What is Band-in-a-Box?

The award winning Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use!  Just type in the chords to any song (like C or Fm7b5), choose a musical style from the hundreds available, and click the [Play] button. Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a complete professional-quality arrangement.  Plus, add REAL accompaniment to your song with RealTracks and RealDrums. These are actual recordings of top studio musicians that replace the MIDI track with audio instruments. They sound like real musicians, because they are recordings of real musicians!



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Band-in-a-Box 2009 is here with over 40 NEW Features!

Band-in-a-Box 2009 is jam-packed with over 40 new features and enhancements!  We've added RealCharts for displaying the notation of most RealTracks, and enhancements have been made to the popular Audio Chord Wizard, RealTracks and RealDrums features.

The new features don't stop there, click here for more details!

Special! Hard Drive editions of the 2009 UltraPAK are available!  These include Band-in-a-Box, RealBand and the Add-ons all pre-installed and ready to play on an 80GB USB hard drive.

Learn more about the Band-in-a-Box packages available here.


RealBand 2009: Your All-in-One Audio Workstation and Accompaniment Program!
RealBand 2009 is included in all the Band-in-a-Box for Windows 2009 packages!

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RealBand combines the legendary power of Band-in-a-Box and PowerTracks Pro Audio, plus PG Music’s revolutionary new RealTracks so you can create your own arrangements to accompany your song, in the style of your choice!  Type in the chords, add RealTracks and RealDrums that automatically follow the chord changes; add your own tracks, and then edit and produce the finished song without ever leaving the program!  Packed with powerful features, RealBand makes it easy to produce your own song arrangements as if you were in the recording studio with top session musicians.

RealBand 2009 is here with over 40 new features and enhancements!  We’ve added Loop Recording, artist information and bios for the great artists performing in the RealTracks, the Chords Window has been enhanced, we’ve added for the great artists performing in the RealTracks, and many more!

What is Band-in-a-Box?

The award winning Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use!  Just type in the chords to any song (like C or Fm7b5), choose a musical style from the hundreds available, and click the [Play] button. Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a complete professional-quality arrangement.  Plus, add REAL accompaniment to your song with RealTracks and RealDrums. These are actual recordings of top studio musicians that replace the MIDI track with audio instruments. They sound like real musicians, because they are recordings of real musicians!

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RealDrums Sets

RealDrums are one of the most popular additions to PG Music's product line.  These are live audio drum styles that replace the MIDI Drums within Band-in-a-Box, RealBand and PowerTracks Pro Audio.  These audio recordings of professional drummers are now available in a variety of styles including: Jazz, Pop, Rock, Blues, Country, Reggae, Latin, Nashville, Techno, Hip-Hop and more!

RealDrums make the rest of the tracks sound more realistic by adding subtle drum rolls, cymbal tap variations, and complex fills that aren’t even possible on a MIDI track.  RealDrums sound like a real drummer because they are recordings of a real drummer!  Human elements such as varying volumes, durations, and pushes add life to the entire arrangement!  Best of all, we've seamlessly integrated the RealDrums into Band-in-a-Box, RealBand and PowerTracks Pro Audio, so go ahead and use our programs as you normally do and you'll be amazed at the astounding drum patterns coming from your computer!

We include a huge library of RealDrums styles to get you started, and all of the RealDrums Sets are available in the SuperPAK and UltraPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand 2008.5 first-time or upgrade purchases, and the PowerTracks PowerPAK PLUS and MultiPAK first-time or upgrade packages.

Click here for more information and demos on all 20 RealDrums Sets!

PowerTracks Pro AudioAudio Chord Wizard, RealDrums, and More! Over 20 powerful new features! Upgrade today ($29) or buy first-time ($49). The new Audio Chord Wizard (version 2.0) in PowerTracks is amazing, it "figures out the chords" from MP3, WMA, WAV files and audio CD’s. Just open up an MP3 file, tap in the tempo for a few bars, and you have the chords to the song, displayed on the PowerTracks Chords Window, with the bars in sync to the MP3 file!

