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

Price :
$99.00
  • Model: PGMu149738
  • Shipping Weight: 2lbs
  • Manufactured by: PG Music

DESCRIPTION

Band-in-a-Box® 2015 for Mac is here!

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

They've 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!

NEW! 101 more RealTracks with great new Jazz, Rock-Pop, and Country Styles! These include:

  • 33 Jazz RealTracks: New RealTracks in our "Jazz Pollwinners" series of Jazz Artist RealTracks. These are new RealTracks by the best-of-the-best jazz musicians. These artists have won Downbeat's Critics "best player" poll many times. Our Pollwinners RealTracks series includes new RealTracks from the great 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). Brand new Pollwinners styles for Jazz Swing, Ballad, Waltz and Bossa comping and soloing included. There are also great new flute and soprano sax background and soloing tracks. And new RealTracks for Jazz Funk (guitar and synth), Gypsy Jazz (Quinn Bachand), and a great Jazz/Rockabilly "Jive" band with guitar (Brent Mason), Piano (Kevin McKendree), bass and drums.
  • 32 Country RealTracks: We've got several new full Country bands of RealTracks - guitar, piano, bass and drums for Rockabilly Boom-Chicka, Rockabilly Slow Swing, New Orleans Mardis Gras and New Orleans Shuffle. And this hot quartet includes Brent Mason (guitar) and Kevin McKendree (piano). Quinn Bachand has made some great Hip Folk, Old Time, Celtic banjo and guitar RealTracks. Nashville guitar legend Brent Mason returns with some more great Country RealTracks including Baritone Guitar, Rockabilly, Nylon, Dreamy and more!
  • 36 Rock-Pop RealTracks: Great new Pop/Rock RealTracks by Brent Mason (guitar), Gary Smulyan (sax), John Jarvis (piano), Kevin McKendree (piano) and more! Hot! We also have new full bands with Rockabilly Fifties, Motown Up-tempo, Pop String Chamber Quartet, World Synths (koto, shakuhachi, electro flutes), Vintage Keys, Blues Baritone Sax, Funky Horns and much more!

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 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.

RealTracks are audio instruments that replace the MIDI track with actual recordings of top studio Jazz/Rock/Country musicians! These are not “samples” of single instrument hits; they are full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars at a time, playing along in perfect sync with the other Band-in-a-Box tracks. We have a huge library of RealTracks available, including lots of Jazz, Rock, Blues, Country, Folk, Celtic, Latin and Bluegrass styles.

Best of all, you use these instruments like regular styles. Many of them offer a “simpler” option that plays a less busy or embellished arrangement, and we include “Direct Input” (clean signal) guitar RealTracks so you can generate files with a clean guitar, and then, using your DAW (e.g. GarageBand), you can add custom amp and F/X settings using the AmpliTube CS guitar amp and effects simulator that is included.

The RealTracks sound more natural over a wide range of tempos with the élastique Pro V2 time stretching engine by zplane.development. This is built-in, so there’s nothing you need to do. Your songs will just “sound better” over a much wider range of keys and tempos.

By simply choosing a RealStyle, you will hear your new or existing songs played by real instruments, with a dramatic improvement in sound and musicality. You can even have your old MIDI styles automatically replaced with the equivalent RealStyle (if installed). And of course the number of RealTracks and RealStyles keeps growing.

Many of the RealTracks have RealCharts; this allows you to see notation and correct guitar tab/fretboard display, a great help for learning from the top pros performing on the RealTracks.

RealDrums replace the MIDI Drum track with actual recordings of top studio Jazz/Rock/Country drummers! Again, these are not “samples” of single drum hits; they are full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars at a time, playing along in perfect sync with the other Band-in-a-Box tracks. Hundreds of RealDrums styles are available, and EZ selection of “DrumGrooves” lets you choose different grooves within drum styles.

For added versatility, you can add your own or 3rd party loops to any Band-in-a-Box track, or add your favorite MIDITrack from any MIDI style to any track of your current song. The Mixer window allows 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. It features a unique “Combo” slider for making changes to all tracks at once.

The amazing “Chords from MP4” feature (Audio Chord Wizard) automatically figures out the chords from any AIFF, MP4, M4A, or other audio file, and displays them in Band-in-a-Box. Just load in any audio file and you’ll instantly see the chords in Band-in-a-Box. The Audio Wizard also figures out tempo, bar lines, key and fine-tuning from the audio file.

Plus, you can Save, Print, and Render your songs! Print out your complete song arrangement as sheet music. With the Direct Render to Disk feature, you can save your files directly as audio files (AIFF, M4A, WAV), for use in other programs (GarageBand, Cubase, etc.), or in Internet formats.

And much more …

 

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...
    • 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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