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You mean the new fancy box and external hard drive packaging is 'lacking'. I don't agree at all on that point.
OK so they should go black and silver and blister pack it so I have to call my kids over to open the darn thing. And make it have flashing lights and play a demo song so it goes into your ipod headphones and you hear the genre you push on the package.
My grandson has a thing he sits in that's like that. Plays farmer music when you touch the farm and other neat stuff. Classical and folk tunes.
I really disagree on this point. They haven't put the box with the hard drive in the stores I guess. Is success in marketing to younger people the fact that it's over top of the Yamaha keyboards at WallMart?
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Using semantics, you may be right, rockstar. I meant there IS a market there, but you may be correct that PGMusic isn't pursuing it.
I use MIDI in PGMusic products quite a bit, and 90% not GM. The fact that it is set up to be GM compatible doesn't mean it has to be used that way. It just makes for an easier set up initially to get going. It's no more restrictive than a thousand dollar synth that happens to have a GM bank in it. Not sure why you assume we are all using only GM setups. I've read that from you quite a few times.
With the patchlist feature I am able to call up thousands of sounds right from inside the tracks window.. makes it kinda nice.
Without the GM structure, the whole BiaB system would be much less powerful, maybe your comments are aimed more at the BiaB users. Sure seem to be a lot of people enjoying it, and writing great songs with it.
RB does most of what the other DAWs do, and a few very unique things too. Still my preferred DAW at this point.
I'd rather have the realtracks than the VSTi tempo if it has to be a tradeoff. Sure would be nice to have both though.
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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Bob, will you please STOP changing your Avatar! It is unnerving, to say the least. I don't know you in person but I know you here on the forum. To change your Avatar is to change your whole persona. Or would you like me to turn blue? Bluish? Grow pointed ears? NOI Yes. I am one of the Knights who say 'NOI'  Ha ha! Did it! I turned blue! So, see what I mean, Bob? Disconcerting, isn't it?
What will Trax turn into next??
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Pretty much anything, although my own stuff comes down to comedy folk-rock and ballads
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Sam, I haven't changed my avatar in years,  and the knights say 'ni' http://www.killerclips.com/clip.php?id=117&qid=1450
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Liar!
Ni ni ni ni ni!!!!
Note to self: Can I get myself back here again or have I been taken over by an Avatar??
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rockstar.
allow me to explain. re youngsters.
interestingly enough i was defending the young uns this week..
cos we were all youngsters once.
but over the past few years ive heard the same common points made by
people in the work force grappling with manageing young uns in their first job.
viz..at school none is allowed to fail.
and the generation in general terms at school has always been used
to constant positive reinforcement.
then they get their first job and its often a culture shock sadly for many.
because they dont often get the constant positive reinforcement they
are used to all the time at school/home.
which many seem to need.
often the complaint i hear also is they want to join an
employer one week and expect to be in senior mgt within a short time thereafter.
i'm just relaying what ive been told many times.
in summary they are used to getting things fast and when the
reality of real life with all its problems occurs, many get
rapidly frustrated.
so dont get me wrong..i'm just relaying what ive been told many times.
mebe its unrealistic expectations that are built up at the school level.
re expectations for quick success.
fair comment ??
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my silly songs...motagator.com/bmanning
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I am being repressed!
We are the knights who say nicht...we are the keepers of the sacred words, nicht, pang, and neuwong!
If I only had two points to make to you it would be an umm-lout.
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Yer giving me di·er·e·sis  For that- You must bring me a shrubbery
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Okay Sam, that was funny.
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rharv, I hadn't seen that clip in years. Thanks for the good laugh. Bob
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You mean the new fancy box and external hard drive packaging is 'lacking'. I don't agree at all on that point.
OK so they should go black and silver and blister pack it so I have to call my kids over to open the darn thing. And make it have flashing lights and play a demo song so it goes into your ipod headphones and you hear the genre you push on the package.
My grandson has a thing he sits in that's like that. Plays farmer music when you touch the farm and other neat stuff. Classical and folk tunes.
I really disagree on this point. They haven't put the box with the hard drive in the stores I guess. Is success in marketing to younger people the fact that it's over top of the Yamaha keyboards at WallMart?
