PG Music Band in a Box 2012 Pro for Mac
Band-in-a-Box 2012 has over 50 great new features and enhancements!

Band-in-a-Box 2012 for Mac® is here!
Band-in-a-Box 2012 for Mac has arrived, with over 50 great new features and enhancements. There's 101 additional RealTracks in sets 137-154, bringing the total number of available RealTracks to over 870 - that's over 1,000 hours of studio musicians' recordings! Customize over 150 Guitar based RealTracks using the new using "Direct Input" (clean signal) Guitar RealTracks. Then, using your DAW (Garageband, Logic), you can add guitar effects with the included Guitar Amp Simulator (AmpliTube CS). We′ve included "Direct Input" (clean signal) Guitar RealTracks for these, so all of the added effects come from the Guitar Amp Simulator. We′ve added "Loops" support, so you can add your own, or 3rd party loops to any Band-in-a-Box track, EZ selection of "DrumGrooves" has been implemented, which are different grooves within drum styles, and more!

NEW! 101 more RealTracks with great new Jazz, Rock-Pop, and Country Styles. These include:
Jazz RealTracks: Dixieland full band with tuba/banjo and soloists, Jazz Funk (Jeff Lorber, Alex Al), Fusion Guitar soloing (Carlos Arellano), Bossa Organ and Piano (Mike LeDonne), and Solo Guitar Accompaniment (Oliver Gannon).
Country RealTracks: Pedal Steel Soloing (CMA winner Paul Franklin), 6 new guitar soloing and accompaniment RealTracks recorded by Nashville guitar legend Brent Mason, Praise and Worship "Promise" band, Drivin′ 8ths full band, and Bluegrass Waltz.
Rock-Pop RealTracks: Texas Blues soloing and rhythm with guitar masters Sol Philcox and Brent Mason, Rock Piano (CMA winner John Jarvis), Soul (full band), Pop 16ths medium (full band), and Pop Ballad 16ths (full band).
If you get the Band-in-a-Box 2012 UltraPlusPAK or EverythingPAK, you'll get ALL 154 RealTracks Sets with over 870 RealTracks!

Band-in-a-Box 2012 New Features
Band-in-a-Box 2012 for Macintosh is here with over 50 cool new features!
We've been busy and have added some great new features and new RealTracks to Band-in-a-Box! Compared to version 2011.5 (July 2011), this adds 50 new features and 101 new RealTracks. Compared to version 2011 (April 2011) this adds 70 new features and 202 new RealTracks!

We've just released 101 more amazing RealTracks for Jazz, Rock-Pop & Country. Since version 2011, there are 202 more RealTracks available. Combined, there are now over 870 RealTracks (hundreds of hours of recordings) available for you to add to your arrangements.

We've added "Loops" support, so you can add your own or 3rd party loops to any Band-in-a-Box track. We've added a Simpler RealTracks setting, with a checkbox that makes the RealTracks play a simpler (less busy or embellished) arrangement. We include "Direct Input" (clean signal) Guitar RealTracks for over 150 of the Guitar based RealTracks, so you can generate files with a clean guitar, and then, using your DAW (e.g. GarageBand), you can add custom amp and F/X settings using the new Guitar Amp Simulator that is included (AmpliTube CS). You can add MIDITracks individually now, simply select your favorite MIDITrack from any style to any track of your current song. EZ selection of "DrumGrooves" has been added, which are different grooves within drum styles.

What is Band-in-a-Box?
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.

Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use!
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.

RealTracks are audio instruments that replace the MIDI track with actual recordings of top studio Jazz/Rock/Country musicians! These are not “samples” of single instrument hits; they are full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars at a time, playing along in perfect sync with the other Band-in-a-Box tracks. We have a huge library of RealTracks available, including lots of Jazz, Rock, Blues, Country, Folk and Bluegrass styles.

Best of all, you use these instruments like regular styles. Many of them offer a “simpler” option that plays a less busy or embellished arrangement, and we include “Direct Input” (clean signal) guitar RealTracks so you can generate files with a clean guitar, and then, using your DAW (e.g. GarageBand), you can add custom amp and F/X settings using the AmpliTube CS guitar amp and effects simulator that is included.

The RealTracks sound more natural over a wide range of tempos with the élastique Pro V2 time stretching engine by zplane.development. This is built-in, so there’s nothing you need to do. Your songs will just “sound better” over a much wider range of keys and tempos.

By simply choosing a RealStyle, you will hear your new or existing songs played by real instruments, with a dramatic improvement in sound and musicality. You can even have your old MIDI styles automatically replaced with the equivalent RealStyle (if installed). And of course the number of RealTracks and RealStyles keeps growing.

Many of the RealTracks have RealCharts; this allows you to see notation and correct guitar tab/fretboard display, a great help for learning from the top pros performing on the RealTracks.

RealDrums replace the MIDI Drum track with actual recordings of top studio Jazz/Rock/Country drummers! Again, these are not “samples” of single drum hits; they are full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars at a time, playing along in perfect sync with the other Band-in-a-Box tracks. Hundreds of RealDrums styles are available, and EZ selection of “DrumGrooves” lets you choose different grooves within drum styles.

For added versatility, you can add your own or 3rd party loops to any Band-in-a-Box track, or add your favorite MIDITrack from any MIDI style to any track of your current song. The Mixer window allows you to quickly set volumes, panning, reverb, tone and patches. The Mixer floats on top of the current window, so you can place it wherever it’s convenient to make quick and easy adjustments to your Band-in-a-Box track settings. It features a unique “Combo” slider for making changes to all tracks at once.

The amazing “Chords from MP4” feature (Audio Chord Wizard) automatically figures out the chords from any AIFF, MP4, M4A, or other audio file, and displays them in Band-in-a-Box. Just load in any audio file and you’ll instantly see the chords in Band-in-a-Box. The Audio Wizard also figures out tempo, bar lines, key and fine-tuning from the audio file.

Plus, you can Save, Print, and Render your songs! Print out your complete song arrangement as sheet music. With the Direct Render to Disk feature, you can save your files directly as audio files (AIFF, M4A, WAV), for use in other programs (GarageBand, Cubase, etc.), or in Internet formats. And much more …

System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
Intel Processor.
Minimum 512 MB RAM
Screen Resolution: 1024x768 or higher
Hard Disk space: Minimum 400 MB for the main Band-in-a-Box programs. More space is required for RealTracks, depending on which package you buy...
RealTracks & RealDrums: ~100-400 MB per set
Pro RealCombos: ~4 GB
MegaPAK RealCombos: ~11 GB
Full UltraPlusPAK/EverythingPAK when installed to internal hard drive: ~60 GB
(another ~60GB 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 MegaPAK or Pro version