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With the release of Band-in-a-Box 2016 for Mac, there are 201 NEW RealTracks available to add to your library! Plus, there are an additional 24 Bonus RealTracks, 11 MIDI SuperTracks, 19 Instrumental Studies (bass, acoustic & electric guitar, piano & saxophone, in a variety of genres), 3 Artist Video Performances, 89 RealStyles, and more – when you add the 49-PAK to your purchase! Learn more about the Bonus 49-PAK purchase option here: http://www.pgmusic.com/bbmac.bonuspaks_2016.htm. New Features List: www.pgmusic.com/bbmac.new.htmLearn more about Band-in-a-Box 2016 for Mac with our "Band in a Box 2016 for Mac - Everything you need to know in under 6 minutes" video: www.pgmusic.com/?vid=uofLEnS5_UgInformation and demos for the 201 new RealTracks released (Sets 228-253): www.pgmusic.com/bbmac.201newrealtracks.htm Band-in-a-Box 2016 for Mac... New Features: Chord Sheet has been 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.
- Section Text and Bar Lyrics layers will attempt to intelligently separate your lyrics into different bars.
- There is an option to automatically open or close Bar Lyrics and Section Text layers when opening songs.
- 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 Part markers can have a gradient look. There is an option to see borders around part markers. You can choose how often bar numbers should appear: never, always, only at part markers, or only at new rows. A vertical line can be drawn next to each bar number. Substyle colors can be used for optional bar lines, bar numbers, and section letters. There is an option to “gray out” bars after the end of the song. ‘9sus’chords can be displayed as ‘11’ chords. 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. The chords beyond the time signature will be grayed out. The “superscript” option shows chord extensions with smaller raised font. You can adjust the chord font size as a percentage. The number of columns can be customized. Previously, there were always 4 columns. You can now choose the number of rows on a screen. Previously, the Chord Sheet always showed 16 rows. When a song is loaded, the number of rows can be automatically set depending on the number of bars in the song. A new part marker can start a new line. Space between columns or rows is selectable. All of the settings and colors can be saved and loaded as a .csc file. You can enter Bar Lyrics (bar-based lyrics) on the Chord Sheet. Fake Sheet mode has been added to the Chord Sheet and the Lead Sheet - Fake Sheet mode allows display of repeats, 1st/2nd endings, DS/DC al Coda, and more.
- You can add your own repeats and endings by right-clicking on the Chord Sheet, Notation, or Lead Sheet window and selecting the Repeats/Codas/1st-2nd Endings option in the context menu.
- There is an auto-detect feature that analyzes the song and adds repeats and endings for you.
The StylePicker has been redesigned and enhanced with new features including:- The window is now sizable by dragging the corner.
- The font size for the styles list is selectable.
- The styles list can be easily sorted by clicking on a column name.
- There is a button to quickly set a style in the list as your favorite.
- Quick filter. Type a text and/or select a category, time signature, feel, tempo, etc., and you will immediately see the filtered list.
- There is an automatic intelligent sorting of “best style” for the current song.
- 4-bar preview allows you to hear the first 4 bars of the current song using the selected style.
- There are buttons to find all style files and rebuilt the list.
- The style list can be exported to a spreadsheet.
- The StylePicker Options dialog has been added for additional display options for the StylePicker.
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. Generate vocal synth. You can hear Band-in-a-Box singing, with built-in support for the popular online vocal synth “Sinsy.” Load MusicXML. You can now open a MusicXML file from notation programs such as Finale, Sibelius, and Guitar Pro. Guitar capo support has been added to the on-screen Guitar Window and the Notation Window.- Set a capo value, and a capo gets drawn and guitar display reflects the capo setting.
