PG Music Band in a Box 2014 Pro Software (Mac)

There are more than 50 updated features in Band-in-a-Box 2014, including a redesigned GUI with a great look and feel, and many time-saving features. Toolbars, Song/Style areas, on-screen mixer, redesigned chord sheet with handwritten "real" looking chord fonts and more. You can now make your own RealTracks - called UserTracks - and you can use them like any RealTracks. Simply record your playing (in any DAW), along to some BB songs, put in the UserTracks folder, and you're done! There's a handy Instant Preview of styles, RealTracks, and RealDrums so that you can quickly audition them to choose the best ones for your song. Loops now support Acidized Loops, so that tempo/chord root info is automatic. A Legato Strings feature automatically optimizes MIDI string parts to prevent retriggering the same notes. Everything can now be louder - a Master Volume allows you to boost volumes of all songs with one setting.

The award-winning Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), 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… read more real musicians!

Band-in-a-Box 2014 for Macintosh includes:
- Pro RealCombos -- Over 30 RealTracks in 9 Bands, and RealDrums Set 1.
- MIDI Styles Sets 0-3 -- Over 300 MIDI Styles in a variety of genres.
- MIDI SuperTracks Sets 1-3 -- 46 MIDI SuperTracks for Pop, Country & Jazz.
- Loops Set 1: Nature Sounds and Percussion Loops
- MIDI Soloist Set 1 -- 100 MIDI Solos in a variety of instruments.
- MIDI Melodist Set 1 -- Over 50 MIDI Melodists.
- Artist Performance Set 1

Features:

- UserTracks added. Now you (or others) can make your own RealTracks (guitars, pianos, strings,etc.). To make your own RealTracks, simply record tracks in any DAW, name your UserTracks,and add them to the UserTracks folder in Band-in-a-Box. They are now ready to use, the same as you use other RealTracks!
- GUI enhanced - toolbars and Song Title Area. It's got an updated look for toolbars, main screen and more. Toolbars redone, organized by functional groups. Single button to choose a song or style. More elaborate style descriptions on screen. Style memo shows a summary list of instruments. Changing key signatures is easier; previously was combo box navigation and answering a question about transpose (4 clicks+scroll), now just a single menu (2 clicks).
- GUI enhanced - on-screen mixer. Redesigned onscreen mixer, with volume/panning/reverb/tone sliders settings. Tab for on-screen pianos (one for each track).
- GUI enhanced - Chord sheet area. Colors for chord sheet part markers. Bar numbers color coded according to substyle. Selectable chord sheet font. "Real" looking handwritten font for chords.
- Instant Preview of Styles. Within the StylePicker, you can double-click to hear an "instant" (starting in less than 3 seconds) preview of what that style or RealTracks sounds like. If the style has both MIDI and RealDrums available, you can hear both, and choose which one you want.
- Instant Previews of RealTracks. Within the RealTracks Picker, double-click on a RealTracks and a demo of that RealTrack will play (within 3 seconds). You can hear the RealTracks solo, or with a band. Since this doesn't affect your song, you can quickly audition many different RealTracks, and find the best ones for your song. read less