Perfect for musicians, songwriters, and educators – award-winning Band-in-a-Box is the world’s premiere auto accompaniment and style-based music creation software. Use it to easily create music backing tracks for your songwriting, vocal performances, or create jam tracks for practicing solos and improvisation. You can also use it as a powerful songwriting tool. Band-in-a-Box automatically creates professional-quality backing tracks in a wide variety of popular styles including Rock, Pop, Country, Folk, Celtic, Blues, Jazz, Latin, and Bluegrass styles. You can also create your own Hybrid Styles.
Band-in-a-Box® UltraPAK with RealBand includes:
- Band-in-a-Box® 2021
- RealBand 2021
- Over 3,100 RealTracks: RealTracks replace the MIDI track for that instrument, and can be controlled just like the MIDI instrument (volume changes, muting etc.). They follow the chord progression that you have entered, so you hear an authentic audio accompaniment or solo. RealTracks are not "samples"... They are full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars at a time, playing in perfect sync with the other tracks.
- Mega RealCombos: Over 800 RealTracks in over 350 Bands!: RealCombos are a band of RealTracks in the same style. For example, the Jazz Swing 140 RealCombo includes 5 Real Instruments (Bass, Piano, Guitar, Sax, and Drums) that play at a medium swing 140 bpm tempo. RealCombos can be played at ANY tempo, but sound best near the listed tempo (which they were originally recorded at).
- 2021 49-PAK: You'll receive 40 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks, MultiStyles PAK 1, Artist Performance Set 10: More Celtic Flute with Geoff Kelly, Instrumental Studies 14: Country Rock Blues Shuffle Soloing, MIDI SuperTracks Set 33: More Bass, Look Ma! More MIDI 5, Look Ma! More MIDI 6, 14 Bonus RealDrums "Singles," 4 new styles with our Rediscovered RealTracks Styles, as well as Instrumental Studies 15: Minor Jazz Blues Guitar Soloing, MIDI SuperTracks Set 32: Jazz, New Age and Gospel Keys, and over 300 RealCharts for all existing and new RealDrums.
- Over 175 MIDI SuperTracks: Instead of MIDI styles based on C7 chord patterns that get repeated over every chord, the MIDI SuperTracks are based on actual playing by studio musicians. When you play the SuperTracks with your favorite MIDI synth or VST plug-ins, you'll hear great sounds using MIDI. MIDI SuperTracks are an excellent option for those looking for the editing and control capabilities of regular MIDI tracks, but with the added bonus of incredibly good MIDI sounds!
- Over 2,000 MIDI Styles: 445 Jazz (72 Ballads, 44 Bebop, 10 Big Band, 10 Dixieland, 97 Fusion, 79 Latin, 100 Modern, 44 Smooth Jazz, 170 Swing); 772 Rock / Pop (163 Ballads, 78 Blues, 94 British, 108 Country, 61 Dance, 59 Fusion, 89 Hard, 202 Pop, 289 Soft); 412 Country (92 Ballads, 37 Bluegrass, 154 Classic, 43 Folk, 170 Rock/Pop); 176 Blues; 70 New Age / Soundtrack; 56 Classical; 112 Folk; 238 Latin; 49 Hip-Hop; 127 Funk; 89 Praise & Worship / Gospel; 79 R & B / Soul; 58 Techno; and 86 World / Ethnic
- Over 300 MIDI Soloists
- Over 200 MIDI Melodists
- 145 Artist Performances
- Over 1,000 Loops
RealBand is a program that combines the most popular features from PG Music’s PowerTracks Pro Audio DAW and the award-winning Band-in-a-Box into an all-in-one sequencing program with automatic accompaniment.
RealBand offers powerful features for musicians, students, and songwriters. With intelligent automatic arrangements, RealTracks live instrument tracks, RealDrums live drum tracks, the amazing Audio Chord Wizard, seamlessly integrated digital audio/MIDI recording, built-in DirectX effects, and notation, RealBand turns a typical PC into a music production powerhouse. This documentation will provide you with information on how to get the most out of the great features that RealBand has to offer.
RealBand is a fully-featured and powerful music arranging, sequencing, and digital recording program. RealBand is the perfect tool for musicians, students, and songwriters alike!
Features include:
- Over 202 new RealTracks (Sets 353-375)!
- 24-bit audio playback, recording, mixing, and rendering is supported.
- 7,000 more song titles added to the Song Titles Browser.
- Faster audio DSP processing (up to 4X faster using SIMD).
- 16 new editable Utility tracks, which can be used for audio and/or MIDI.
- Audio harmonies can be generated to separate tracks.
- View audio on any track, not just the Audio track.
- Improved mixer with many customizable display options.
- Improved plugin control and MIDI routing.
- RealTracks can be pitch-corrected to match chord tones.
- All RealDrums have RealCharts (with accurate Drum Notation and MIDI to trigger drum sounds).
- 2/2 cut time and 2/4 notation display.
- Time signature button with a better menu.
- A new visual transpose button.
- Waves® plugins support.
