Band-in-a-Box 2004 Power Pak

This special Power Pak not only includes the incredible Band-in-a-Box, but bundles the acclaimed Power Tracks recording, mixing, and sequencing environment.

Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program for your multimedia computer that makes it easy to get started making music. Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7 or C13b9), choose the style you'd like, and it will do the rest by automatically generating a complete professional quality arrangement. You can choose from piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings in a wide variety of popular styles (jazz, pop, country, classical and more).

Band-in-a-Box contains many features such as Notation, Lyrics, The Soloist, The Melodist, Melody Tracks, Harmonization, and a programmable StyleMaker.

Band-in-a-Box can also record an acoustic instrument or voice to add to the composition, with processing through DirectX audio effects. The inclusion of digital audio features makes Band-in-a-Box the perfect tool for creating, playing, and recording your music with MIDI, vocals, and acoustic instruments.

Once your composition is complete, Band-in-a-Box has tools that will help you print notation, save it as a graphic file for web publication, e-mail to a friend, burn it directly to an audio CD, or save your composition as an internet ready Windows Media File or other compressed format.

Power Tracks

Powerful MIDI and audio features make it fun and easy to make music. The Tracks window gives you an overview in audio waveform or MIDI for direct, convenient access to each track with easy recognition icons for each instrument. All track settings are easily accessed, including the effects and softsynths.

Melody Pitch Tracking is useful for pitch correction, changing audio notes, or for automatic double tracking. The world class TC-Helicon Audio Harmonies support to harmonize a solo voice or audio instrument

Recording features include a visible count-in, enhanced punch-in features, and fail safes to eliminate lost recordings or accidental overdubs. The Always Record Audio feature gives you the option to keep a punch-in take as audio or MIDI.

You can load any MIDI file and instantly see chord changes and render MIDI to audio in seconds with DXi support. With built-in MIDI notation, the on-screen keyboard, drum window and fretboard it is so easy to learn all the parts to any MIDI file. The guitar fretboard now displays additional instruments including bass, mandolin, ukulele, and banjo.

After you're done playing, recording, arranging and sequencing, you can burn a CD of your project from within Power Tracks.