John,
This reply to my post - if it is not one of your tongue-in-cheek replies is clear evidence that you really don't have any idea what I am talking about. The demographic I'm talking about does not buy very much at Wal-Mart.
I'm talking the graphic design of both the advertisement as well as the website and GUI in the program. You are on about the black/silver - that much I think you picked up.
Do you read any of the industry magazines on home recording? If so, take a look at other DAW advertisements and contrast them with PG adverts. Same price paid for the advertisement itself. But one looks like it was done with Microsoft Word 'Word Art', and the others look like professionals put them together.
@Bob,
The point about GM is all over the forums (how many times do people have to ask about Forte DXi, or VSC, or SD, or the other GM flavor of the day and why my drums aren't showing up on channel 10?) You don't see any questions here asking about how to program the synths in Reaktor (well, Ryszard has dabbled, but most are doing very typical drums/guitars/piano/organ/horns backing), how to automate filters or what's the best way to get stutter effects on synth pads, etc. Here the questions seem very focused on how to get standard songs to sound good for one-man-bands and the like. WAY more topics here like that than other forums.
I mean really, just go to any of the other forums related to particular DAWs and you just won't find questions about GM. I agree that setting the program up for GM doesn't limit (well, it does in that it takes up unnecessary real-estate on the mixer applet - like for the chorus/reverb midi knobs) but unless you've played with other programs and haunted other forums, it may not be so apparent as to the general lack of targeting a younger market.
-Scott
It's been a very long time since I heard a full-on synth only tune here at PG, where everything is midi, and none of it is GM.
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Yeah, this demographic survey will tell ya you are not going to hear a lot of full-on synth stuff.
Some of us know how to program synths and call up other patches and use many other features of MIDI, and I think most regulars here do know MIDI pretty well.. We don't ask questions because we pretty much got a handle on it. Most of the questions in a forum such as this are from noobies, as it should be. I do hang out in other forums where guys do a lot more synth stuff. Can't say I enjoy it more though, the full-on synth stuff got old a while ago for me. I like using them where I think they'll fit, but other instruments still suit my style much better.
It may be that PGMusic is focused exactly on their niche market. Since BiaB is their flagship product. I don't use it much myself, however I do think BiaB could be a great aid for those starting out, which is what I believe it was meant to be from the beginning (hence the name). They keep it easy to set up and get going and let people do a lot with what they offer. And it can teach you a lot.
I was just saying, it's how you use the tools that matter, and for me RB can hang pretty well with a lot of them for what I do. Including MIDI. I don't think you really appreciate what stuff like Realtracks and the ACW can do. If a user puts as much time into Realtracks as they would with loops, the realtracks can be quite impressive. Depends what you are after I guess. All the DAWs have their plus/minuses.
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Scott, Quote:
Do you read any of the industry magazines on home recording? If so, take a look at other DAW advertisements and contrast them with PG adverts. Same price paid for the advertisement itself. But one looks like it was done with Microsoft Word 'Word Art', and the others look like professionals put them together.
I have to agree with you 100%. To say the web design and graphics of PG is "dated" is being kind. It will definitely not appeal to younger people.
For me, BIAB has always been nothing more than a practice tool so I can play or sing along and "keep my chops up". I will let BIAB take at least one solo so I can run through the chord progression. I play, (or played), a lot of instrumentals so it is good for that. It's also great if you have friends or family over and they ask you to play and you are the only musician there. Then they can have that "full band" sound.
I've never gotten into the full functions of BIAB because it was and is still just a practice tool. Don't take me wrong, I love it and recommend it to anyone who plays because of what it can do. But it will not appeal to a younger group.
Hiring professional web design people and having better tutorials would definitely help.
And for bluegrass players, getting at least ONE decent style that understands the genre would help a lot. For the umpteenth time, the melodies are 8th swing notes, not 16th. Even the styles that are listed as 8th swing are actually 16th's. Sucks really hard.
And believe it or not, there are a lot of young people playing bluegrass or newgrass. Not to mention us old folks.
Bob
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John, That's funny you mention the niche of BIAB in schools. As a private instructor, I have been exposing my progressive knowledge on using BIAB to my guitar & piano students. I use it as a technique for them to think outside of the box (pardon the pun) of their own instrumental world; especially guitarists. I know, from being one, I have a tendency to forget that there are other people playing too and would also like to solo as well! Hmm, what to do while they are soloing? The extra nice feature of this product over something like JAMMER is that it offers the notation of the songs as they are created.
