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Band-in-a-Box 2016 for Windows is here!Our homepage has an overview and shows off the new logo: www.pgmusic.com. During the month of December there is special pricing on most Upgrade packages! Plus, when you purchase one of the First-time packages or discounted upgrades you will receive a FREE BONUS PAK, which includes: 1 Artist Video Performance:-Jack Stafford Sax: Indiana 3 MIDI SuperTracks:-Piano, Rhythm FolkySwing Sw 110 -Piano, Electric, Rhythm FunkSwing16 Sw16 085 -Piano, Rhythm CountryBentNoteJohn Sw 085 4 Instrumental Studies:-Bass, Electric, Jazz Funk Poppy, Ev16 110 -Guitar, Acoustic, Folk, 2-part Fingerpicking, Sw16 085 -Guitar, Electric, Blues and Rock, Medium Rock Soloist, Ev 120 -Piano, Acoustic, Jazz and Bossa, Solo-Accompaniment Jazz Stride, Sw 085 Special Pricing and the free Bonus PAK are only available until December 31, 2015.With the release of Version 2016, there are 201 NEW RealTracks being added to our library! Plus, there are an additional 24 Bonus RealTracks, 2 Artist Video Performances, 8 MIDI SuperTracks, and 15 Instrumental Studies available in the 49-PAK! Learn more about these Bonus items here: www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.bonuspaks_2016.htm. New Features List: www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.new.htmNew Features Video and Bonus 49-PAK Video list here: http://www.pgmusic.com/videos.bbwin.htm Information and demos for the 201 new RealTracks released (Sets 228-253): www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.201newrealtracks.htm Band-in-a-Box 2016 for Windows... New Features:StylePicker redesigned and enhanced with many new features including:- Sizable window by dragging the corner.
- Selectable font size for texts in the style list.
- Columns sort. The style list can be easily sorted by clicking a column name.
- Quick filter. Type a text and/or select a category, time signature, feel, tempo, etc., and you will immediately see the filtered list.
- Intelligent style suggestion. Just type a familiar song title, and the StylePicker will list styles whose genre, feel and tempo are similar to that song.
- Automatic intelligent sorting of "best style" for the current song.
- 4-bar preview of the current song using the currently selected style.
- StylePicker Options added to set additional display options for the StylePicker.
Chord Sheet enhanced with new look, feel and customization.- “Layers" added. Layers are optional rows of information shown above each bar.
- Bar Lyrics layer is for editable bar-based lyrics (up to 255 characters per bar) that are loaded and saved with the song.
- Section Text layer is for editable text (up to 255 characters per bar) that is loaded and saved with the song.
- Both Section Text layer and Bar Lyrics layer will automatically split text (using line breaks) into separate bars.
- Bar Settings layer shows information about any changes that occur for that bar, as set in the Bar Settings dialog (e.g. tempo changes, key changes, etc.).
- Additional Chord Display layer shows the chords using an alternative mode of showing root notes. There are 4 modes: Roman Numeral, Nashville Notation, Solfeggio Notation, and Fixed Do (Italy/Europe).
- All layers can be customized with font and color.
- Now you see the chord where you are typing it. Previously, chords wouldn’t appear until you hit the Enter key, and sometimes wouldn’t appear at all if you made a typo.
- Colors for all elements on the Chord Sheet can be customized.
- Mouse-over indication shows which bar, cell, or part marker you are currently hovering your mouse over.
- You can now select a region of bars by just using the keyboard.
- There is now a Superscript option (separate settings for the chords and the Additional Chord Display layer).
- The number of columns can be customized.
- The "Extra space between columns (pixels)" option allows you to choose a border thickness between columns.
- The "New line for every section" option previously required that each section was at least 2 bars long, but now there is a "minimum section" setting.
- The "Show bar lines" option displays a bar line next to each bar number.
- The "Show bar numbers" option lets you choose how often bar numbers should display: never, always, only at part markers, or only at new rows.
- The "Use substyle colors for bar #s, etc." option controls the color of the optional bar lines, bar numbers, and section letters.
- The "Gray out chords beyond time signature" setting grays out chords that won't play in the song.
- The "Display ‘2’ as ‘sus2’" and "Display ‘sus’ as ‘sus4’" settings will show suspended chords more explicitly: ‘sus’ implies ‘sus4,’ and ‘2’ implies ‘sus2,’ but you might want to see the full extension name.
- All of the settings and colors can be saved and loaded as a .csc file.
Audio Edit Window improved.- The window now displays stereo WAV files as 2 separate tracks.
- Horizontal zooming is easier. You can zoom with the mouse wheel, which focuses on the mouse cursor, or with a zoom button, which focuses on the audio cursor.
- Vertical zooming can be done with the mouse by zooming over the decibel bar, or by holding down the CTRL key and zooming towards the mouse cursor.
- You can zoom in further than the sample level now, and at these levels you will see interpolation between the sample points.
- When you perform various editing tasks from the Audio | Edit Audio menu, the Choose Range dialog will automatically use the region that is selected in the Audio Edit Window.
Import Audio feature improved.- The dialog now has a "chorus" option so you can be more specific about where you want the audio to go.
- If the audio file contains Acid Loop or Apple Loop info, there is an option to set the Audio Base Tempo of the current song to the tempo of the audio file.
Now you can convert the audio track from stereo to mono, or vice versa, by going to menu Audio | Edit Audio | Convert Channels (mono/stereo). Load and save MusicXML files. Main menu redesigned/re-organized.Automatic track names now include a number if there are 2 tracks with the same name. For example, "Guitar_1" "Guitar_2" will show instead of "Guitar" "Guitar." Yellow hints over the one letter track buttons in various windows show detailed information of the track name and other data. Notation, Big Piano, Guitar, Piano Roll and Lead Sheet windows show these. Guitar Window improved.- Now resizing the Guitar Window dynamically resizes the fretboard.
