It installed okay on my XP box but when I tried to run it I got an error that said no disk in drive! Clicked Continue Cancel and other opt but nothing happened till I clicked cancel over 20 times and the software launched! Then I input my registration number and tried to run the pgm again. Got that same error! No disk in drive! What? I then took a quick look at this thing. It isn't worth 1 year of your time. IMHO. I wasn't happy with layout or even the soundfont they give you. You can do a lot better. I have Band in a Box so I might be a bit jaded. Uninstalled.

Okay. Download finally worked. Looks like a fun program.

The question for me is: How unique are the melodies that are auto-created? Is it just picking a random tune from a pool of predefined tunes?

I had this program before when it was given away on GOTD before. I'm glad to see it here again. It's a fun program and easy to use and it installed fine on W7 sp1. I won't call it a serious enough program for professional musicians but it an entertaining program to have for casual fun and also when the grandkids, and the big grandkids come over to visit the old man. Thanks AthTek Software and GOTD for giving this away to try before I buy it again. I have other software from AthTek Software that have served their purposes well and updated often enough to keep it functionally usable with the older machines and O/S.

Installation failed on my Win7 64 bit system, I suspect it's my anti-malware program - also advised my honme page was tryng to be changed. However I got the key and then downloaed the exe file from the website and installed fine. Now to have some fun, beng a musician looks like something I could have fun with

really cool and useful, but needs a better track editor. a whole new edit system actually, the current one is nice but not intuitive. I haven't figured out how to edit single notes yet. great for making very basic styles of music. if you are a singer, this is nice to have. if you make videos with a GoPro this is nice to have. if you want to make beats to rap to this is not that great. great to start a melody to a beat, maybe finish it up in a different program. ive made i nice hip hop instrumental with this and fruity loops.(and adobe audition). very useful, but still buggy on load for me

Installed and registered quickly in Win 8.1 64 bit. Easy to start using. Offers advanced settings too. Free license is for 1 year. Only issue is music created sounds like Marvin Gaye songs.

Program is unusual. I tried to install it and it installed but then it said it couldn't run because it needed a disk in "Drive F" I don't have any Drive F so that didn't matter. Had to use Task Monitor to shut the thing off. Then gave up and removed it.

SO THE PROGRAM WORKS GREAT, AND ITS FUN AS HELL! but even after registration i have to spam the retry button. it only takes like 5 seconds thogh, so its not that bad.

Hi guys - boring stuff out of the way - Physical Dual boot partitions - Win 10 & Win 8.1.2 - both installed & had no problem playing quite a few of the midis I have collected over the past (45 years as a pro-musician (I miss those days) - BUT (there's always a butt) - I am a trained musician in both classical & modern music & NEVER made the complete leap to "midi or numbering" types of looking at music. I used Midisoft (until they disappeared across the ocean) then I found them again (this time as) Forte - & the difference between this company & all of the others is - it allows you to write music to a staff, while ALL other staves are visible. This might not 'sound' (sorry for the pun) like a big thing, but; it allows you to off-set some notes giving the music a "human feel" and not a mechanical 'quantized box feel.' This is important on stage, because no matter how exactly the same the music is - every night is NOT (hangovers, interruptions, and a few I can't mention here. I will keep this (as before) because I like playing around & learning new ways of doing things (who says life is over, over 60 - not me) - Have a great week-end - and as usual Thank you to GOTD & AthTek for the program & I will try & make any improvement suggestions directly to you later. Bye now.

On my 64bit windows 8.1 system it installed OK but each time I try to start it the programme just crashes. Tried without my AV and nothing else running but to no avail. Their support replied promptly after I send them a video of the problem but they replied that "unfortunately not all Windows 8.1 installations are supported yet". Shame I was looking forward to playing with this - lets hope it comes around again,

This looks interesting. It'll be fun to play with.

There are other auto-accompaniment programs out there. The most famous (and one which I heartily recommend if you have the cash) is Band in a Box by PG Music. Lots of power, great sound, and a thriving support community.
There's also a little-known low-cost program out there, with a free version -- two free versions, actually. ChordPulse is a small, slick program that cranks out instant MIDI arrangements in a wide variety of styles. It's only $24.95, and it also has two free versions -- a lite edition, and a four-chord song version.

