Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is there something like Band-in-a-Box?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is there something like Band-in-a-Box?
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 18:27:57 EET


>Hi everyone
>An open-source prod ala Band-in-the-Box sould be very good.

no doubt. but ...

>BBox plays lot of styles, not only jazz. And I think the way it works is quite
> like this (I'm not a programmer, but a musician ): on a chord loop, say for e
>xample Gm, the performance of a musician is recorded via midi, during 2-4 bars
>. BBox will replay this, translating the notes as the chords changes. I mean i
>f the new chord is G (without the b flat, but with a b) every b flat are chang
>ed to a b. If the chord changes to C , the b which is the third in G scale is
>translated into E which is the 3rd in C scale. And so on for the other notes.

if you think that's all that Band-in-a-Box does, then i have to
conclude that you haven't used the program in quite a long time, or
haven't used it to do very much.

its algorithms for generating accompaniments are way more
sophisticated than this description suggests.

--p


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