2023 User Showcase Awards.... Congratulations to....
You may have won a free Band-in-a-Box 2024 UltraPak ..... check here
In the past year (2023), we had hundreds of new original compositions posted to the User Showcase. Wow! There have now been over 11,000 songs posted in the Showcase! Many thanks to all who have contributed.
In 2023, there were 19,000 posts in the User Showcase forum, with 1.6 million views! There were song compositions by 124 different artists posted from at least 17 countries, including: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Jersey Channel Islands, Netherland, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingodm, USA.
We'd like to thank and recognize these amazing contributions that people have made!
So we announce the "Top 40" User Showcase Awards...to the top 45 contributors of 2023 – a free Band-in-a-Box 2024 UltraPAK for Windows (including the 49 PAK bonus)
We've reviewed the contributions from Jan 1 to Dec 31 2023, and have based the results on a combination of the following criteria:
- great compositions/arrangements/productions
- use lots of Band-in-a-Box or RealBand (RealTracks or MIDI)
- most contributions
- other contribution to the forum (songwriting tips etc.)
- haven't won before (not an absolute requirement)
- haven't already got a free version from beta testing etc.
And the winners (alphabetical order) are:
Al-David
animarorecords
B.D.Thomas
BabuMusic
Bass Thumper
Birchwood
BlueAttitude
camog
Chris37
cubanpete
dani48
David Snyder
DC Ron
dcuny
Deej56
Dewey_MI
Elliott Kayne
Ezekiel's Storm
F.M.M.
fgrittner
firesong
floyd jane
Greg Johnson
Guitarhacker
Janice & Bud
jannesan
laurent4114
MarioD
musician17
NigelSpiers
Noel96
PeterF
PROJECT M
rayc
robertkc
Ronnie Fields
rsdean
Rustyspoon#
Scott C
ThomasS
tommyad
Tommyc
Torrey Bliss
vicarn
WaoBand
If your name is on the list.... congratulations! You have won a free Band-in-a-Box 2024 UltraPak Hard Drive (including free shipping of course)
To collect your award, please contact marketing@pgmusic.com (by March 31, 2024) (attn: Callie), and provide details of where you want it to be sent. Please include your Forum Display Name in your message.
If you've already purchased 2024 or have it via some other means (e.g. beta testing), we can either refund your purchase price, or you can designate "someone else" to receive it as a gift (just send that info privately in your email).
If you're a Mac user, you can either get the 2023 UltraPak or request a raincheck for the 2024 Mac UltraPak when it comes out.
Once again, thanks to all the creative people who create, produce and share these wonderful songs!
Peter & Team,
Thank you so much... I am humbled and very grateful.
As a user since the early 90s this is the best product and best company that I have ever encountered.
Congratulations to all the others as well.
Many thanks again,
Bob
Thanks Peter and everyone at PG Music for this award!
This product has been such a tremendous blessing to me over the years!
My congrats go out to all the winners this year! I hope I can return the favor to PG Music by inspiring many others to give BIAB a try and get creative!
What a blessing we have received with this gift! TB
Hi Peter,
Thanks to you and all the team at PGMusic - much appreciated.
Best Regards
Nigel
Thanks you, Peter, not only for the award, but for giving us the ability to put a working band in the studio as we produce our songs.
Thank you!
I'll put it to good use.
You make a great product and we're lucky to have such a good tool with which we can create our music.
Thanks, Peter and Company. (literally)
It's an honor just to be in the list with all these other music makers!
Congratulations to everyone on the Showcase! You folks at PGMusic are truly the ones to be congratulated. We get to play and you all work to make our play much better, much more fun, and if we ask for your help, you always give it as if we are the reason you wake up in the morning. hehe. AND you bring this incredible collection of creative and helpful music makers together to help, support and encourage one another. If the whole world was designed and run like PGMusic, what a wonderful world it would be.
My favorite advances in the 2024 version are the Tracks View and all that can be accomplished there, the extended ways for partial regeneration, how all Utility Tracks are now editable on the Bar Settings, the floating windows that work seamlessly with the Chord Sheet, and of course the (F7) MultiPicker. Oh, yeah, and the increased speed.
Thanks
This is Home.
PGMusic is Family.
The forums is a Family Reunion with ALL the relatives (the Crazy Uncles make it Fun!).
This is like Christmas!
Mom! Dad! This is JUST what I Wanted!!!!
(OMG! I'll feed him and walk him and play with him Every Day!!!!)
Y'all are Just Too Much!!!