- The tablature in the 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 the StylePicker, the RealTracks Picker, and the RealDrums Picker dialogs. -Legato Melody function has been improved, increasing legato of the notes in the Melody or the Soloist track by N ticks, avoiding next note by M ticks. -Staccato Melody function has been added, reducing the length of notes by N ticks, preserving a minimum of M ticks duration of notes. -The Lead Sheet Window can display Bar Lyrics. -Log of flash messages have been enhanced, with an ability to record more message types. -Changing a dB value in the StyleMaker for a track with loops now works. -[No Loop] button has been added to the Loops dialog. -Options (no transpose, no slash chords) have been added to RealTracks. -A new mode has been added to the woodshed feature; when the tempo reaches max, it stays there. -Option for relative note says b3, b5, b7 instead of 3b, 5b, 7b. -Clicking on a piano on the Mixer now adds a note to the notation (if in the editable mode) at the current time. -New UserTracks templates have been added to the Band-in-a-Box/RealTracks/UserTracks/UserTracks Templates folder (also in Band-in-a-Box/data/TemplatesForUserTracks folder). -The style demos have been redone with even volumes. Previously, the demos varied in volume from MIDI to RealTracks. -RealTracks pushes now happen a little later, sounding more musical, and the timing is tempo dependent. -1,000 Loops have improved. They sound better with styles. -C7+ is not in holds, C+ is, so it should remap them. -Stereo UserTracks is now supported. ...and more!
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Can I write songs in cut time?
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This is a fantastic upgrade!
UltraPAK 2021, 27" late 2012 iMac, 16 GB RAM, OSX 10.15.7
Logic Pro X 10.6.3
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>> [Islansoul] Can I write songs in cut time?
Yes, you can write songs in cut time. Because we have styles that are both 8th and 16th note based. In cut time, a song that is at say, 160 would be played as 80. Band-in-a-Box calls this half-time, and the opposite is double-time. Anyway, there are styles available for all of them, and you can easily convert the chord progression from normal to half-time (cut time), or Double Time, using the Edit-Reduce or Edit-Expand menu items.
Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.
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This was listed in the 2016 upgrade list: "A new part marker can start a new line." Does that mean I can have, for example, 1 or 2 measures on a line instead of always being restricted to 4 measures on a single horizontal line? The Windows version would let me make a "1-bar" line, but not Mac 2015. It knocks everything out of sync in viewing the song.
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(mark): A new part marker can start a new line." Does that mean I can have, for example, 1 or 2 measures on a line instead of always being restricted to 4 measures on a single horizontal line? The Windows version would let me make a "1-bar" line, but not Mac 2015. It knocks everything out of sync in viewing the song.
Yes, you are correct. This feature is added in Mac 2016, and works like the windows one. It is analogous to paragraph marks in text and it insures that a new section begins on new line which makes the chord sheet much more readable.
Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
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I notice that the 2016 version for Windows allows saving and loading Music XML files; but the MAC version just allows loading them. Is that correct? Why the difference, I wonder.
Last edited by SaxMarc; 04/28/16 06:32 PM.
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>> [Islansoul] Can I write songs in cut time?
Yes, you can write songs in cut time. Because we have styles that are both 8th and 16th note based. In cut time, a song that is at say, 160 would be played as 80. Band-in-a-Box calls this half-time, and the opposite is double-time. Anyway, there are styles available for all of them, and you can easily convert the chord progression from normal to half-time (cut time), or Double Time, using the Edit-Reduce or Edit-Expand menu items.
I need an example of what your talking about. I don't understand what your mean.
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Hi Islansoul,
Here's an example. Let's say you want to do the song Sweet Georgia Brown. As a swing tune that might be a fast swing tempo of 180. But that would be counting it in normal time using swing 8ths. Imagine yourself counting the tune in with a tempo of 180.
The alternative is to treat it like a 16th feel, where the tempo is 90 instead of 180 . That is the cut time version . Tap your foot at 90 and you can see what kind of styles would work at that tempo. The speed of the song (for someone playing the melody) is the same.
Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
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I notice that the 2016 version for Windows allows saving and loading Music XML files; but the MAC version just allows loading them. Is that correct? Why the difference, I wonder.
Hi SaxMarc, The Mac version does allow saving as XML. The initial release might not have had that feature added yet, but it's certainly there now, so make sure you've got the very latest patch update. Here's a video demonstration of both saving and loading XML: https://youtu.be/_eqADUKt71A?t=42m00s
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I am having a hard time trying to find out specifically " What EXACTLY " still needs to be added to the Mac Version of BIAB 2016 (audiophile edition) to make it exact to the Windows Version ?
I understand the MAC version has been trying to play "catch up" to the full functionality of the Windows version for years now .., and comments are it is getting close apparently .., but how close ?
..., I'd like to know exactly what still needs to be worked on / added until there is no difference in functionality ?
