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Manually: Select the Bar you want to change RealTracks. Then you open Bar Settings (F5); Select the RealTracks Button; a window opens and you select the Track (Bass, Drums, Piano, Guitar, Strings, Melody, Soloist) you are working with. Click in the Lower Bar and select the RealTrack to Change to. Ok out after making your selection. You can do this up to ten times on each track. Just start at the bar you want to make a instrument change. Note that it does not have to be 10 different instruments. It can be any combination of instruments. Sometimes I alternate between two instruments and use two tracks of the same instruments and reverse the order of the instruments of the two tracks jumping back and forth between the two tracks. For instance: Guitar Track - Guitar 1 and Guitar 2; Strings Track - Guitar 2 and Guitar one. You can do course panning and volume automation almost seamlessly between the two guitars. Another thing you will quickly notice is how well BIAB creates crossfading between instrument changes. Very clean. Because BIAB is reading ahead to generate the track, it chooses audio phrases that make smooth transitions. I think there are some things doing instrumentation in BIAB you will like better than in RealBand. Plus, all of this will transfer over to RealBand when you open a BIAB file in RealBand. I think you will also see it is much faster and easier to audition RealTracks, Supermidi or Midi instruments, than what you can in RealBand because there is a minor difference between the BIAB Stylepicker and the RB Stylepicker where the BIAB Stylepicker can play a style over your Song Chord Chart and the RB Stylepicker does not have that feature. You can audition dozens of RealTrack Styles and the individual RealTracks in just a few minutes using this feature. You also can speed the search/audition time by using the 4 bar preview. This feature plays the first four bars of your song, but the chords do not have to be the first chords of your song. You can of course change to any chords in these to search/audition RealTracks for any part of your song structure by changing part markers and chords, test shots, holds and rests and then when you're done, change the first four bars back to the chords they should be. You'll find searching and generation in BIAB beats RB hands down...
Back to the 10 instruments per channel: A more advanced method in BIAB.
Open RealTracks Picker
From the RealTracks Window in the upper right, select the Medley Button
Here's where the real magic happens.....
A window opens with 10 slots where you select up to 10 different instruments in any combination. For instance, you can choose only two instruments and have them change between them in various ways determined by every so many bars, part markers and you can even have up to all 10 instruments play simultaneously!
BIAB 2025:RB 2025, Latest builds: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop; Windows-10-64 bit, Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz CPU and 16 GB Ram Memory.
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Introducing the New Band-in-a-Box iOS App!
We’re excited to introduce the new Band-in-a-Box iOS app, designed to enhance your music creation. The Band-in-a-Box iOS app is the perfect companion to your desktop version, giving you the freedom to sketch out ideas wherever you are and develop them further when you're back at your workstation. Now, you can create, play, generate, and transfer songs seamlessly between your iOS device, and desktop.
Key Features:
- Easily Create and Play Songs – Build and play songs effortlessly on your device.
- MIDI and RealTracks/RealStyles Support – Generate MIDI tracks and RealTracks/RealStyles right on your iPhone or iPad (RealTracks/RealStyles require an internet connection).
- Notation Support – View chord sheets, professional notation, tab, and drum notation for all tracks.
...and more!
Watch the Band-in-a-Box iOS Overview Video.
Visit the Band-in-a-Box for iOS support page for more information and to listen to demos of our RealStyles catalogue.
Download the Band-in-a-Box iOS App from the Apple App Store today!
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If you’ve already purchased Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Windows®, great news—a new update is now available! This update introduces a handy new feature: a vertical cursor in the Tracks window that shows the current location across all tracks, and more.
Discover everything included in this free update and download it now at https://www.pgmusic.com/support_windowsupdates.htm#1124
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With Band-in-a-Box 2025® for Windows®, we've introduced an exciting new feature: the AI Lyrics Generator! In this video, Tobin guides you step-by-step on how to make the most of this new tool.
Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Windows®: Boot Camp: The AI Lyrics Generator video.
Check out the forum post for more information.
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Band-in-a-Box 2025® for Windows® now includes support for VST3 plugins, bringing even more creative possibilities to your music production. Join Simon as he guides you through the process in this easy-to-follow demonstration!
Video: Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Windows®: Using VST3 Plugins
Join the conversation on our forum.
Video: Band-in-a-Box 2025 for Windows: Using The BB Stem Splitter!
In this video, Tobin provides a crash course on using the new BB Stem Splitter feature included in Band-in-a-Box 2025® for Windows®. During this process he also uses the Audio Chord Wizard (ACW) and the new Equalize Tempo feature.
Video: Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Windows®: Using the BB Stem Splitter
Check out the forum post for some optional Tips & Tricks!
Congrats to Misha (Rustyspoon)…downloaded/installed a full Audiophile 2025!
Breaking News!
We’re thrilled to announce that Rustyspoon has made PG history as the very first person to successfully complete the download and install of the full Band-in-a-Box 2025 Windows Audiophile Edition (with FLAC files)—a whopping 610GB of data!
A big shoutout to Rustyspoon for stepping up to be our test "elf!"
Thank you for your support, Rustyspoon!
Band-in-a-Box 2025 for Windows Videos
With the launch of Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Windows, we're adding new videos to our YouTube channel. We'll also share them here once they are published so you can easily find all the Band-in-a-Box® 2025 and new Add-on videos in one place!
Whether it's a summary of the new features, demonstrations of the 202 new RealTracks, new XPro Styles PAK 8, or Xtra Styles PAKs 18, information on the 2025 49-PAK, or detailed tutorials for other Band-in-a-Box® 2025 features, we have you covered!
Reference this forum post for One-Stop Shopping of our Band-in-a-Box® 2025 Videos - we will be updating this post as more videos are added!
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