The Perfect Accompaniment and Composition Tool!

When you write a song, you want to hear it in all its glory, right? Well, if you're a singer/songwriter, that can be a challenge, especially if you don't have a full-time backing band. PG Music's Band-in-a-Box makes it easy to put professional-sounding tracks behind your song, both in performance situations or to simply to help the writing process. Just type in the chord symbols and Band-in-a-Box spits out a complete pro-quality arrangement including piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings. Band-in-a-Box is your one-stop

PG Music Band-in-a-Box 2010 for PC Accompaniment and Composition Software Features:

• Audio to Chords, Reharmonist, Soundtrack, and Lyric Block functions and screens
  
• RealDrums drum samples
  
• Chords from MP3 feature
  
• TranzPort wireless controller support
  
• Auto-memo generation
  
• Chord Breaks function
  
• Save as MP3 capability
  
• Notation enhancements
  
• Batch MP3/WAV/WMA generation
  
• Includes Style Sets 03, Soloist Set 1, Melodist Set 1, and RealTracks Set 1
  
• RealCharts notation for most RealTracks
  
• Some Guitar RealTracks also show guitar tablature
  
• RealCharts can be saved to MIDI file or Songs (MGU)
  
• Audio Chord Wizard Enhanced
  
• Artist Names and Bios for RealTracks.
  
• Enhanced Melody Wizard
  
• Better soloing and rhythm playing, that are influenced by the key signature as well as the chords
  
• Option for a "Simpler" arrangement on some RealTracks, which avoid embellishments
  
• Feature for fills, turnarounds, post fills and odd/even bars to be at the right place
  
• Better playing on the "V" chord, since it is usually played as a V7 chord. Options added to allow a RealTrack to treat the V7 chord as a V (useful in rock styles), or to treat all 7th chords as major triads (useful in blues)
  
• Improved handling of CAug, CmAug, and C7+ chords
  
• RealTracks: more fluid playing for complex (jazz) chords like C7b9b13
  
• Notation enhancement - patch names displayed on notation, leadsheet and printout
  
• StylePicker List Enhanced, with separate categories for RealTracks Genres (Jazz, Pop, Country, Bluegrass, Blues), over 1,000 entries
  
• MIDI Driver Dialog Enhanced
  
• Enhanced "Chords - Search And Replace" Functionality
  
• Hotkeys added in the menus

PG Music Band-in-a-Box for Windows Specs: Software Type Music Composition and Arrangement Supported Computer Format PC Supported Plug-In Formats No supported plug-in formats Supported Audio Formats WAVE, AIFF Hardware Requirements - Mac Not Mac compatible Hardware Requirements - PC 512MB RAM OS Requirements - Mac Not Mac compatible OS Requirements - PC Windows 2000 or later