PG Music Band-in-a-Box 2023 Build 1010 With Realband 2023(4)

Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program for your multimedia computer. You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your “on demand” backup band. Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose the style you'd like, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest, automatically generating a complete professional-quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings or horns in a wide variety of popular styles plus optional live audio tracks with RealDrums and RealTracks.

Band-in-a-Box is a powerful and creative music composition tool for exploring and developing musical ideas with near-instantaneous feedback.

Over the years many features have been added to Band-in-a-Box – Notation and Lyrics, Piano Roll, 16-channel MIDI Multitracks, Harmonization, the StyleMaker and StylePicker, a live performance Conductor window, Medley Maker, and 24 –substyle Multistyles. The Soloist and the Melodist are popular “intelligent” features that generate professional solos or even create whole new songs from scratch. RealDrums adds the human element of a live drummer while RealTracks add even more live session musicians, bringing the entire Band-in-a-Box arrangement to life. The Audio Chord Wizard has the amazing ability to analyze, extract, and show the chords from audio recordings on-screen and then write them to the Band-in-a-Box chord sheet.

The inclusion of digital audio features makes Band-in-a-Box the perfect tool for creating, playing, and recording your music with MIDI, vocals, and acoustic instruments. Band-in-a-Box for Windows® can also record an acoustic instrument or voice to add to the composition, with processing through its own DirectX audio effects. Its built-in TC Helicon audio harmonies will turn your audio track into multiple harmony parts or adjust its pitch, with vibrato and scooping effects for realistic vocal styles and up to sixteen choral parts.

You can print out your finished creation with lyrics, chords, repeats and endings, DC markings and codas, or save it as a graphics file for web publication or to e-mail to a friend. And when you're ready to let others hear your composition, you can burn it directly to an audio CD. Or save your composition as a Windows Media File (or in any other compressed formats you have) for a file that's “Internet ready.”

You'll have even more fun making automatic medleys, playing your favorite song lists in the Band-in-a-Box Jukebox, and singing along to your Karaoke files with CDG graphics.

There are over 70 new features in Band-in-a-Box 2023!
This includes many major new features. There are Partial Track Re-Generations, with an on-screen Regeneration Panel and an Always Different setting to get up to 40 variations on any RealTracks. Undo - Track Generation and Undo - Song Generation is added. You can now copy, cut, paste, delete, insert, and do other editing functions to the RealTracks/RealDrums tracks, while preserving the ability for the tracks to re-generate new material. Auto-Save Song prevents data loss. Playable Tracks are enhanced for Playable RealTracks (404 new Sforzando sounds, 700 total - all with Audio Demos), and now include Playable RealDrums, MIDI SuperTracks and MIDI tracks. There are now RealTracks Stems, separate isolated tracks available for multi-track RealTracks like Horns (e.g., Crooner, Blues), Vocals, and String Quartets. Master Track Volume Automation for fadeouts, crescendos etc. added.

SynthMaster Player synth included, with modern/techno sounds. Audio Input monitoring to hear your Audio Input (e.g., electric guitar with effects) through to Audio Out. Arpeggiator sounds available. EZ Selection of your RealTracks/RealDrums Folders. Help for "Style not Found" providing info and lists of substitutes. Generate Intros using Song Chords. RealDrums Fills control, Enhancements for StylePicker - Preview, Prototypes and Rebuild, and much more!

The Band-in-a-Box 2023 DAW Plugin offers over 40 exciting new features and enhancements, including Drum Stems (separate tracks from the different microphones used during the actual recording sessions), 4 color schemes to choose from, enhanced chord settings, improved undo/redo operation, "Rebuild StylePicker" notification whenever rebuild is required, EZ RealTracks/RealDrums Folder Locations dialog, and more!

