Band-in-a-Box

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What is Band-in-a-Box?

Use Band-in-a-Box to write songs or to practice improvisation and soloing. Band-in-a-Box easily delivers great sounding backing tracks in a multitude of styles. Band-in-a-Box Pro includes over 350 RealTracks Sets featuring over 100 bands playing real instruments. You get over 340 hours of recordings by top studio musicians to use on your own songs.

Top Features of Band-in-a-Box:

• Create your own backing tracks and jam tracks in all popular music styles including: Jazz, Blues, Funk, Rock, Pop, Country, Folk, Latin, Caribbean/Calypso, Celtic, Bluegrass, Reggae, and many more!
• RealTracks and RealDrums give you access to recordings by top studio musicians for use in your songs.
• Video RealTracks, which work like RealTracks with videos of the performing musician.
• Audio Chord Wizard can detect the chords in any AIFF, MP4, M4A, or other audio files and display them for you.
• Audio Wizard can determine the tempo, bar lines, and song’s key.
• Audio Harmonies with transcription, which converts a monophonic audio track to notation.
• Fix Tuning feature to correct an out-of-tune audio recording.
• Automatically generated melodies and solos that you can study.
• Instrumental Studies for guitar with performances to help you learn to play backing or lead guitar in different styles.
• Print song arrangements as a lead sheets including music notation.
• Support for compound time signatures such as 12/8, 6/8, and 9/8.
• Toolbar skins and other customization features.
• Export your song as a high-resolution MP3.
• Export the Notation Window to video synchronized with the audio track playback.
• Open or Save As ABC notation files, which as common song files on the Internet with chords and melody.
• Audio Edit Window with new features.
• Import an audio file, record audio, or render your song to an Audio track or export as a YouTube video.
• Includes 1,000 modern electronic dance and Top 40/pop style loops, or import your own.
• Ultra-low latency audio driver (Windows Audio Session).
• and more!

VST Plug-in

Band-in-a-Box includes a 64-bit VST plug-in format that works with any Windows DAW that accepts VST plug-ins. The Mac version includes 64-bit VST, AU, and AAX plug-ins. Easily add Band-in-a-Box tracks to your audio production!

Automatic Music Accompaniment

Award-winning Band-in-a-Box is easy-to-use, intelligent music accompaniment software. Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (i.e., C, Fm7, C13b9), choose the style you would like played by the band, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest!

You can import a simple acoustic guitar demo and then use the Audio Chord Wizard to detect the chords, and the Audio Wizard to determine the tempo, bar lines, and song key. Use Band-in-a-Box to flesh out your arrangement with a full band.

Studio Musicians Are Always on Call For You

Your backing tracks will sound even better with RealTracks. These sound best because they are actual recordings of the performances by top studio musicians. It’s like having live studio musicians available to play anytime!

Artist Performances by great players such as Downbeat jazz winners Eric Alexander (tenor sax), Ron Carter (bass), Kenny Barron (piano), Lewis Nash (drums), Gary Smulyan (baritone sax), Mike Moreno (guitar), and Phil Woods (alto sax). Plus, you get tracks by gypsy jazz guitarist Quinn Bachand and noted Nashville session players Brent Mason (guitar) and Kevin McKendree (piano).

RealTracks are available in a wide range of musical styles, keys, and tempos. There are over 2,900 RealTracks (2,700 for Mac 2019) included in the UltraPAK or UltraPAK+ which equates to over 3,100 hours (2,900 for Mac 2019) of recorded performances! You get RealTracks for guitar, bass, piano, banjo, saxophone, and much more!

RealStyle automatically selects RealTracks for you when generating an arrangement. RealCharts even lets you view the music notation and guitar tab/fretboard display. RealCombos that make it easy to assign all song tracks to the same style using a RealTracks band.

RealDrums (a types of RealTrack) give you the perfect drum groove complete with fills and brushes for jazz arrangements. You even get “Woodshedding” RealTracks from Brent Mason played in 12 keys. They are displayed with Hi-Q Tab/Notation, which is ideal for studying and learning!

Bands in a Wide Variety of Styles

RealCombos are preset arrangements of RealTracks in specific styles. They make it easy to select RealTracks for your song. For example, the “Jazz Swing 140” RealCombo includes RealCombo includes bass, piano, guitar, sax, and drums that were recorded at a medium swing tempo of 140 bpm. (Note that RealTracks can be used at any tempo; however, they sound most natural when played close to the original recorded tempo.)

Import/Export AppleLoops (Mac) and Acid files (Windows) or other loops or your favorite MIDI track in any style to any track in your arrangement. Band-in-a-Box includes MIDI styles and MIDI SuperTracks that allow you to customize MIDI sounds and edit notes.

Create Your Own Style

Hybrid Styles allow you to mix-and-match instruments from up to five RealCombos so you can create your custom sound. For example, your custom arrangement could have a Reggae bass, Rock drums, and Salsa piano. Create a name for your Hybrid Style, save it, and use it anytime.

Amazing Vocal Harmonies

Simply record your vocal part, choose a harmony, and Band-in-a-Box will generate up to four part vocal harmonies for you using the world-leading TC-Helicon Vocal Technologies engine. If your singing is not in perfect tune, Band-in-a-Box can “fix” vocals to the correct pitch using the Melody track.

Save, Print, Render, and Share Your Music

Want people to perform your song live? Just print out your complete song arrangement as sheet music. Easily generate lead sheets for your band.

Want an audio recording? Use the built-in mixer to control volume, panning, tone, and reverb for each instrument in your ultra-realistic Band-in-a-Box arrangement. The “Combo” slider lets you make changes to all tracks at once. Export directly as audio files (AIFF, M4A, or WAV) for use in other programs (GarageBand, Cubase, etc.) or to share on the Internet.

Time-saving features include automatic track labels, video tutorial-help buttons, and a Piano Window to display piano notes. The Audio Edit Window displays a digital waveform for the Audio track for selecting, playing, and editing audio.

VST Support

VST plugin support allows Band-in-a-Box to access a huge library of 3rd party software instruments that play through your computer without requiring external sound sources. Each Band-in-a-Box track lets you use multiple instruments for distinctive layered sounds. You can also use VST audio plug-ins (reverb, delay etc.) to enhance your tracks.

Customize over 150 of the guitar-based RealTracks with the Guitar Amp Simulator (AmpliTube CS). Band-in-a-Box includes the Sforzando VST synthesizer with support for the popular .SFZ sound format as well as Hi-Q sounds.

Band-in-a-Box is developed by PG Music.