- ... and much more!
What's inside Band-in-a-Box Pro 2021Use Band-in-a-Box to write songs or to practice improvisation and soloing. Band-in-a-Box easily delivers great sounding backing tracks in a multitude of styles. Band-in-a-Box Pro includes over 350 RealTracks Sets featuring over 100 bands playing real instruments. You get over 340 hours of recordings by top studio musicians to use on your own songs.
Other features include:
VST Plug-In
Band-in-a-Box includes a 64-bit VST plug-in format that works with any Windows DAW that accepts VST plug-ins. The Mac version includes 64-bit VST, AU, and AAX plug-ins. Easily add Band-in-a-Box tracks to your audio production!
Automatic Music Accompaniment
Award-winning Band-in-a-Box is easy-to-use, intelligent music accompaniment software. Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (i.e., C, Fm7, C13b9), choose the style you would like played by the band, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest!
You can import a simple acoustic guitar demo and then use the Audio Chord Wizard to detect the chords, and the Audio Wizard to determine the tempo, bar lines, and song key. Use Band-in-a-Box to flesh out your arrangement with a full band.
Studio Musicians Are Always on Call for You
Your backing tracks will sound even better with RealTracks. These sound best because they are actual recordings of the performances by top studio musicians. It’s like having live studio musicians available to play anytime!
Artist Performances by great players such as Downbeat jazz winners Eric Alexander (tenor sax), Ron Carter (bass), Kenny Barron (piano), Lewis Nash (drums), Gary Smulyan (baritone sax), Mike Moreno (guitar), and Phil Woods (alto sax). Plus, you get tracks by gypsy jazz guitarist Quinn Bachand and noted Nashville session players Brent Mason (guitar) and Kevin McKendree (piano).
RealTracks are available in a wide range of musical styles, keys, and tempos. There are over 2,900 RealTracks (2,700 for Mac 2019) included in the UltraPAK or UltraPAK+ which equates to over 3,100 hours (2,900 for Mac 2019) of recorded performances! You get RealTracks for guitar, bass, piano, banjo, saxophone, and much more!
RealStyle automatically selects RealTracks for you when generating an arrangement. RealCharts even lets you view the music notation and guitar tab/fretboard display. RealCombos that make it easy to assign all song tracks to the same style using a RealTracks band.
RealDrums (a types of RealTrack) give you the perfect drum groove complete with fills and brushes for jazz arrangements. You even get “Woodshedding” RealTracks from Brent Mason played in 12 keys. They are displayed with Hi-Q Tab/Notation, which is ideal for studying and learning!
Bands in a Wide Variety of Styles
RealCombos are preset arrangements of RealTracks in specific styles. They make it easy to select RealTracks for your song. For example, the “Jazz Swing 140” RealCombo includes RealCombo includes bass, piano, guitar, sax, and drums that were recorded at a medium swing tempo of 140 bpm. (Note that RealTracks can be used at any tempo; however, they sound most natural when played close to the original recorded tempo.)
Import/Export AppleLoops (Mac) and Acid files (Windows) or other loops or your favorite MIDI track in any style to any track in your arrangement. Band-in-a-Box includes MIDI styles and MIDI SuperTracks that allow you to customize MIDI sounds and edit notes.
Create Your Own Style
Hybrid Styles allow you to mix-and-match instruments from up to five RealCombos so you can create your custom sound. For example, your custom arrangement could have a Reggae bass, Rock drums, and Salsa piano. Create a name for your Hybrid Style, save it, and use it anytime.
Amazing Vocal Harmonies
Simply record your vocal part, choose a harmony, and Band-in-a-Box will generate up to four part vocal harmonies for you using the world-leading TC-Helicon Vocal Technologies engine. If your singing is not in perfect tune, Band-in-a-Box can “fix” vocals to the correct pitch using the Melody track.
Save, Print, Render, and Share Your Music
Want people to perform your song live? Just print out your complete song arrangement as sheet music. Easily generate lead sheets for your band.Want an audio recording? Use the built-in mixer to control volume, panning, tone, and reverb for each instrument in your ultra-realistic Band-in-a-Box arrangement. The “Combo” slider lets you make changes to all tracks at once. Export directly as audio files (AIFF, M4A, or WAV) for use in other programs (GarageBand, Cubase, etc.) or to share on the Internet.
Time-saving features include automatic track labels, video tutorial-help buttons, and a Piano Window to display piano notes. The Audio Edit Window displays a digital waveform for the Audio track for selecting, playing, and editing audio.
VST Support
VST plugin support allows Band-in-a-Box to access a huge library of 3rd party software instruments that play through your computer without requiring external sound sources. Each Band-in-a-Box track lets you use multiple instruments for distinctive layered sounds. You can also use VST audio plug-ins (reverb, delay etc.) to enhance your tracks.
Customize over 150 of the guitar-based RealTracks with the Guitar Amp Simulator (AmpliTube CS). Band-in-a-Box includes the Sforzando VST synthesizer with support for the popular .SFZ sound format as well as Hi-Q sounds.
