How to Get Started with Band in a Box
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2021
- In this video "Back to Basics" I explain the fastest way "in my opinion" to get started using Band in a Box. This is a tutorial for new uses and dives into the main interface, shows you what you need to get started, and how to enjoy your early days using the product (WHETHER YOU READ MUSIC OR NOT). It is long and if you're new you may want to take a break during the session but I want to show viewers every click of the mouse and menu so they can quickly and easily duplicate what they see on screen and get started. As you grow with the product please view some of my other videos which show enhanced features to help you get the most out of the product.
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I'm so excited I found your channel. I will be watching all your BIAB tutorials!
Yay! Thank you!
Well, even as a retired computer programmer and IT professional involved in almost all aspects of data and software support, I found BIAB kind of frustrating! Thanks Henry for just starting at zero and presenting in small chunks! I appreciate it!
HA. I'm a Retired IBM Executive who ran a division of IBM for Microsoft Consulting. Welcome to the club :-)
Hello Henry from Paisley, Scotland. Thanks for that clear and concise introduction - in my first few days with BIAB and this is enough to give me confidence to begin. Keep it up - will be looking to combine this with a DAW down the road but love how you say "Have Fun" - that's a key to learning for me
You rock Henry, so glad I found you.
Thanks so much for watching !!
Yours is the only BIAB tutorial truly intended for newbies like me. Thanks Henry!
Thank you for this! I was overwhelmed when I first opened BIB. You helped me make sense of it.
Thank you Henry! I used to be an avid user of BIAB but haven't in over 20 years. I'm older now and the memory isn't what it used to be, so your videos are a real blessing. Thank you so much for what you do, sir. Aloha!
Thank you for all you are doing. I especially liked this one about going back to basics, choosing a style and playing a demo. I was writing a song in minutes. Much faster than all the other songwriting methods I have experimented with.
I'm so glad this helped you out. I know that the interface can be a bit overwhelming at first. Just break it down and take it easy :-) Thanks again !!
Wow! I am just getting started, and the app screen is intimidating, so complex, as it needs to be with all of the options involved. But to get started now I can immediately boot it up and start using it.
Thank you, I subscribed!
Great stuff Henry, I will be watching the rest of your BIAB vids.
Great tutorial Henry! Do keep up the tutorials. They are always helpful and interesting. Thank you so much. Ihave tended to get overwhelmed with BIAB sometimes. Therefore your basic tutorial makes a lot of sense and I have learned something new today, with your guidence already!
Best regards :-)....Mike(in England) !
This is what I've been looking for. Thank you sir.
Hi Henry, I was a BB user back in the very early days WAY WAY before real tracks & such & have just returned to a completely new beast. Thank you for a down to earth re-introduction to one of my favourite music apps, I'll defiantly be supporting your channel from here on.
Thak Yuo.
Thanks for all the great tutorials, Henry. I'm basically just beginning but I think I've learned more from you than I have from the BIAB tutorials. I just wish you lived next door so I could pick your brain on a daily basis. And your own songs and covers are great too. You're a very good vocalist. Looking forward to learning more, especially about using a DAW in BIAB, as I've never used a DAW before. If I had my druthers, I'd still use tape because I more or less knew what I was doing with tape (yes, I'm old too) and didn't need to learn any kind of computer programming.
Just hit me up with a question is something is not clear. Sometimes I must admit I assume a certain level of experience everyone does not have. Thanks for watching.
Recently put my home studio together after a long absence and found your channel. Really love what you are doing: your teaching style, method, and personality are great and your instructions are clear. You have a new subscriber. I've already learned some things I didn't know. Thanks again.
Thanks for watching and I'm glad the videos are helpful !! 🙂
Your videos are always the best Henry. Great learning tools...
Lew, glad you like them and I really do hope they help.
Hi Henry, your method and guidance to learning BIAB is a true blessing to us newbies. It can be overwhelming to say the least. I look forward to watching all of your videos. Be blessed my new BIAB friend.