- Guitar Capo support added. Set a capo value, and capo gets drawn and guitar display reflects the capo setting.
- Tablature in Notation Window will adjust the fret numbers based on the capo setting in the transpose menu.
Plus...-Lists in various dialogs can be copied to a spreadsheet. This includes StylePicker, RealTracks Picker and RealDrums Picker dialogs. -Legato Melody function improved, increasing legato of the notes in Melody or Soloist track by N ticks, avoiding next note by M ticks. -Staccato Melody function added, reducing the length of notes by N ticks, preserving a minimum of M ticks duration of notes. -Notation Window displays an improved system of Bar Lyrics, Section Text, Bar Settings, and additional chord mode above the Standard chord. -Log of flash messages enhanced, recording more message types. -Style demos redone with even volumes. Previously, the demos varied in volume from MIDI to RealTracks. -Download Manager to automate download of Band-in-a-Box add-ons in background, accessible from inside the program. -Setting the "Track Type" to bass now shows a tab and the bass clef. -Loops are now saved with the Save Current Song as Style feature even if a loop was already embedded in the previous style on that track. -Changing a dB value in the StyleMaker for a track with loops now works. -[No Loop] button added to the Loops dialog. -RealTracks pushes now happen a little later, sounding more musical, and the timing is tempo dependent. -Options (no transpose, no slash chords) added to RealTracks. -Woodshed feature improved. When the tempo reaches max, it stays there. -C7+ is not in holds, C+ is, so it should remap them. -Option for relative note says b7 instead of 3b, 5b, 7b. ...and more!
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Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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'-RealTracks pushes now happen a little later, sounding more musical, and the timing is tempo dependent.'
Is there a fix to Holds generally to make them sound more musical? Also more often than not on drum Holds all I get is just get one solitary tom or HH or snare or BD hit...
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Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Question:
If we use the new internal download-manager, can we still backup the downloaded files?
Or does it install the downloaded items automatically and throw away the files we would backup when using a 3rd party download-manager?
Thank you.
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Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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My download option gave me links to a complete set of downloadable files which I saved and copied to one of my Distribution Drives, and then from there I launched the required downloaded files to install the latest versions. I still have the complete downloaded distributions safely tucked away.
BIAB & RB2024 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones
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@VideoTrack; thanks  Yes, that's also how I did it with BIAB2014 using a 3rd party downloader (the one suggested on the website) But I was wondering if the new internal download-manager, inside BIAB2016, works in a similar way. Or if it just updates the install-files in their installed locations and doesn't save any files we can back up. Also, in the future when updates are pushed through the internal downloader... will these updates be something we can backup, or how does that whole thing work? I ask because, if we can NOT backup files fetched by the new internal downloader, then I would use the 3rd party method so I got files I CAN backup But if the internal downloader gives the option of backing up things, then I would prefer using that one for convenience.
Last edited by JEL; 12/07/15 11:36 PM.
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Jel We are of course only members of a User Forum, and cannot control some of the requirements / features etc You might be better off to make a request for the best way to achieve your requirements through PG Music Support. Their contact details are on the PG Music main page
They will be able to give you an accurate answer to your request
BIAB & RB2024 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones
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Thanks for your answer. Maybe somebody from the staff will see this thread and chip in I'm not really requesting anything. I'm just curious as to how this new downloader thing works, and just figured that either some of the staff that posts here, or some of the new BIAB2016 users, might perhaps know about it. I don't post often in this forum myself, so I don't really know which types of questions are usually answered best in here and which are better asked directly to support, so I'll give it some time before emailing them.
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This free update is available to all RealBand 2024 users. To learn more about this update and download it, head to www.pgmusic.com/support.realband.htm#20245
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Today (April 5) is National Flash Drive Day!
Did you know... not only can you download your Band-in-a-Box® Pro, MegaPAK, or PlusPAK purchase - you can also choose to add a flash drive backup copy with the installation files for only $15? It even comes with a Band-in-a-Box® keychain!
For the larger Band-in-a-Box® packages (UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, Audiophile Edition), the hard drive backup copy is available for only $25. This will include a preinstalled and ready to use program, along with your installation files.
Backup copies are offered during the checkout process on our website.
Already purchased your e-delivery version, and now you wish you had a backup copy? It's not too late! If your purchase was for the current version of Band-in-a-Box®, you can still reach out to our team directly to place your backup copy order!
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Update your Band-in-a-Box® 2024 for Windows® Today!
Update your Band-in-a-Box® 2024 for Windows for free with build 1111!
With this update, there's more control when saving images from the Print Preview window, we've added defaults to the MultiPicker for sorting and font size, updated printing options, updated RealTracks and other content, and addressed user-reported issues with the StylePicker, MIDI Soloists, key signature changes, and more!
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A few excerpts:
"The Tracks view is possibly the single most powerful addition in 2024 and opens up a new way to edit and generate accompaniments. Combined with the new MultiPicker Library Window, it makes BIAB nearly perfect as an 'intelligent' composer/arranger program."
"MIDI SuperTracks partial generation showing six variations – each time the section is generated it can be instantly auditioned, re-generated or backed out to a previous generation – and you can do this with any track type. This is MAJOR! This takes musical experimentation and honing an arrangement to a new level, and faster than ever."
"Band in a Box continues to be an expansive musical tool-set for both novice and experienced musicians to experiment, compose, arrange and mix songs, as well as an extensive educational resource. It is huge, with hundreds of functions, more than any one person is likely to ever use. Yet, so is any DAW that I have used. BIAB can do some things that no DAW does, and this year BIAB has more DAW-like functions than ever."
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