jrveazey@inter.CUT_THIS..net.co (J. Richard Veazey) wrote:

>He may be referring to Band in a Box 7.0. I am not familiar with WinJammer
>but have owned BIAB since version 4.0 and am very pleased with it. The
>newest features include a melody track and a separate solo track.

Winjammer is an actual sequencer, for creating or massaging MIDI
files. BintheB is something of a kareoke player, along the lines of
the old Hammand home organs with their preset rhythms and bossa or
samba beats, but which can generate MIDI files. There may be some oft
requested MIDIs which were produced with BintheB, but offhand I can't
think of any. I think BintheB is probably appropriate for those times
when you just want to get some ideas about what MIDIs to make with a
sequencer, playing around with rhythms and solos, sort of getting
lulled into the repetition and predictably, just like auntie sitting
down at the Conn over the holidays to play a workmanlike version of
Hello Dolly, to something of polka beat. If BintheB fans think the
program is more in the line of Winjammer, Cakewalk or Cubase, I stand
corrected. But . . That is, if one just wants some light
entertainment, without a lot of heavy lifting as the saying now goes,
then I suppose a kareoke machine like this can be fun, even if it must
wear thin after a few days and weeks (as auntie would if she came by
for a rendition every day). But if one wants to produce MIDIs that
don't sound completely canned, I don't see how BintheB could do the
job.


Peace.