A collection of inspiring software tools for aspiring musicians that covers a wide variety of genres. PG Music UltraPAK Band-in-a-Box and RealBand 2009 for Windows is packed with tons of add-ons to give you a more enjoyable Band-in-the-Box experience. The music software collection includes Band-in-a-Box 2009 and RealBand 2009, as well as hundreds of pro-quality add-on Styles, all of PG Music's RealDrums, RealTracks, and Melodist Sets, and most of the PG Music Soloist Sets. PG Music also includes the more-than-helpful Band-in-a-Box Video Tutorial PAK.
PG Music Band-in-a-Box 2009 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. Live audio tracks can be created using the software's RealDrums and RealTracks. 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 onscreen 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 16 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.
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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. PG Music RealBand 2009 RealBand 2009 is a fully featured and powerful music arranging, sequencing, and digital recording program.
RealBand combines the most popular features from PG Music's PowerTracks Pro Audio and Band-in-a-Box programs into an all-in-one sequencing program with automatic accompaniment. Create arrangements using PG Music RealBand 2009 and Band-in-a-Box tracks; type in the chords, add RealTracks and RealDrums that follow the chord changes, add your own tracks, and then edit and produce the finished song digitally without ever leaving the program. RealBand is loaded with powerful features that make it easy to produce your own song arrangements as if you were in the recording studio with top session musicians. RealBand offers powerful features for musicians, students, and songwriters.
With intelligent, automatic arrangements, RealTracks live instrument tracks, RealDrums live drum tracks, the amazing Audio Chord Wizard, seamlessly integrated digital audio/MIDI recording, built-in DirectX effects, and notation, RealBand turns a typical PC into a music production powerhouse. PG Music Real Styles 0-77 The UltraPAK 2009 includes all 77 of PG Music's Style Sets. This wide ranging group of ready-to-accompany style sets were inspired by authentic performances and fashioned after the sounds of famous musicians in all genres. It covers the gamut”Britpop to British Invasion, classic to contemporary country, salsa to world fretboards, mellow New Age to hardcore techno, gospel to blues. PG Music RealTracks RealTracks replace the MIDI track for that instrument, and can be controlled just like the MIDI instrument (volume changes, muting etc.). Best of all, they follow the chord progression that you have entered, so that you hear an authentic audio accompaniment to your song. For example, with a simple right-click, you can turn your MIDI guitar into a beautiful finger picking guitar part, and turn those MIDI strings into a real violinist playing a real violin.
Check out the Waves DeEsser Plugin, as used by Kendrick Lamar, Dyro, Kaskade, Cazzette, Pharrell Williams, Thomas Gold on Equipboard. The Waves De?esser, the Waves Renaissance Compressor and the Universal Audio or Waves SSL Channel for EQ.' Thomas Gold In this video at the minute 3:58 he use DeEsser from Waves.
These are not samples, but are full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars at a time, playing along in perfect sync with the other Band-in-a-Box and RealBand tracks. RealTracks can be assigned to play on any Band-in-a-Box track (guitar, bass, etc.), and in Band-in-a-Box you can select up to seven different RealTracks for one song; RealBand can have up to 48 different RealTracks. RealTracks can also be built in to the style, replacing the MIDI bass, guitar, piano, or strings part in that style. In addition, you can use the Soloist to generate RealTracks. Adding a real instrument to the mix makes all of the Band-in-a-Box, RealBand, and PowerTracks MIDI parts sound more authentic”add up to seven and the results are phenomenal. RealTracks add an exciting human element to your Band-in-a-Box, RealBand and PowerTracks Pro Audio arrangements, but that's just the beginning.
They can also be used for all kinds of recordings. Record the live audio output of RealTracks through a mixer, or export RealTracks tracks as WAV files for use with most popular audio programs. You'll want to use RealTracks in all of your recording projects, and you can. PG Music UltraPAK includes all 39 RealTracks Sets available, which includes Country Ballads, Jazz Waltz, Blues - Slow Swing, Pop Swing 8ths Bass 1, All Metal!, and 34 more.
PG Music RealDrums RealDrums are audio drum styles that replace the MIDI Drum track with actual recordings of top studio Jazz/Rock/Country drummers. These are not samples of single drum hits. They are actually full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars, playing along in perfect sync with the other Band-in-a-Box tracks.
