RealBand 2016 is included in every purchase of the just-released Band-in-a-Box 2016 for Windows!

During the month of December there is special pricing on most Band-in-a-Box & RealBand Upgrade packages! Plus, when you purchase one of the First-time packages or discounted upgrades you will receive a FREE BONUS PAK, which includes:

1 Artist Video Performance:
-Jack Stafford Sax: Indiana

3 MIDI SuperTracks:
-Piano, Rhythm FolkySwing Sw 110
-Piano, Electric, Rhythm FunkSwing16 Sw16 085
-Piano, Rhythm CountryBentNoteJohn Sw 085

4 Instrumental Studies:
-Bass, Electric, Jazz Funk Poppy, Ev16 110
-Guitar, Acoustic, Folk, 2-part Fingerpicking, Sw16 085
-Guitar, Electric, Blues and Rock, Medium Rock Soloist, Ev 120
-Piano, Acoustic, Jazz and Bossa, Solo-Accompaniment Jazz Stride, Sw 085

Special Pricing and the free Bonus PAK are only available until December 31, 2015.

With the release of Band-in-a-Box & RealBand Version 2016, there are 201 NEW RealTracks being added to our library! Plus, there are an additional 24 Bonus RealTracks, 2 Artist Video Performances, 8 MIDI SuperTracks, and 15 Instrumental Studies available in the 49-PAK! Learn more about these Bonus items here: www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.bonuspaks_2016.htm.

Information and demos for the 201 new RealTracks released (Sets 228-253): www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.201newrealtracks.htm

RealBand 2016 for Windows... New Features:

Render track as ACID Loop and export it to Loops folder. Now you can render an audio track (a highlighted section or the whole track) as ACID Loop and save it to the Loops folder.

Render track and save as UserTrack. You can now render an audio track (a highlighted section or the whole track) as a .WAV file and save it to the UserTracks folder. The rendered file will also be added to the UserTracks favorites automatically.

Save Chords Window as video, to make an AVI video of the Chords Window.

Load and save MusicXML files.

Snapshots of the VU input meter on the main toolbar are now displayed in the Tracks Window while audio is being recorded.

MIDI overviews will be displayed on the Tracks Window while MIDI is being recorded.

Notation right-click menu now shows in all notation modes. Previously, right-click menu was not available in the Staff Roll mode.

Event list Window now has a checkbox to enable extra field to display the time of events in milliseconds.

Align to Click Track has been redesigned, so that it will align MIDI to a click track without changing the relative times of notes. This command can also be used to make the bars in RealBand line up with existing audio that was recorded in free time.

There is now a New Click Track submenu in the right-click menu in Audio Edit Window, Tracks Window, and Notation Window, with various commands for creation and editing of click tracks.

Tempo dialog now has an option to wipe out existing tempos if you just want to get rid of multiple tempo changes.

Edit - Tracks submenu has been added to the Tracks Window right-click menu, so that it accessible via a right-click instead of only via the main program menu.

Visual Transpose button has been added to Chords Window. This launches a menu the lets you quickly select transpose settings for various instruments. The menu is also accessible within the Notation Options dialog next to the Transpose field.

StylePicker has been redesigned and enhanced with many new features including:
  • Sizable window by dragging the corner.
  • Selectable font size for texts in the list.
  • Columns sort. The list can be easily sorted by clicking a column name.
  • Quick filter. Type a text or select a category, time signature, feel, tempo, etc., and you will immediately see the filtered list.
  • Intelligent style suggestion. Just type the name of a familiar song title and RealBand will list styles whose genre, feel and tempo are similar to that song.
  • Automatic intelligent sorting of "best style" for the current song.
  • Export style list to spreadsheet.
  • StylePicker Options added to set additional display options in the StylePicker.

New commands have been added to the Record button menu.
  • Use Record Audio Only to prevent MIDI from also being recorded. This will avoid extra popup questions after recording..
  • Use Record MIDI Only to prevent audio from also being recorded. This will also avoid extra popup question.
  • Use Record Audio and MIDI to record both regardless of the current track type.
  • Use Record Click Track menu item for recording a click track to align events to the locations you clicked. This automatically will ensure that the current track gets set to MIDI, or switch to a new track if the current track is audio. Will also designate the track as the Click Track after recording, and set the name to "Click Track" as well.
  • If Always Record both Audio and MIDI menu command is enabled, then when the Record button is pressed, both types of recording will occur by default. If this is not checked, then either MIDI or audio will be recorded, depending upon the track type.

Guitar Window has visual Capo (when the Capo is set via Visual Transpose button in the Chords Window).

Audio Chord Wizard now can receive the bar 1 and meter changes from RealBand.

...and more!

Last edited by Callie - PG Music; 12/01/15 10:08 AM.