Thank you sir. I'm glad you enjoyed watching. :-)
I had 2015 BIAB and used it for years so now I'm looking at this video to see what is different because I have 2022 ordered and it should be here in a day or two. This vid looks very good as a refresher and a clue to anything that might have changed. Thanks man !
I would "save is" with a name starting with "A" so it would be at the top of the list to find easier. But I forgot about the .SGU ending. See I'm learning already !
Henry , that was a GREAT video. It will save me time and frustration , not pushing all the unnecessary options. Thanks so much. Bill
Bill. I'm glad it's working for you. As you move forward you can incorporate more options. Cheers !!
Henry you just gained a fan. This was a FANTASTIC tutorial!
Well Thank You. I hope you can quickly grasp the basic principles and run with it. There's a lot to learn but with a little patience you'll be rolling out those tunes !! :-)
Mr. Clarke, you have done an excellent job in tutoring us rookies to Band In A Box. You took away the apprehension that I had as I prepared myself to buy BIAB for the first time. Thanks a million.
I'm so glad this helps. Now you can get started writing those hits !! :-)
If it wasn’t for your videos I would have given up on BIAB long ago, so thanks and keep em up. I’m also an old soul man so love your music.
Well thank you. I'm glad the tutorials are helpful (from one soul man to another) :-)
Great tutorial. Thanks
Thank You Henry! I feel a lot less overwhelmed.
Well thank you. That's what I was striving for. Making people feel less overwhelmed. Thanks again. Henry
Thank you Henry.
How refreshing to watch this 'no frills: tutorial, that actually encourages you to buy the product, opposed to baffling you with too much information.Much appreciated Mick
Glad it was helpful!
Just purchased BIAB and yes I I'm a newbie. Thank you for this tutorial. Can't wait to get started... I will subscribe to your channel.. Very cool thanks...Sal...
Thank you ,Thank you.
Thank you Henry! I just bought bb 24 and this help is just what i wanted - Have a nice day! "I'll be back"
You're welcome. Hope it helps !!
Same here!
Thank you so much Henry! I'm a bit technophobic, so this remedial lesson is highly appreciated.
Just watched Back to Basics. One of the best newbie tutorials I've seen on ANY subject!
Wow, thanks!
Excellent! I appreciate the professional way you conducted this tutorial. Clear and to the point with a useful summary at the end. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Great job!
Many blessings for gettin' me started!
Keep at it. It gets easier !! :-)
Thank you, Henry! I've been using biab for a LONG time, and always had a suspicion that I was not using the program optimally. I do a lot of stuff in biab and move it to my DAW (which used to be Sonar, but now I've moved to Cakewalk by Bandlab), and I'm really looking forward to growing from your excellent instruction.
Thanks for watching. Hopefully you'll be interested in my latest video coming out regarding how I use BIAB with Bandlab !! Of course you probably already know all the ins and outs :-)
Hi Henry, good to see you. Glad you are well. Thanks for posting this. I don't use all the features, so this is a great refresher.
Hi Dougster. I really think very few use all the features. But they let all these menus hold them back. That's why I put this one together. Cheers !!
OMG finally a tutorial for the ABSOLUTE beginner. What a relief. Everything else I have found assumes previous knowledge or goes way too fast. This was very repetitive but I think that was good because I really have these few concepts down now as I followed along this tutorial with my BIAB program in real time. It is a rare teacher who can step into the shoes of the student and present based on those needs rather than his/her own. Thanks you!
Thanks for the kind words. I hope you're enjoying creating great music !!
I am just starting with the software. I'm glad I discovered your channel. You make it very easy to understand. Thanks.😊
I'm glad you find the tutorials useful.
Great help! Thanks!
Helps much! Gives me a quick start. Thanks Henry.
Glad to help.
You know what , you are big deal to this application, i bought this app but i don’t know how to start , thank you for this video , i need to train my self to triad chords in piano in every key, that what i want , can you give us a video to that please. Thanks 🙏
What a wonderful man and a wonderful tutorial.
Thanks a lot !
Wow! So helpful, Henry! I'm sure you saved me hours of frustration. Thanks!
