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Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Band-in-a-Box 2016 for Windows is here!Our homepage has an overview and shows off the new logo: www.pgmusic.com. During the month of December there is special pricing on most Upgrade packages! Plus, when you purchase one of the First-time packages or discounted upgrades you will receive a FREE BONUS PAK, which includes: 1 Artist Video Performance:-Jack Stafford Sax: Indiana 3 MIDI SuperTracks:-Piano, Rhythm FolkySwing Sw 110 -Piano, Electric, Rhythm FunkSwing16 Sw16 085 -Piano, Rhythm CountryBentNoteJohn Sw 085 4 Instrumental Studies:-Bass, Electric, Jazz Funk Poppy, Ev16 110 -Guitar, Acoustic, Folk, 2-part Fingerpicking, Sw16 085 -Guitar, Electric, Blues and Rock, Medium Rock Soloist, Ev 120 -Piano, Acoustic, Jazz and Bossa, Solo-Accompaniment Jazz Stride, Sw 085 Special Pricing and the free Bonus PAK are only available until December 31, 2015.With the release of Version 2016, there are 201 NEW RealTracks being added to our library! Plus, there are an additional 24 Bonus RealTracks, 2 Artist Video Performances, 8 MIDI SuperTracks, and 15 Instrumental Studies available in the 49-PAK! Learn more about these Bonus items here: www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.bonuspaks_2016.htm. New Features List: www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.new.htmNew Features Video and Bonus 49-PAK Video list here: http://www.pgmusic.com/videos.bbwin.htm Information and demos for the 201 new RealTracks released (Sets 228-253): www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.201newrealtracks.htm Band-in-a-Box 2016 for Windows... New Features:StylePicker redesigned and enhanced with many new features including:- Sizable window by dragging the corner.
- Selectable font size for texts in the style list.
- Columns sort. The style list can be easily sorted by clicking a column name.
- Quick filter. Type a text and/or select a category, time signature, feel, tempo, etc., and you will immediately see the filtered list.
- 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.
- Automatic intelligent sorting of "best style" for the current song.
- 4-bar preview of the current song using the currently selected style.
- StylePicker Options added to set additional display options for the StylePicker.
Chord Sheet 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.
- Both Section Text layer and Bar Lyrics layer will automatically split text (using line breaks) into separate bars.
- 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 over.
- You can now select a region of bars by just using the keyboard.
- There is now a Superscript option (separate settings for the chords and the Additional Chord Display layer).
- The number of columns can be customized.
- The "Extra space between columns (pixels)" option allows you to choose a border thickness between columns.
- The "New line for every section" option previously required that each section was at least 2 bars long, but now there is a "minimum section" setting.
- The "Show bar lines" option displays a bar line next to each bar number.
- The "Show bar numbers" option lets you choose how often bar numbers should display: never, always, only at part markers, or only at new rows.
- The "Use substyle colors for bar #s, etc." option controls the color of the optional bar lines, bar numbers, and section letters.
- The "Gray out chords beyond time signature" setting grays out chords that won't play in the song.
- 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.
- All of the settings and colors can be saved and loaded as a .csc file.
Audio Edit Window improved.- The window now displays stereo WAV files as 2 separate tracks.
- Horizontal zooming is easier. You can zoom with the mouse wheel, which focuses on the mouse cursor, or with a zoom button, which focuses on the audio cursor.
- Vertical zooming can be done with the mouse by zooming over the decibel bar, or by holding down the CTRL key and zooming towards the mouse cursor.
- You can zoom in further than the sample level now, and at these levels you will see interpolation between the sample points.
- When you perform various editing tasks from the Audio | Edit Audio menu, the Choose Range dialog will automatically use the region that is selected in the Audio Edit Window.
Import Audio feature improved.- The dialog now has a "chorus" option so you can be more specific about where you want the audio to go.
- If the audio file contains Acid Loop or Apple Loop info, there is an option to set the Audio Base Tempo of the current song to the tempo of the audio file.
Now you can convert the audio track from stereo to mono, or vice versa, by going to menu Audio | Edit Audio | Convert Channels (mono/stereo). Load and save MusicXML files. Main menu redesigned/re-organized.Automatic track names now include a number if there are 2 tracks with the same name. For example, "Guitar_1" "Guitar_2" will show instead of "Guitar" "Guitar." Yellow hints over the one letter track buttons in various windows show detailed information of the track name and other data. Notation, Big Piano, Guitar, Piano Roll and Lead Sheet windows show these. Guitar Window improved.- Now resizing the Guitar Window dynamically resizes the fretboard.
- Guitar Capo support added. Set a capo value, and capo gets drawn and guitar display reflects the capo setting.
