Band-in-a-Box 2008.5 for Windows
Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords to any song (like C or Fm7b5), pick a musical style from the hundreds available, and click the [Play] button. Band-in-a-Box then automatically generates a full backing arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings plus optional live audio tracks with RealDrums and RealTracks. And that’s just the beginning...
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 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 write the chords from audio recordings 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 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’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.
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 other compressed formats for a file that’s "Internet ready."
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Band-in-a-Box for Windows Overview
- Band-in-a-Box 2008.5 for Windows: New Features List and Full Feature List
- Band-in-a-Box 2008.5 for Windows Featuring RealTracks! High Bandwith or Medium Bandwith
- Audio Demos of Band-in-a-Box 2008.5 for Windows.
- How to Order Band-in-a-Box | Help with ordering online
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Pro Band-in-a-Box and RealBand Some Styles (3 Sets), Some RealDrums (1 Set), Some RealTracks (1 Set) |
MegaPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand
All Styles (76 Sets), Some RealDrums (6 Sets), Some RealTracks (6 Sets) |
SuperPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand
All Styles (76 Sets), All RealDrums (20 Sets), All RealTracks (12 Sets) |
UltraPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand
All Styles (76 Sets, All RealDrums (20 Sets), All RealTracks (12 sets), All Add-ons |
UltraPAK Hard Drive "Audiophile" Edition Band-in-a-Box and RealBand
All Styles (76 Sets, All RealDrums (20 Sets), All RealTracks (12 sets), All Add-ons Pre-installed and ready to run on included 160GB plug-n-play USB Hard Drive |
RealBand PAK RealTracks Sets 10 -12 |
RealBand PlusPAK
Band-in-a-Box 2008.5 Update RealTracks Sets 2-12 |
2008 Summer PlusPAK Band-in-a-Box 2008.5 Update (requires Band-in-a-Box 2008), RealTracks Sets 2-9 |
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| RealTracks (12 Sets Available) |
1 | 1-6 | 1-12 (ALL!) | 1-12 (ALL!) | 1-12 (ALL!) | 10-12 | 2-12 | 2-9 |
| RealDrums Sets (20 Sets Available) |
1 | 1-6 | 1-20 (ALL!) |
1-20 (ALL!) | 1-20 (ALL!) | x | x | x |
| Styles Sets (76 Sets Available) |
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| Soloists Sets (20 Sets Available) |
x | 1-11 & 16-20 | 1-11 & 16-20 | 1-20 (ALL!) | 1-20 (ALL!) | x | x | x |
| Melodist Sets (8 Sets Available) |
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PLUS... Until August 31, with every Band-in-a-Box 2008.5 Pro, MegaPAK, SuperPAK or UltraPAK for Windows® First-Time or Upgrade purchase you will receive the FREE BONUS 12-PAK! 
Until August 31, Upgrade your 12-PAK to a 24-PAK for only $25- Faster Generation of RealTracks. The time it takes to generate the RealTracks is now 3x’s faster.
- “Waveless” and Much smaller size, only uses 1/8 of the hard drive space compared to previous! RealTracks and RealDrums no longer need WAV files – they can use WMA natively. This frees up huge amounts of your hard drive, so that the RealDrums and RealTracks take up only 1 /8 of the space that they used to take! The handy “Archive” function will remove the no-longer-needed WAV files with a single-click. This means that the new version uses up much less hard drive space than previous versions.
- Tempo stretching quality enhancements. Now the RealTracks sound great over a much wider tempo range, typically -15 and +40 beats per minute.
- RealTracks can have multiple substyles. For example, the Jazz Acoustic Bass plays “2”’ feel in “a” substyle, and “4” in “b” section.
- Stereo panning is now available for the RealTracks.
- RealStyles™ available - these are styles that include all “Real Instruments,” with no MIDI. Up to 7 Real Instruments all at once in a single style!
...and much more! For a complete list of new features in Band-in-a-Box 2008.5 2008 click here.
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