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Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features
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Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features
Band-in-a-Box puts a lot of musical talent in your hands, whether it’s the playing of top session musicians on
RealTracks and RealDrums or automatic features that encourage your own creativity.
There are features like the Melodist for generating all or part of an original song arrangement from scratch, you just
tell it what type of song you want. And if you like the song and want to keep it, it’s all yours.
The Soloist generates improvised solos in hundreds of styles in both MIDI and RealTracks formats. You might use
the Band-in-a-Box solos in your finished tracks, or to inspire your own improvisations, or even as exciting (and
often challenging) sight reading and practice exercises.
Likewise, the Guitarist is able to create polished guitar chord solos in the styles of all-time guitar greats, plus it will
show any instrument part on the guitar fretboard.
When professionals interpret and perform a song, we expect something more than the standard published
arrangement. That’s because they bring their particular talent and musicianship to the song. Band-in-a-Box does
likewise with the Embellisher, which adds professional style to a recorded track, and the Reharmonist, which
brings an advanced knowledge of chords and progressions to your arrangements.
Use the built-in musicianship of Band-in-a-Box to make all of your music better.
Automatic Songs - “The Melodist”
Feel like composing a brand new song? With Band-in-a-Box you can compose a new song in the style of your
choice - complete with intro, chords, melody, arrangement and improvisations, all created by the program! Just pick
a “Melodist” and press [OK] - the program then automatically generates the intro, chords, melody, and arrangement
in the chosen style. It even auto-generates a title for you, to complete your song!
Launching the Melodist
To launch the Melodist, press the [Melodist] button on the main screen, or use the Shift+F5
hot key top open the Generate Chords and/or Melody dialog. Let's explore the dialog screen.