Can you imagine a tool where you can simply type in your harmonies, define which well-known instrumentalist will play a particular part, and after choosing a style by simply pressing the “Generate” button you get your song baked and served to perfection? I don’t know when exactly they added those “Real tracks” integration, but with real instruments, professionally recorded in a big studio, and with even better musicians, renowned instrumentalists in their genre, this becomes a killer tool. But it looks as if things have dramatically changed over the decades. I bet that when you mention it to most people they have the same recollection. But with that corny pure MIDI sound emulation of real instruments it seemed to me more like a toy than a proper production tool. Some years ago I tried out an older version and I remember it as a fairly compelling and interesting program. It simply falls outside of our scope of interest. I have a great number of friends, professional musicians, and we can talk for hours about various musical tools, but we’ve never ever discussed Band in a Box. Band in a Box 2015 is a very powerful and highly impressive tool with a zillion options and additions, but I can’t think of anyone I know who actually owns it. Well, it turns out that he might have been right. That was actually the first thing he said to me when I announced that I’d be reviewing this software. Our proofreader, Dave, an old and faithful user of Band in a Box, told me that this is probably one of the most underrated music programs in the music industry. Band In a Box grew up and became very mature software, offering a whole new world of possibilities – and we all just missed the progress, thinking that it is still the old toy that we used to know.
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