Speaking of tutorials, the best thing I found for teaching the students (and future BIAB customers) is to take a familiar chord pattern and change different styles to it. This way, you have the same chords and then allow for the style to create its own mods and capture what changes took place in the chart.
I gotta think of something new for a couple of my students. They already have done recording sessions, writing their own 2 part guitar harmony songs and recording them. So, I am ecstatic for what BIAB brings to the music education front. I have not dove into the practice Jazz tunes for them yet. I am still trying to learn them. Hence, my naive jazz posts!
Sorry for another shameless plug for BIAB.
Thanks RickeG
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Wow interesting post, that is up till Bob And Sam starting needing a playdate.
52 years young, been playing since i was 15. You think i would learn something one day, sheeesh!
Love Old time rock, country and folk. Use BiaB for song beds, RB and Multitrackstudios to finish and master.
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It's been a very long time since I heard a full-on synth only tune here at PG, where everything is midi, and none of it is GM.
-Scott
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P.S.: Fifty-seven years old. I use BIAB as a sequencer and co-composer. Look for more full-on electronica.
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Retired university professor, age 67. Been with BIAB since its earliest days. Don't tinker with the program except to gig live. Never used Real Band, since BIAB does it for me. Played in bands since the 1960's. Working solo now 5 nights a week in a private club. Play everything from the early 1900's through the '70's. I use BIAB, along with guitar some nights, and other nights on Yamaha arranger keyboard. By the way, this forum has really been helpful over the years.
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I write songs (words and music) with my guitar then use Real Band to create arrangements by entering the chords and selecting Real Instruments, etc. and then record the vocals on top of the whole deal in Real Band.
Real Band is the perfect tool for what I do.
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28 years going on 14 according to some folks here at any rate..lol.
I'm maybe atypical of the younger generation inasmuch as I'm into mostly acoustic 'jazz' based music; not the 'nu-jazz' or electronica that's supposed to appeal to my age group. So that qualifies me as a 'young fogey' perhaps!
I use the term jazz with caution; I like to improvise in a jazz influenced way but not necessarily over standard jazz forms and structures. I'd call it 'free' jazz except that's misleading. It more jazz influenced by various folk and modern classical elements with a lot of odd time signatures or else non-metric 'pulses'.
That creates problems for me when I try to use BIAB styles and chords for arranging and composing original material as there's so few styles that are usable straight out of the box for me. BIAB's idea of jazz tends to be dominated by mainstream traditional genres or else commercial smooth jazz so i find as much interest in adapting funk and rock patterns for my own use as anything strictly jazz.
i usually have to make lot of adaptations to existing styles by importing custom patterns, using lots of shots and holds, hybrids with other styles, altering the chord voicings, breaking up the bar structure and using lots of fills to create 'broken-time' feels ...its hard work.
Lets face it.. a bunch of style disks covering the evolution of post-Ornette Coleman 'free' jazz from 1960- right through to today's mixed- genre 'creative/experimental' jazz scene isn't going to happen ...as much as i'd love it to.
All I can hope is that a future BIAB will some day give me more options for customising the programs functins so that making my adaptations is less arduous than it is just now.
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Note: 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.
The Xtra Styles require the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box®. (Xtra Styles PAK 19 requires the 2025 or higher UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition. They will not work with the Pro or MegaPAK version as they require the RealTracks included in the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition.
Supercharge your Band-in-a-Box today with XPro Styles PAKs and Xtra Styles PAK Sets!
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!
Special Offers
Upgrade to Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac and save up to 50% on most upgrade packages during our special offer—available until May 15, 2026. Visit our Band-in-a-Box® packages page to explore all available upgrade options.
2026 Free Bonus PAK & 49-PAK Add-ons
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.
Holiday Weekend Hours
As we hop into the Easter weekend, here are our holiday hours:
April 3 (Good Friday): 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT
April 4 (Saturday): Closed
April 5 (Easter Sunday): Closed
April 6 (Easter Monday): Open regular hours
Wishing you an egg-cellent weekend!
— Team PG
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