Originally Posted By: JimFogle


I strongly believe true 64 bit editions of RealBand and Band-in-a-Box are being developed and those editions will be new from the ground up. I also believe the number of devices using 32 bit operating systems are declining but will continue to exist for the next decade. So there will continue to be a need to serve the 32 and 64 bit customer bases for the near future. I believe PG Music is maintaining the 32 bit editions while much of their attention and resources are directed to developing 64 bit programs. Starting over new is a huge task but offers the opportunity to intergrate all existing features and plan ways to merge future enhancements.


Another issue is documentation is not available for download from the site. A customer has no way to look through the product manuals prior to purchase. I can not think of any other musical product, hardware or software based, that does not have manuals available online.

Should a customer get a product manual the customer would find a manual that is either out-of-date or in disarray. Neither RealBand's or Band-in-a-Box's documentation offer comprehensive feature descriptions or how-to-use explanations. Both are gross in size (number of pages) and difficult to use.

As with all comments posted on this thread, I am a diehard fan of PG Music products. These opinions are just that, my opinions.



I do hope your right Jim, this could be the reason why the update lacks lustre (IMO) the work is going into 64 bit rewrite. I hoped this one would be 64 bit too.

Good idea about having the manual on line for new customers to look at. I often think that a demo version would also be useful, at the moment you tell a friend and she/he has to rush straight to a cheque book. A thirty day trial would be good for many.

Another fan here, despite all...

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