Hi Everyone, I have posted several times in years past. I have always respected the uniqueness and (for the most part) ease of use of Band in a Box. I have certainly touted it's features to my friends and fellow musicians. In the age of very sophisticated DAW's, I believe that the ability to create music in the unique way that BiaB allows is unmatched. That said, the price of the upgrade from an older version like mine (2019) something that I have to come to terms with. Yes, I have spent a lot of $ on Studio One, Melodyne, Native Instruments, gear, guitars, blah, etc. What does the latest version of Band in a Box have to offer in the scope and integration with the modern recording/production platforms available today? I am not a pro. Just a long time musician seeking advice from this outstanding community. Todd
Whole PGM content library (RT's, RD's, MIDI, Styles, Songs, etc.) had been consolidated into single non-modal tabbed librarian. You can try out items in near real time without opening and closing picker dialogs.
"What does the latest version of Band in a Box have to offer in the scope and integration with the modern recording/production platforms available today?"
Well, this question could have many answers. For one, unlike AI stuff that is likely stolen from copyrighted sources and to my understanding can't be copyrighted, BIAB offers ethical way of writing tunes, as PGM musicians were paid for their work... To try to answer your question more directly, in my opinion, a combination of a new Track View and Partial regeneration are the strongest combo of features in the past few years. You have significantly more control over tracks now.
I'm someone who always uses far more than the usual 5 instruments, so the ability to use the Utility tracks in the same way as ‘normal’ tracks (via the F5 shortcut) is the biggest improvement for me.
If the price of the update is an issue for you and you're NOT in a hurry, just post your songs regularly in the Showcase forum (and participate there in general) and chances are you'll end up in this year's "Showcase Awards" and get the latest version for free. PG Music is very generous in this regard!
< What does the latest version of Band in a Box have to offer in the scope and integration with the modern recording/production platforms available today? >
High quality integration, that's pro-level quality, with all of the " Studio One, Melodyne, Native Instruments, gear, guitars, blah, etc." you've accumalated.
By 'pro-level quality', meaning today, BIAB backing tracks are broadcast and streamed world-wide on every main-stream streaming service like Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, Spotify, Pandora, and Soundcloud. I've no doubt we've also heard BIAB backing tracks tucked into major, mainstream commercial releases from major artists. The quality is there which makes me think it's been at least, experimented with.
As a long time musician but not at a pro level, BIAB addresses this three ways.
. It provides you studio quality audio recordings performed by real session musicians playing real instruments over any chord progression, at any tempo, in any key for instruments you cannot play.
. It provides you studio quality audio recordings performed by real session musicians playing real instruments over any chord progression, at any tempo, in any key for instruments you can play, when BIAB's product is better than you can play.
. It provides you studio quality audio recordings performed by real session musicians playing real instruments over any chord progression, at any tempo, in any key for instruments you can play, but is useful in times it's inconvenient for you to play.
BIAB's RealTrack content is a pristine data base for thousands of instruments with hundreds of hours of isolated audio for samples and loop creation.
If you're a music teacher; BIAB 2025 makes it easier than ever to create tutorials, practice tracks and to include transcription and notation for students to practice over.
This includes using BIAB to speed up, slow down, change key signatures, loop and to also use features such creating multiple SGU playlists on the fly, view the guitar fretboard fingering the notes and chords.
Students self-teaching can use these tools also.
To get an idea of the value of BIAB 2025 for 'serious' recordings. Serious teaching aids and a seriously high level of arrangement and creative self-contained, complex productions, Check out BIAB's Artist Performance sets on their main page.
You're a guitarist, so I recommend Artist Performance #4, Brent Mason and I posted a screenshot of PG Music's description of the set.
Everything that PG Music describes, all the tools and features are included in BIAB for a user to create their own Artist Performance Sets just like what you'll see in Brent's and all the others Artist Performance sets.
You don't have to create an entire Performance Set, this can also be done at the track level. With 2025 BIAB for Windows that includes a Stem Splitter; In conjunction with the updated Audio Chord Wizard, original as well as commercial recordings can now be imported, synced and aligned with the BIAB Chord Sheet to use with a BIAB project.
It's now possible to practice or learn a piece from the original recording from a hit song from 1967 and have notation and tab, transcription and see the notes on the Guitar fretboard.
If I read the original post correctly, Todd has BIAB 2019 and knows what that does. He just doesn’t know about the changes in the program since then. In other words, he doesn’t know what it is he doesn’t know.
Utility Tracks, correctly mentioned above by BD Thomas, are what I meant by ‘more tracks’. We are no longer limited to the legacy tracks of bass, piano, guitar, drums on one track only, etc.
I should add Drum Stems to the list. There are starting to be some drums where you now have control over individual parts of the drum kit, each in its own track.
BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Slate VSX, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.
With an UltraPak version of. BIAB and just about any major brand of DAW you can create professional level, performance quality backing tracks. If you wish to record an album (excuse my age) using nothing but You and your instrument and a kickass backing band in a million (maybe more) genre’s you can.
