Chapter 2: Summary of New Features

BB Stem Splitter
This amazing tool separates an audio file containing multiple instruments into individual tracks - bass, drums, guitars/piano, vocals, and residual sounds. These tracks are then added separately to your song, allowing you to generate Band-in-a-Box tracks to play along with. Using advanced AI and machine learning techniques, this process, also known as "audio source separation," offers greater flexibility and creative control in music production. For example, you can import vocals from your favorite singer and rearrange the backing tracks in Band-in-a-Box to create a unique, personalized mix.

VST3 Support
Band-in-a-Box now supports VST3 plugins, allowing you to use them alongside VST2 and DXi plugins for MIDI or audio tracks.

AI Lyrics Generator
Band-in-a-Box has many more AI features, including creative songwriting functions that suggest or generate themes, styles, titles, and even entire song ideas. It also offers customized AI lyrics generation, allowing you to create lyrics from scratch, generate the next line, or experiment with rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, related words, or alliterations. You can enhance your existing lyrics by adding vivid imagery, emotion, richer vocabulary, or more natural phrasing. The AI Lyrics Generator consolidates all these features, allowing you to easily tailor your lyrics to fit your song. With six lyric modes - Word Suggestions, Inspiration, Songwriting, Improvements, Full Song, and Custom - you can refine your lyrics in numerous ways. (Note: An internet connection is required to use these features.)

MIDI Patch Picker
There's a new one-stop MIDI Patch Picker with over 1,100 MIDI patches (instrument sounds) to choose from, all categorized by GM numbers.

MultiPicker Library Enhanced
The MultiPicker Library is enhanced with new tabs for the SongPicker, MIDI Patch Picker, Chord Builder, AI Lyrics Generator, and Song Titles Browser, and all tabs are logically organized.
There is an option to open the MultiPicker Library instead of modal dialogs. (Note: Holding the Shift key while selecting the menu item to access the feature always opens the MultiPicker Library, and holding the Ctrl key always opens the modal dialog.
When opened, the window will automatically return to the last tab you were viewing.

Audiophile Edition Enhanced with FLAC Files
The Audiophile Edition is enhanced with FLAC files, which are 60% smaller than WAV files while maintaining identical audio quality, now ships on a fast 1TB SSD.

Hotkeys Added
S T E M S Enter opens the Stem Splitter.
A I L Enter open the AI Lyrics Generator.

Other Features and Enhancements
The right-click menu in the StylePicker now includes more items, providing quick access to common features like playing audio demos or the current song, opening a song demo, and loading a style.
With the right-click menu in the StylePicker, you can set the highlighted or currently loaded style as a “remembered” style and quickly revert to it after loading other styles.
The StylePicker Rebuild dialog has been improved. It now rebuilds all picker lists and saves new folder locations, which can also be used by Band-in-a-Box Plugin and RealBand.
Each time you rebuild in the StylePicker, it will update various lists, including Loops and UserTracks.
The menu command to open the Chord Sheet has been added to the Window menu.
The “What add-ons do I have?” item is now available only in the Help menu. The same item in the Options menu has been removed due to redundancy.
The custom setting of drums now overrides Multi-Drums.
The Tracks window now displays a vertical cursor on all tracks to indicate the current location.
In the Tracks window, holding down the Ctrl key while clicking on the +/- buttons to adjust the vertical track heights will expand or reduce them at 5 times the normal rate. If you hold down the Shift key, the track heights will expand or reduce at 10 times the normal rate.
The Chord Builder (Progression Builder/Chord Picker) now always opens in the MultiPicker Library.
The “#5” label in the Progression Builder isnow labeled “b6.”
The Output Chords feature now restarts a chord if it restated.
The Output Chords feature has support to “keyswitches,” with a checkbox setting to preserve track notes and events outside of the chord note range.
The Spotify links in the Song Titles Browser have been fixed.
The [OK] button in the Chord Options dialog has been renamed to [Apply].
Hints in some dialogs (e.g., PG Reverb dialog) have been updated.

Feature Browser Updated
The Feature Browser has been updated to include the new features for 2025.

… and more!