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The latest version of PG Music’s well known Band-in-a-Box software is a great tool— not only for practicing, but also transcription and composition. Like previous versions, the program is deep, capable, and comes with plenty of documentation. But the centerpiece of BIAB is the ability to type in any chords you want and have the program craft a stylistically appropriate accompaniment using audio recorded by real musicians (called RealTracks). In my band, we are working up a version of the Band’s “Ophelia,” which has a rather tricky solo section. Within a few minutes of starting up the program, I had a useful backing track in a driving bluegrass style featuring some of Nashville’s finest playing some killer rhythm parts and fills. (Head over to the online version to hear an example.)

Not all styles have RealTrack capabilities, and that’s where the MIDI-sounding tracks come in. However, I found that nearly all of the examples I’d use had some form of real audio accompaniment. Another fun feature was the ability to export animated videos of the chord chart synced up with the audio. It was a great help to send the videos to bandmates who don’t have BIAB to play along with. If you can get around the clunkier aspects of the interface, BIAB is one of the most useful tools for inquisitive musicians out there.

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Pros:
Easily expandable set of RealTracks. Extremely high quality audio. Plenty of documentation.

Cons:
Sometimes hard-to-navigate interface.

Street:
Starting at $129 Hex comparison 1 82 serial killers 2.

PG Music Band-in-a-Box for Mac 2015
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• PG Music Band-in-a-Box Pro 2015 for Mac

PG Music Band-in-a-Box Pro 2015 for Mac

Product Description

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 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 plus optional live audio tracks with RealDrums and RealTracks.

Band-in-a-Box 2015 for Mac includes over 50 great new features and enhancements!

PG Music has enhanced the GUI for an improved look and feel, and added many new time-saving features such as automatic track labels, video tutorial-help buttons, instant previews for many dialogs, and more. You can save your song as a video and upload it to YouTube. They've added an Audio Track, allowing you open an audio file, record audio, or render the song to the Audio Track. The new Audio Edit Window shows a digital waveform for the Audio track. You can now write Acidized information to the audio file. Loops dialog has been enhanced with support for Apple loops, support for additional formats including CAF and WMA, and more. Automatic program updates have been added, which can detect and download free program and RealTracks updates. New playback options allow for setting any relative tempo with great quality!

The Pro version includes:

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• Band-in-a-Box 2015
• Pro RealCombos: Over 200 RealTracks instruments in 38 Bands!
• 46 MIDI SuperTracks
• Over 400 MIDI Styles
• Over 100 MIDI Soloists
• Over 60 MIDI Melodists
• 21 Nature Sounds and Percussion Loops
• 22 Artist Performances
• NEW! 1,000 Dubstep, Modern and Top 40 Loops

• Ships on 3 DVDs, or ~10 GB download.

System Requirements

• 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 programs. More space is required for RealTracks, depending on which package you buy..Optical drive for shipped versions of the MegaPAK or Pro version.
  • RealTracks & RealDrums: ~100-400 MB per set
  • Pro RealCombos: ~10 GB
  • MegaPAK RealCombos: ~20 GB
  • Full UltraPlusPAK/EverythingPAK when installed to internal hard drive: ~90 GB
    (another ~90GB is required for the installation files when downloading the UltraPlusPAK or EverythingPAK)
  • 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.

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