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PG Music Band in a Box 12 MegaPak for Mac OS X

The 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 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.)
What is Band-in-a-Box? 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 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, Lyrics, Melody Tracks, Harmonization, and a programmable StyleMaker. The Soloist and the Melodist are two major "intelligent" features; the Soloist generates professional quality solos over any chord progression, the Melodist can create songs from scratch with Chords, Melodies, Intros, Solos, and even a Title!

The MegaPAK contains “the works” – Band-in-a-Box 12 and ALL Styles Sets (0-43), ALL Soloist Sets (1-11), Melodist Sets (1-3), The MIDI Fakebook, the Video Tutorial PAK CD-ROM and the Bonus 9PAK.

REVIEW:

Truly Awesome! - Electronic Musician Magazine
"The wealth of amenities that Band-in-a-Box offers is staggering, and the company aggressively adds updates and new styles."

New Features in Band-in-a-Box Version 12 for Macintosh OS X:

All New 32-bit PPC Program Engine.
Odd-Time Signature Support.
Maximum Number of Soloists increased to 1,024 (from 256), and new Soloists added.
"Count-in" can be Drum Patterns instead of "1-2-1234."
Harmony - Low Root Feature.
Transform 4/4 Melody to a Waltz 3/4 ("Strauss-in-a-Box").
Transform "Waltz" Melody to 4/4 ("De-Strauss" the Melody).
Bass player plays better "5ths" over some Jazz chords.
Load Previous Style, Load Next Style.
"Chase Volumes" added for playback.
Option to hear the drum count-in even if the drums are muted or disabled.
StylePicker Enhancements.
Mono/Stereo menu options.
Video and Audio Memo support.
Soloist "Note-Density" option.

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