With only a decent DAW and BIAB. I use Logic so I don’t even use DAW mastering plug ins anymore.
Think about what you’re trying to do and we can help dial it in a little for you.
I too have paid a lot of $$$ to Native instruments for sound libraries. Do I use them?? ALMOST NEVER !!! Truth is the Real Tracks included with BIAB get most of my backing track work so I rarely use midi any more. I realize midi gives you utmost control over every nanosecond of every track. Truth is, I don’t need that. I want my bass player to outline the chords and the drummer to keep it all honest. A few other instruments and I’m done. If I have Ron Carter playing an upright over a set of changes, my bass player is probably not the problem…. Ron’s right there, tuned up and ready to go, whenever I think he fits the bill.
That’s me. Others do other things. It’s because they are others. They have not yet learned my way is the path to total musical and spiritual enlightenment. Yea, hardly.
I’m sure if you outline some of your objectives you’ll get straight answers on how to do what you’re after. BIAB is a complex pile of code. It does many things for many people. In many ways. But never at the same time or Location…. Heisenberg.
biab2025(Mac) Latest Build Mac OS (Latest) Apple Mac Mini M2 pro 32GB Ram Logic Pro 11.2.2 Irwin Vice Grip Fencing Pliers
Well, this is incredible! It has been a long while since I posted here and (I'm not surprised) that this community is always willing to help and not bash because some breach of etiquette in the location of the post. I felt it important to address all of the excellent responses to my post in the same reply. I want to call out each of you though. Matt, I know you have been around here for a long time and I have learned much from your guidance to so many in this community. Same with Charlie Fogle (thanks for the attachment! I love Brent) and mrgeeze. Rusty and BD, nice to meet you. That said, upgrading is a no-brainer for me now. I am a worship band player. I have used Band in a Box to create chord progression snippets to practice improvised solos over (although I usually get replaced by our younger guitar hotshots!, oh well). I do also use BIAB to create tracks for my song ideas. And I love the BIAB plugin that I use with Studio One. Port the tracks over and then I can use my Presonus recording gear to complete the song. For separation stems (legally) I use Moises. I purchase the songs from Itunes. I have made many backing tracks using Moises that my singing partner from church and I use when she and I do acoustic sets for hospice patients and nursing facility residents. I know that you can record songs with Audacity and bounce to MP3 but I am opposed to that. Sorry to be lengthy but I wanted to do justice in responding the the thoughtful replies.
Band-in-a-Box 2026 Video: The Newly Designed Piano Roll Window
In this video, we explore the updated Piano Roll, complete with a modernized look and exciting new features. You’ll see new filtering options that make it easy to focus on specific note groups, smoother and more intuitive note entry and editing, and enhanced options for zooming, looping, and more.
Band-in-a-Box 2026 Video: AI Stems & Notes - split polyphonic audio into instruments and transcribe
This video demonstrates how to use the new AI-Notes feature together with the AI-Stems splitter, allowing you to select an audio file and have it separated into individual stems while transcribing each one to its own MIDI track. AI-Notes converts polyphonic audio—either full mixes or individual instruments—into MIDI that you can view in notation or play back instantly.
Bonus PAK and 49-PAK for Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Windows®
With your version 2026 for Windows Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, Audiophile Edition or PlusPAK purchase, we'll include a Bonus PAK full of great new Add-ons for FREE! Or upgrade to the 2026 49-PAK for only $49 to receive even more NEW Add-ons including 20 additional RealTracks!
These PAKs are loaded with additional add-ons to supercharge your Band-in-a-Box®!
This Free Bonus PAK includes:
The 2026 RealCombos Booster PAK:
-For Pro customers, this includes 27 new RealTracks and 23 new RealStyles.
-For MegaPAK customers, this includes 25 new RealTracks and 23 new RealStyles.
-For UltraPAK customers, this includes 12 new RealStyles.
MIDI Styles Set 92: Look Ma! More MIDI 15: Latin Jazz
MIDI SuperTracks Set 46: Piano & Organ
Instrumental Studies Set 24: Groovin' Blues Soloing
Artist Performance Set 19: Songs with Vocals 9
Playable RealTracks Set 5
RealDrums Stems Set 9: Cool Brushes
SynthMaster Sounds Set 1 (with audio demos)
Android Band-in-a-Box® App (included)
Looking for more great add-ons, then upgrade to the 2026 49-PAK for just $49 and you'll get:
20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and RealDrums with 20 RealStyle.
