Band-in-a-Box 2009.5 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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For a complete list of new features in Band-in-a-Box 2009.5 click here.

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• Band-in-a-Box 2009.5 for Windows: New Features List and Full Feature List
• Band-in-a-Box 2009.5 for Windows Videos and Audio Demos!
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Click for Info	Pro Band-in-a-Box and RealBand RealTracks Set 1 RealDrums Set 1 Some Styles	MegaPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand RealTracks Set 1-6 RealDrums Set 1-6 ALL Styles Sets	UltraPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand 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 and RealBand 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 and RealBand ALL RealTracks Set 1-66 ALL RealDrums Set 1-26 ALL Styles Sets Songs & Lessons PAK WAV 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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Upgrade from 2009					$199 UltraPlusPAK Hard Drive "Audiophile" Edition Upgrade from any "Audiophile"
Upgrade from 2008	$69 Pro Band-in-a-Box and RealBand Upgrade from 2008	$149 MegaPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand Upgrade from 2008	$279 UltraPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand Upgrade from 2008	$379 UltraPlusPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand Upgrade from 2008	$479 UltraPlusPAK Hard Drive "Audiophile" Edition Upgrade from 2008
Upgrade from 2007 or earlier or crossgrade	$79 Pro Band-in-a-Box and RealBand Upgrade from 2007 or earlier	$159 MegaPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand Upgrade from 2007 or earlier	$299 UltraPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand Upgrade from 2007 or earlier	$399 UltraPlusPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand Upgrade from 2007 or earlier	$499 UltraPlusPAK Hard Drive "Audiophile" Edition Upgrade from 2007 or earlier
Band-in-a-Box 2009.5 RealBand 2009.5						x
RealTracks Sets (66 Sets Available)	1	1-6	1-39	1-66 (ALL!)	1-66 (ALL!)	x
RealDrums Sets (20 Sets available)	1	1-6	1-20	1-26 (ALL!)	1-26 (ALL!)	x
Styles Sets (77 Sets available)	0-3	0-77 (ALL!)	0-77 (ALL!)	0-77 (ALL!)	0-77 (ALL!)	x
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!)	1-8 (ALL!)	1-8 (ALL!)	1-8 (ALL!)	x
The Video Tutorial PAK	x	x				x
Songs and Lessons PAK	x	x	x			x
The Songs and 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

• 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/tab/notation for the corresponding RealTracks.
• The Verify function in the RealTracks assign dialog has been enhanced. It checks your installation to find if RealTracks are properly installed, or any files are missing.
  The Verify button in the RealTracks Settings dialog has extra features now:
  1. It checks the Bt0 status of the RealTracks st2, compared to the Bt0 found in the RealTracks folder.
  2. It issues error messages if a st2 is found, but not the RealTracks folder.
  3. Issues a message if xt2 not found (for a chording RealTracks).
• Developer mode for RealDrums enhanced. (Note: This feature is only for those people developing their own RealDrums files). If the file c:\bbNumberedDeveloperFiles.txt exists, the DrumAudioResults.txt with information get numbered and written to c:\bb\Results folder.  (Note: you need to create a c:\bb\Results folder first). 
• 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.
• RealCharts for piano are auto hand-split now. RealTracks (and MIDI style) piano parts that are on the piano track will appear with hands-split (right hand in green, left hand in red) on the big piano window, and in notation. There is a setting for this on the Notation-Options dialog.
• Audio Smooth looping added. Now the audio track loops smoothly, including using it with the conductor.  Frozen songs now loop smoothly and are usable with the conductor.
• 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.
• The SongList dialog now lists if any RealDrums or RealTracks were not found, in a separate column ('d' and 't' indicates missing RealDrums or RealTracks).
  Note: If you want to disable this feature, you can put in this file: c:\bb\AlsoReadStylesWithSongListBuildUp_False.txt (contents irrelevant)
• 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.
• Audio Base tempo reminder message.  If saving a song, and the Audio Base tempo is different than the Song Tempo, a warning message will show, asking you to confirm that you want to save it like this.
• Feature that starts a new line on a part marker (section) has been enhanced.
  Section starts a new line feature now does it for 2 bar sections too.  Previously a section with only 2 bars wouldn’t start a new line, now it does.
   -F5 bar settings Notation - on a new line now works for chord sections.
   -Notation starts a new line on a part marker (like the chord sheet). (This can be disabled for a song or globally.)
• Option added for Melody -Guitar rechannel, to include events already on guitar channel.
• When launching the Audio Chord Wizard, a preserve part markers question doesn't appear now if there are no chords in the song.
• Message added when no style demo found in RealTracks dialog.
• Many more demos are shown in the RealTracks dialog.
• And more…

• Detailed text descriptions, and feature list
• Demo version