First time I've commented on GOTD software. Digiband did not install cleanly, would not run, elicited a "Disk not found drive F:" error and a reboot was necessary in order to access Program Manager to remove it. Though it sounds like a great little utility, one I may have experimented with and used to create my own sound schemes for PowerPoint presentations, it simply would not install on a Windows 8.1 machine. I will not try it on a different machine as the net gain does not overpower the effort needed to uninstall it.

Installed without problems on Win 8.1 64-bit. When I tried to launch the program, I got an endless series of messages saying "There is no disk in drive F." I could not get the message to go away--had to kill the task with Task Manager. Removed my USB external card reader, and the program launched normally.

Not sure why it would demand something in drive F (or any drive other than C). Good thing my card reader wasn't built-in.

I think this is a fun little piece of software ... thank you for the giveaway of the day for the digiband.

Installed on Win8 Pro and activated no problem.

I use this to create 'lil' tunes for background in my youtube videos ... Makes 'em fast and easy too.

i still have previous GAOTD version with lifetime licence, that version didn't allow for audio import.
this one does, which for me is a very good improvement.though 1 year licence is putting me off downloading.

Hi, For the purpose of testing this Software I created a simple Accompaniment and saved it to my desktop. 'Saving as' allowed me ONLY to save this piece in Program's native 'yoy' File. First pity. Double clicking on that File afterwards DOESN'T automatically open that 'yoy' File with DigiBand.. Second pity. Opened the Program and looked for that File on desktop. It opened. Since one cannot double-click 'yoy' file to be played (even with DigiBand!?) - Exported that very File to desktop as 'wav' File. If it was left to default Location - it would be exported to Prog x86/Ath Tek/DigiBand/'out' Folder..

Accidently, I did NEXT saved my newly created Accompaniment 'yoy' File to Prog x86/Ath Tek/DigiBand/'save' Folder, and EXPORTED that File as 'mid' and 'wav' to the same Location into 'out' Folder, where I was directed - to see if saving to desktop was wrong perhaps.

RESULTS: Default Folders ('save' and 'out') are empty of my Files. The only File showing in 'save' Folder contains 'sample yoy' and nothing else, so NO GOOD looking for those Files there to USE them further. Back to Desktop then: My 'yoy' File is 101 kb, same 'wav' File is 12.5 Mb(!), the same 'mid' File is 9.59 kb only (tried this option few time and results were the same) and NOT recognizable by Windows Media Player (unlike 'wav' that plays ONLY in WMP, but NOT in DigiBand Prog itself..)

Enough to be CONFUSED?? Doesn't matter that my Accompaniment piece sounds cool 'as is' and can (should??) be 'stand-alone' tune. So that's Third main pity added to those above. Any clues what's going on here?? I cannot say at this point that saving music with this Software is as straight forward as one would desire, or at least what exporting options would suggest!.. Where is that (large) second 'wav' File to get rid off (I checked all possible locations on PC since it's NOT in this Software's default folders, but no joy, or rather.. 'no yoy', ha ha) I don't need duplicates, the one on my desktop is large enough to keep!??

Be careful!
The installer won't warn you, if you have a previous version installed on your system.
If you installed version 16 from the giveaway 2 years ago into the default path, it will silently overwrite your existing installation and (lifetime) registration.

Their advice seems easy enough, please how is everybody finding their key ? Top above karl says;

You will be asked to generate the key on our website AthTek.com. Simply fill in the form and then you will get a key.

What FORM? I checked so much sites, where is their form? where the 'form' generating their registration key. thx 2013 page show, several sites of theirs shows. yet none saying a FORM.

Re: the program includes a 1 year license.
Does this mean it will stop working after a Year??! or updates wont be possible?

Installed easily but I had problems registering because Zemana antilogger, which was given away here on the 6th of January, is telling me that Tek digiband, has a clipboard logger and is trying to access data from my clipboard. I don't know if this will be the only time or will it copy my clipboard constantly.

Just like Karl always says "uninstalled via reboot" and so did I.

Real free alternatives :

Improvisor
Digiband

Have fun !

CNET has a couple very enthusiastic reviews of this program, for those who may be interested :

http://download.cnet.com/Digital-Band/3000-2170_4-75993122.html

IF you can believe those reviews we've got a pretty hot program here.

