Accompaniment Software..

[muhairwejas]

Hi People,

Any body know where I can get some free Accompaniment Software downloads?

I' ve come accross Band In A Box, Jammer and Microphone modeler somewhere inthe threads and interested in acquiring them.

Any one have some info on them and how they work or how suitable they are?

Cheers,
James

 

[AlChuck]

Uh, none of those are free...

I use Band In A Box and I think it's a great tool for practicing and learning. With some tweaking sometimes some of the parts are suitable for more than that...

 

[teknomike]

I second Band in a Box - although I've never used any others, I'm happy with it. I also tweak it to create drum tracks.
I've got the old 16 bit version, too. Been using it since Windows 3.1.....only 2 floppies !

mike

 

[muhairwejas]

Thanx,
guys

 

[mikeh]

I use both Band in a Box & Jammer - BIAB is easier to use but Jammer can get some very cool grooves going in you learn how to use it.

Although both programs have the most value as a learning tool - since you can program almost any chord progression in any key in any style, they can also be very good writing tools.

I work with a song writer who useing a little Casio keyboard and BIAB to create songs. He puts the MIDI data on a disk and brings it to my studio. I transfer the MIDI tracks to Cakewalk and feed it to my modules (much better sounds than his Casio). I may add a guitar part or two into Cakewalk and then we record the vocals (useing hired singers). We do a mixdown, burn a CD and send it to our publisher.

Not only have we been published, useing BIAB, but we've actually placed a song in a film, with some of the actual BIAB parts still in place.

I often use BIAB or Jammer to prepare a basic song structure and then loop it while I work out guitar , keyboard or vocal parts. I then dump the MIDI parts into Cakewalk and us the MIDI parts as my "demo band". I may often replace all the parts (or maybe just some of the parts) - it is a great way to have a band around when you want to jam, write or record.