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- CONTACT: Malcolm Lynn Baker, Director of Marketing
- MiBAC Music Software, Inc.
- P.O. Box 468
- Northfield, MN 55057
- Telephone: (507) 645–5851
- AppleLink Address: D5638
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- MiBAC JAZZ IMPROVISATION SOFTWARE NOW SHIPPING
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- NORTHFIELD, Minnesota, February 7, 1990--MiBAC Music Software, Inc. announces
- the release of MiBAC™ Jazz Improvisation Software for Macintosh family
- computers. MiBAC™ Jazz Improvisation Software turns your Mac into a jazz band.
- If you play jazz, or ever wanted to play jazz, our program lets you use the
- Mac as your own jazz band. Once you’ve set the style, song form, key, tempo,
- and typed the chords, MiBAC sends piano, bass and drum MIDI data to your MIDI
- synthesizers. In seconds you can be playing any song you want with a three
- piece band that really swings. You can now practice, compose, and arrange
- songs with a jazz band that is ready to play whenever you are. MiBAC Jazz
- Improvisation Software represents three years of research and development,
- and brings jazz study into the age of MIDI technology.
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- “MiBAC Jazz Improvisation Software is a music industry first, making it
- convenient to produce your own jazz improv play-along accompaniments...
- [MiBAC is] an innovative product with a multitude of jazz education
- applications... Its compositional creativeness and flexibility are impressive,”
- writes John Kuzmich, editor of the International Association of Jazz Educators
- (IAJE Journal, Spring 1990).
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- David N. Baker, Distinguished Professor of Music at Indiana University,
- remarks, “MiBAC Jazz Improvisation Software represents a breakthrough in jazz,
- sure to have an impact on generations of musicians.”
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- MiBAC songs can be written and played in four jazz styles: Jazz 4/4, Latin,
- Slow 4, and Jazz 3/4. Styles can be combined within a song. The song form can
- be up to 128 measures long with an Introduction, Coda, and repeating Chorus.
- The total song length can be 480 measures or greater, depending on the total
- RAM memory available. Songs can be looped so they will play as long as the
- user wants. The MiBAC screen display closely resembles standard sheet music,
- so musicians feel at home the first time they use the program. Because all of
- the musical ideas used in MiBAC were played by jazz musicians, MiBAC creates
- the spontaneity of a live performance. MiBAC's extensive library of musical
- ideas insure that every repeating chorus will sound unique. MiBAC songs can be
- saved as Standard MIDI files, which can be read by other sequencer and notation
- programs.
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- MiBAC Jazz Improvisation Software will increase the productivity of the jazz
- student, the jazz educator, and the professional jazz player. Jima Britain,
- Manager of the University of Oregon Center for Advanced Technology in Education
- says, “With MiBAC I can write a song in seconds that would take me hours or
- days to write using a sequencer program.”
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- MiBAC Jazz Improvisation Software requires a Macintosh® Plus or later model,
- two drives, MIDI Interface, and MIDI synthesizers capable of producing piano,
- bass, and drum sounds.
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- Priced at $295.00, MiBAC Jazz Improvisation Software is available now from:
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- MiBAC Music Software, Inc.
- P.O. Box 468
- Northfield, MN 55057
- (507) 645-5851
- AppleLink: D5638
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- A product information brochure is available on request.
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- A demo version will soon be available on the 3rd Party Connection bulletin
- board, within the Third Party Software Demos folder.
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- MiBAC™ Music Software, innovative software for the creative musician.
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- developer. Apple cannot warrant any third party's product. Please consult the
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- Library on AppleLink, or contact the individual company for more information.
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