Summary of changes for Band-in-a-Box Version 2023 Build 1010 (since 1006)

• Fixed: Flat symbols displaying as B when using PG Chords font.
• Fixed: Possible "1400 Invalid Window Handle" error when saving a song or exiting the program.
• Fixed: GUI freeze when playing a song that has "N/A" RealTracks.
• Fixed: Crash if resizing the floating Audio Edit window very small.
• Fixed: Deleting or inserting a region of audio did not move the automation nodes.
• Fixed: Wrong number of bars imported when importing MIDI if using "Number of blank bars to insert at beginning".
• Fixed: Importing a single-track MIDI file should automatically import onto the currently selected track.
• Fixed: Utility track MIDI channel not saved in songs.
• Fixed: When opening a song file from Explorer to launch a second instance of the program, the first instance would also open the song.
• Fixed: RealTracks favorites are not saved between program sessions.
• Fixed: Crash if cancelling a batch render to mp3.
• Fixed: Failure to open files with semicolon in the file name.
• Fixed: CTRL+SHIFT+N did not switch open the Big Piano window if the Notation window was open.
• Fixed: CTRL+ALT+N did not switch viewing modes in the Notation window.
• Fixed: Underlying audio track is audible when recording over it.
• Fixed: Freeze occurs when deleting the last note on a track in the Notation window.
• Fixed: Frozen RealDrums might not generate after song has been reopened.
• Fixed: Pre-record dialog allowed recording audio onto the Thru track.
• Fixed: Track menu "Choose No RealDrums for this track" does not cause Mixer to redraw.
• Fixed: RealTracks selected by the Soloist dialog become refrozen often accompanied by "Soloist track has been LOCKED" flash message.
• Fixed: WMA loops in a song or style would not load if the M4A file was available.
• Fixed: Loading a style should remove plugins.
• Added: "Delete decompressed WAV files when loading songs" setting added to Audio Edit settings dialog.
• Fixed: Loading a style like M_CBOOGI.STY does not load the Hi-Q patch in the style.
• Updated: Sforzando v1.973 included.
• Updated: PDF manuals, help files.

Summary of changes for DAW Plugin build 5.1.25

• Fixed: Clicking on part marker after entering chord will delete entry
• Fixed: Insert/Remove bar does not include part marker
• Fixed: Copy/Paste bar does not include part marker
• Fixed: Closing plugin window while multiple dialogs are open can cause memory leak
• Fixed: Cannot retrieve activation dialog behind other windows
• Fixed: Generate indicator starts flashing after moving tracks to project folder
• Fixed: Cannot load song with MIDI utility tracks
• Fixed: RealCharts are only visible after tracks are generated
• Fixed: Files created during song opening should be in timestamped folder
• Fixed: Chord sheet does not scroll when moving playback bar to beginning
• Fixed: Plugin lags during playback of long songs
• Fixed: Plugin loads wrong default chord font
• Fixed: Chord Progression entries double after opening Preferences dialog
• Fixed: Plugin should recognize that 12/8=4/4 etc.
• Fixed: Removed options to clear and load instrument on Style Mix track
• Fixed: Custom track on style page does not clear
• Fixed: Custom tracks loaded from saved song do not contain "=" marker
• Fixed: Utility track loaded from saved song does not have correct track description
• Fixed: Tracks do not clear on first attempt

Summary of changes for RealBand 2023(4)

• Fixed: Issue with Playable RealTracks not being heard, due to an issue loading sforzando on some computers
• Fixed: Generate Audio Harmonies was getting an error -6 for some of the harmony presets like Jimmy Smith, Super Sax, and Glen Miller.
• Fixed: Shots and Holds in an .SGU were not interpreted correctly. For example C…d (hold all instruments except drums) would incorrectly import as Cd, resulting in an Error code 8 when attempting to generate the track.
• Fixed: Tracks Window
• Right click menu
• Select Hi-Q MIDI Synth Patch now includes Synthmaster presets.
• Fixed: If generation of RealDrums results in a RealChart track also being generated, the RealChart track was set to channel 11.
• Fixed: Clicking on the piano of the main screen could result in silence if the current track was an audio track, and the only MIDI track was a RealChart track.
• Fixed: If the Edit
• Tracks
• Merge Tracks was used and the Merge Audio to Mono checkbox was checked, and then a regular render of the whole song was done in the future, it would result in a mono render.
• Fixed: the "Force Enabled" checkbox setting in the MicroChords dialog might not be remembered by the program.
• Fixed: if you visit the MicroChords dialog and press Cancel it will now undo the MicroChord changes you made and you could choose to Edit
• Redo afterward if necessary.
• Fixed: help button not working in Adjust Volume/Trim of all Tracks dialog.
• Fixed: could not enter MicroChords when typing with the Ch checkbox enabled in the notation window

More Band-in-a-Box-related releases can be found here:
https://avxhm.se/software/facet/Band-in-a-Box/