Be Creative.
fj
This is ever so kind. Whatever I may say, beyond "thank you", it has already been said by many others. Nevertheless, I am indeed immensely, immensely grateful. This is not just a tool, however brilliant, for us musicians ... this is a lifeline. To create is my life, and (I think) everyone's on this forum. Take away creativity from us, and we literally wilt away. You have not only created what I regard as simply the best electronic musically creative tool available anywhere, these days (none of my songs would exist, even in the "in-the-making" phase, without Band-in-a-Box), but - through your immense kindness in offering these awards to us - helped us all stay creative and even reward our creativity. I am, therefore, humbly and eternally grateful, even if my own words will never express that quite adequately enough. THANK YOU.
Giving away product? Unheard of! What's next, a Live Help desk???
Ha!
I'll echo my thanks for PGMusic and the kind gift, as well as my appreciation for the Showcase community. Ya'll are the best.
Many thanks to PG Music. I think I will give my gift to a young musician to introduce him to this wonderful musical creation tool.
Laurent
Thank You So Much!
Peter and team,
You guys are truly a top shelf organization. I'm just a newbie that took up music late in life and am so humbled to be counted along side with a pantheon of talent.
Not only is BiaB central to every song I produce but this forum is a great community of folk willing to help and inspire each other on their individual musical journeys; what a combo!
Many, many thanks for all you do and all you've created.
--Steve
Hi Peter and Co.,
Technically and artistically, your software reaches heights that will not be equaled anytime soon!
Thanks to you.
Well, thank you very much.
A nice bit of news to brighten a dark day.
What a great company.
Vic
Dr Gannon and Team,
It's a great honor to be included on this list of talented contributors. I sincerely appreciate this. there is no way by which to let you fully understand what a difference your products have made in my life. There's the myriad of musical possibilities, of course, but it extends far beyond that for me.
Sincere thanks, Wishing everyone at PG Music a warm and successful 2024.
Alan
Hi Dr Gannon and Pg team many thanks for your generosity!! and contributing this great software and its many uses, Congratulations to those who are on the list very talented folks and the forum family!! fmm
Congrats to you all great musicians who won the contest. Well done!!
Thanks, Peter. BIAB gets better and better. I imagine AI will be a part of it down the line. Looking forward to Mac 2024.
Fred
Hey Peter and PG Team,
Thank you so much!
This is such a special place, and I love it around here!
Congrats to all the recipients, and much love to this fabulous community of people!!
I will say it the same as I have said it before:
PG Music needs to win the Nobel Prize at some point or something just ain't right in Stockholm--or Denmark either. I know they would have to invent a music technology category, but why not????
Maybe some of our our new Swedish and Danish friends can look into the matter.
Thanks again Peter and PG Music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Peter and the whole PG Music team, I want to give you a heartfelt thanks for including me in this years recipients. This software is beyond amazing and I will echo others in wishing you could understand the profound impact it has had in my life. I had the floppy disk version on a Commodore 64 that barely worked and have been a faithful user ever since. Congratulations to all the other winners and judging from the talent around here 2024 will be a banner year. Thanks again, Tom
Thank you very much for being included in this list this year. I really much appreciate it. The software is instrumental in the songs Robert and I create. Congratulations to the other winners.
Thank you for the opportunity once again to experience what is new with Band In A Box 2024!! What an honor!!
Doctor Peter Gannon and all of your staff at PG Music,
PG Music is the absolute GREATEST!
Thank you all so much.
BIAB is an unique and amazing product which I have been using for over 25 years since the MIDI-only era without RealTracks.
I'm very happy and honored to have been included in 2023 User Showcase Awards.
And… Congratulations to all the other winners.
Best regards.
Shigeki Adachi
(animarorecords)
Congratulations to everyone on the list! I was happy to see over 10% are from Australia and New Zealand, which only has 0.39% of the world's population. Nine from Europe (Finland-2, France-2, U.K.-3, Germany & Netherlands) two from Canada and one from Japan. The rest from the USA, but quite an international list. Shows the worldwide usage of BIAB, and the real winner here is PG Music for creating such a great resource for songwriters.
Thanx Peter and the crew for your generosity and for your outstanding products.I am truly honored to be included with this outstanding group of top notch musicians.
Virtually all of my songs start in BiaB. Your styles are getting better and better year after year.
Thanx again.
Thanks so much Peter & team PGM for awarding me a copy of BB UltraPak 2024 & 49 PAK - really looking forward to the Mac version release around April!!