I'm so glad that the tutorial was helpful !! :-)
Your tutorials are FANTASTIC. I'm brand new to Band-In-A-Box as a tool for creating backing tracks. If not for your tutorials - which I'm watching in order - I would be seriously floundering. THANK YOU for your tutorials on Band-In-A-Box.
You're more than welcome. The product does so much that it's kinda challenging getting your arms around it. Even I'm only scratching the surface :-)
Thanks Henry. As a teacher myself, I appreciate how you reduce the barriers to getting started. You have a very approachable personality too, very easy to listen to you. I bought BIAB 2010, but never conquered the learning curve. I want to love it, but was confused by so many things including why I couldn’t do 6/8, why I had to put in an end bar, and why midi sounded so bad.
The program has come a long way since 2010. I think they may have resolved some of your issues by now. Cheers.
Thank you Henry! I really do appreciate it!
You're welcome. I hope the product works for you.
Henry I'm brand new to BIAB 2022. So far just my initial playing around with it this thing rocks!! but I found myself at a loss, as I exhausted pretty quickly what I could do it left me searching for a good tutorial. Enter You!!! Thanks very much for breaking it down this way. This is Exactly what I needed.
Greatly appreciate you doing this.
Thanks again .
Bo NYS
Hi. I have tutorials on composition and a host of other things. I suggest for adding instruments you look at the video "4 tips to enhance your music production". I think that will help you out quite a bit.
Super helpful for someone "considering'" this product. Always have been a solo player "wishing" I could pull a back-up band out of the air like a genie........ This makes me think I can easily do it......
It takes a bit of work and understanding but if you can get a least a good basic understanding of how the product woks it's "ideal" for what you want to do. I will say that it's a bit dependent on the style of music you want to perform. Some styles are better than others.
Henry,
Awesome video! I was completely lost with the idea of purchasing Band in a Box until I saw this video. I am learning to play Tenor saxophone and want something that will help me stay in time, have a melody that I can start improving and improvising with!
Thank you!
Cool. I think it's a great tool for jamming against. I use if quite a bit to see where I want to take a song. Did you see my video on using it to help create melodies. Might be excellent for a sax guy to play around with. Thanks again. Henry
I've used BnB off and on since it was first introduced but have never stayed with it long enough to remember what I learned. I am now getting back into BnB 2018 and your videos are helping me get reestablished with its function's. Now subbed!
Thanks !!
Thank you so much Mr, Clarke. This was a perfect intro for a beginner like me. I haven't opened BB since the late 90s and it's sure changed!!!! Thanks again. Subscribed and liked.
Glad it was helpful!
@@henryclarke5407 Twas!
Thank you
Big thank you from France. Really good to begin!
You're very welcome!
Thank you! Your teaching was quite valuable to me!
You're very welcome!
I was so totally frustrated when I got started but along came Henry and said don't mess with all that Stuff! He made it so easy for me and now i am really enjoying the product. Thanks a lot Henry
and God Bless.
HAHAHAHA .. Funny !! Glad you liked it and most of all have fun !!
Thank you for taking time to show me how to get started
I'm glad this is helpful.
Thank you. Been looking for a video that makes this software approachable.
Glad it was helpful!
Nicely broken down for a fresh user. It's very much the same advice as I'd give talking someone through the "daunting" first glance. Everything else can wait a bit, and some won't ever need to explore every option.
Yes. I agree with you totally, I just thought I'd take a user through some of the videos step by step. Hell, even I don't use all the menus ... hahahahahaha Take care my friend !! :_)
Man…I’m so glad for you and your channel
Thanks. Hope it helps !!
Very refreshing intro. Would be good if you could do a video about looping a section. I know its basic but when I started I did not know that one has to drag a single bar to loop it. Looping a section is my most used function for practice
Thank you, Henry! I bought BIAB and needed this. 🙏
Fantastic!
Awesome tutorial! I'll be 71 in another month Henry and at this point in my life I get a little bit impatient with trying to learn new things even though I have a strong hunger to learn. ( I aint exactly got a lot of time) 😂
About a year ago I downloaded Reaper.. My 1st DAW. After fiddling around with that for about a month I gave up on it.
