Band-In-A-Box 12

by PG Music Inc.

Product Features

• Write your own guitar solos on the Computer fretboard
• Use chord progressions in four styles - Pop, Jazz, Country, or Folk
• Live Harmonies lets you hear the harmony as it goes with the chord progression
• Digital Audio Recording lets you hear your new creation
• Use the built-in sequencer to record your melodies

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008NJEN
• Item model number: BB00455
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 20, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,535 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #12 in Software > Video & Music > Software > MIDI
  • #33 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Music Creation & Sequencing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

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. It’s your on-call band, ready to make music whenever you are.

The award winning Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords to 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. Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a complete professional quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar and strings in a wide variety of popular styles – Jazz, Pop, Country, Classical, and more.

With Band-in-a-Box, you can input a typical song in just two minutes. You’ll quickly build up a large library of your favorite songs!

And that’s not all... Band-in-a-Box is a powerful and creative music composition tool. The program lends itself to experimentation, exploration, and rapid development of 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 can generate professional quality solos over any chord progression. The Melodist can create songs from scratch with Chords, Melodies, Intros, Solos, melodic Embellishments, and even an original Song Title! There’s an amazing Chord Wizard that will interpret the chords in any MIDI file to create a new Band-in-a-Box arrangement of the song.

You’ll have hours of fun listening to songs and playing along with Band-in-a-Box for both practice and pleasure.

Product Description

Award-winning 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 a style you'd like, and Band-In-A-Box does the rest. Band-in-a-box automatically generates a complete professional quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar and strings in a wide variety of popular styles (jazz, pop, country, classical and more). With Band-in-a-Box, you can input a typical song in just two minutes. You'll quickly build up a large library of your favorite songs! No external sound source or MIDI System required. Band-in-a-Box plays through your internal Sound Card (SoundBlaster, compatibles, QuickTime¿, external MIDI modules, etc.).

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Max version does not equal the windows version., December 29, 2008

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Rick (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Band-In-A-Box 12 (CD-ROM)

I bought Band-in-a-Bpx 12 for Mac. It came with several video tutorials. On disk one, "learning a tune," there is a feature called "Step movement" in which you can control the playing of chords or notes one step at a time. It is the best way to learn and listen to chord progressions or a tune. I could never get it to work on my Max, so I called the tech support and found out that the Mac version does not come with this feature. Only the windows version has it. Well, I think they should let you know you are not getting every thing they say on their ad. I wonder what else is missing that they're not telling me? Other than that, every things works well.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wha...?, February 11, 2008

By 

Robert M. Smith "djangoman" (Dalton, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Band-In-A-Box 12 (CD-ROM)

This is stated to be a Mac version in the title, in the platform requirements, and in the product description! Four times in all. I can't believe three computer literate people gave such an excellent software program a poor rating because THEY failed to read the description.
I have used Band In A Box since it first came out and is perfect for what it does!

0 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I did the same thing but oppistie, July 29, 2007

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johnnyk "The Dude" (Hawaii) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Band-In-A-Box 12 (CD-ROM)

Hey guys with the mac version,

I did the same thing as you but I am a mac user and accidentally ordered the windows version. When I realized it was to late to return it. Now I'm stuck with a program I can't use. If either of you still have your mac version maybe we can exchange. Let me know. Just post another comment and we can go from there.