Band-in-a-Box 2009.5 for Macintosh

Welcome to Band-in-a-Box 2009.5 for MacIntel!

The award winning Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords for any song using chord symbols, choose the style you’d like, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest... Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a complete professional quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar and strings or horns. Plus, add REAL accompaniment to your song with RealTracks and RealDrums. These are actual recordings of top studio musicians that replace the MIDI track with audio instruments. They sound like real musicians, because they are recordings of real musicians!

REAL accompaniment is here! And that’s just the beginning...

Introduction to Band-in-a-Box 2009 for Macintosh Video

Band-in-a-Box 2009.5 for Macintosh New Features Video

Band-in-a-Box 2009 for Macintosh Advanced Features

Video: RealPAK - Rock-Pop 2

Video: RealPAK - Jazz 2

Video: RealPAK - Country 2


RealTracks for Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh

Listen to the audio demos for RealTracks Sets 2-66. You’ve got to hear them to believe it!

RealTracks Video Demos by Genre:
Jazz: 7, RealTracks Set 7: Acoustic Jazz Bass and Rock Sax! 13, RealTracks Set 13: "Older" Jazz Swing 14, RealTracks Set 14: Mainstream Swing - Rhythm Section 15, RealTracks Set 15: Mainstream Swing – Soloists 16, RealTracks Set 16: Bossa - Rhythm Section 17, RealTracks Set 17: Bossa - Soloists 18, RealTracksSet 18: Jazz Ballad - Rhythm Section 19, RealTracks Set 19: Jazz Ballad - Soloists 28, RealTracks Set 28: Jazz Waltz 29, RealTracks Set 29: Freddie and Wes: Jazz Guitar Comping 50, RealTracks Set 50: More Bossa! 51, RealTracks Set 51: Slow Bossas and More 52, RealTracks Set 52: Fast Samba 53, RealTracks Set 53: Slow Jazz Ballad - Rhythm Section 54, RealTracks Set 54: Slow Jazz Ballad - Soloists & Solo Piano Accompaniment 55, RealTracks Set 55: Fast BeBop Jazz 56, RealTracks Set 56: Jazz, Old and New 57, RealTracks Set 57: Jazz Swing, Laid Back 58 RealTracks Set 58: Jazz and Pop Waltzes
Pop / Rock: 5, RealTracks Set 5: Rockin’ Guitar 6, RealTracks Set 6: All Metal! 20, RealTracks Set 20: Dual Rock Guitars 21, RealTracks Set 21: Clean Strat Rock 22, RealTracks Set 22: Funk & Pop Bass 23, RealTracks Set 23: Pop Acoustic Guitar 24, RealTracks Set 24: Pop Swing 8ths Guitar 25, RealTracks Set 25: Pop Swing 8ths Bass 1 26, RealTracks Set 26: Pop Swing 8ths Bass 2 27, RealTracks Set 27: "Dreamy" Pop Guitar 40, RealTracks Set 40: American Pop-Rock 41, RealTracks Set 41: Rockin' Hard 42, RealTracks Set 42: Boogie 'n Texas Rock 43, RealTracks Set 43: Rockin' Down South 44, RealTracks Set 44: Blues Guitar and Organ 45, RealTracks Set 45: Driving British Rock 46, RealTracks Set 46: Medium Pop - Harmonica, Organ and Bass 47, RealTracks Set 47: Slow and Fast Pop - Harmonica & Organ 48, RealTracks Set 48: Medium Modern Rock 49 RealTracks Set 49: Spirited Acoustic Guitar
Blues: 10, RealTracks 10: All Blues (Shuffle) 30, RealTracks Set 30: Blues (Slow Swing) 31, RealTracks Set 31: Blues (Slow Even 8ths) 32 RealTracks Set 32: Blues (Fast Even 8ths)
Country: 2, RealTracks Set 2: Country Ballad 3, RealTracks Set 3: Swingin' Country 4, RealTracks Set 4: Modern Country 8, RealTracks Set 8: Country Folk 9, RealTracks Set 9: Country Electric Guitar 34, RealTracks Set 34: Country Train Beat 35, RealTracks Set 35: Chet and Travis Pickin' 36, RealTracks Set 36: Swingin' Country 2 37, RealTracks Set 37: Swingin' Country 3 38, ealTracks Set 38: Classic Country: Pedal Steel n' More 39, RealTracks Set 39: Slow Country 59, RealTracks Set 59: Crossover 60, RealTracks Set 60: Country Rock! 61, RealTracks Set 61: Ballads and More! 62, RealTracks Set 62: Western Swing and Bluegrass! 63, RealTracks Set 63: Country Waltz 1 64, RealTracks Set 64: Country Waltz 2 65, RealTracks Set 65: Alt-Country 66 RealTracks Set 66: Modern Nashville Pop
Bluegrass: 11, RealTracks 11: All Bluegrass (Rhythm) 12, RealTracks 12: All Bluegrass (Solos) 33 RealTracks Set 33: Bluegrass (Medium Tempo)

RealTracks feature real audio recordings of instruments that can be assigned to replace any MIDI track in Band-in-a-Box. These tracks follow the chord progression that you have entered, so that you hear an authentic audio accompaniment to your song. RealTracks can also be built in to the style, replacing the MIDI bass, guitar, piano, or strings part in that style or you can use the Soloist to generate RealTracks. You can replace just one MIDI track or all of the tracks with RealTracks. We've even made complete RealStyles that contain "All Real" tracks and no MIDI instruments.

PG Music has 66 RealTracks Sets, with a total of almost 300 RealTracks for Jazz, Country, Rock, Pop, Metal, Blues and Bluegrass! All these sets are available for $29 each. The UltraPAK Band-in-a-Box packages include RealTracks Sets 1-39. The UltraPlusPAK Band-in-a-Box packages include ALL 66 RealTracks Sets!

Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh on a Portable Hard Drive!

Using Band-in-a-Box is easier than ever! When you order the Band-in-a-Box and RealBand UltraPAK or UltraPlusPAKyou have the option of receiving the program on a portable USB hard drive. Just plug it in and start using it right away!

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…

March 12, 2010

PG Music Inc.

Band-in-a-Box 2009 Requirements

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Intel Processor
  • Minimum 512 MB RAM recommended
  • Screen Resolution: 1024x768 or higher
  • Hard Disk space: 500 MB free hard disk space to install Band-in-a-Box program and MIDI styles. Additional hard disk space is required for RealTracks, about 1 GB per set and RealDrums require about 100 MB per set.

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