PG Music Band-in-a-Box UltraPAK (PC)

With the Band-in-a-Box UltraPAK (PC edition) you not only get the latest version, 2007.5, but all of the RealDrums, Soloist, Stylist, and Melodist Sets, 12 additional add-ons (MIDI fakebooks, piano riffs, and more), and the Video Tutorial PAK. What this means to you is that you'll have an ample amount of music making assistance on your PC for hours and hours of enjoyment. Band-in-a-Box Version 2007.5 Whether you're a working musician wanting a simplified way to flesh out new ideas, or an aspiring songwriter who wants an affordable way to create songs but can't afford the thousands of dollars worth of gear to record music the traditional way, Band-in-a-Box for PC computers is an affordable, fun-to-use MIDI music software solution. This award-winning series turns your computer into a ready-to-go back-up band. You choose the length of songs, the chords you want to use, placing them where you want, and then you can add your melodies, or choose ready-to-go, intuitive accompaniments from the plethora of styles found in the included Soloist, Melodist, and RealDrums Sets. One of the bigger updates in the 2007.5 version 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 in this music production software 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 the Band-in-a-box music software.Style, Soloist, Melodist Sets For those unfamiliar with the Band-in-the-Box, the Style, Soloist and Melodist Sets are add-on collections of pre-made sample material that can be used to generate accompaniment to your song. They cover just about every genre of music giving you even more inspiration. Say you choose a Pop style, the Soloist and Melodist features will create solos and melodies that are appropriate to that type of song for you