BAND IN A BOX 2017 SOFTWARE
Gannon said, "We started out with Band-in-a-Box as a MIDI program, generating MIDI and synth accompaniments." In late 1997, the "soloist" feature was introduced, allowing the software to generate solos choosing from a menu that includes emulations of jazz luminaries, past and present e.g., Miles Davis or Freddie Hubbard in what reviewer Peter Hum calls "credible imitations". It also became popular in karaoke venues which touted "Band in a Box Karaoke" in advertisements. Widely known as "BIAB" by its users, the software was initially used as a practice aid for musicians but quickly became popular for "one-man bands" to play at weddings or similar venues. The software intelligently retrieves and customizes groups of measures that are appropriate for soloing over a particular chord at a selected key and tempo. The developers have enlisted the help of a number of skilled artists as soloists and sidemen to build huge databases of phrases in many styles of music. Later editions included recordings (called "RealTracks") of real musicians playing real instruments in the user-specified style, key and tempo, a breakthrough in the quality of the music. Early versions of the software featured only MIDI data often emulating the phrasing of noted musicians. Peter Gannon, for whom "PG Music" is named.
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The creator of the software is a Canadian, Dr. īand-in-a-Box was first introduced in 1990 for PC computers and the Atari ST. The software is published in ten different languages.
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The software can create backgrounds for almost any chord progressions used in Western popular music, and can play them in any of thousands of different music styles. The user types in a series of chords, even complex ones, and the software generates a song, typically played by four or five musical instruments. The screen resembles a blank page of music. The software allows the user to create songs by simple keyboard inputs: a musical style, a tempo and a key. Band-in-a-Box is a music accompaniment software package for Windows and macOS produced by PG Music Incorporated in Victoria, British Columbia.