The RealDrums feature instantly creates drum tracks that replace the MIDI drum track.  These are actual live recordings of top studio Jazz, Bossa, Rock and Country drummers.  Choose from 20 different RealDrums Sets, packed with Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues, Country, Latin, Nashville, Fusion, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Techno, Salsa and more RealDrums styles. 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 add a MIDI guitar part imported from Band-in-a-Box – they will play in perfect sync to the original MP3 file. Precise “Floating point” tempos ( e.g. 120.514 BPM), Copy/Paste Song Lyrics to lead sheet, MIDI Normalize, Split MIDI Drum notes to tracks, Auto- SEQ Backup, Automatic Audio Cross Fades, Tranzport support and many more!….

PowerTracks Pro Audio 12 is here! Watch the video to learn more!

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Band-in-a-Box 2009 for Mac New Features!

Band-in-a-Box 2009 for Macintosh is here with major new features and enhancements!  This new version, designed for MacIntel, runs directly on the Intel chip making the speed of operations faster.  Plus, we’ve added RealTracks and RealDrums- audio instruments that replace the MIDI track with actual recordings of top studio musicians; the amazing Audio Chord Wizard which automatically figures out the chords from any MP3, M4A, or other audio file, and displays them in Band-in-a-Box; and the new Direct Render to Disk feature so you can save your files directly as audio files (AIFF, M4A); GUI enhancements, including new toolbars and on-screen elements and more!

The new features don't stop there, click here for more details!

Special! Hard Drive editions of the 2009 UltraPAK areavailable!  These include Band-in-a-Box, RealBand and the Add-ons all pre-installed and ready to play on an 80GB USB hard drive.

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Learn about all the Band-in-a-Box packages available here.


RealTracks feature real audio recordings of instruments that can be assigned to replace any MIDI track in Band-in-a-Box or RealBand.  These tracks follow the chord progression that you have entered, so that you hear an authentic audio accompaniment to your song. RealTracks can also be built in to the style, replacing the MIDI bass, guitar, piano, or strings part in that style or you can use the Soloist to generate RealTracks. You can replace just one MIDI track or all of the tracks with RealTracks.  We've even made complete RealStyles that contain 7 "All Real" tracks and no MIDI instruments.

PG Music Inc. has 39 RealTracks Sets, with a total of almost 200 RealTracks for Jazz, Country, Rock, Pop, Metal, Blues and Bluegrass! The RealTracks Sets are available for $29 each or get them all in the Band-in-a-Box UltraPAK for Windows or Macintosh.

Check out the RealTracks Audio and Video Demos for Windows and Macintosh.

Click here for more information and demos for all 39 RealTracks Sets!

News Notes!

Finale 2010 has been released! We offer a variety of Finale purchases – Academic, Personal use, or Bundle it with Band-in-a-Box and PowerTracks for even greater savings! Check out all the Finale 2010 purchase options we offer here!

Posted at 12:52 PM

Today is the last day to take advantage of Special Pricing on most First-time purchases, and ALL Upgrade purchases of the 2009 Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh packages!
Until June 30, 2009, all Band-in-a-Box 2009 for Macintosh purchases will also include a FREE Bonus 12-PAK full of additional Add-ons and more.

Don't miss out... place your order here.

Posted at 10:49 AM

We have added a complete technical support Frequently Asked Questions page with lots of topics about RealTracks, Installation, Rendering to Audio, setting up CoreMIDI and Audio, and more. Click here to go to the FAQ page.

Posted at 05:14 PM

The Build 5 Update for Band-in-a-Box 2009 for Macintosh is now available!

Added: Complete 2009 PDF manual.
Added: File Open, and Song Open by Title dialog default to the last folder used, instead of "Songs".
Added: Songs/styles with RealTracks on the drums part (and no Drum part) now get a drum countin. e.g. Bluegrass styles like _BG_BAND.STY.
...and more!

This can be downloaded here.

Posted at 12:03 PM

The Build 4 Update for Band-in-a-Box 2009 for Macintosh is now available.

Fixed: RealDrums sometimes didn't play correctly or were silent in songs with no endings.
Fixed: Help | View Manual menu item.

This can be downloaded here.

Posted at 09:37 AM

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