For example, choose a vbrushes style, and you will now hear lush jazz brushes, exactly as you'd hear if the drummer was in the room with you. The results are dramatically better than MIDI. They sound like a real drummer, because they are recordings of a real drummer.
Adding this real instrument to the mix makes all of your Band-in-a-Box parts sound more authentic. As well as improved drum sounds, you are hearing the exact rhythms played by the drummer, including features not seen in MIDI (subtle drum rolls, variations in ride cymbal taps, complex fills, etc.).
A RealDrums dialog allows you to set whether you want to hear RealDrums with all styles, no styles, or somewhere in between. PG Music UltraPAK contains all 20 RealDrums Sets available. This includes Waltzes, Country and More!, Lite Pop, Salsa Moderna, Techno 1: Progressive, Terry Clarke - Classic Jazz, and 15 more. Enough drum stylings to cover whatever genre you like to work in. PG Music Soloist Sets Soloist add-ons work with Band-in-a-Box's Soloist feature, which generates solos to go with your song.
The more Soloist add-ons you have, the greater the variety of solos Band-in-a-Box generates. UltraPAK comes with Soloist Sets 1-11 & 16-20. Set titles include Jazz Swing Soloing, Killer Pop and Older Jazz, Ballads and Guitar, Saxophone, Soundtrack Soloists, Trumpet, Bluegrass Soloing, and more. PG Music Melodist Sets Melodist add-ons work with Band-in-a-Box's Melodist feature. The Melodist can compose a song, complete with intro, chords, melody, arrangement and improvisation, with the push of a button.
The more add-ons you have, the wider the variety of songs the Melodist will be able to generate. UltraPAK comes with all 8 Melodist Sets, including, Joplin, Tin Pan and Children's, Brazilian Even 8ths Jazz, MOR Pop/Rock and Soundtracks, Buegrass 3/4 and Irish 12/8, Jazz, Bluegrass, and more. PG Music Video Tutorial PAK The Video Tutorial PAK contains master jazz guitarist Oliver Gannon's 'Songwriting with Band-in-a-Box' and 'Secrets of the Stylemaker' videos. With Oliver Gannon as your teacher, you'll be composing your own professional quality songs in Band-in-a-Box in no time. The Video Tutorial PAK also includes: ¢The Band-in-a-Box Overview ¢The QuickStart Guide to get you up in running ¢The Simplifying Chord Progressions tutorial ¢A New Features Video outlining the newest features of the latest release ¢The Soloist & Melodist Tutorials for the power users ¢Practicing with Band-in-a-Box”a great video instruction guide for effectively using Band-in-a-Box for soloist, improvisation, and comping skills.
Product Details: - Ideal for tracking, mastering, live sound, and broadcast - Adaptive threshold and adjustable gain reduction - Phase compensated crossover - Audio or side-chain monitoring Renaissance DeEsser (V9) - Supported Platforms Supported Platforms.Most Audio Hosts MultiRack Native MultiRack SoundGrid StudioRack Native StudioRack SoundGrid eMotion ST Mixer eMotion LV1 Mixer Avid VENUE Plug-in ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Renaissance DeEsser (V9) - Sample Rate All Waves plugins support 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz; most support higher sample rates. Avid VENUE supports up to 48 kHz. Sample Rate NATIVE/SOUNDGRID Plug-in 192 kHz Renaissance DeEsser (V9) - Channel Components Channel Components Mono Stereo Mono-to-Stereo Surround / Comments Plug-in ✔ ✔ ✖ ✖ Renaissance DeEsser (V9) - Latency The table below indicates how much latency is produced by each plugin, in samples. Not all plugins support all platforms (MultiRack, StudioRack, eMotion, Venue).
Check the Supported Platforms table for more info. Latency NATIVE / SOUNDGRID VENUE kHz 44.1kHz-48kHz 88.2kHz-96kHz 176.4kHz-192kHz 44.1kHz-48kHz 88.2kHz-96kHz 176.4kHz-192kHz Plug-in 64 128 256 67 131 259 System Requirements: Mac: CPU - Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / Xeon RAM - 4 GB Operating System - 10.9.5 - 10.11 Screen Resolution - Minimum: 1024x768 - Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024 - USB displays are not supported as the primary display.