eMedia PG Music Band-in-a-Box 2015 Audiophile Edition Software for Windows, Hard Drive Version

Auto Accompaniment Software For Musicians, Songwriters And Educators
PG Music's award-winning Band in a Box is the world's premiere auto accompaniment software. Use it to easily create backing tracks for practicing solos and improvisation or as a great songwriting tool. Just type in some chords (like C, Fm7 or C13b9), choose the style you'd like and Band in a Box creates a professional-quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums and guitar, with strings or horns. Backing tracks can sound even better by using RealTracks and RealDrums which use audio recordings of top studio musicians, instead of the usual MIDI tracks. From practicing jazz improvisation, to rock and country solos, Band in a Box delivers great backing tracks for jamming. Plus with over 50 added features, new Band-In-a-Box 2015 makes a great program even better!

Features
• 101 new Real Tracks including jazz, country and pop/rock styles
• 15 new MIDI SuperTracks
• 46 Artist Performances
• 20 Instrumental Studies
• 1,000 new modern, techno, dubstep and worldbeat Loops
• Load and play videos
• Save as Video option
• Support for 64- bit VST plugins using jBridge option

New Features in 2015 (for Windows)
Band in a Box Pro 2015 includes 101 new RealTracks, 15 new MIDI SuperTracks, 46 Artist Performances, 20 Instrumental Studies and 1000 modern, techno, dubstep and worldbeat loops! There are now over 2,200 hours of RealTracks/RealDrums (studio musician audio recordings) included with the UltraPlusPAK or EverythingPAK! You can now load and play videos as well as save as video! Many improvements have been made to the GUI, audio demos, loops dialogs, notation section and more! eMedia now offers a support for 64-bit plugs with jBridge (an additional $10 purchase from PG Music) and now you can freeze loops and artist performance tracks.

Automatic Music Accompaniment
Band-in-a-Box is intelligent music accompaniment software. The award-winning Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! 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!

Amazing Vocal Harmonies
You can apply a harmony to the audio part - allowing you to automatically create up to 4 part vocal harmonies from your singing. And don't worry if your singing is not in perfect tune, Band-in-a-Box can now "fix" vocals to the correct pitch - automatically! Simply record your vocal part, choose a harmony and Band-in-a-Box will generate the vocal harmony part for you!Band-in-a-Box generates the harmonies using the world-leading TC-Helicon Vocal Technologies engine. Once you have recorded a vocal part into Band-in-a-Box, you can use this feature in many ways, including:

• Record yourself singing into a Band-in-a-Box file. Create a vocal harmony for part or all of the song by selecting a Band-in-a-Box harmony and choosing the Generate Audio Harmony option. You can now hear yourself singing in perfect harmony!
• Did you hit a few "out-of-tune" notes when you recorded your singing to Band-in-a-Box? Fixing your "out-of-tune" singing is easy, by instructing the program to correct the pitches to the Melody track

Repeats, First & Second endings, DS/DC al Coda
You can now add these repeats and endings so that the Lead Sheet window will display and printout using 1st/2nd endings. there's a NEW Wizard that will intelligently add 1st/2nd endings automatically for you. Now you can view and convert your current song collection to include 1st/2nd endings in lead sheet format! To view a lead sheet in 1st/2nd endings format, simply select the "FakeSheet" checkbox on the Lead Sheet window and Band-in-a-Box will display the Fake Sheet using 1st and 2nd endings. You can add your own repeats and endings by right-mouse-clicking the Repeats-Endings option.

Copy Dialog Has Additional Functions
Copy, Repeat x times, with Transpose - The Edit-Copy dialog now has additional fields, allowing you to define the number of times to repeat each copy and define the number of semitones you transpose. For example, you could have a 16 bar section, copy it 3 times with a semitone transpose each time. Or, take a single 4 bar phrase and copy it 11 times, transposing up a 4th each time, generating the same 4 bar phrase in all 12 keys! Copy Dialog has additional functions - In addition to the above, the Edit-Copy dialog has "insert bars at destination option" which allows a copy to also insert bars at the destination point. This is handy to create a repeat, for example, by copying 8 bars and then inserting the 8 bars at the destination copy point. Additional enhancements to the Edit-Copy dialog include:

• Copy 1st chorus to whole song
• Copy to specific chorus
• Include part-markers/bar settings
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Hybrid Styles
"Hybrid Styles" allow you to play and create a style that has instruments from up to five different styles! You can, for example, play a song with a Reggae bass, Rock drums, Salsa piano or any combination of up to five styles that you want. Create a name for your "Hybrid Style" and you can save it with the song so that it will play that way in the future.

VST Plug-ins
VST synth support for each track, so you can have multiple synths playing on your songs. You can also use VST audio plug-ins (reverb, delay etc.) on each track. Windows and Mac users can customize over 150 of the guitar-based RealTracks with the new Guitar Amp Simulator (AmpliTube CS). Features "Direct Input" (clean signal) Guitar RealTracks for these, so all of the added effects come from the Guitar Amp Simulator.

DirectX Instrument Synthesizer Support (Windows)
Software synthesizers allow Band-in-a-Box to play high quality sounds directly through your computer sound card, without requiring any external MIDI hardware. Most new software synthesizers are released as "DXi plug-ins," so they will work in a standard way with many programs. Connecting Band-in-a-Box to the software synth as a plug-in provides several advantages over the previous method of connecting as a MIDI driver. The plug-in allows Band-in-a-Box to merge/synch in any existing audio file (vocals etc.) with the synth output. You can also directly render your performance to a .WAV file using the DXi plug-in. Sampler-based synths allow you to assemble a huge, customized library of instrument samples to use with Band-in-a-Box. Examples of popular DXi synths include the RolandED HyperCanvas, LiveSynth or VSampler.