rayton@ozemail.com.au (Raymond Jones) wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Jul 1997 20:36:34 GMT, 102334.12@compuserve.com (Mark
>Johnson) wrote:
>
>>Winjammer is an actual sequencer, for creating or massaging MIDI
>>files. 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.
>>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.
>
>As a new user of midi software, especially one who is not a muso, I
>have found Band In A Box is an excellent program to start with. I also
>have Midisoft studio and found it a little daunting to compose from
>scratch with just blank staves. I use BIAB to input the basic guitar
>chords from sheet music and generate the rhythm etc in an appropriate
>style. Then save it as a midi file and open it in Studio so I can see
>each pat and how it is written. Then add the melody with the keyboard
>and modify or add the little extras to the other parts.
>
>I have found the percussion and rhythm sections of a midi file very
>hard to do with just the keyboard and BIAB can generate these for me.
>
>Just my 5cents worth.

No arg really. I did say there's a role for kareoke machines like
that. Auntie's gotta play something. But, seriously, I don't recall
seeing here requests for BB songs, since perhaps, and I guess, they
just sound too canned, as I suggested. But I don't disparage them for
their intended use. I wonder, too, if you would want to post a few of
your MIDIs to demonstrate at least what BB can really do?

Peace.