RealBand^® 2025 for Windows^®

Welcome to RealBand, your all-in-one audio workstation and accompaniment program!

RealBand is a program that combines the most popular features from PG Music’s PowerTracks Pro Audio DAW and the award-winning Band-in-a-Box into an all-in-one sequencing program with automatic accompaniment.

RealBand offers powerful features for musicians, students, and songwriters. With intelligent automatic arrangements, RealTracks live instrument tracks, RealDrums live drum tracks, the amazing Audio Chord Wizard, seamlessly integrated digital audio/MIDI recording, built-in DirectX effects, and notation, RealBand turns a typical PC into a music production powerhouse. This documentation will provide you with information on how to get the most out of the great features that RealBand has to offer.

RealBand is a fully-featured and powerful music arranging, sequencing, and digital recording program. RealBand is the perfect tool for musicians, students, and songwriters alike!

Note: Band-in-a-Box^® 2025 for Windows includes version 2025 of RealBand, your All-in-One Audio Workstation and Accompaniment program!

RealBand^® 2025 is Here!

RealBand 2025 introduces over 20 new features, including VST3 support, the Stem Splitter, AI-generated lyrics, faster generation of RealTracks/RealDrums, and a reset option for track height in the Tracks window. Other enhancements include a taller Timeline on the Notation window toolbar, new freeze buttons in the Tracks window, three toolbar modes (two rows, single row, and none), the improved Select Patch dialog with text-based search and numeric patch display, a new button in the DirectX/VST window to copy an effects group, and more!

Summary of New Features in RealBand 2025

RealBand now supports VST3 plugins.

The amazing Stem Splitter separates an audio file containing multiple instruments into individual tracks - bass, drums, guitars/piano, vocals, and residual sounds, and imports them separately to your song. Using advanced AI and machine learning techniques, this process, also known as “audio source separation,” offers greater flexibility and creative control in music production.

The new AI Lyrics window provides creative songwriting functions that suggest or generate themes, styles, titles, and even entire song ideas. It also offers customized AI lyrics generation, enabling 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. With six lyric modes - Word Suggestions, Inspiration, Songwriting, Improvements, Full Song, and Custom - you can refine your lyrics in numerous ways. (Note: You need an internet connection to use this feature.)

Generation of RealTracks/RealDrums is faster when generating multiple RealTracks/RealDrums or when generating an individual RealTrack or RealDrum track that is 20 bars or longer.

New Tracks Window and Mixer Window | Reset Tracks Window commands:

• The Reset Tracks Window command in the right-click menu on the Tracks or Mixer window will reset all the tracks to default heights.
• The Auto-hide extra upper tracks (except one blank track) command in the right-click menu on the Tracks or Mixer window will automatically hide blank tracks above the highest used track, while still leaving at least one blank track above the highest used track.
• The Auto-hide extra upper tracks command in the right-click menu on the Tracks or Mixer window will automatically hide all blank tracks above the highest used track.

The Time Line at the bottom of the Notation window toolbar is now taller, making it easier to click on.

The new Freeze buttons on the Tracks window will let you freeze/unfreeze tracks from generation without having to use the right-click menu.

A single-row toolbar mode is added to the top toolbar, so there are now three toolbar modes (two rows, single row, and none). Pressing Ctrl+T or Options | Hide Toolbar (or Show Toolbar) toggles the modes. The single-row mode contains a tabbed panel. The triangular disclosure buttons let you switch between the three modes without using a menu or hotkeys.

The Track | Search for a track command is added to the right-click menu on the Tracks window. This is a text-based search for a track, by typing in a track name or part of a track name.

The Select Patch dialog now includes a button that allows you to perform a text-based search for a patch within the currently selected instrument.

The Select Patch dialog now displays numeric patches instead of a blank list box if there aren’t any patches defined for Bank 0.

The new Copy Group button in the DirectX/VST window lets you copy an effects group from a track to another track. For example, you can copy the effects group from Track 1 to Track 2.

The Mixer can now display up to 48 tracks at a time instead of 24, if the computer monitor resolution supports it.

The Preferences - Song Generation dialog has checkboxes to either disable multiple threads for single-track generation or disable multiple-thread generation entirely. This is in case there are any issues that come up. Currently, RealBand uses multiple threads when generating an individual track if it’s 20 bars or longer. (RealBand uses multiple threads to generate sections of the track.) If generating multiple tracks at a time, it will use a different thread to generate each track.

The StylePicker now remembers its window size and opens at the same size as the last time.

...and more!