Band In A Box - Review and Intro 

Thanks so much, glad you liked the review! BIAB is awesome, but I found it a bit confusing at first, so thought a video like this could help others. Thanks again and have fun songwriting! Feel free to subscribe :)

Thanks a bunch glad you enjoyed the review! I do hope to do more BIAB videos - just need to find the time in between keyboard reviews :D. I’ve got a new keyboard with some impressive arranger features so I’m hoping to make a backing track using that, and compare it to one I make in BIAB and IReal Pro to compare them all. Thanks for the sub!

@@PianoTone One thing I meant to point out is that the strings on any song sounds a lot better if it is added after the fact in your DAW instead of doing them in BIAB. Another good reason why I like to send my BIAB creations into my DAW. You'll get a much more realistic sound. No problem about the sub... I've actually been binge watching since discovering your channel.

Make sure you check out IReal pro as well; not as realistic but much less $ and easier to use. I have a review on that as well.

Thanks so much glad you found the video useful! And thanks for checking out the channel, feel free to subscribe

Glad you found it useful!

Thanks so much glad you enjoyed the review! I hope to do some videos like that just need to find the time lol - I often take on too much at a time, right now working on keyboard reviews. But I will try to do some BB ones at some stage! Thanks again for checking out the channel and thanks for subscribing!

Thanks so much Francois! Yes I probably OCCASIONALLY spend a bit too much time on backing tracks ;) I think it comes from missing the group dynamic from my old band days. If you don't want to spend too much time on them but would really like one for a song then Jamzone is a good choice - you just buy the song for $3-4 and you're playing.

@@PianoTone thanks for your tips! In any case, it's interesting to know that it's possible to make backing tracks like that 😊

@@PianoTone Can you download from BIAB to a USB stick?

@@sherriheadaccordion Once you create your backing track in BIAB you can export it to a .WAV file (so you could copy that to a USB stick). You can also do this with iReal Pro (iReal Pro is a cheaper option, the quality of BIAB tracks is better though). I reviewed iReal Pro here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hXqKNKEaFCo.html

Thanks so much glad you enjoyed the review! BIAB has different package options on their site (more style choices for more $). They don’t have specific original song styles or complete predone original songs; they will just suggest styles for popular songs based on tempo etc and then you have to make the backing track yourself. Hope that helps! Thanks again for visiting the channel, feel free to subscribe

I’ve never actually used the included daw but I THINK you can add tracks etc like normal. But again; never used it. Thanks for checking out the channel feel free to subscribe

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed the review! And yes BIAB has a lot to digest but it is a great product. Thanks for checking out the channel feel free to subscribe

I suppose I could have, probably didn't occur to me lol. Thanks for checking out the channel, feel free to subscribe

Hi there! Totally understand your thoughts on BIAB; it’s an amazing program with so many features but it really can be challenging (and time consuming) to use. I’ve made a few tracks with it, but similar to your experience started looking towards things like Jamzone and more recently Karaoke Version (interesting to hear your comments on that one) so that I could spend more time practicing and less on making tracks. Jamzone is a fabulous product, only with a couple issues. Like you, I’m not sure about the subscription model - it would work well for some people, but for me (I might go a couple months not learning a new song) not sure that model makes sense. Other thing with Jamzone is the only “click track” option they have is a metronome sound; they could really benefit from a hi-hat. For example, a piano ballad that starts with singing and piano only and other instruments come in later, if I’m singing and playing piano, I have to turn on this nasty sounding click track to nicely time when the other instruments come in. As far as .mp3, there is no functionality for that now, but the “pro” subscription level not only includes rights to use their tracks in public but also a future .mp3 download feature. You can just play a track through on your device and record it to another app to accomplish that. I’m currently experimenting with manually creating backing tracks on an arranger keyboard - we’ll see how that goes (might be challenging with no punch in/punch out so have to record each instrument perfectly start to finish :) Anyhow hope that helps, thanks for checking out the channel feel free to subscribe

Hey there! To be honest I’ve only input chords with BIAB, but I THINK you can input notes as well - you should try googling that there are lots of forums out there with people that know way more than me about BIAB. Thanks for checking out the channel feel free to subscribe

Thanks so much!

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Sorry I didn't get into all of that (if I recall it was alot of work installing it in the first place), but I'm not a pc or IT expert so I'm not in a position to be very helpful with people to diagnose any of those issues (that's for the manufacturer to do). I was just concentrating on providing a basic overview of what the software can do and a quick intro to how it works.

Hope you can get it working!

@@PianoTone been trying ( very trying Indeed) since 2019.......I think i may have identified the issue now. Pg are,nt helpful once they have your cash. Sample rate pro lem, they sent answer about audio settings and even that's rather ambiguous to say the least. A straight Q dos,nt get you a straight answer......

@@PianoTone change tempo? Nah sorry pal ......lol