First off, we’ve added the Audio Chord Wizard 2.0 which automatically and accurately figures out the chords from MP3/WMA/WAV audio files. And we’ve added RealDrums – instantly generate audio drum tracks that use real recordings of drummers, not single drum hit samples, but full recordings lasting 1 to 8 bars. Choose from over 5 RealDrums disks, packed with RealDrums styles - Rock/Pop/Jazz/Country. Re-Mix /Arrange existing MP3 or other audio files You can now sync the bar lines perfectly to match an existing MP3 file, and then re-mix by adding RealDrums or other MIDI/audio tracks Add a RealDrums track to an old recording, or a MIDI guitar part imported from Band-in-a-Box – they will play in perfect sync to the original MP3 file. Improved notation, audio editing, Tranzport support and many more….

The Audio Chord Wizard is an extremely powerful feature that automatically finds chord symbols (C, Fm7 etc.) by analyzing the audio content of a song (MP3/WAV/WMA or CD-audio file). The song can be in a digital file format (MP3/WMA/WAV).one that you created in PowerTracks, or directly loaded from a CD. In addition to the chords, the Audio Chord Wizard also automatically determines the bar lines and a Tempo map.

Use this feature to instantly play along to your favorite songs, by reading and printing the chord symbols.

Improvements in Audio Chord Wizard 2.0 (from version 1.0)

• Detection of up to 2 chords per bar
• Much improved chord detection accuracy
• Improved tempo tracking, ability to tap in a few bar lines during playback and tempo often locks to bar lines for the whole song.
• Faster operation, including screen redraws and analysis.

We've added real audio drums to PowerTracks! This allows you to instantly create audio drums tracks with real recordings of top studio Jazz/Rock/Country drummers. These are not "samples," but are full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars, playing along in perfect sync with the other PowerTracks tracks. For example, choose a brushes style, and you will now hear lush Jazz brushes, or a Rock Grunge style. The results are dramatically better than MIDI. They sound like a real drummer, because they are recordings of a real drummer. We include many RealDrums styles with PowerTracks, and 5 RealDrums sets are available.

PowerTracks now supports floating-point tempos, such as 120.514 BPM. This makes it easier to sync MIDI tracks to prerecorded audio tracks if the audio tracks weren’t recorded exactly at an integer tempo. This also is what lets PT play a song in sync to an existing audio track after the Audio Chord Wizard has worked its magic.

Easily copy and paste lyrics from other applications, to be appended to your lead sheet for display and printout, with selectable font.

This command will split a MIDI drum track to individual separate tracks. Custom settings allow you to control which notes go to which track.

When you save a file, PowerTracks now saves a backup of the file in a c:\PT\PTBACKUP folder. This doesn’t add any time to the file-save command, and the number of backups is configurable. So the next time that you mistakenly overwrite a file when saving, go the backup folder to look for a saved previous copy!

This smoothes out a paste, so that no audible “Clicks” are heard at splice points of pastes.

Wireless Remote Control support for PowerTracks! The Frontier Design Tranzport® is a wireless remote control hardware unit (Electronic Musician Editors' Choice 2006) that now allows you to control PowerTracks 12 (and Band-in-a-Box 2007) through walls from 30 feet away! The backlit LCD provides two-line readout, while buttons and a wheel allow control of many Band-in-a-Box features. Select songs and play/stop/pause/loop. Select/mute/solo tracks and volume/tempo changes are all supported.

This lets you adjust for fine tuning latency settings for MIDI (non-DXI and non-VSTI) soft synths.

Line and Paragraph buttons when entering lyrics in notation window – These two convenient new buttons let you to enter line breaks (/) or paragraph breaks (\) when entering lyrics.

Now there’s a right-click menu in the Audio Edit Window, which works similar to the right click menu in the Tracks window.

For Recording Only, Playback Only, Both Recording and Playback, or Disabled.

Now it will only move the time marker, which ensures you don't accidentally alter the current selected area.

On the top of time line of audio edit window, small vertical lines are displayed in 8th and 16th note boundaries. This makes it easier to align audio to correct timing issues.

This allows you to adjust the volume of an entire MIDI sequence to a specified volume level. Apply the same level to many MIDI files, to make them all sound with the same approximate volume. Dynamics in the files are preserved!

You can now specify a length percentage as a floating-point number, such as 110.5%.

When MS is selected instead of Ticks, the min/max start time offset in the Randomize command is specified in MS rather than ticks.

PowerTracks will automatically display double bar lines when a new part marker is reached.

The 2 new choices are Show Bar Numbers Every Line and Show Bar Numbers Every Part Marker. Previous versions of PowerTracks only let you choose whether or not to display bar numbers.