Thank you for making Band in a Box seem simple enough for even me to get started on it. I've been a guitar player and a singer for over 50 years now. I always played alone but now I feel like I have a band. That's a great feeling!
Kudos to you my friend and thank you, thank you, thank you....
Randy
You're more than welcome and best of luck. We're not that far apart in age. This is the time of our life where we can do what we want musically and it really doesn't matter.
Fantastic! I really like your video. I enjoyed watching it until the end. Thank you for sharing my friend😄👍💕
You're welcome. Hope it helps you in your composing..
Great video, much appreciated!!
Thanks for watching !!
Great job,thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks Henry. . I bought BIAB 2018 but never really understand how to use it and the difference between BIAB and Realband. So I forgot it. However now I see how powerful this kit is! In particular your comments on realband versus a DAW have made the whole thing clear to me at last. Can you believe I thought Realband was an upgrade to BIAB to be used as a preference!
You are now my go-to tutor.
LOL. Thanks a bunch !!
Henry, You are great!
Thanks a lot.
The best, Thank you
Glad you like it!
Mr. Clark, I don't speak much English, but I have to thank you. For many years, I still started and ended with BIAB because of its complexity. For the first time, I'm glad to know how to get started. Your lessons are amazing. Thank you very much, Mr. Teacher ... Matej
You're welcome and I'm glad you find the videos useful 🙂
Just subscribed, thanks you so much for doing this basic intro to BIAB! Older guy who is not familiar with DAW's or this type of program, but does have an IT background. It really helped. Using the 2022 version but was still able to find my way around.
That's good to know. Believe me it gets easier the more you understand what's going on :-)
I initially thought the screen had changed a lot until I found the very, very small icons at the top left, just by the plugin dropdown. There are options from minimal, normal and DAW mode. I think my install defaulted to 'minimal' and the tutorial is in 'normal' mode. Flipped that and everything matches now.
Just watched that. Great stuff. I used Biab years ago but re purchased last week and you've reminded me of how it works. Yes quite the way I go about heading in the right direction to create music. Really good tutorial. Thanks for making and sharing video. Mike
Glad it was helpful!
Great stuff Henry Many thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
hey Henry great job om your BIAB videos. I had a BB version back in the late 90's or early 2000 but never did much with them. I'm thinking about buying the latest
version. Keep those videos coming. Appreciate them.
Thanks. Just remember that as with any software there may be bugs in the initial release but they usually are straightened out pretty quickly.
Thanks so much! I was totally clueless and now I’m way farther ahead than I thought I would be after just this 1 tutorial. I wish there was a link at the end for the best next video!
I do have a video which talks about what I think is a good path for learning. ruclips.net/video/CMAXUoop23A/видео.html
I have owned the Band in a Box for years and never used it because I didn't understand where to start, you have taught more in 15 minutes than what I was playing with for years. Thank you much!!!
Thank You. Glad it helped.
Thank you Henry, I use logic pro just learning bb
Thank You, Sir
You are most welcome
Very useful video, thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Anybody that uses the term "stuff" like I do a lot, deserves a subscribe.. Well done Henry :o)
hahahahahahahaha !!!
Thanks, Henry... this was a great intro. I've got the newest version of BIAB, the 2022 one, and I see slight differences... but your video is still great for the very basics. Will look for other videos of yours too as I get more proficient! I have to play around w/ it... Would want to see how/when to use that LOOP button you talked about, and also how to visually spot where they put in the Choruses. Thank you!
Hi. Glad the video helped. I did use loops when I created the song "Walk on By". This video explains how I used them ruclips.net/video/h4gWNHY0pQs/видео.html
Love the vibe here :D Subbed!
Thanks so much !! :-)
Excellent beginner tutorial
Glad it was helpful!
great video Henry, your music is super cool, thanks for sharing. I am an absolute novice on biab. Cheers. Andy. Scotland.
Hi there. Take your time. You'll get there. :-)
just wanna thank you for inspring me to again enjoy writing and recording music at 66.I now have 23 songs distributed by Distrokid and love writing and recording.Thanks!!!
