PG Music Band–in–a–Box 2023 Build 1013 With Realband 2023(6)

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 1013 (since

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Fixed: Changing songs would auto-hide tracks in the Mixer when it shouldn't.Fixed: The most recently loaded scheme was not checked under Load Scheme.Fixed: Songs weren't loading properly after using Freeze All.Fixed: The Freeze All button might appear to be engaged when starting a new song.Fixed: Possible crash when cancelling Print to PDF.Fixed: RD and RT favorites list weren't showing if no recent RD/RT were found.Fixed: In Audio Edit when copying/pasting, if the start point of your selection is before bar 1 there's an "out of range" error. Should be possible to copy/paste a "pick-up" in bar 0Fixed: Chord Output dialog DEFAULT button wasn't working.Fixed: RealDrums Picker wasn't adding to recently used RealDrums if track was not drums.Fixed: Writing chords to a track sometimes used old chords.Fixed: RealTracks picker context menu "Select/Edit Favorites & Recent" did not work properly.Fixed: Generating a single RealTrack was not undoable.Fixed: RealDrums shot & push decibel offsets settings were not working properly.Fixed: Using Copy From/To always copies the Bar Lyrics, even if the Lyrics checkbox is unchecked.Fixed: Undoing Copy From/To required 2 undo steps for lyrics.Fixed: Updating the filter in the RealTracks picker was removing the currently selected RealTrack.Fixed: Issues with "Auto Show/Hide Tracks When Starting Playback, or Changing Styles" setting.Fixed: If asked to load the auto-saved song when launching, the auto-saved song is not loaded.Fixed: Track Actions > Erase Track should erase style elements eg embedded RealTracks or RealDrums.Fixed: Writing chords to a track sometimes used old chords.Fixed: Dropping on the drop station would fail if the DragDrop folder was missing.Fixed: Plugins are lost when generating song if there are more than just A/B part markers in the song.Fixed: Edit > Undo Tracks Generation did not work for RealDrums.Fixed: Selecting RealTracks was not undoable.Fixed: Selecting RealDrums was not undoable.Fixed: Select/Edit Favorites & Recent menu item in the RealTracks picker did not work.Fixed: [DAWPlugin] Selecting a custom RealDrums or RealTracks folder location might crash the program.Fixed: [DAWPlugin] Custom RealTracks path is displaying in all caps in the rebuild dialog.Updated: Documentation (manuals, help file, tips).
Summary of changes for DAW Plugin build 5.5.6
Fixed: MicroChord label text is not visible.Fixed: Plugin not finding correct folder paths.Fixed: Plugin does not remember custom SavedTracks folder location.Fixed: Crash when attempting to generate after deleting saved folder paths file.Fixed: AU Plugin not passing validation in Logic.Added: Text when scanning for synthesize.Added: Visual transpose now displayed beside key (ie:C+9)Fixed: Visual transpose did not show option to transpose down 1 semi-tone (+11 or -1)Fixed: Solo/Mute sometimes not working on MIDI tracksFixed: Some MIDI Style demos show error trying to generate "Instrument 68"Fixed: Changed default value of "Action for New Session" to <>Fixed: Plugin incorrectly shows dialog to delete drum stems when loading song with drum stemsFixed: Inserting bar multiple times changes layout of chordsFixed: Bar highlighting always includes lead-inFixed: Current chorus never changes when auditioning song with multiple chorusesFixed: Song tags not working correctlyFixed: Auditioning tracks with "send midi to embedded synth" on and lead-in changed produces staticAdded: Visual count-in when playing through DAW
Summary of changes for RealBand 2023(6)
Added: checkbox in File Preferences that will enable the saving of all VSTi/DXi synth instances to .SEQ files even if they are in default slots.Fixed: Undo for generation of individual RealTracks or RealDrums wasn't working correctly.Fixed: Small chance of an access violation occurring during Undo if the existing song had non-default DXi/VSTi synths.Fixed: when visiting the Style Picker, the listbox would not be set to the current RB style.New: Right Click Menu in Tracks Window will now hide the MIDI-specific commands when the track is an audio track, and hide the audio-specific commands if the track is a MIDI track.Fixed: Auto-detection of guitar tracks in the Notation Window is now less likely to mistake a non-guitar track for a MIDI guitar track.Fixed: When running in 4k, Tracks Window would not maximize fully.Added: MIDI submenu to the right click menu when the track is a MIDI track.


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