Version 2011.5
The MegaPAK version includes:
- Band-in-a-Box 2011.5
- RealBand 2011.5
- Mega RealCombos: Over 70 RealTracks instruments in 19 bands and RealDrums Sets 1-6. Listen to demos! >>
- Styles Sets 0-77: All MIDI Styles Sets, over 1500 MIDI styles total.
- Soloist Sets 1-11 & 16-20: Over 300 Soloists.
- Melodist Sets 1-8: Over 200 Melodists.
There are 20 new features and enhancements in Band-in-a-Box 2011.5 since version 2011!
- We've added a new floating Mixer Window, allowing you to quickly set volumes, panning, reverb, tone and patches.
- There's a new "BB Remote" app for your iPhone®, which can be used as a remote control for the desktop version of Band-in-a-Box 2011.5!
The BB Remote App is available from the iTunes App Store.
- We've added 101 NEW RealTracks
in sets 122-136, including: 70's Soul, Celtic Hornpipes & Slipjigs,
Crossover Pop, Gypsy Jazz, Jazz Piano and Organ, Brent Mason Country
soloing, Praise & Worship, and much more!
There were over 50 new features in Band-in-a-Box 2011!
- Big improvements to the sounds of the RealTracks so
that they sound more natural over a much wider range of tempos, using
the elastique Pro V2 time stretching engine by zplane.development. These
improvements are built-in, so there's nothing you need to do to get it
working. Your existing songs will just sound better automatically! Check out the new feature videos to hear examples.
- Android and iPhone®
versions of Band-in-a-Box, which connect to your Windows desktop
version of Band-in-a-Box 2011 and allows you to generate, play, and save
songs on your iPhone®, iPod touch®, iPad™, or Android phone - with the same high quality RealTracks sound!
- Enhanced RealTracks, so that you can now have RealTracks style changes within a song, generate Soloist Medleys - solos that can play multiple RealTracks instruments during the solos, and more. There's a Scales Wizard for practicing, which generates scales for any chord progression. New StylePicker Filters show you only the styles that match your search criteria.
- 101 new RealTracks since July 2010,
including: Gypsy Jazz, Celtic Jigs & Reels, Calypso, Praise &
Worship, Reggae, Brent Mason Guitar, and so much more!
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
arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings or horns in a
wide variety of popular styles. Live audio tracks can be created using
RealDrums and RealTracks.
And that’s not all...
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 and Lyrics, Piano Roll, 16-channel MIDI
Multitracks, Harmonization, the StyleMaker and StylePicker, a live
performance Conductor window, Medley Maker, and 24 –substyle
Multistyles. The Soloist and the Melodist are popular “intelligent”
features that generate professional solos or even create whole new
songs from scratch. RealDrums adds the human element of a live drummer
while RealTracks add even more live session musicians, bringing the
entire Band-in-a-Box arrangement to life. The Audio Chord Wizard has
the amazing ability to analyze, extract, and show the chords from audio
recordings on-screen and then write them to the Band-in-a-Box chord
sheet.
The inclusion of digital audio features makes Band-in-a-Box the perfect
tool for creating, playing, and recording your music with MIDI, vocals,
and acoustic instruments. Band-in-a-Box for Windows® can also record
an acoustic instrument or voice to add to the composition, with
processing through its own DirectX audio effects. Its built-in TC
Helicon audio harmonies will turn your audio track into multiple
harmony parts or adjust its pitch, with vibrato and scooping effects
for realistic vocal styles and up to sixteen choral parts.
You can print out your finished creation with lyrics, chords,
repeats
and endings, DC markings and codas, or save it as a graphics file for
web publication or to e-mail to a friend. And when you're ready to let
others hear your composition, you can burn it directly to an audio CD.
Or save your composition as a Windows Media File (or in any other
compressed formats you have) for a file that’s “Internet ready.” You’ll
have even more fun making automatic medleys, playing your
favorite song lists in the Band-in-a-Box Jukebox, and singing along to
your Karaoke files with CDG graphics.
The MegaPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand includes: The MegaPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand includes all of our Styles Sets
0-77, regular Soloist Sets 1-11 and 16-20, Melodist Sets 1-8,
MegaPAK RealCombos:
40 RealTracks in 10 Bands
Jazz Swing 140, Country Ballad 65
Pop Rock 120,Bossa 140, Bluegrass 130
Blues 120, American PopRock 120,
SmoothCool Jazz 100, JazzBallad 85,
HardRock Thrash 85
+ RealDrums Sets 1-5
OVER 50 NEW FEATURES IN 2011 VERSION!
Band and-in-a-Box 2011 for Windows is here with over 50 new features and enhancements! RealTracks sound more natural over a wider range of tempos, they're much smaller and you can even shrinks the size of your existing RealTracks. We′ve made an iPhone® version
of Band-in-a-Box, available from the Apple App Store. It connects to
your Windows desktop version of Band-in-a-Box 2011 and allows
you to generate, play, and save songs on your iPhone®, iPod touch®, or iPad™.
We′ve
made big improvements to the sounds of the RealTracks, so that they
sound more natural over a much wider range of tempos with
the elastique Pro V2 time stretching engine by zplane.development. These
improvements are built-in, so there′s nothing you need to
do to get it working. Your existing songs will just "sound better"
over a much wider range of tempos. You′ll want to check out
the demo videos for audio examples of these improvements!
We′ve made an iPhone® version
of Band-in-a-Box, available from the Apple App Store. It connects to
your Windows desktop version of Band-in-a-Box 2011, and
allows you to generate, play, and save songs on your iPhone®, iPod touch®, or iPad™ - with the same high quality RealTracks sound!
We′ve enhanced RealTracks, so that you can now have RealTracks styles changes within a song, generate Soloist Medleys – solos that play RealTracks instruments during the solos, and more. There′s a Scales Wizard for practicing, which generates scales for any chord progression. New StylePicker Filters show you only the styles that match your search criteria.
Plus
we′ve released 101 new RealTracks 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!
If you have a copy of Band-in-a-Box 2011 for Windows®, then with the Band-in-a-Box iPhone version you can:
- Quickly
transfer your existing library of songs from BB Desktop to BB iPhone,
including chordsheets and audio (M4A). See the
chordsheets and play the songs anytime on your iPhone, without
re-connecting to the Band-in-a-Box desktop.
- Enter songs from scratch on your BB iPhone by typing in chord symbols to the song.
- Generate
audio on your BB iPhone for the songs by pressing play. The songs
play on the iPhone and are stored on the iPhone as
M4A files. This connects across your home network (LAN) or the
Internet (from anywhere) to your desktop version of
Band-in-a-Box.
- Send songs from BB iPhone to BB Desktop.
- The
iPhone version communicates with Band-in-a-Box for Windows using a
utility program called Band-in-a-Box Server
(c:\bb\bbhelper\BandinaBoxServer.exe). This program runs in the system
tray (lower right of Windows taskbar).
- The
iPhone version will see the "BB2Go" folder (c:\bb\BB2Go). Any
Band-in-a-Box songs that you put in this folder are
visible to the BB iPhone. You can send files back and forth from BB
iPhone to Band-in-a-Box for Windows, and the files
go to the BB2Go folder.
- You
can add audio to the Band-in-a-Box files in the BB2Go folder from the
Band-in-a-Box Windows menu with the BB2Go command,
and select the files that you want to have MP4/M4A audio added. You
can also generate the audio from the iPhone
version.
Note: These features require QuickTime® for Windows® to be installed, which you can download from www.apple.com.
Yes, there is are many more improvements so many more...
PG Music has also added a huge number of RealTracks with 101 great new Jazz, Pop, and Country Styles is RealTracks Sets 102-121. Learn More...
System Requirements:
MAC
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Intel Processor
- Minimum 512 MB RAM
- Screen Resolution: 1024x768 or higher
- Hard Disk space: Minimum 400 MB for the main
Band-in-a-Box program. More space is required for RealTracks, depending
on which package you buy...
- RealTracks & RealDrums: ~100-400 MB per set
- Pro RealCombos: ~2 GB
- MegaPAK RealCombos: ~6 GB
- Full UltraPlusPAK/EverythingPAK when installed to internal hard drive: ~40 GB
- Hard Drive versions of the EverythingPAK or
UltraPlusPAK do not require any hard disk space when run directly from
the external hard drive they are shipped on.
- Optical drive for shipped versions of the MegaPAK or Pro version.
