More additions for your Band-in-a-Box music-making software.
If you relish your Band-in-a-Box MegaPAK, you'll love the UltraPAK. Not only does this money-saving upgrade for Mac owners get you the latest software version of Band-in-a-Box, 2007.5, but you also get the remaining Soloists sets, and 12 additional add-ons - 101 Essential Phrases & Riffs, 50 Country Guitar Solos, Duets, 200 Folk Songs, 50 Novelty Piano Riffs, Classic MIDI FakeBooks 1-3, Bluegrass MIDI Fakebook, CopyMe, Master Swingin' Jazz, Master Blues Piano Solos, Master Jazz Guitar Solos Vol. 1-4, and Master Flatpick Guitar Solos - giving you the most complete Band-in-a-Box package possible.
How has Band-in-a-Box 2007.5 improved on previous versions?
One of the bigger updates is a major overhaul to RealDrums, which replaces the MIDI drum track with actual recordings of quality studio Jazz/Rock/Country drummers. More than samples, they are full recordings from 1 to 8 bars which perfectly sync with other Band-in-a-Box tracks, giving your song ideas a more realistic feel. They will instinctively adjust to changes in tempo/volume and you can even add third party WAV files or create styles that control fills/post-fills/pattern lengths/substyles, etc.
Other enhanced features include MP3/WVA/WMA generation; Audio Chord Wizard which can analyze an audio file and figure out the chords for you; "Reharmonist", which generates chord progressions in the genre you choose for all or part of a song; auto-memo generation; a melody influenced soloist that allows you to choose how much the melody will influence the pitch, rhythm, note density and more of the solo; and a Soundtrack Generator for producing original music that you can tweak to fit any style of film or video. You also get support for TranzPort a wireless remote control that works up to 30 feet away so you can work on a piano while cueing up your "virtual bandmates". Improvements have been made to the notation, audio dialog, practice, and chord functions, as well as better DXi features. There's just loads of fun to be discovered with Band-in-a-Box 2007.5.
Inside the Video Tutorial PAK
Oliver Gannon's Songwriting with Band-in-a-Box Oliver Gannon's Secrets of the Stylemaker The Simplifying Chord Progressions tutorial A New Features Video outlining the newest features of the latest release The Soloist & Melodist Tutorials for the power users and the popular Practicing with Band-in-a-Box, great video instruction for effectively using Band-in-a-Box for soloist, improvisation, and accompaniment skills.