Band-in-a-Box 2009.5 for Mac
Band-in-a-Box 2009.5 for Macintosh
Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose the style you’d like, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest, automatically generating a complete professional-quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings or horns in a wide variety of popular styles. Live audio tracks can be created using RealDrums and RealTracks.
And that’s not all... Band-in-a-Box is a powerful and creative music composition tool for exploring and developing musical ideas with near-instantaneous feedback. Version 2009.5 is designed for MacIntel, and boasts major new features like RealDrums, RealTracks and the Audio Chord Wizard! RealDrums adds the human element of a live drummer while RealTracks add even more live session musicians, bringing the entire Band-in-a-Box arrangement to life. The Audio Chord Wizard has the amazing ability to analyze, extract, and show the chords from audio recordings on-screen and then write them to the Band-in-a-Box chord sheet.
For a complete list of new features in Band-in-a-Box 2009.5 for Macintosh click here.
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Pro Band-in-a-Box
RealTracks Set 1 RealDrums Set 1 Some Styles |
MegaPAK Band-in-a-Box
RealTracks Set 1-6 RealDrums Set 1-6 ALL Styles Sets |
UltraPAK Band-in-a-Box
RealTracks Set 1-39 RealDrums Set 1-20 ALL Styles Sets Available on an 160GB USB Hard Drive or Discs |
UltraPlusPAK Band-in-a-Box
ALL RealTracks Set 1-66 ALL RealDrums Set 1-26 ALL Styles Sets Songs & Lessons PAK Available on a 160GB USB Hard Drive or Discs |
UltraPlusPAK Hard Drive "Audiophile" Edition Band-in-a-Box
ALL RealTracks Set 1-66 ALL RealDrums Set 1-26 ALL Styles Sets Songs & Lessons PAK AIFF Files for ALL RealTracks and RealDrums. Pre-installed and ready to run on included 1TB plug-n-play USB Hard Drive. |
Band-in-a-Box and RealBand Add-ons RealPAKs and Songs & Lessons PAK |
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| RealTracks Sets (66 Sets available) |
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| RealDrums Sets (26 Sets available) |
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| Styles Sets (77 Sets available) |
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| Soloist Sets (20 Sets available) |
1 | 1-11 & 16-20 | 1-11 & 16-20 | 1-13 & 16-20 | 1-13 & 16-20 | x | ||||||
| Melodist Sets (8 Sets available) |
1 | 1-8 (ALL!) |
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There are over 20 new features in 2009.5 for Macintosh
- Audio Chord Wizard Enhancements. The Audio Chord Wizard is the amazing feature that automatically figures out the chords from MP3 files (or other audio files like WAV, WMA, and audio CD etc.). Using the Audio Chord Wizard is a great way to learn and practice popular songs, as you play along and see the chords.
- We’ve added a Lead Sheet window that shows the chords for the whole song on a single screen.
- This allows you to click on a bar on the lead sheet to jump to that area of the song.
- And you can mark sections of the song using part markers, and the sections begin on a new line with a line space between, so are clearly seen. So you can then also learn the form of the song, as you can see the various intro/verse/chorus/break sections at a glance, or quickly jump to the break simply by double clicking on that part of the lead sheet.
- Other improvements include chord editing, and more.
- Classic RealStyles styles made. This is a new category in the StylePicker, and it contains new styles that are intended to be commonly used RealTracks. They are divided into genres. So you can go to Classic RealStyles – Jazz to easily find RealStyles for Jazz Swing, Bossa etc.
- Guitar RealCharts have been improved. The new guitar RealTracks have more accurate guitar display/notation for the corresponding RealTracks.
- RealTracks are enhanced. These features are present in the new RealTracks that are released with 2009.5:
- Smoother playing of piano parts over slash chords.
- Support for some more complex slash chords like C7/E played by piano.
- RealTracks feature to only play certain riffs in certain keys. This feature happens automatically on certain RealTracks, no settings are needed.
- Any missing RealTracks/RealDrums are listed. When a song is loaded, played or saved, a yellow hint message will appear if any RealTracks or RealDrums are missing, listing the files that are missing.
- Chord Options dialog now has a “Clear All” button that erases all Rests/Shots/Pushes/Pedal Bass from a song.
- Audible 'Audio Glitches' in some RealTracks were removed.
- Added Songs with RealTracks on Drums (and no drum part) get a drum count-in. For example, _BG_BAND.STY
- If a ChordSheet/ notation transpose is in effect, a Transpose ‘yellow hint’ message will appear on boot up as a reminder.
- Option added for Melody -Guitar rechannel, to include events already on guitar channel.
- Message added when no style demo found in RealTracks dialog
- Many more demos are shown in RealTracks dialog.
- And more…