The audio world is full of amazing recording software, which is great when you have completed compositions. But what about software for all the other stages of music? In other words, the 90% of the time you’re working through ideas, refining techniques, and just trying to keep your chops fresh? Band-in-a-Box is designed to fill that role with streamlined tracks and tools for work and play. With musical tools including thousands of MIDI tracks, loops, samples, and real backing tracks played by professional session musicians, Band-in-a-Box is all about giving you tools to push — and hold onto — your musical talent. The onboard tools allow for authentic re-creations of live playing in a vast array of Western and world genres, with powerful MIDI-like editing parameters for tweaking parameters such as pitch and time to your taste.
Intuitive chord programming
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. It automatically generates a complete professional-quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, strings, or horns in a wide variety of popular styles, plus optional live audio tracks with RealDrums and RealTracks.
Endless RealTracks and samples
The Band-in-a-Box 2024 UltraPAK Plus library for Windows includes 3,700+ RealTracks and RealDrums, 350+ MIDI SuperTracks, over 2,800 MIDI styles, 340+ MIDI Soloists, 200+ MIDI Melodists, 220+ Artist Performances, and over 1,000 loops with robust search tools for intuitive navigation. RealTracks, comprising one of Band-in-a-Box's flagship features, are original live backing tracks that bristle with energy! Far more than a traditional sample, RealTracks are bars of rhythm, melody, percussion, and even vocals performed by studio musicians with the snap and prowess of authentic live music. Typically lasting from 1 to 8 bars, RealTracks are tailored for use with Band-in-a-Box’s other accompaniment tools, with over 3,700 hours of studio recordings. They have nearly limitless scope, too: this version includes 500+ instruments in over 200 band combinations across jazz, pop, rock, blues, country, K-pop, reggaeton, and other styles. Plus, Band-in-a-Box is always adding new RealTracks through PG Music’s website.
Band-in-a-Box 2024 UltraPAK Plus for Windows Key Features:
- Create studio-quality backing tracks with streamlined efficiency
- Includes a huge library of styles and sounds
- MIDI samples: hundreds of MIDI instruments, soloists, and melodists in 2,800+ styles
- Other sounds: 800+ RealTracks and RealDrums, plus 1,000+ loops
- 50+ new streamlined features in the 2024 edition
- StyleMaker and StylePicker editing tools help bring tracks to life with style and personality
- More RealTracks, RealDrums, and RealStyles than ever before — expanded Jazz Essentials RealTracks, world music styles, New Age piano, and new guitar styles including metal, ’80s new wave, prog rock, boogie, and more
- Robust sharing tools for printing, distributing, or publishing compositions and distributing audio
- In-depth instrument studies and Audio Chord Wizard tools for furthering your knowledge
- Included DAW plug-in for use alongside your favorite recording software such as Pro Tools, PreSonus StudioOne, and many more
- Includes 3 x 1-time-use-only authorizations for reinstalls; can only be authorized on 1 machine
- 45GB download
Band-in-a-Box 2024 UltraPAK Plus Windows System Requirements:
- Software Type: DAW, Accompaniment
- Platform: PC
- Upgrade/Full: Full
- Bit Depth: 64-bit
- Format: Standalone, VST
- Hardware Requirements - PC: Intel Core i3 / AMD Quad-core or higher, 4GB RAM minimum
- OS Requirements - PC: Windows 7 SP1 or later