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2023 User Showcase Awards.... Congratulations to....
You may have won a free Band-in-a-Box 2024 UltraPak ..... check here
In the past year (2023), we had hundreds of new original compositions posted to the User Showcase. Wow! There have now been over 11,000 songs posted in the Showcase! Many thanks to all who have contributed.
In 2023, there were 19,000 posts in the User Showcase forum, with 1.6 million views! There were song compositions by 124 different artists posted from at least 17 countries, including: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Jersey Channel Islands, Netherland, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingodm, USA.
We'd like to thank and recognize these amazing contributions that people have made!
So we announce the "Top 40" User Showcase Awards...to the top 45 contributors of 2023 – a free Band-in-a-Box 2024 UltraPAK for Windows (including the 49 PAK bonus)
We've reviewed the contributions from Jan 1 to Dec 31 2023, and have based the results on a combination of the following criteria:
- great compositions/arrangements/productions
- use lots of Band-in-a-Box or RealBand (RealTracks or MIDI)
- most contributions
- other contribution to the forum (songwriting tips etc.)
- haven't won before (not an absolute requirement)
- haven't already got a free version from beta testing etc.
And the winners (alphabetical order) are:
Al-David
animarorecords
B.D.Thomas
BabuMusic
Bass Thumper
Birchwood
BlueAttitude
camog
Chris37
cubanpete
dani48
David Snyder
DC Ron
dcuny
Deej56
Dewey_MI
Elliott Kayne
Ezekiel's Storm
F.M.M.
fgrittner
firesong
floyd jane
Greg Johnson
Guitarhacker
Janice & Bud
jannesan
laurent4114
MarioD
musician17
NigelSpiers
Noel96
PeterF
PROJECT M
rayc
robertkc
Ronnie Fields
rsdean
Rustyspoon#
Scott C
ThomasS
tommyad
Tommyc
Torrey Bliss
vicarn
WaoBand
If your name is on the list.... congratulations! You have won a free Band-in-a-Box 2024 UltraPak Hard Drive (including free shipping of course)
To collect your award, please contact marketing@pgmusic.com (by March 31, 2024) (attn: Callie), and provide details of where you want it to be sent. Please include your Forum Display Name in your message.
If you've already purchased 2024 or have it via some other means (e.g. beta testing), we can either refund your purchase price, or you can designate "someone else" to receive it as a gift (just send that info privately in your email).
If you're a Mac user, you can either get the 2023 UltraPak or request a raincheck for the 2024 Mac UltraPak when it comes out.
Once again, thanks to all the creative people who create, produce and share these wonderful songs!
Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.
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Peter & Team,
Thank you so much... I am humbled and very grateful.
As a user since the early 90s this is the best product and best company that I have ever encountered.
Congratulations to all the others as well.
Many thanks again,
Bob
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Thanks Peter and everyone at PG Music for this award!
This product has been such a tremendous blessing to me over the years!
My congrats go out to all the winners this year! I hope I can return the favor to PG Music by inspiring many others to give BIAB a try and get creative!
What a blessing we have received with this gift! TB
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Hi Peter,
Thanks to you and all the team at PGMusic - much appreciated.
Best Regards
Nigel
Nigel Spiers
Christchurch, New Zealand
info@nzacoustics.com
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Thanks you, Peter, not only for the award, but for giving us the ability to put a working band in the studio as we produce our songs.
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Thank you!
I'll put it to good use.
You make a great product and we're lucky to have such a good tool with which we can create our music.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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Thanks, Peter and Company. (literally) It's an honor just to be in the list with all these other music makers! 
-- David Cuny My virtual singer development blogVocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?BiaB 2025 | Windows 11 | Reaper | Way too many VSTis.
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Congratulations to everyone on the Showcase! You folks at PGMusic are truly the ones to be congratulated. We get to play and you all work to make our play much better, much more fun, and if we ask for your help, you always give it as if we are the reason you wake up in the morning. hehe. AND you bring this incredible collection of creative and helpful music makers together to help, support and encourage one another. If the whole world was designed and run like PGMusic, what a wonderful world it would be.
My favorite advances in the 2024 version are the Tracks View and all that can be accomplished there, the extended ways for partial regeneration, how all Utility Tracks are now editable on the Bar Settings, the floating windows that work seamlessly with the Chord Sheet, and of course the (F7) MultiPicker. Oh, yeah, and the increased speed.
Thanks
Last edited by BabuMusic; 02/21/24 05:40 AM.
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This is Home.
PGMusic is Family.
The forums is a Family Reunion with ALL the relatives (the Crazy Uncles make it Fun!).
This is like Christmas!
Mom! Dad! This is JUST what I Wanted!!!!
(OMG! I'll feed him and walk him and play with him Every Day!!!!)
Y'all are Just Too Much!!!
Be Creative.
fj
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This is ever so kind. Whatever I may say, beyond "thank you", it has already been said by many others. Nevertheless, I am indeed immensely, immensely grateful. This is not just a tool, however brilliant, for us musicians ... this is a lifeline. To create is my life, and (I think) everyone's on this forum. Take away creativity from us, and we literally wilt away. You have not only created what I regard as simply the best electronic musically creative tool available anywhere, these days (none of my songs would exist, even in the "in-the-making" phase, without Band-in-a-Box), but - through your immense kindness in offering these awards to us - helped us all stay creative and even reward our creativity. I am, therefore, humbly and eternally grateful, even if my own words will never express that quite adequately enough. THANK YOU.
