When I started to play with this I found I was able to hone in on a final rrangement/performance, all in BIAB, much faster that the approach I’ve used for years, exporting files to a DAW, regenerating tracks multiple times and exporting each variation to the DAW to be assembled there. And even more useful, you can do this for any portion of the song, from a few notes to multiple measures. This is a more precise way of selecting a section of a song to work on than using the main Chord Sheet.īut the most useful function for me is that you can Re-Generate audio on a Utility track on its own, using any style and any RealTracks instrument performance. A very useful feature is that you can place a time mark (a vertical line) anywhere in the Audio Edit window and pressing your keyboard space bar will start to play there, pressing it again will stop play and return to the time marker, which I found very helpful for “micro-editing” audio. There are other functions for Utility tracks accessed by an Edit command in the Audio Edit window: you can change levels and fade audio in or out, you can create harmonies from any track with audio and spread them to several Utility tracks, and there is an “auto-tune” function that can fix out of tune notes even in polyphonic audio (this also works on the legacy Audio track).
And when you cut/copy an audio region and paste it elsewhere, the beginning and ending of the regions cross-fade to make a smooth transition which I found to work very well.
You can copy, cut and paste any time section from one Utility track to another or to a different location in the same track. With audio, once a Utility track has a part loaded, you can edit the track in various ways – while not as extensively as with a DAW, still very usefully. So in addition to the legacy single audio track (still there for compatibility with old projects), you now have 16 additional, very flexible tracks. You can also record directly to a Utility track or load an external file (MIDI or audio) to them. Utility tracks do not generate a new version when the main Re-Generate button is pressed, so they can preserve any data stored on them. This is handy if you have a track part you like and want to keep, but want to experiment with variations. There are still the basic Bass, Drums, Piano, Guitar, Strings, Melody, Soloist and Audio tracks (although not necessarily named as such or needing to play those instruments) and they can still load previous projects and generate parts as BIAB has done for decades, but now in addition to these there are 16 Utility tracks with some extremely useful functions.Īt the simplest, you can copy any track to a Utility track, either MIDI or audio or both at the same time if they are RealTracks with RealCharts. In order to maintain backwards compatibility with projects from earlier years (many BIAB users have hundreds if not thousands of these, many “in progress”) they have not changed the basic layout of the primary “intelligent” tracks, tracks that can compose and arrange parts based on a selected musical style and chord progression. And the way they implemented this is much different than I had envisioned. However, 2021 brings one feature I’ve been wanting to see for decades, the ability to “re-generate” a section of a song, from just a fraction of a bar to as many bars as you want. And as always they have added new sound and performance content.
#BAND IN A BOX YOUTUBE MANUAL#
BIAB 2021 is a very complex program with many new features and functions making it even more complex than ever, but the user manual continues to improve helping both new and experienced users to navigate all the features.
#BAND IN A BOX YOUTUBE WINDOWS#
As each year for decades, PG Music have updated the Windows version of Band-in-a-Box for the new year, usually releasing it in the fall of the preceding year.
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