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What is the Sample Rate , and Bit depth
..., of the Uncompressed AIFF File that come with BIAB Audiophile Edition (eg: 96kHz - 24 Bit) ?
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What is the finished Sample Rate , and Bit depth " of the Exported WAV files" .., when sending them OUT of BIAB (ie: when they are exported from BIAB so they can be added to a DAW project ?
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Thank you agin Pipeline for taking the time to reply . Much appreciated . To PG : just a suggestion to add these questions to your F.A.Q section 
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No BIAB 2017 for Mac? Do I still have to wait until June?
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The Xtra stylePak 2 is new, and available for Mac. We are of course continuing our Mac development, now 27 years of BIAB Mac.
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The Xtra stylePak 2 is new, and available for Mac. We are of course continuing our Mac development, now 27 years of BIAB Mac. Ok, this is news to me!  I may be mistaken (or premature, if this is "in process"), but it looks to me like there are only three audio demos from this #2 Pak and the remaining ones all from #1 Pak? If so, that's being quite misleading, so perhaps if PG could clarify?
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should!
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Regarding xtra stylepak 2 for Mac. We have it completed, but it isn't on the website for ordering yet. It is the same as Windows, about 140 styles, each with demo songs. Best would be to wait until next week, we will be sending email and have it launched on this web page.
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Regarding xtra stylepak 2 for Mac. We have it completed, but it isn't on the website for ordering yet...Best would be to wait until next week Very good, thank you for clearing that up. I noticed that the page, while up, has some empty links so I expected it to be in "construction" stage, but it's good to have this confirmation.
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No BIAB 2017 for Mac? Do I still have to wait until June? The longer answer is: The variable has been something like may-july (I think there was at least one august if not later in recent years), but based on the average and convention, june sounds just about right. At any rate, they are never released for both platforms at the same time, and this isn't likely to change in any foreseeable future. Forum users have speculated the reason being because the same people are doing the programming for both. The short answer is "Yes".
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XPro and Xtra Styles PAKs Special Extended Until August 31st!
XPro & Xtra Styles PAKs Special Extended Until August 31st!
The XPro Styles PAKs and Xtra Styles PAKs special offers are now available until August 31st at 11:59pm PDT!
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XPro Styles PAKs are styles that work with any version (Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition) of Band-in-a-Box® 2025 (or higher). XPro Styles PAKS 1-9 includes 900 styles!
Xtra Styles PAKs are styles that work with the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box® 2025 (or higher). With over 3,500 styles (and 35 MIDI styles) included in Xtra Styles PAKs 1-20, the possibilities are endless!
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These RealTracks includes “Soul Jazz” with Neil Swainson (bass), Mike Clark (drums), Charles Treadway (organ), Miles Black (piano), and Brent Mason (guitar). Enjoy “Requested ’60s” jazz, classic acoustic blues with Colin Linden, and more of our popular 2-handed piano soloing. Plus, a RealTracks first—Tango with bandoneon, recorded in Argentina!
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This collection includes Disco, slap bass ‘70s/‘80s pop, modern and ‘80s metal with Andy Wood, and a unique “Songwriter Potpourri” featuring Chinese folk instruments, piano, banjo, and more. You’ll also find a muted electric guitar style (a RealTracks first!) and “Producer Layered Guitar” styles for slick "produced" sound.
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We’ve added new RealTracks across bro country, Americana, praise & worship, vintage country, and songwriter piano. Highlights include Brent Mason (electric guitar), Eddie Bayers (drums), Doug Jernigan (pedal steel), John Jarvis (piano), Glen Duncan (banjo, mandolin & fiddle), Mike Harrison (electric bass) and more—offering everything from modern sounds to heartfelt Americana styles
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- Look Ma! More MIDI 13: Country & Americana
- Instrumental Studies Set 22: 2-Hand Piano Soloing - Rhythm Changes
- MIDI SuperTracks Set 44: Jazz Piano
- Artist Performance Set 17: Songs with Vocals 7
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- 128 GM MIDI Patch Audio Demos.