Couldn't live without BB - best wishes to all, Carl
Congratulations to all recipients.
Thank you PG Music.
BIAB is my song writing starting point.
Thank you PGMusic for your generosity towards us, loyal users of the greatest songwriting tool ever made. And congratulations to all winners whose music and creativity I certainly enjoy every day.
Janne
Thanks to all at PG Music for being PG Music! I've only just discovered that I'm one of the winners and that really took me by surprise, so thank very, very much.
Wow. Thank you so much for this. I am constantly Amazed by the incredible talent of the people who post their songs on this forum. Congratulations to all the winners. I am so thankful to PG Music for creating BIAB. Its a wonderful tool for Songwriting, Music Production, Education, Performance, and Practice it should be taught in every school in the world. I have been a BIAB user since it's early days, and every year I look forward their upgrades, improvements, new features, and continued development.
Some companies add 5 or 6 new plugins or features and charge hundreds for upgrades, While PG adds 50-60 new features and hundreds of Real Tracks (which by the way are fantastic) and offer fantastic support.
I also thank PG for hosting this user forum. I have found no other place like it that offers valuable honest feedback on songs, on production, and tips.
I try to set aside time from my busy life to listen to as many as I can as often as possible. Thank you.
Band-in-a-Box was and continues to be a musical game changer for us. It has allowed us to explore genres we’ve loved for years but never dreamed we would produce music within. PG Music’s forum community has gained us friendships that go well beyond the use of the product. Yes, Band-in-a-Box is stellar but it is also represented by PG Music team members who are always friendly, knowledgeable and supportive. And the company’s appreciation of its customers is so well illustrated by these awards. Thank you Dr. Gannon and team!!
J&B
Thank you Peter and this amazing software with no equal in the world.
Mike B.
Dear Dr Gannon and Team,
Thank you so much for including me in this year's awards. I first bought BIAB in 2006. At that time, I was really hesitant and wondered if I was doing the right thing. Now, 18 years later, I can say wholeheartedly that my 2006 decision was the ultimate "best decision" I've ever made. BIAB opened the door to a whole new dimension of music-making for me. In all my years of using the program, I have never once stopped being amazed by its capabilities, and the gold-class service that PG Music has provided. In my experience, there is no better online company than PG Music and no better music-making programs than BIAB/RB. Thank you again!
Congratulations to all the winners! 🥳 🎉 🙂
--Noel
Peter & Team,
Thank you for the generous gift!
BIAB had became a center of song writing process for me. It lets me experiment with many musical styles on the fly, which otherwise would have taken a lot of time, or simply would never happen. The 2024 version has many very neat RD, RT and MIDI tracks and most importantly, now they are well catalogued in the new MTP library, which had been a game changer for me. Same goes for the near instant (and silent Ctrl+ F8) re-generations. My hope is that these newly rolled out features including Track View are only the beginning of a new chapter in BIAB quest. I hope to see these wonderful new features developed to perfection overcoming limitations in upcoming updates/upgrades. Keep up the good work and Thank you!
Misha.
I think it's a really generous gesture that you give out these Showcase Awards ... it shows that PGMusic cares about its active customers.
Congrats to you all!
Peter and all the fantastic folks at PG Music:
Thank you so much for your generosity ...I appreciate your great product so much...as writers we look for inspiration in many places and Band in Box is not only a super tool for writers and composers it is often the spark of inspiration we might need to begin the processes churning in us...I am humbled to be listed with the artists you have chosen...congratulations to all of them...my friends and "forum family"...I sincerely appreciate them and you for bringing us all together.
Dan (firesong)
Thank you, Dr Gannon and everyone on the PG Team that brings this amazing product to the world. If you're a songwriter and not using BIAB then you're not reaching your full potential IMHO.
Na zdrowie!
Dewey
Hi Peter and your PG staff,
Thanks for including me on this Award list!
Like others here, I like BiaB very much and it is also a starting point for the songs I make.
That would have become more difficult if BiaB wasn't there.
I'm very happy to see this software improving every year.
Also congratulations to everyone who is on this Award list!
Hans (Birchwood)
Dear Peter and friends !
Please forgive me for this late answer
and thanks for including me on the list
of winners ! My late answer is totally depending on
my visit to Spain that just ended !
During my stay down there I have not been able
to read or write anything on the forum so you
can surely understand my surprise to find
myself on this list !
I want to express my sincerest gratitude
to Peter for this wonderful gift and also
to congratulate all the fine musicians posting
on the site !
Cheers
Dani