Hi Stockerup and welcome,

It is very hard to answer your question without knowing what backing tracks, if any, you are going to use. More information is really needed to lead you to the right program. Hopefully the following will help.

1-If you are going to sing acappella then either program will work. However you may not be satisfied with the end results IF you are looking for barbershop quartet results. If you were going to use these just for barbershop practice then they would be perfect. If you are looking for super quality end results then you would need to spend more money to get a better harmonizer IMHO. You can get very good harmonies with either program, they use the same harmonizer, but they sound best with backing tracks.

2-If you have purchased some commercial wavs backing tracks then PTPA would be a better choice. However you will need a midi track to generate the harmonies.

3-If you need to generate backing tracks then BiaB is the way to go. Just add the chords, pick a style, sing and add generate the harmonies. BiaB comes with RealBand , PTPA minus the harmonizer. Both BiaB and RB use PG Music’s Real Tracks so be sure to check them out.

Tweaking the parts can be done in either program.

Neither program will generate print outs of audio.

So let us know more about how you are going to use the software and we can better help you.

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