Band-in-a-Box 2010 for Windows

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. Over the years many features have been added to Band-in-a-Box – Notation and Lyrics, Piano Roll, 16-channel MIDI Multitracks, Harmonization, the StyleMaker and StylePicker, a live performance Conductor window, Medley Maker, and 24 –substyle Multistyles. The Soloist and the Melodist are popular “intelligent” features that generate professional solos or even create whole new songs from scratch. 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.
The inclusion of digital audio features makes Band-in-a-Box the perfect tool for creating, playing, and recording your music with MIDI, vocals, and acoustic instruments. Band-in-a-Box for Windows® can also record an acoustic instrument or voice to add to the composition, with processing through its own DirectX audio effects. Its built-in TC Helicon audio harmonies will turn your audio track into multiple harmony parts or adjust its pitch, with vibrato and scooping effects for realistic vocal styles and up to sixteen choral parts.
You can print out your finished creation with lyrics, chords, repeats and endings, DC markings and codas, or save it as a graphics file for web publication or to e-mail to a friend. And when you're ready to let others hear your composition, you can burn it directly to an audio CD. Or save your composition as a Windows Media File (or in any other compressed formats you have) for a file that’s “Internet ready.”
You’ll have even more fun making automatic medleys, playing your favorite song lists in the Band-in-a-Box Jukebox, and singing along to your Karaoke files with CDG graphics.

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Band-in-a-Box, RealBand, Pro RealCombos, Some Styles

MegaPAK

Band-in-a-Box, RealBand, MegaPAK RealCombos, All Styles (77 Sets)

UltraPlusPAK

Band-in-a-Box, RealBand, ALL RealTracks (82 Sets), ALL RealDrums (29 Sets), ALL Styles (77 Sets), Ships on a 160GB USB Hard Drive

EverythingPAK

Band-in-a-Box, RealBand, ALL RealTracks (82 Sets), ALL RealDrums (29 Sets), ALL Styles (77 Sets), Songs & Lessons PAK, The Video Tutorial PAK, Ships on a 160GB USB Hard Drive

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Band-in-a-Box, RealBand, All Styles (77 Sets), ALL RealTracks Sets 1-82, ALL RealDrums Sets 1-30, ALL Styles Sets, Songs & Lessons PAK, WAV Files for ALL RealTracks and RealDrums. Pre-installed and ready to run on included 1.5TB plug-n-play USB Hard Drive.

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RealTracks Sets
(82 Sets Available)

Pro RealCombos:
12 RealTracks in 3 Bands
Jazz Swing 140, Pop/Rock 120,
Country Ballad 85
+ RealDrums Set 1

MegaPAK RealCombos:
40 RealTracks in 10 Bands
Jazz Swing 140, Country Ballad 65
Pop Rock 120,Bossa 140, Bluegrass 130
Blues 120, American PopRock 120,
SmoothCool Jazz 100, JazzBallad 85,
HardRock Thrash 85
+ RealDrums Sets 1-5

Sets 1-82
(370+ RealTracks!)

RealDrums Sets
(29 Sets available)

Sets 1-29
(200+ RealDrums!)

Styles Sets
(77 Sets available)

0-3

0-77
(ALL!)

Soloist Sets
(20 Sets available)

1-11 & 16-20

1-13 & 16-20

Melodist Sets
(8 Sets available)

1-8
(ALL!)

The Video Tutorial PAK

Songs & Lessons PAK

The Songs & Lessons PAK includes 25 Add-on programs for Band-in-a-Box:

101 Solo Intros
101 Trio Intros
101 Jazz Guitar Phrases
101 Essential Phrases for Jazz Piano
101 Essential Jazz Phrases for All Instruments
101 Essential Riffs for Blues Piano
101 Essential Riffs for Country Guitar
101 Essential Riffs for Bluegrass Guitar

SoundTracks Fakebook Vol. 2
Classical MIDI Fakebook Vol. 3
Classical MIDI Fakebook Vol. 2
Classical MIDI Fakebook Vol. 1
Bluegrass MIDI Fakebook
50 Novelty Piano Riffs
CopyMe
Duets
200 Folk songs

Master Swingin’ Jazz Piano Solos and Comping
Master Jazz Guitar Solos Volume 1
Master Jazz Guitar Solos Volume 2
Master Jazz Guitar Solos Volume 3
Master Jazz Guitar Solos Volume 4
Master Blues Piano Solos
Master Flatpick Guitar Solos
50 Country Guitar Solos

The New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2010 for Windows are...

