Band-in-a-Box 15.0.8

Band-in-a-Box 15.0.8 is a powerful and user-friendly accompaniment program for Macintosh. You type in the chord symbols to any song, using standard chord symbols like C, Fm7, Cm7b5 etc. choose a style and press PLAY. Band-in-a-Box then generates a pro quality 5 instrument accompaniment of bass, drums, piano, guitar and strings in over 100 styles of music.

Major Features:

1. Audio Chord Wizard Enhancements.  The Audio Chord Wizard is the amazing feature that automatically figures out the chords from MP3 files (or other audio files like WAV, WMA, and audio CD etc.).  Using the Audio Chord Wizard is a great way to learn and practice popular songs, as you play along and see the chords. A Lead Sheet window that shows the chords for the whole song on a single screen was added.
   • This allows you to click on a bar on the lead sheet to jump to that area of the song.
   • And you can mark sections of the song using part markers, and the sections begin on a new line with a line space between, so are clearly seen.  So you can then also learn the form of the song, as you can see the various intro/verse/chorus/break sections at a glance, or quickly jump to the break simply by double clicking on that part of the lead sheet.
   • Other improvements include chord editing, and more.
2. Classic RealStyles styles made. This is a new category in the StylePicker, and it contains new styles that are intended to be commonly used RealTracks. They are divided into genres. So you can go to Classic RealStyles – Jazz to easily find RealStyles for Jazz Swing, Bossa etc.
3. Guitar RealCharts have been improved. The new guitar RealTracks have more accurate guitar display/notation for the corresponding RealTracks.
4. RealTracks are enhanced. These features are present in the new RealTracks that are released with 2009.5:
   • Smoother playing of piano parts over slash chords.
   • Support for some more complex slash chords like C7/E played by piano.
   • RealTracks feature to only play certain riffs in certain keys. This feature happens automatically on certain
     
   • RealTracks, no settings are needed.
5. Any missing RealTracks/RealDrums are listed. When a song is loaded, played or saved, a yellow hint message will appear if any RealTracks or RealDrums are missing, listing the files that are missing.
6. Chord Options dialog now has a “Clear All” button that erases all Rests/Shots/Pushes/Pedal Bass from a song.
7. Audible 'Audio Glitches' in some RealTracks were removed.
8. Added Songs with RealTracks on Drums (and no drum part) get a drum count-in. For example, _BG_BAND.STY
9. If a ChordSheet/ notation transpose is in effect, a Transpose ‘yellow hint’ message will appear on boot up as a reminder.
10. Option added for Melody -Guitar rechannel, to include events already on guitar channel.
    • Message added when no style demo found in RealTracks dialog
    • Many more demos are shown in RealTracks dialog.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Intel Processor
• Minimum 512 MB RAM recommended
• Screen Resolution: 1024x768 or higher
• Hard Disk space: 500 MB free hard disk space to install Band-in-a-Box program and MIDI styles. Additional hard disk space is required for RealTracks, about 1 GB per set and RealDrums require about 100 MB per set