- Tablature in 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 StylePicker, RealTracks Picker and RealDrums Picker dialogs. -Legato Melody function improved, increasing legato of the notes in Melody or Soloist track by N ticks, avoiding next note by M ticks. -Staccato Melody function added, reducing the length of notes by N ticks, preserving a minimum of M ticks duration of notes. -Notation Window displays an improved system of Bar Lyrics, Section Text, Bar Settings, and additional chord mode above the Standard chord. -Log of flash messages enhanced, recording more message types. -Style demos redone with even volumes. Previously, the demos varied in volume from MIDI to RealTracks. -Download Manager to automate download of Band-in-a-Box add-ons in background, accessible from inside the program. -Setting the "Track Type" to bass now shows a tab and the bass clef. -Loops are now saved with the Save Current Song as Style feature even if a loop was already embedded in the previous style on that track. -Changing a dB value in the StyleMaker for a track with loops now works. -[No Loop] button added to the Loops dialog. -RealTracks pushes now happen a little later, sounding more musical, and the timing is tempo dependent. -Options (no transpose, no slash chords) added to RealTracks. -Woodshed feature improved. When the tempo reaches max, it stays there. -C7+ is not in holds, C+ is, so it should remap them. -Option for relative note says b7 instead of 3b, 5b, 7b. ...and more!
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Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Joined: Jan 2009
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'-RealTracks pushes now happen a little later, sounding more musical, and the timing is tempo dependent.'
Is there a fix to Holds generally to make them sound more musical? Also more often than not on drum Holds all I get is just get one solitary tom or HH or snare or BD hit...
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Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Joined: Mar 2012
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Question:
If we use the new internal download-manager, can we still backup the downloaded files?
Or does it install the downloaded items automatically and throw away the files we would backup when using a 3rd party download-manager?
Thank you.
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Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Joined: Jun 2012
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My download option gave me links to a complete set of downloadable files which I saved and copied to one of my Distribution Drives, and then from there I launched the required downloaded files to install the latest versions. I still have the complete downloaded distributions safely tucked away.
BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones
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Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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@VideoTrack; thanks  Yes, that's also how I did it with BIAB2014 using a 3rd party downloader (the one suggested on the website) But I was wondering if the new internal download-manager, inside BIAB2016, works in a similar way. Or if it just updates the install-files in their installed locations and doesn't save any files we can back up. Also, in the future when updates are pushed through the internal downloader... will these updates be something we can backup, or how does that whole thing work? I ask because, if we can NOT backup files fetched by the new internal downloader, then I would use the 3rd party method so I got files I CAN backup But if the internal downloader gives the option of backing up things, then I would prefer using that one for convenience.
Last edited by JEL; 12/07/15 11:36 PM.
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Jel We are of course only members of a User Forum, and cannot control some of the requirements / features etc You might be better off to make a request for the best way to achieve your requirements through PG Music Support. Their contact details are on the PG Music main page
They will be able to give you an accurate answer to your request
BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones
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Thanks for your answer. Maybe somebody from the staff will see this thread and chip in I'm not really requesting anything. I'm just curious as to how this new downloader thing works, and just figured that either some of the staff that posts here, or some of the new BIAB2016 users, might perhaps know about it. I don't post often in this forum myself, so I don't really know which types of questions are usually answered best in here and which are better asked directly to support, so I'll give it some time before emailing them.
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Video: Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: VST3 Plugin Support
Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac® now includes support for VST3 plugins, alongside VST and AU. Use them with MIDI or audio tracks for even more creative possibilities in your music production.
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Band-in-a-Box 2025 for Mac Videos
With the release of Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac, we’re rolling out a collection of brand-new videos on our YouTube channel. We’ll also keep this forum post updated so you can easily find all the latest videos in one convenient spot.
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Reference this forum post for One-Stop Shopping of our Band-in-a-Box® 2025 Mac Videos — we’ll be adding more videos as they’re released!
Band-in-a-Box 2025 for Mac is Here!
Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac is here, packed with major new features and an incredible collection of available new content! This includes 202 RealTracks (in Sets 449-467), plus 20 bonus Unreleased RealTracks in the 2025 49-PAK. There are new RealStyles, MIDI SuperTracks, Instrumental Studies, “Songs with Vocals” Artist Performance Sets, Playable RealTracks Set 4, two new sets of “RealDrums Stems,” XPro Styles PAK 8, Xtra Styles PAK 19, and more!
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If you have any questions, feel free to connect with us directly—we’re here to help!
Band-in-a-Box 2025 Italian Version is Here!
Cari amici
È stata aggerate la versione in Italiano del programma più amato dagli appassionati di musica, il nostro Band-in-a-Box.
Questo è il link alla nuova versione 2025.
Di seguito i link per scaricare il pacchetti di lingua italiana aggiornati per Band-in-a-Box e RealBand, anche per chi avesse già comprato la nuova versione in inglese.
Band-in-a-Box 2025 - Italiano
RealBand 2025 - Italiano
Band-in-a-Box 2025 French Version is Here!
Bonjour à tous,
Band-in-a-Box® 2025 pour Windows est disponible en Français.
Le téléchargement se fait à partir du site PG Music
Pour ceux qui auraient déjà acheté la version 2025 de Band-in-a-Box (et qui donc ont une version anglaise), il est possible de "franciser" cette version avec les patchs suivants:
BIAB 2025 - francisation
RealBand 2025 - francisation
Voilà, enjoy!
Band-in-a-Box 2025 German Version is Here!
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Already using Band-in-a-Box 2025 for Windows®? Download Build 1128 now from our Support Page to enjoy the latest enhancements and improvements from our team.
Stay up to date—get the latest update now!
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