FLAC Files (lossless audio files) for the 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and RealDrums
MIDI Styles Set 93: Look Ma! More MIDI 16: SynthMaster
MIDI SuperTracks Set 47: More SynthMaster
Instrumental Studies 25 - Soul Jazz Guitar Soloing
Artist Performance Set 20: Songs with Vocals 10
RealDrums Stems Set 10: Groovin' Sticks
SynthMaster Sounds & Styles Set 2 (sounds & styles with audio demos)
Join Tobin as he takes you on a tour of the new user interface in Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Windows®! This modern GUI redesign offers a sleek new look with updated toolbars, refreshed windows, and a smoother workflow. The brand-new side toolbar puts track selection, the MultiPicker Library, and other essential tools right at your fingertips. Plus, our upgraded Multi-View lets you layer multiple windows without overlap, giving you a highly flexible workspace. Many windows—including Tracks, Piano Roll, and more—have been redesigned for improved usability and a cleaner, more intuitive interface, and more!
Introducing XPro Styles PAK 10 – Now Available for Windows Band-in-a-Box 2025 and Higher!
We've just released XPro Styles PAK 10 for Windows & Mac Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher) with 100 brand new RealStyles, plus 28 RealTracks and RealDrums!
Few things are certain in life: death, taxes, and a brand spankin’ new XPro Styles PAK! In this, the 10th edition of our XPro Styles PAK series, we’ve got 100 styles coming your way! We have the classic 25 styles each from the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres, and rounding out this volume's wildcard slot is 25 styles in the Praise & Worship genre! A wide spanning genre, you can find everything from rock, folk, country, and more underneath its umbrella. The included 28 RealTracks and RealDrums can be used with any Band-in-a-Box® 2026 (and higher) package.
Here’s just a small sampling of what you can look forward to in XPro Styles PAK 10: Soft indie folk worship songs, bumpin’ country boogies, gospel praise breaks, hard rockin’ pop, funky disco grooves, smooth Latin jazz pop, bossa nova fusion, western swing, alternative hip-hop, cool country funk, and much more!
Special offers until December 31st, 2025!
All the XPro Styles PAKs 1 - 10 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!
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.
Introducing Xtra Styles PAK 21 – Now Available for Windows Band-in-a-Box 2025 and Higher!
Xtra Styles PAK 21 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 Xtra Styles PAK installment—the all new Xtra Styles PAK 21 for Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher)!
Rejoice, one and all, for Xtra Styles PAK 21 for Band-in-a-Box® is here! We’re serving up 200 brand spankin’ new styles to delight your musical taste buds! The first three courses are the classics you’ve come to know and love, including offerings from the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres, but, not to be outdone, this year’s fourth course is bro country! A wide ranging genre, you can find everything from hip-hop, uptempo outlaw country, hard hitting rock, funk, and even electronica, all with that familiar bro country flair. The dinner bell has been rung, pickup up Xtra Styles PAK 21 today!
In this PAK you’ll discover: Energetic folk rock, raucous train beats, fast country boogies, acid jazz grooves, laid-back funky jams, a bevy of breezy jazz waltzes, calm electro funk, indie synth pop, industrial synth metal, and more bro country than could possibly fit in the back of a pickup truck!
Special offers until December 31st, 2025!
All the Xtra Styles PAKs 1 - 21 are on special for only $29 each (reg $49), or get all 21 PAKs for $199 (reg $399)! Order now!
Note: The Xtra Styles require the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box®. (Xtra Styles PAK 21 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.
Introducing XPro Styles PAK 10 – Now Available for Mac Band-in-a-Box 2025 and Higher!
We've just released XPro Styles PAK 10 for Mac & Windows Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher) with 100 brand new RealStyles, plus 28 RealTracks and RealDrums!
Few things are certain in life: death, taxes, and a brand spankin’ new XPro Styles PAK! In this, the 10th edition of our XPro Styles PAK series, we’ve got 100 styles coming your way! We have the classic 25 styles each from the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres, and rounding out this volume's wildcard slot is 25 styles in the Praise & Worship genre! A wide spanning genre, you can find everything from rock, folk, country, and more underneath its umbrella. The included 28 RealTracks and RealDrums can be used with any Band-in-a-Box® 2026 (and higher) package.
Here’s just a small sampling of what you can look forward to in XPro Styles PAK 10: Soft indie folk worship songs, bumpin’ country boogies, gospel praise breaks, hard rockin’ pop, funky disco grooves, smooth Latin jazz pop, bossa nova fusion, western swing, alternative hip-hop, cool country funk, and much more!
Special offers until December 31st, 2025!
All the XPro Styles PAKs 1 - 10 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!
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.
One of our representatives will be happy to help you over the phone. Our hours of operation are from
6:00AM to 6:00PM PST (GMT -8) Monday thru Friday, and 8:00AM to 4:00PM PST Saturday. We are closed Sunday. You can also send us your questions via email.
One of our representatives will be happy to help you on our Live Chat or by email. Our hours of operation are from
6:00AM to 6:00PM PST (GMT -8) Monday thru Friday; 8:00AM to 4:00PM PST (GMT -8) Saturday; Closed Sunday.
Dansk
Deutsch - Windows
Español
Français - Windows
Italiano - Windows
Nederlands
Polski
Português
Svenskt
русский
Japanese
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Korean