PG Music Band-in-a-Box 2018 Pro Software for Mac

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Bring your compositions to life -- right now! Enter chords and styles, and Band-in-a-Box Pro software creates backing tracks from samples of live musicians.

Perfect for musicians, songwriters, and educators, award-winning Band-in-a-Box is the world's premiere auto accompaniment and style-based music creation software. Use it to easily create backing tracks for songs, jam tracks for practicing solos and improvisation, or as a powerful songwriting tool. Just type in some chords (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose a style, and Band-in-a-Box automatically creates professional-quality backing tracks with keyboards, bass, drums, guitar, strings, horns, and other instruments. Band-in-a-Box supports a wide variety of popular styles including Rock, Pop, Country, Folk, Celtic, Blues, Jazz, Latin, and Bluegrass styles. You can also create jam tracks using your own Hybrid Styles.
Get great-sounding backing tracks with RealDrums and RealTracks, which give you over 200 hours of studio musicians' recordings to use in your songs!

Upgraded Features for 2018 MAC edition:

There are over 50 updated features in Band-in-a-Box 2018 for Mac, including "Video RealTracks" for Mac, which work like RealTracks, but also include videos of the musician's performance. You can make a video of a single musician or a band video, optionally with a chord sheet or notation, and you can even add your own videos to the final mix. The Audio Chord Wizard has been redesigned and is now built into Band-in-a-Box. The Audio Harmonies feature has been added, including Audio Transcription, which converts a monophonic audio track to MIDI (notation), and Fix Tuning to fix an read more out-of-tune audio recording, and more! You can save the Notation window to a video in sync with the audio track playback. PG Music has also added notation support for time signatures like 12/8, 6/8, and 9/8. The Toolbar has been enhanced with skins and more customization. The popular Song Titles Browser is enhanced with more songs (now 10,000), filters, and the ability to show titles that work with a specific style. StylePicker enhancements include a mixer-like control allowing clear display and style customization. The RealDrums Picker has been enhanced with the option to find similar RealDrums. The Audio Edit window is redesigned with an upgraded GUI.

Features:

- Band-in-a-Box 2018 with RealBand 2018
- Pro RealCombos: Over 300 RealTracks instruments in 100 Bands!
- 54 MIDI SuperTracks
- Over 400 MIDI Styles
- Over 100 MIDI Soloists
- Over 60 MIDI Melodists
- 21 Nature Sounds and Percussion Loops
- 22 Artist Performances
- 1,000 Dubstep, Modern, and Top 40 Loops
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System Requirements:

- Mac OS X 10.5 and higher.
- Intel Processor.
- Minimum 512 MB RAM
- Screen Resolution: 1024x768 or higher
- At least 2 GB recommended for the main Band-in-a-Box(R) program. More space is required for RealTracks, depending on which package you buy...
- RealTracks & RealDrums: ~100-400 MB per set
- Pro RealCombos: ~10 GB
- MegaPAK RealCombos: ~20 GB
- Full UltraPlusPAK/EverythingPAK when installed to internal hard drive: ~100 GB (another ~90GB is required for the installation files when downloading the UltraPlusPAK or EverythingPAK).
- Hard Drive versions of the EverythingPAK or UltraPlusPAK do not require any hard disk space when run directly from the external hard drive they are shipped on.
- Optical drive for shipped versions of the Pro or MegaPAK version.
- Internet connection recommended for activation and updates.

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 250-475-2874

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