That's awesome. I have quite a few in distribution. It's really inspiring when you start picking up listeners I have over 23k listeners per month on Spotify and I'm close to 70.
Thank you so much Henry for sharing this information.
Very well explained..
Looking forward to exploring this further..
A Safe & Blessed Thanksgiving Holiday to you & Yours!
God Bless.
Keith Hilley.
Thank you and Happy Holidays to you !!
Nice work as always Henry🤙
Well Thank you sir !!
You are great! Thank you for the tutorial. I did ‘subscribe’ and ‘like’. 😊
Awesome! Thank you!
Henry thanks for a great intro even this 71-year old can follow. Best regards!
Glad you liked it!
Great channel Henry.
Thank You.
the best!
Thank you. Some folks think it's too basic but a lot find it very valuable in getting started.
Hi Henry...I'm also a BB user since the very first DOS version....I've since upgraded probably every 5 years or so and now I'm still a bit behind as I'm using the 2019 Audiophile version. I've used the odd real track player for other recordings I've done when I just needed a musician to do a bit of a part and it wasn't worth hiring a real person. Great videos you're doing for the BB community here! Thanks
Thanks for viewing.
Thanks
You're Welcome.
Nice one Henry, great tutorial for beginner's. on BIAB that has Billions of buttons etc.!
Thanks Mr. Phil.
Fantastic Henry. I'm up and running. Glad I looked for this. Subscribed! Is there a volume #2?
Actually never thought about doing a volume 2 for this video. I have a basic set of tutorials that progress from this point going forward that you can build your skills as you get more proficient. I hope that helps.
I love using BIAB and your tutorials have been priceless. This has been my go to tool for songwriting and production. I have started a product review website and would like your permission to post one of your RUclips links in my review. Thanks for all your help.
Sure, you have my permission. Thanks !
Henry, I'm off to dig deeper. I need to add an Intro Bridge and Solo; wish me luck!
Enjoy. If you get stuck I have solos on Intro and Bridge on my channel. I think you'll be fine though without them 🙂
Gosto muito de assistir os seus vídeos!!! Não entendo o que você fala, mas, sigo os seus movimentos e consigo entender assim.
No Brasil temos poucos tutoriais mais avançados do biab....estou gostando muito.
Desculpas por escrever em Português!
Um abraço!
Bem obrigado, desculpe eu não falo portugese. :-)
Waiting on mine to get here helps me b4 it does thanks
Hopefully my video helps you in getting off to a flying start !!
You are a fantastic teacher…you lay things out sequentially, keep it basic, and add repetition to reinforce learning. How can we support your channel? Do you have Patreon?
Thanks for the kind words. I never thought of Patreon. My channel is more of a hobby than anything else. The best way to support me is to possibly purchase some of my merchandise or get your friends to jump in. It all helps. Thanks again !!
Great video, great channel. Is there a go to video for how to set up your PC to run BIAB?
There are so many variations on PCs out there I really can't go beyond looking at the system requirements to run the software. One thing I will add is that the USB drive version (Which I use) is extremely easy. You just plug and play but I understand that not every has the budget to purchase in this manner.
Great stuff for me @ 64 years old 👏👏👏😎🌈🌺🤙🏽
We're in the same age group :-)
@@henryclarke5407 Hey youngsters, I am almost 76 years old!
Even more basic would be explaining Biab's daw plugin - so eeasy to understand and apply!
@@Muzaert DAW Integration is not so basic as you may think. Sure it's easy if you're doing only a few tracks but as you start adding things like Utility Tracks it gets a bit more complex. I have a tutorial on basic DAW integration ruclips.net/video/yRfjTKiMVYY/видео.html but it is not suitable for this presentation. This is for "BASIC" users. DAW integration is not a BASIC function and a lot of basic users do not every use DAWs.
@@henryclarke5407 Thanks for your prompt response, Henry. But @ did it not clear up for me. I wonder, do we talk about the same thing? I referred to the difference between Biab's rather complicated stand-alone version and the since a few years existing thinned-out, very basic Daw plugin version, called BBM4.app in my UltraPlusPak.