Free alternative is Reaper: http://www.reaper.fm/ and of course Audacity (lots of cool plug-ins)
I would LOVE to learn of as many free alternatives as possible so if you know of any, please chime in!

'DigiBand' is undoubtedly an awesome music composing App with rich features . It is powerful and highly customizable programs. It includes a wide range of musical instruments. Moreover voice can be added to the tracks . Some in-built presets are provided and also specific genre of music can be chosen before the creation.

^ Thumbs up ^

Freeware options in this category :

*Podium Free by Zynewave - easily create music with this app by mixing and editing MIDI audio files, or adding various sound effects. Also You can record sounds and edit them to create various mixes.

*Virtuoso for Windows 8.1 by Looks Familiar Software - create music sequences of up to 16-beat using up to five different instruments. Mainly developed for Windows 8.1

*Virtual ANS a full-featured professional app which allows you to create unusual, deep, atmospheric sounds. With this app you can draw a complete piece of music, or convert sound to image (sonogram) and vice-versa.

*MuseScore - highly customizable, music composition app through scores and notes .

*Buzz - an advanced and Comprehensive application designed as a modular audio synthesizer, with a wide range of components to help you create music.

Thanks

Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1.3 Pro 64 bit system. A clean install.

A company without name and address:
"About Us
AthTek Software was dedicated to software industry since 2006. We provide many kinds of software, including NetWalk, Code to FlowChart, Skype Call Recorder, Skype Voice Changer, etc."

We had a previous version AthTek DigiBand on July 4, 2013. Here are the old reviews: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/athtek-digiband/

This is a nice and funny piece of software for the weekend. Really! It is basically the same software from 2 years ago.

Upon start a resizable interface opens. In the preferences you select your MIDI device, the colors, a "default singer" and that's it. Now you can auto-compose a tune, with different emotions from sad to cherish and different music styles from Pop over Rock to Children. No Beethoven or Mozart isn't programmed. The results are fun - of course it isn't a serious composer, but this is not the point. Install it and play around with this weekend program. Don't blame anybody if this doesn't produce your next No.1 hit...

I'll keep it at least for the weekend to play around.
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Some words to yesterday's "Rule No.1" and safe browsing.

1) Don't make your default browser your default browser. Sounds silly? No, it prevents other tasks from calling your browser to lead you after an installation e.g. to a defined webpage.

Install a browser whatever you want. Make this your "default" browser, but block&deny all internet access and all other privileges. Every attack searches in the registry for the "installed" browser. You lead them to a not working and never used location. No problems with hijacking, redirection or...

2) The browser you are using should be a portable browser with one trick:
- create a ramdisk. Imdisk toolkit is the best one, I've found so far.
- create a folder, not on your system drive, name it RamDisk, copy in this folder the e.g. portable Firefox with your preferred add-ons
- create a ramdisk size of 1 GB (sufficient for browsing), load the X:\RamDisk folder at startup time into your RAM.
- create a shortcut on your desktop, use this to start your browser.

3) Every time you boot your computer, you'll have a fresh new untouched browser, no matter, what happened during the last session. The disadvantage is, that you loose all your new bookmarks, too. Use a bookmark manager or use another way to add your bookmarks to the X:\RamDisk folder.

4) To surf on the dark sides of the web, use the "Browser in the Box" Client - Personal Edition from Sirrix. Read about - the absolute safe way. A must!

Have fun and a nice weekend.

Message from AthTek Software - the vendor of AthTek DigiBand:

Installation and Registration

1. Please download the package and follow the steps to install AthTek DigiBand to your computer.
2. You will be asked to generate the key on our website AthTek.com. Simply fill in the form and then you will get a key.
3. The key will expire on March 14, 2016.
4. Internet connection is needed in registration process.

AthTek Software provides free online support for this giveaway. If you have questions about AthTek DigiBand, please feel free to contact our support team directly at http://www.athtek.com/contact.php

It is recommended to read the Software Overview and Tutorial of AthTek DigiBand before you send out the support ticket.
http://www.athtek.com/digiband.html
http://www.athtek.com/digiband/tutorial-interface.html

If you have any question or suggestion about AthTek DigiBand, please leave your comments below or contact us directly. We will try to respond as soon as possible. We will read all your comments carefully and make efforts to improve our software according to your suggestions.