There now is a "Plug-in" mode for your favorite sequencer (RealBand, Sonar, Reaper, ProTools, FL-Studio, Nuendo and more). With the new plug-in mode, BB is open as a small always-on-top window, and acts as a plug-in for your favorite DAW/sequencer, so that you can Drag-n-Drop MIDI and audio (WAV) tracks from BB to your favorite sequencer. Work in your favorite sequencer, type a progression in Band-in-a-Box, and then simply drag the track from Band-in-a-Box to your sequencer's track at the desired track and bar location.
No more long waits for RealTracks to generate! RealTracks generate much faster, 3X faster on average. A typical song with RealTracks that took 20 seconds to generate will generate now in about 6 seconds. And if you freeze some or all tracks in the song (see below), playback of RealTracks is almost instantaneous.
Freezing (locking) MIDI or RealTracks/RealDrums. Any track can now be frozen (MIDI, RealTracks, or RealDrums). When frozen, it won't get changed or re-generated. This saves time when replaying previous songs, and allows you to freeze an arrangement that you like. If you freeze the whole song, you don't have to wait at all for the song to regenerate. Next time you play, it is ready to go. (note: this new freeze feature is different than the previous limited freeze feature that renders the whole arrangement to the audio track)
Soloist generated RealTracks are now saved with the song, so you will hear the RealTracks play the same solo when you reload the song.
RealTracks now support new features, including Shots, Holds, and Pushes. Simply type in the chords as you normally would, adding periods (…) for shots and holds, and the RealTracks will play them.
RealTracks endings have been enhanced, and are now 4 bar endings instead of 2 bar, allowing time for a natural decay of the instruments.
Multiple Undo support. Up to 999 levels of undo (configurable).
Always Save all song settings. Now all settings are saved with songs, including patches, reverbs, volume etc., so that the song will play the same way each time, without having to set this in the Save With Patches dialog.
Reverb control added for individual tracks with RealTracks or RealDrums, so you can easily add reverb (0 to 127) for any RealTrack. Reverb type also settable, and saved with the song.
Bass/Treble Tone Control added for individual tracks with RealTracks or RealDrums, so you can easily adjust the bass/treble EQ for any RealTrack. Settings save with the song.
Band-in-a-Box window is now sizable, when size changes, chord sheet, notation, and other windows redraw in proportion to the new size. This allows you to have BB open as a small window on screen with other programs, and you still see a full chord sheet. The screen size is remembered between sessions.
New favorite songs/styles dialog, with separate lists of ‘recently played’ and favorite songs or styles. The previous ‘favorite’ songs/styles dialog was a list of recently used songs/styles. Now there are 2 tabs in this dialog, showing you both recently used songs/styles, and a new list of ‘favorites’ that you select as a favorite songs or styles. Favorite Song/Style lists can be edited, sorted, saved/loaded, and used with the jukebox. You can add an unlimited # of favorites. Also, a Sort button has been added to Favorite/Recent songs/styles dialog.
Double time and half-time support for RealTracks added. Now you can play any RealTracks at half-time or double time. This allows you to, for example, in a ballad at tempo of 70, to add a RealTracks Sax solo with tempo of 140, and play it as a double time, which will match the ballad tempo of 70. So now all of your existing RealTracks can be used at 3 different tempos. (normal, half-time, double time)
Automatic Tempo swapping of similar RealTracks. If you have similar RealTracks available at different tempos, BB will automatically choose the best one to use. For example, if you have a ballad loaded, with an Acoustic Bass RealTracks at tempo of 60, and you speed up the tempo to 140, and press play, BB will automatically choose an Acoustic Bass RealTracks closer to tempo of 140, if it is the same genre and feel. This means you can use a simple Jazz style, and play it at various tempos, without having to set the best RealTracks based on tempos.
Rendering now has a Normalize option, to normalize individual tracks or the complete arrangement. Normalizing boosts the volume to a maximum level without distortion. Most professional music tracks are normalized.
RealDrums picker dialog has been enhanced, with information about Artist name, Artist bio, and RealDrums Set number.
Songs ‘Saved-As” a different name now have the new name added to the Recently used song dialog.
Support enhanced for non-concert instruments (Bb/Eb sax, trumpet etc.). Now when chord sheet is transposed, you can type in chords in the transposed key, and they will show up as you have entered them, instead of requiring you to enter the chords in the concert key.
Rendering songs to audio is now much faster for songs with no MIDI, such as RealStyles.
Rendering RealTracks no longer require you to have a DXi or VST in use.
Lyrics enhanced.
Undo added for entry of individual lyrics
‘Enter’ and ‘Close’ button added to lyric entry
Lyrics toggle to editable notation view if lyric mode is entered in note roll mode, so that lyrics are visible.
More Soloists are now available, up to 2000.
RealTracks Picker dialog enhanced :
- opens up faster.
- New Columns added (tempo swappable, holds type)
- Columns are now sizable, and remember the sizes
Rendering WAV dialog enhanced. It has a simpler layout. The Render wav file doesn't need to be in same folder – it can be in any folder/drive.
StylePicker is enhanced. Favorites and Recent styles now appear in this dialog as separate lists. It now has the ability to add/remove styles as favorites. A Favorite Style indication (F) shows up for each style. You can filter any list by only showing favorite styles. Over time, you can build up a list of favorite styles, and only show them when needed.
Many messages changed to “yellow alerts” at top right of screen, so that you don’t have to respond to the message, interrupting work flow.
And many more!

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RealBand 2010 for Windows

Your All-in-One Audio Workstation and Accompaniment Program

RealBand is a fully-featured and powerful music arranging, sequencing, and digital recording program. RealBand is a new program that combines the most popular features from PG Music’s PowerTracks Pro Audio and Band-in-a-Box programs into an all-in-one sequencing program with automatic accompaniment.
With RealBand you can create an arrangement with Band-in-a-Box tracks; type in the chords, add RealTracks and RealDrums that follow the chord changes, add your own tracks, and then edit and produce the finished song without ever leaving the program! RealBand is loaded with powerful features that make it easy to produce your own song arrangements as if you were in the recording studio with top session musicians.
RealBand offers powerful features for musicians, students, and songwriters. With intelligent automatic arrangements, RealTracks live instrument tracks, RealDrums live drum tracks, the amazing Audio Chord Wizard, seamlessly integrated digital audio/MIDI recording, built-in DirectX effects, and notation, RealBand turns a typical PC into a music production powerhouse.

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