Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is there something like Band-in-a-Box?
From: CLOTILDE (guy.clotilde_AT_wanadoo.fr)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2001 - 06:24:01 EET
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:27:57 -0500
Paul Davis <pbd_AT_Op.Net> , an important person in this mailing-list, wrote:
> >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.
flamebait. My grand-mother 'd respond with a true smile: I will pray for you ;)
>
> its algorithms for generating accompaniments are way more
> sophisticated than this description suggests.
>
> --p
Doesn't anyone want to summarize the way bbox works in a few sentences?
Well, don't bother, I'm gonna take a look at autotrack.
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