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Band-in-a-Box 2009 for Macintosh is here!

This is a brand-new version, for Macs with Intel processors (not the older PowerPC).
Over 50 new features, including RealTracks, RealDrums, Audio Chord Wizard, Audio Rendering and many more.

Full feature list, videos, RealTracks demos and ordering information here ... http://www.pgmusic.com/mac.htm and here http://www.pgmusic.com/macvideos.htm



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Way to go, Peter and staff... I'm happy for the Mac users!!

Now then, onto BIAB 2010 for Windows! LOL!!!


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there's a really nice special on this right now.

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Great news Peter!

Can't wait to put it through its paces...but will have to as I'm away from home for at least 2 weeks!


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Way to go, Peter and staff... I'm happy for the Mac users!!

Now then, onto BIAB 2010 for Windows! LOL!!!






and 2011, and 2012, and 2013 , and 2014 and then we can talke about an other mac upgrade, and 2015, and 2016, and next quarter, and 2017...

You get the idea

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Huzzah! Now I just need to figure out just how much Mac I can afford and say goodbye to PC's


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Funny, I have zero issues with PC's. Got a call from a club yesterday, somehow they got every 3 minutes 4 windows doing 'security' scans. Found the program, removed it, and they gave me $200. Took about 20 mins.

Drove them nuts for about 3 days. DJ was trying to work and bang bang bang virus scanning windows.

I insist I am not that smart, but stuff like that that end up in the start up menu, and is visible, well any one with 20 minutes of experience should be able to fix.

The day I hear that the Mac version runs twice as fast, has all the features and sounds better I'll go find part time work to buy one, maybe. Until then my 2 xp and 1 vista systems have zero issues except the Vista system won't run vsc Dxi. Oh well. Runs the Ketron and Jv1010 without problems.

After all that I'd prefer to be running everything in Ubuntu. It's just elegant, cool, and very powerful.

And if I get a Mac do I have to save for a BMW and downtown Toronto condo on the waterfront with a villa in France? You can buy a good enough PC netbook runs fast with 160 meg hd and xp for just under 200 bucks canuck. Must be giving them away in the U(ndeveloped) S(outhern) A(rea).


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Thanks, Peter! I've really been looking forward to this. Great job!

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WOW !! Just posted in the beta test thread, and then noticed this thread.
Thanks for all the work on this ! Great to see it finally happen !
Now the excruciating wait until payday.

- Jay


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Oh, and I almost forgot. Is the new version backward compatible with all my existing songs and styles ?

- Jay


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I did a bit of backwards compat testing during the beta and every one of the older files I tried loaded right up and played fine.

Can also add RealTracks and RealDrums to the old creations, too. Replace the MIDI bass with a real string bass, etc.


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One thing I'd be interested in learning is if, in a year, there have been sufficient sales to economically justify the development work that went into this release.

Now, please don't all you Mac fella's get offended. I'm not trying to have a Mac vs. Windows debate here, I'm simply curious. Afterall, Mac's have now grown to something less than 10% of the market. While 10% is not to be sneezed at, is enough of that 10% concentrated in the music making market to pay for the development time PGMusic have put into this release? I sincerely hope hope so.

We'll probably never be told, but as I said, I am curious.


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So as I read this my mac G5 with dual 2.GHz PowerPC processors will not run this program? Otherwise I'd order it right now. Am I correct?

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Must be INTEL powered Macs.

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Hi Mac,

Thanks for your speedy answer. Here's some other questions I had. My daughter has a macbook that will run the program and I could probably borrow it from time to time. My thought was to get one of the programs with the USB drive and then I could make my tracks using the macbook and then just plug the USB into my G5 to load the tracks into Digital Performer to further sequencing, recording,ect.

So one, does that sound like a workable plan. And second question, there are two USB alternatives one with 80 gig and one with 500 gig, the main difference being the wav files for real instruments. Now I already have all kinds of samples and a dedicated sample player- Machfive 2, so I'm assuming larger drive wouldn't really add anything, but am I overlooking anything that I might wish I had gotten the larger program?

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Peter, thanks again for the new Mac version!

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PeteG,

Don't you already have the PC version on a PC?


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I have the Mac version 12 for OS10. I do have an older PC version on an emachines T1090, with the celeron processor. It's a pain to transfer files from one format to the other and all my music software is on the mac.

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I did a bit of backwards compat testing during the beta and every one of the older files I tried loaded right up and played fine.

Can also add RealTracks and RealDrums to the old creations, too. Replace the MIDI bass with a real string bass, etc.


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Thanks Mac ! Wow, that sounds like it opens up a lot more possibilities than the antiquated v. 12. Can't wait to try it !

- Jay


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Okay . You've got my order and that's a great intro price for the upgrade . Thanks to Nancy on the phone and I'm looking forward to some real tracks.

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