PG Music Band in a Box Pro (Mac)

Manufacturer's Description for PG Music Band in a Box Pro (Mac)

PG Music is excited to announce the release of Band-in-a-Box 2011 for Macintosh, with over 50 new features and enhancements! New features for Band-in-a-Box 2011 for Macintosh include big improvements to the sounds of RealTracks, with better sound over a much wider range of tempos. The RealTracks are now 70% smaller in size - and you can reclaim lots of existing hard drive space by shrinking your existing RealTracks without losing quality.

PG Music also has added a new Mixer window, allowing you to quickly set volumes, panning, reverb, tone and patches. The Mixer floats on top of the current window, so you can place it wherever it's convenient to make quick and easy adjustments to your Band-in-a-Box track settings. This is just the beginning of the over 50 features added!

Plus, they've released 101 new RealTracks for Macintosh in Sets 101 to 121 with great new styles - Gypsy Jazz, Celtic Jigs & Reels, Calypso, Praise & Worship, Reggae, Brent Mason Guitar, and so much more! Now there are over 600 RealTracks available in RealTracks Sets 1-121! This provides new Macintosh RealPAK Volume 5 packages for Jazz, Rock-Pop and Country.

About Band-in-a-Box

Automatic accompaniment has arrived! 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!!! automatically generating a complete professional quality five instrument arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings in a wide variety of popular styles.

What is Band-in-a-Box? Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program for your multimedia computer. You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your "on demand" backup band.

Band-in-a-Box is a powerful and creative music composition tool for exploring and developing musical ideas with near-instantaneous feedback. Over the years many features have been added to Band-in-a-Box - Notation, Lyrics, Melody Tracks, Harmonization, and a programmable StyleMaker. The Soloist and the Melodist are two major "intelligent" features; the Soloist generates professional quality solos over any chord progression, the Melodist can create songs from scratch with Chords, Melodies, Intros, Solos, and even a Title! zZounds is an authorized dealer of PG Music products.

System Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Intel Processor

• Minimum 512 MB RAM recommended

• Screen Resolution: 1024x768 or higher

• Hard Disk space: 500 MB free hard disk space to install Band-in-a-Box program and MIDI styles. Additional hard disk space is required for RealTracks, about 1 GB per set and RealDrums require about 100 MB per set.

Dimensions and Weight in Packaging

Version 2010

Shipping Weight: 1 lbs

Shipping Dimensions: 6 x 8 x 1 in

Version 2011

Shipping Weight: 1 lbs

Shipping Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 1 in