, and the automated CD
Burner writes finished songs to audio CDs in a CDR or CDRW drive.
Band-in-a-Box 10 is "Internet friendly", with direct conversion of audio
wave files to Microsoft Windows Media Audio (WMA) files for great
streaming audio quality over the Internet. Notation can now be saved in
all popular Internet formats (JPG, TIF, BMP, etc.) using the new option to
save as graphics files.
Many of the more than 50 new features in Band-in-a-Box 10 for Windows came
from the users' Wish List.
- Harmony Enhancements - passing harmonies (chromatic, diatonic and
dominant 7), "Live Harmonies", harmonize right-hand notes harmonized
according to the left-hand chord.
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Printing Enhancements - Print Preview; Print Chords Only Leadsheet
- Notation Enhancements - note sounds when dragged; on-screen zoom button
for font size; copying and pasting of the melody notation with simple mouse
highlighting procedures.
- StyleMaker Enhancements - for creating new authentic guitar styles;
importing of instruments; trimming of patterns.
For more information, visit their web site at www.pgmusic.com. |
