Et Cetera are now shipping Band-in-a-Box for Mac OS X. The award-winning Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7 or C13b9), choose the style you'd like, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest.

Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a complete professional quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar and strings in a wide variety of popular styles. (Jazz, Pop, Country, Classical and more.)

Band-in-a-Box is a powerful and creative music composition tool for exploring and developing musical ideas with near-instantaneous feedback. Over the years many features have been added to Band-in-a-Box - Notation, Lyrics, Melody Tracks, Harmonization, and a programmable StyleMaker. The Soloist and the Melodist are two major "intelligent" features; the Soloist generates professional quality solos over any chord progression, the Melodist can create songs from scratch with Chords, Melodies, Intros, Solos, and even a Title!

This exciting new version of Band-in-a-Box for Mac runs "Native" in OS X Jaguar or Panther (version 10.2 or higher recommended) and includes many new and enhanced features. Band-in-a-Box version 12 is fully Mac OS X carbonized. We have a huge number of new and improved Styles, Soloist, Harmonies, and Song Demos, making your Band-in-a-Box program sound better than ever! Program operations are much faster, including up to 3 times faster notation redraws, song, and soloing generation. Playback timing is improved and rock-solid with Mac OS X. You can export your Band-in-a-Box files and import them into Apple's GarageBand program for further processing. And we include a great QuickTime video tutorial, showing you all the newest features in version 12!

The styles have been greatly enhanced - we've edited the existing styles, and made many more styles using the newest features. This automatically makes your existing songs sound better! New Soloists, Melodists and Harmonies are now included, making this the best-sounding Band-in-a-Box ever!

The user interface has been enhanced with improved menus, and other enhancements, giving Band-in-a-Box a much better look in the OS X environment. Improved OS X 128X128 "high resolution" program and file icons are also included with this upgrade to enhance the user experience. Timing has been improved to microsecond accuracy for tighter playback.

MIDI support for Band-in-a-Box 12 for Macintosh now includes CoreMIDI
(for support of external MIDI devices) as well as improved support for QuickTime Music synthesizers, making it work and sound much better in OS X. Additional MIDI driver enhancements allow users with controller keyboards such as the M-Audio Oxygen 8, or the Edirol PCR-1 to play thru the QuickTime Music synthesizer from their MIDI keyboard.

Prices:

• Band-in-a-Box £77 inc VAT
• Band-in-a-Box MegaPak £199 inc VAT
  The MegaPAK contains “the works” – version 12 and ALL Styles Sets (0-29, 31-32),
  ALL Soloist Sets (1-9), Melodist Sets (1, 2), The MIDI Fakebook, and
  PowerGuide Instructional CD-ROM.
• Upgrades start at £34.99
• Academic prices for 5+ licenses are available

Full details of Band-in-a-Box and all our products can be found on our Web site www.etcetera.co.uk

Band-in-a-Box

Band-in-a-Box

Et Cetera's product portfolio includes Aardvark pro audio interfaces for PC's, ADS Tech RedRover USB Audio Remote and Adobe Audition, Cakewalk Music Software sequencing and multitrack hard disk recording software, E-MU PC audio systems and samplers, Hercules pro audio interfaces, IMAGE Line FL Studio software, MakeMusic! (formerly Coda) notation software, Marian pro audio cards, PG Music award winning Band-in-a-Box and educational software, SM Pro Quality Mic Pre amps and other audio accessories, Soundtrek auto composition software, ST Audio (Hoontech) pro audio interfaces, Tascam (GigaStudio) professional software samplers and Yamaha professional music and sound cards et cetera.