As you know, Band-in-a-Box has been around for many, many, many years!

Let's take a look back to November 2002, and the release of Band-in-a-Box 12 for Windows... some of the new features released included:

• MIDI File to Style Wizard - automatically converts a MIDI file to a Band-in-a-Box Style.
• "Twice and many instruments" with GM2 Support - this added 129 new instruments to styles and songs, including the ukulele, mandolin, 12-string guitar and more!
• Guitar Chord Diagrams on the Notation - an option for standard Guitar Chord diagrams to be included in the notation display.
• You can now loop any section of the song - handy for looping a full chorus or other section of a song for practice or performance.
• Styles Improved - all of the Styles for Band-in-a-Box were enhanced with new StyleMaker features including guitar and other fretted instrument voicings, consistent volume levels, edited patterns, and more!

Want to see all the new features that Version 12 had to offer? Visit http://www.pgmusic.com/pdfs/bbwin_version_12.pdf and read all about them!

What was your first version of Band-in-a-Box?

BIAB for DOS, version 2

BIAB for DOS, version 2, me too. If I remember correctly, it was on One 3.5 diskette. I use to carry around in my shirt pocket and brought it everywhere with me.

As a side note: Windows 3.1 required 24 (3.5) diskettes.

DE

My first version of BIAB were the disks in 1995. I was new to computers and really struggled to understand the PC and BIAB.

I discovered Band-in-a-Box with version 8, so I guess that would be sometime 1999. And have upgraded every time since. I remember going through the upgrade from 16-bit to 32-bit and looking forward to ultimately going from 32-bit to 64-bit.

Version 5 for Atari - 1992

Still got the disks, not sure about the Atari, it might be hidden somewhere, I'm quite sentimental about old computers.