Spent 3 days trying to learn from some other guy's video without success. You got me going in less than 11 minutes. Thumbs up! (And middle finger up for the other guy).
Excellent beginner's overview, thank you! Another simple feature worth mentioning: BiaB also enables the user to transpose the song's key (as one would expect!).
I started using BIAB in the late 1980s on a Mac SE. in those days it was MIDI only. No RealTracks. It was still amazing. If you’re trying to cover a song, all you need to do is find it or generate it with Chordify and type it in to BIAB. The most difficult part is choosing which style to use.
Sounds great. What are you running your guitar through? What gear? I just got the BIAB Mac version that has the DAW plugin. Looking forward to exploring this. Thanks for a really easy to follow tutorial.
Hi- thanks for the comment. I think my guitar was going through logic on my Mac using the built-in amp simulation. I Use a focusrite scarlet audio interface to plug my guitar into my computer.
Thanks for the video! Which Band In a Box level and year do you have? Did you purchase any add on packages? Can songs be set up with 3/4, 3/8, 5/8, 6/8, etc. with the base package?
I believe so! I’m not an expert on all the features so it might be a good idea to email them at their website. I have the ultrapak and you can set various time signatures.
Lol...C maj9#11 Have fun with that. I was unaware of those crazy chords until a few years ago. I started playing guitar when I was kid and it was all about simple 3 chord and maybe an off chord.
Also, many thanks for sharing your knowhow, Nick! May I ask you for a solution of my problem with notating lines in BIAB? For example, writing the bassline in the classical jazzsong "Cantaloupe Island". I already know how to use "Not´n" in BIAB. But how to copy & paste one written (bass-) bar to the next, following bars? Then transpose in case of Db7? Same to the great pianovamp of Hancock! Thankful for any advice, regards from Europe, Austria, Guenther!
Thank you ! I am not really very knowledgeable in that area - I am certainly no expert on the product but just a user like yourself. Perhaps you could contact support on the band in a box website. Hope you find the answer you are searching for. Best wishes! Nick
How do you play the guitar with the backing track or save it for a song? Please show the details on how to connect your guitar to a system and save it for later?
I was going into Logic (a separate program) and using their amp simulation plugin within that. Band in a box is for the creation of the backing track only in this case. I’m not sure if band in a box contains any feature for recording (it may but I am not an expert, I’m just a user that made this video for fun)
Do you have a video where you import a song you've written & composed & then add extra instruments to it using BIAB? I can't find clear instructions for this anywhere.
Hi Donna, no I just made this video for fun. I would actually do the opposite. I would drag the band in the box exported individual audio files into my recording software project, then you can pick and choose which instrument you want, and then mix the whole thing.
Yes, I don’t work for the company so I have no reason to try and sell it to you, but all youve got to do is type in the chord and select the style and then hit play
I’m using the ultrapak - I have no vested interested in selling any of them as I don’t work for the company -I only have experience with the ultrapak and I find it to be great. I don’t really know much about the other versions.
@@nickkellie Just to clarify you mean I could drag the tracks onto protools or logic and then mix them separately on protools? Can you adjust effects on on the individual tracks before they are put on a DAW?
I don’t recall them having effects on to begin with. Just to clarify i don’t work for pg music and am not paid by them so I don’t really know every detail. I just made this video for fun. But yes you can export each instrument as its own stem and mix and add effects to taste. Sometimes I just export bass and drums for example and add my own guitar
@@GreatSongs I know this response is quite a while after your post, but band in a box has reverb as I think it’s only effect. It’s a good idea to turn the reverb off before dragging the parts over to your DAW. That way you can add in whatever reverb you want in ProTools. If you don’t, it will print the WAV file in ProTools with the reverb that you then can’t get rid of.
Not exactly sure what you mean but it will play any chord progression you input with the live instruments. I don’t work for the company so you might want to email band in a box to be certain.
