PG Music Band-in-a-Box 2019 Pro Software (Windows)

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Bring your compositions to life -- fast! Enter chord names and musical styles, and Band-in-a-Box Pro generates backing tracks from samples of live musicians.

Perfect for musicians, songwriters, and educators, award-winning Band-in-a-Box is the world's premiere auto-accompaniment and style-based music creation software. Use it to easily create backing tracks for songs, jam tracks for practicing solos and improvisation, or as a powerful songwriting tool. Just type in some chords (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose a style, and Band-in-a-Box automatically creates professional-quality backing tracks with keyboards, bass, drums, guitar, strings, horns, and other instruments. Band-in-a-Box supports a wide variety of popular styles, including Rock, Pop, Country, Folk, Celtic, Blues, Jazz, Latin, and Bluegrass styles. You can also create jam tracks using your own Hybrid Styles. There is even a dedicated Song Titles Browser with metadata info on over 8,000 popular songs!

Get great-sounding backing tracks with RealDrums and RealTracks, which give you over 200 hours of studio musicians` recordings to use in your songs! RealTracks are available in a wide range of musical styles, keys, and tempos and use the high-quality Elastique 3 audio stretching and transposition engine. RealStyle automatically selects RealTracks for you when generating an arrangement. RealCharts even lets you view the music notation and guitar tab/fretboard display.

For added versatility, you can import your own or 3rd party loops or your favorite MIDITrack in any style to any track in your arrangement. Use the built-in mixer to control volume, panning, tone, and reverb for read more each instrument in your ultra-realistic Band-in-a-Box arrangement. The "Combo" slider lets you make changes to all tracks at once.

Print your song arrangements as sheet music or save as audio files (AIFF, M4A, WAV) for use in other programs (e.g., GarageBand, Cubase, etc.) or to share on the Internet.

2019 Version:

Band-in-a-Box 2019 is a 64-bit version of Band-in-a-Box, which works well with the latest plugins and 64-bit OS features! PG Music is including both a 64-bit and 32-bit version, so users of a 32-bit Windows OS can still run Band-in-a-Box 2019.

A 64-bit VST plug-in of Band-in-a-Box is also included. This plug-in can be used in your favorite DAW (Cakewalk, Reaper, ProTools, etc.) to generate styles, RealTracks, RealDrums, Multi-Riffs, etc. There's a 64-bit GM MIDI synth, VSTSynthFont64, included with default GM soundfonts, allowing you to specify any GM soundfont even larger ones (up to 2 GB).

There's a completely redesigned SongPicker, which shows information for up to 50,000 songs and useful filter and search features including search by chord progression and/or melodic phrase. The 2019 version adds advanced filters to help with searches for RealTracks, RealDrums, and MIDI SuperTracks. These include search by feel, time signature, tempo, RealCharts, and more. You can now control the loudness of each RealTrack in the medley. Notation enhancements include drum notation, drums RealCharts (transcriptions of some of the RealDrums), quick entry of forced accidentals, and more.

PG Music has added 300 more song titles to the Song Titles Browser. The Melodist now uses RealStyles to generate chords and melodies. Audio Harmonies are enhanced with the BB-Harmony engine providing sophisticated harmonies with passing tones to your audio track. And much more!

Band-in-a-Box 2019 for Windows includes:

- Band-in-a-Box 2019
- RealBand 2019
- 1,000 Dubstep, Modern, and Top 40 Loops
- 21 Nature Sounds and Percussion Loops
- 22 Artist Performances
- Pro RealCombos: Over 300 RealTracks instruments in 100 Bands!
- 54 MIDI SuperTracks
- Over 750 MIDI Styles
- Over 100 MIDI Soloists
- Over 60 MIDI Melodists
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System Requirements:
- Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 (32 or 64-bit)
- Minimum 1GB RAM (2GB+ recommended)
- Minimum 1.0 GHz processor (2GHz+ multicore recommended)
- 1GB free Hard Disk space for a minimal install (15GB+ recommended)
- 1024x768 screen resolution (1360x768+ recommended)
- DVD-ROM drive for shipped versions of the Pro or MegaPAK.
- USB port for the UltraPlusPAK, EverythingPAK or Audiophile Edition.
- Sound card or MIDI module.
- Internet connection recommended for activation and updates.

* More space is required for RealDrums and RealTracks (100 - 400 MB per set), depending on which package you buy. Pro RealCombos (included with Band-in-a-Box Pro) requires approximately 10 GB.

Internet connection recommended for activation and updates.

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 250-475-2874

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