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realband 2018 wasn't mentioned in the video but is on the homepage
are some of the 50 updated for realband

Yes RB2018 has some updates, but I'll leave the list to PGMusic.
Give them a little bit; it's a very new announcement.

If you go to the link below and then click the Realband2018 tab you can get a first impression
http://www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.new.htm
(you have to scroll a bit to find the tab)

thanks

Very hard to track down!

There are over 50 new features in RealBand 2018!

The Duplicate previous chord in notation right-click menu lets you quickly duplicate the previous chord (group of notes on same peg) without having to reenter it.

Delete highlighted notes, in notation right-click menu, lets you delete all highlighted notes.

Delete all notes on this peg, in notation right-click menu lets you delete all the notes on the nearest peg that was clicked on.

Built-in Audio Chord Wizard detection in Chords Window ([Reinterpret Chords] button) will automatically detect the chords of the song, based on the audio data from all non-muted audio tracks. This works similar to the standalone Audio Chord Wizard, except that it uses the current bar lines of the existing song.
Note regarding the above feature: If you import an audio file for which the bar lines and tempos need to first be determined (and to be aligned RB bar boundaries), you can enter a Click Track with either the computer keyboard or MIDI keyboard using the Record Click Track command in the Record button menu, and then use the Click Track menu when you right click on the Tracks, Audio Edit, or Notation window to make adjustments to the click track. Then you would use the align command within that menu to align the music to the click track.

Windows Audio (WASAPI) driver format support. This allows for low latency audio recording/playback without requiring ASIO. Note: this supports 1 stereo input plus 1 stereo output at a time. For multiple inputs/outputs, you should continue to use either MME or ASIO.

X/8 time signature support - This a special method of displaying 6/8, 9/8,or 12/8 time signatures in the notation windows. If loading in a file one of these time signatures, RealBand will offer to convert the song to either 4/4 or 3/4 (in a way which won't affect how the timing of the song is heard, because we treat the 8th notes as triplets (40 ticks at a PPQ of 120) and not straight 8ths (60 ticks)) and then automatically set the notation window to display the song the corresponding x/8 format (either 6/8 split or 12/8 if the song was converted to 4/4, or 9/8 if the song was converted to 3/4). Note: 6/8 is displayed by splitting a larger 4/4 bar into two 6/8 bars. The reason this works is that an x/8 song is made up of 8th note triplets and not straight eighths. So, a 4/4 bar that as 3 eighth note triplets per beat (three 40 tick notes at 120ppq) sounds the same as a bar of 12/8 notation or the same as two bars of 6/8 notation.
Note: In these x/8 modes we set the notation resolution to 6 pegs per beat for finer detail. When an x/8 mode is active, RealBand makes some internal adjustments to the note grouping routines to properly display the notation as x/8. (for example, rests are displayed properly)

Save ABC notation - Save a track of notation in a popular ASCII text format to import into other programs, or you can paste this format into a user forum as a way of sending the track (usually the melody and chord symbols) to other users without having to attach a file.

Edit - MIDI - Extract Channels to Tracks command has a new checkbox (Place each channel onto available empty tracks) that, when checked, will extract the current track's MIDI data by placing each channel found onto the next available empty track. Example, if the Current Track is track 1, and it has MIDI data on two channels (1 and 10) and Track 2 is blank, then the MIDI on from Channel 1 will stay on track 1 and the MIDI data on Track 10 will be moved to track 2.

The Preferences dialog will be displayed with a vertical scroll bar if running RealBand on a low res monitor (less than 768 pixels in height).

File - Save As now defaults to saving as a .SEQ file, unless this setting is changed in File tab of Preferences dialog.

L hotkeys loop from the current bar in RealBand. L1 hotkey will loop one bar. L2 will loop two bars starting from current bar, etc. L0 will shut off looping.

Guitar Window - Clicking on the black area to left of the zero fret notes will delete any highlighted notes that are currently highlighted in red. Otherwise, any note on current peg of editable notation on that channel will be deleted.

Guitar Window - Clicking on a note will delete that note if it is currently highlighted in red, otherwise doing this this will first delete any notes on same peg and channel before inserting a new note.

Big Piano Window - Clicking to left of the piano will delete currently highlighted notes if there are any highlighted notes, otherwise it will delete all notes on current notation peg.

Big Piano Window - Clicking on a note will delete the note if it is highlighted in red.

Always on MME checkbox has been added in the MME Audio Drivers dialog.

Much faster initialization of accompaniment functions (e.g. StylePicker and RealTracks Picker).

Drag and drop from the drop station to VSTi plugins that support this, is now implemented.

Song Titles Brower Enhancements

2,000 new song titles have been added to the list, including requests from users. There are now over 10,000 titles!
You can now filter the list by genres, time signature, feel, tempo, and decades.
The dialog can list song titles that will work with the current style.
Subgenres have been added for most song titles. Searching by a SubGenre name in the text filter will display song titles in that Subgenre.
Recommendation of styles has been improved. When you select a song title and press the [OK - Find Matching Styles] button, the StylePicker dialog will open and show only styles that will work with that song title. This feature has been improved so that Subgenres are also considered, so the style recommendations are more accurate.
StylePicker Enhancements

Mixer-like control allows style customization within the StylePicker. This shows what tracks are used in the highlighted style in the list, and color-codes them according to the track types (MIDI/RealTracks/MIDI SuperTracks). There is also a menu button on each track, which allows you to change the instrument, disable/enable the track, or perform other track actions.
A [Save as .STY] button has been added. When you have customized a style, you might want to save it so that it is added to the StylePicker list, and can be used easily. For example, you might add/remove a RealTracks, and save that as a new style.
Recommendations of styles is improved when using the [Find Titles] button at the top right of the dialog. This also displays Subgenres. This makes it easier to find styles for a certain popular song.
New user categories have been added, including Americana; Bebop and Fast Jazz; Bluegrass, Train, and Old Time; Dixieland, Gypsy, and Old Jazz; Fingerstyle Guitar; Funk, RnB, and Soul; Heavy Rock; Singer-Songwriter; and World.
The buttons to copy the styles list to clipboard, set the dialog options, and reset the dialog to defaults have been moved to the [Action] button menu.
The two buttons to rebuild a complete or partial styles list have been combined into a single button.
Rebuilding the styles list also rebuilds lists in the RealTracks and RealDrums Picker dialogs.
The option to change the font size of the text in the styles list has been moved to the StylePicker Options dialog.
And more!

The mind boggles