Grid lines in the Tracks and Audio Edit windows are now drawn in a darker color instead of white.

RealBand will automatically hide grid lines when they are within a certain number of pixels of each other.

We've added an audio scrub mode in the Audio Edit window. Click on the new speaker icon and then click and drag a section of audio to play it.

In the Tracks and Mixer windows, moving a volume or pan slider while pressing the Shift key also moves other selected tracks' sliders. This applies to Tracks and Mixer windows.

Master Volume, Chorus, and Reverb settings are now saved to .SEQ files.

The transpose dialog now has a combo box to let you set the number of semitones and it no longer requires a Yes-or-No question regarding semitones when you exit the dialog.

There is a new setting in the MultiRiff dialog to generate either audio, MIDI (if RealChart available), or both.

Red lines are now drawn around the Comments button on the toolbar when the song contains comments.

There is now a checkbox in the Comments window to enable/disable the automatic launching of the window when a song is loaded.

There is a new audio harmony feature that uses elastique instead of IVL/TC-Helicon routines. This sophisticated harmony feature includes harmonizing the audio with up to 4 harmony voices, transcribing the original audio to MIDI, and transcribing the harmony voiced to MIDI.

Hide/Show button in DirectX/VST window - The window now has a button to hide or show the top half of the window.

We have added more keys for the keystroke notation entry feature. The M key enters an additional note a third above the existing note on the current time line, and the R key enters a rest at the current time line.

When you open a MusicXML file that was saved by either RealBand or Band-in-a-Box, the notation track type will be automatically set to drum if the track in the XML file is drums.

RealBand can now save a drum track as drum notation to MusicXML. It will also be able to reload drum notation tracks from MusicXML if the file was saved by RealBand or Band-in-a-Box.

You can now save Hammer-on, pull-off, and slide to MusicXML files.

RealBand now supports other file types: .mxl (a compressed format) and .musicxml, in addition to .xml.

This is added, and we call it "thickening". It can be used on any RealTracks but is especially useful for "Vocals". If you have a RealTracks which is already 4 voices, you can set it to "thicken" (overdub) it up to 10 times, which would result in 40 voices singing slightly differently, like a big choir! An example where this is very useful is our new "Soulful Gospel" Vocal RealTracks. You can thicken a track by pressing the MEDLEY button in the RealTracks Picker.

There are demo songs in the C:\bb\Documentation\Tutorials\Tutorial - BB2020 folder. For styles, filter the StylePicker list by typing "thickened" in the text filter. In the RealTracks Picker, you can easily identify the RealTracks with this feature by Multi[Thickened=#] in the name.

The StylePicker window size and position is now saved between sessions.

We've added a RealTracks and RealDrums Artist Browser, where you can easily search among the hundreds of Artists to filter the list by name, style or instrument type. And then show just the RealTracks/RealDrums they've worked on and find bio and additional information for the Artist. This Artist Browser is available in the RealTracks or RealDrums pickers, by pressing the BIO button.

Three filters have been added for Instrument (e.g. acoustic guitar), Instrument Family (e.g. any guitar), and Custom Instrument Range.

We've added a huge number of RealDrums transcriptions. In 2019, 20 RealDrums had transcriptions (RealCharts), but now 300 RealDrums have transcriptions.