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Giving away product? Unheard of! What's next, a Live Help desk???
Ha!
I'll echo my thanks for PGMusic and the kind gift, as well as my appreciation for the Showcase community. Ya'll are the best.
DC Ron
BiaB Audiophile
Presonus Studio One
ASUS I9-12900K DAW, 32 GB RAM
Presonus Faderport 16
Too many guitars (is that a thing?)
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Many thanks to PG Music. I think I will give my gift to a young musician to introduce him to this wonderful musical creation tool.
Laurent
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Thank You So Much!
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Peter and team, You guys are truly a top shelf organization. I'm just a newbie that took up music late in life and am so humbled to be counted along side with a pantheon of talent. Not only is BiaB central to every song I produce but this forum is a great community of folk willing to help and inspire each other on their individual musical journeys; what a combo! Many, many thanks for all you do and all you've created. --Steve
https://soundcloud.com/user-646279677BiaB 2026 Windows For me there’s no better place in the band than to have one leg in the harmony world and the other in the percussive. Thank you Paul Tutmarc and Leo Fender.
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Hi Peter and Co.,
Technically and artistically, your software reaches heights that will not be equaled anytime soon!
Thanks to you.
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Well, thank you very much.
A nice bit of news to brighten a dark day.
What a great company.
Vic
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Dr Gannon and Team,
It's a great honor to be included on this list of talented contributors. I sincerely appreciate this. there is no way by which to let you fully understand what a difference your products have made in my life. There's the myriad of musical possibilities, of course, but it extends far beyond that for me.
Sincere thanks, Wishing everyone at PG Music a warm and successful 2024.
Alan
BIAB 2024 Ultra Plus-all StylePaks*Win11*32GB DDR5*Rhyzen 9745x*AT 2035 Mic*Peavey Nashville 112 Amp*Ibanez ART120* Acoustic/Electric/Washburn D200S Acoustic*Stromberg Monterey Jazz Guitar Loops: https://aldavidmusic.wixsite.com/bestmusicloops
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Hi Dr Gannon and Pg team many thanks for your generosity!! and contributing this great software and its many uses, Congratulations to those who are on the list very talented folks and the forum family!! fmm
Last edited by F.M.M.; 02/21/24 11:00 AM.
AMD (TM) 5950 4.9 GHz 16Core Processor 64 bit 32 bits of ram windows 10 pro 64 bit os. sound card Antelope ZenQ guitars Ibanez 2202a 1968 les Paul Custom and Cavin ae 185 Guitar boss Gt-100,GT1000 pedal Yamaha HS8 studio monitors
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Congrats to you all great musicians who won the contest. Well done!!
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Thanks, Peter. BIAB gets better and better. I imagine AI will be a part of it down the line. Looking forward to Mac 2024.
Fred
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Band-in-a-Box 2026 for Mac Videos
With the release of Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac, we’re rolling out a collection of brand-new videos on our YouTube channel. We’ll keep this forum post updated so you can easily find all the latest videos in one convenient spot.
Whether you're exploring new features, checking out the latest RealTracks or Style PAKs, this is your go-to guide for Band-in-a-Box® 2026.
Check out this forum post for "One Stop Shopping" of our Band-in-a-Box® 2026 Mac Videos!
Band-in-a-Box 2026 for Mac is Here!
Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac is here and it is packed with major new features! There’s a new modern look, a GUI redesign to all areas of the program including toolbars, windows, workflow and more. There’s a Multi-view layout for organizing multiple windows. A standout addition is the powerful AI-Notes feature, which uses AI neural-net technology to transcribe polyphonic audio into MIDI—entire mixes or individual instruments—making it easy to study, view, and play parts from any song. And that’s just the beginning—there are over 100 new features in this exciting release.
Along with version 2026, we've released an incredible lineup of new content! There's 202 new RealTracks, brand-new RealStyles, MIDI SuperTracks, Instrumental Studies, “Songs with Vocals” Artist Performance Sets, Playable RealTracks Set 5, two new RealDrums Stems sets, XPro Styles PAK 10, Xtra Styles PAK 21, and much more!
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Our Free Bonus PAK and 49-PAK are loaded with amazing add-ons! The Free Bonus PAK is included with most Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac packages, but you can unlock even more—including 20 unreleased RealTracks—by upgrading to the 2026 49-PAK for just $49.
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As we hop into the Easter weekend, here are our holiday hours:
April 3 (Good Friday): 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT
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Wishing you an egg-cellent weekend!
— Team PG
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The Master Volume is now applied at the end of the audio chain for consistent levels and full-signal master effects.
Tablature now includes a “Save bends when saving XML” option for improved compatibility with PG Music tools. Plus, you can instantly match all track heights with a simple Ctrl-release after resizing, and Add2 chords from MGU/SGU files are now fully supported... and more!
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