![]() Oliver Gannon retired from PG Music in 2008. Their father, Joe Gannon, was a professional pianist in Dublin, Ireland, before moving the family to Winnipeg in 1957. Those lines were likely due to the company's musical director for many years, Vancouver Jazz guitarist Oliver Gannon, the older brother of company founder Peter Gannon. Jazz guitarist Geof Dresser, whose day job is a network software developer said,' It's playing hipper lines than I can'. Gannon said, 'We started out with Band-in-a-Box as a MIDI program, generating MIDI and synth accompaniments.' In late 1997, the 'soloist' feature was introduced, allowing the software to generate solos choosing from a menu that includes emulations of jazz luminaries, past and present e.g., Miles Davis or Freddie Hubbard in what reviewer Peter Hum calls 'credible imitations'. It also became popular in karaoke venues which touted 'Band in a Box Karaoke' in advertisements. ![]() Widely known as 'BIAB' by its users, the software was initially used as a practice aid for musicians but quickly became popular for 'one-man bands' to play at weddings or similar venues to keep costs down. The software intelligently retrieves and customizes groups of measures that are appropriate for soloing over a particular chord at a selected key and tempo. The developers have enlisted the help of a number of skilled artists as soloists and sidemen to build huge databases of phrases in many styles of music. Later editions included recordings (called 'RealTracks') of real musicians playing real instruments in the user-specified style, key and tempo, a breakthrough in the quality of the music. Early versions of the software featured only MIDI data often emulating the phrasing of noted musicians. Peter Gannon, for whom 'PG Music' is named. The creator of the software is a Canadian, Dr. īand-in-a-Box was first introduced in 1990 for PC computers and the Atari ST. The software can create backgrounds for almost any chord progressions used in Westernpopular music, and can play them in any of thousands of different music styles. The user types in chords, even complex ones, and the software generates a song, typically played by four or five musical instruments. The screen resembles a blank page of music. The software allows the user to create songs by simple keyboard inputs: a musical style, a tempo and a key. New RealTracks for Band-in-a-Box ® 2023 222 new RealTracks for Band-in-a-Box ® 2023 with great new Pop, Rock, Jazz, Blues, Funk, Country, Americana, Celtic, and World styles.Band-in-a-Box is a music accompaniment software package for Windows and macOS produced by PG Music Incorporated in Victoria, British Columbia. The Band-in-a-Box ® 2023 DAW Plugin offers over 40 exciting new features and enhancements, including Drum Stems (separate tracks from the different microphones used during the actual recording sessions), 4 color schemes to choose from, enhanced chord settings, improved undo/redo operation, "Rebuild StylePicker" notification whenever rebuild is required, EZ RealTracks/RealDrums Folder Locations dialog, and more! ![]() RealDrums Fills control, Enhancements for StylePicker - Preview, Prototypes and Rebuild, and much more! Help for "Style not Found" providing info and lists of substitutes. ![]() EZ Selection of your RealTracks/RealDrums Folders. Audio Input monitoring to hear your Audio Input (e.g., electric guitar with effects) through to Audio Out. SynthMaster ® Player synth included, with modern/techno Master Track Volume Automation for fadeouts, crescendos etc. There are now RealTracks Stems, separate isolated tracks available for multi-track RealTracks like Horns (e.g., Crooner, Blues), Vocals, and String Quartets. Playable RealTracks ( 404 new Sforzando sounds, 700 total - all with Audio Demos), and now include Playable RealDrums, MIDI SuperTracks and MIDI tracks. You can now copy, cut, paste, delete, insert, and do other editing functions to the RealTracks/RealDrums tracks, while preserving the ability for the tracks to re-generate new material. Undo - Track Generation and Undo - Song Generation is added. There are Partial Track Re-Generations, with an on-screen Regeneration Panel and an Always Different setting to get up to 40 variations on any RealTracks.
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