Looking for more great add-ons, then upgrade to the 2025 49-PAK for just $49 and you'll get:
- 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and RealDrums with 20 RealStyles,
- FLAC Files (lossless audio files) for the 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and RealDrums
- Look Ma! More MIDI 14: SynthMaster,
- Instrumental Studies Set 23: More '80s Hard Rock Soloing,
- MIDI SuperTracks Set 45: More SynthMaster
- Artist Performance Set 18: Songs with Vocals 8
- RealDrums Stems Set 8: Pop, Funk & More with Jerry Roe
Learn more about the Bonus PAKs for Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®!
New! Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Band-in-a-Box 2025 and Higher for Mac!
Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Mac & Windows Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher) is here with 200 brand new RealStyles!
We're excited to bring you our latest and greatest in the all new Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Band-in-a-Box! This fresh installment is packed with 200 all-new styles spanning the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres you've come to expect, as well as the exciting inclusion of electronic styles!
In this PAK you’ll discover: Minimalist Modern Funk, New Wave Synth Pop, Hard Bop Latin Groove, Gospel Country Shuffle, Cinematic Synthwave, '60s Motown, Funky Lo-Fi Bossa, Heavy 1980s Metal, Soft Muted 12-8 Folk, J-Pop Jazz Fusion, and many more!
All the Xtra Styles PAKs 1 - 20 are on special for only $29 each (reg $49), or get all 209 PAKs for $199 (reg $399)! Order now!
Learn more and listen to demos of the Xtra Styles PAK 20.
Video: Xtra Styles PAK 20 Overview & Styles Demos: Watch now!
Note: The Xtra Styles require the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box®. (Xtra Styles PAK 20 requires the 2025 or higher UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition. They will not work with the Pro or MegaPAK version because they need the RealTracks from the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition.
New! XPro Styles PAK 9 for Band-in-a-Box 2025 and higher for Mac!
We've just released XPro Styles PAK 9 for Mac & Windows Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher) with 100 brand new RealStyles, plus 29 RealTracks/RealDrums!
We've been hard at it to bring you the latest and greatest in this 9th installment of our popular XPro Styles PAK series! Included are 75 styles spanning the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres (25 styles each) that fans have come to expect, as well as 25 styles in this volume's wildcard genre: funk & R&B!
If you're itching to get a sneak peek at what's included in XPro Styles PAK 9, here is a small helping of what you can look forward to: Funky R&B Horns, Upbeat Celtic Rock, Jazz Fusion Salsa, Gentle Indie Folk, Cool '60s Soul, Funky '70s R&B, Smooth Jazz Hip Hop, Acoustic Rockabilly Swing, Funky Reggae Dub, Dreamy Retro Latin Jazz, Retro Soul-Rock Fusion, and much more!
Special Pricing! Until July 31, 2024, all the XPro Styles PAKs 1 - 9 are on sale for only $29 ea (Reg. $49 ea), or get them all in the XPro Styles PAK Bundle for only $149 (reg. $299)! Order now!
Learn more and listen to demos of XPro Styles PAKs.
Video: XPro Styles PAK 9 Overview & Styles Demos: Watch now!
XPro Styles PAKs require Band-in-a-Box® 2025 or higher and are compatible with ANY package, including the Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, and Audiophile Edition.
New! Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Band-in-a-Box 2025 and Higher for Windows!
Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Windows & Mac Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher) is here with 200 brand new RealStyles!
We're excited to bring you our latest and greatest in the all new Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Band-in-a-Box! This fresh installment is packed with 200 all-new styles spanning the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres you've come to expect, as well as the exciting inclusion of electronic styles!
In this PAK you’ll discover: Minimalist Modern Funk, New Wave Synth Pop, Hard Bop Latin Groove, Gospel Country Shuffle, Cinematic Synthwave, '60s Motown, Funky Lo-Fi Bossa, Heavy 1980s Metal, Soft Muted 12-8 Folk, J-Pop Jazz Fusion, and many more!
All the Xtra Styles PAKs 1 - 20 are on special for only $29 each (reg $49), or get all 209 PAKs for $199 (reg $399)! Order now!
Learn more and listen to demos of the Xtra Styles PAK 20.
Video: Xtra Styles PAK 20 Overview & Styles Demos: Watch now!
Note: The Xtra Styles require the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box®. (Xtra Styles PAK 20 requires the 2025 or higher UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition. They will not work with the Pro or MegaPAK version because they need the RealTracks from the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition.
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