I then recorded some additional harmonies, finalised the mix in RealBand and exported to a WAV file. Anyway, eventually I managed to record a take of the lead vocal into RealBand and record a simultaneous video of me singing and playing. The challenge was to try and get everything started at the more or less the same time and not leave anything out!That took me a while to get right. I also have a very strong photographer's light mounted above my desk which makes me look years younger! Here are is a photograph of this setup. I used my iPhone to video record myself singing the song and I used my laptop and the USB mic to record the vocal into RealBand. This enabled me to look straight into the iPhone camera without having to first memorize all the chords and lyrics (which would have taken me a long time to get right and those who know me know I like to do things fast!)
I used a site called on my iPad to display the scrolling chords and lyrics. I used a very nifty set up of a USB micophone, my laptop, my iPad, my iPhone (and some tripods). Sounds complicated? It certainly is! Here's how I did it. I then went into Realband to record the vocals and harmonies and to record myself recording the vocals. I then finalised the tempo, key and structure of the song in Band-in-a-Box and saved it as a MGU. (By the way, some of the styles in these sets have only one or two videotracks in them). I found the BULDOGS style had all of their Realtracks available as videotracks so I decided to use that one. I then went into the Style Picker and auditioned all the styles within the sets 281 and 254. You will see that Realtracks sets 281 and 254 have some videotracks in them. The ones that say "VideoNA" need to be purchased separately. These are the videotracks that come standard with the 2018 Ultra Pak Click the "Set" column so that BIAB sorts the list of Realtracks by "set" and have a look for where it says "videofound". To find all the Realtracks with videotracks available, open up the Realtracks picker for one of the instruments. For this song I knew I wanted to use the videotracks feature. The process I am going to describe may not be the correct (or even the easiest) one but it is the process I used for this song and this video and I hope gives you some ideas on how you can use the videotracks for your own projects.įirstly, I made a backing track of the song using BIAB.
#Band in a box windows
You can record your vocal in Band-in-a-Box, you can choose to render multiple videotracks into one video file and you can even drag an external video file from windows explorer (for example if you have recorded a video file of you singing). However, this whole process can be done entirely in Band-in-a-Box itself. Note first, I used a combination of Band-in-a-Box, RealBand and NCH VideoPad to produce this song and this video. Here is an original song called "The Paradox of you" where I tried out this amazing new feature.įorum member Floyd Jane suggested I do a blog post on how I went about putting this together so here goes. PG Music has made available the videos of the original artists recording certain Realtracks and has invited us to use these in our own videos. One of the new features I could not wait to try out was the new "videotracks" feature.
Here is a link to the list of new features and Realtracks on offer. If you are serious about producing some great sounding music this year then it is a must.
I am wondering how many of you have upgraded to the 2018 version of Band-in-a-Box yet. Welcome back and I hope you have a wonderful musical 2018.
#Band in a box how to
If you want a detailed step-by-step guide on how to make and perform with Band-in-a-Box backing tracks, have a look at my eBook "Band-in-a-Box 101: A beginners guide to making and performing with Band-in-a-Box backing tracks"