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#334021 - 12/02/11 01:59 PM Band in a Box 2012 anounced.
rikkisbears Offline
Senior Member

Registered: 12/22/02
Posts: 6020
Loc: NSW,Australia
Hi Guys,
apparently BIAB 2012 has just been released.

Just about to order mine. One wouldn't have thought features could get much better, but they have.

http://www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.new.htm#featurelist

Anyway, I'm going to be very busy downloading. haahaa
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Rikki 🧸

Korg PA5X 88 note
SX900
Band in a Box 2022

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#334025 - 12/02/11 02:39 PM Re: Band in a Box 2012 anounced. [Re: rikkisbears]
ianmcnll Offline
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Registered: 07/27/05
Posts: 10606
Loc: Cape Breton Island, Canada
That is one COOL program, Rikki.

I remember the very 1st version of BIAB; we had it installed in one of our computers way back when I was working in Newfoundland in late 80's/early 90's. Apparently the program was invented by a dentist who was also a musician/computer buff.

We thought it was pretty spiffy back then...it is unbelievable now.

My only wish would be "live" play arranger capability.

You will be having fun, fun, fun.

Ian
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#334026 - 12/02/11 03:03 PM Re: Band in a Box 2012 anounced. [Re: rikkisbears]
124 Offline
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Registered: 01/01/09
Posts: 2195
Sorry, Ian, couldn't resist. Newfie computer technology.

1. Log on - Make the wood stove hotter

2. Log off - Don't add no more wood

3. Monitor - Keep an eye on that wood stove

4. Download - Getting the firewood off the truck

5. Floppy disk - What you get from trying to carry too much firewood

6. Ram - The thing that splits the firewood

7. Hard Drive - Getting home in the winter

8. Prompt - What the mail ain't in the winter

9. Window - What to shut when it's cold outside

10. Screen - What to shut in black fly season

11. Byte - What the black flies do

12. Bit - What the black flies did

13. Mega Byte - What the BIG black flies do during trout season

14. Chip - Munchies for TV

15. Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you eat the chips

16. Modem - What you did to the weeds growing in the driveway

17. Dot matrix - Old Dan Matrix's wife

18. Lap top - Where the beer spills when you pass out

19. Software - The dumb plastic knives and forks they give you at McDonalds

20. Hardware - Real stainless steel cutlery

21. Mouse - What makes the holes in the Cheerios box

22. Main frame - What holds the house up, hopefully

23. Enter - The only way to win those magazine ad sweepstakes

24. Web - What a spider makes

25. Web site - High corners of the ceiling

26. Cursor - Someone who swears

27. Search Engine - What you do when the car dies

28. Screen Saver - repair kit for the torn window screen

29. Home Page - map you keep in your back pocket just in case you
get lost in the woods

30. Upgrade - Steep hill

31. Server - waitress

32. Mail Server - male waitress, damn few in Newfoundland

33. MS DOS - Some new disease they discovered

34. Sound Card - One of them technological birthday cards that plays
music when you open it

35. User - The neighbor who keeps borrowing stuff

36. Browser - A problem moose in the Garden or Blueberry Patch

37. Network - Mending holes in the gillnet

38. Internet - Complicated fish net repair method

39. Netscape - What haddock do when you don't do your network

40. Online - good sign there'll be clean clothes this week

41. Off line - the clothes pins let go and the laundry falls on the
ground--better luck next week

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#334027 - 12/02/11 03:06 PM Re: Band in a Box 2012 anounced. [Re: rikkisbears]
ianmcnll Offline
Senior Member

Registered: 07/27/05
Posts: 10606
Loc: Cape Breton Island, Canada
Ha ha...love it!

Seriously, it is an awesome place to live...I was there in St John's for roughly 10 years...musically saturated with genres of every kind from traditional Newfie to Jazz and modern Dance.

Weather is awful, but the class of people make up for it.

I look forward to every trip to "The Rock".

Ian
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#334034 - 12/02/11 07:24 PM Re: Band in a Box 2012 anounced. [Re: ianmcnll]
rikkisbears Offline
Senior Member

Registered: 12/22/02
Posts: 6020
Loc: NSW,Australia
Hi Ian,
yeh, I had it too when it first came out. On my Atari 1040 if I remember correctly. Unfortunately I doubt the realtime function will ever happen, but , who can predict. What is achievable now, couldn't have been imagined 20 years ago.

I'm just happy playing along to a song or mp3. The styles are so different to what's on my korg. Even though the korg does a great job on "guitar mode" styles, to me still doesn't sound as good as an audio track of a real guitar strumming away.

I think BIAB & my Korg compliment each other nicely. Great to hear from you again Ian.

Originally Posted By: ianmcnll
That is one COOL program, Rikki.

I remember the very 1st version of BIAB; we had it installed in one of our computers way back when I was working in Newfoundland in late 80's/early 90's. Apparently the program was invented by a dentist who was also a musician/computer buff.

We thought it was pretty spiffy back then...it is unbelievable now.

My only wish would be "live" play arranger capability.

You will be having fun, fun, fun.

Ian
_________________________
best wishes
Rikki 🧸

Korg PA5X 88 note
SX900
Band in a Box 2022

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#334037 - 12/02/11 10:29 PM Re: Band in a Box 2012 anounced. [Re: 124]
Nigel Offline
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Registered: 06/01/98
Posts: 6482
Loc: Ventura CA USA
Originally Posted By: 124
Sorry, Ian, couldn't resist. Newfie computer technology.


So funny ... that made me smile wink

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#334060 - 12/03/11 04:47 PM Re: Band in a Box 2012 anounced. [Re: 124]
rikkisbears Offline
Senior Member

Registered: 12/22/02
Posts: 6020
Loc: NSW,Australia
Hi 124

very clever indeed, haahaa

[quote=124]Sorry, Ian, couldn't resist. Newfie computer technology.
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best wishes
Rikki 🧸

Korg PA5X 88 note
SX900
Band in a Box 2022

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#334064 - 12/03/11 08:11 PM Re: Band in a Box 2012 anounced. [Re: rikkisbears]
124 Offline
Senior Member

Registered: 01/01/09
Posts: 2195
Hi Rikki,

Newfie jokes are big here in Canada. And, as Ian said, Newfies have great self-deprecating humour themselves, and shoulders broad enough to enjoy jokes about themselves. There's more than a few of them out west here. They're a fun bunch.

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