This package includes Styles Sets 0-3, Soloist Set 1, Melodist Set 1, RealDrums Set 1, RealTracks Set 1, and the FREE BONUS 12-PAK. For new customers looking to get started with Band-in-a-Box, without any of the extra Add-ons, this is the purchase for you! If you’re upgrading and would like the newest features of Band-in-a-Box 2008.5, you’ve also come to the right page.

It includes:
Styles Sets 0-3 (over 100 Styles)
Soloist Set 1 (over 30 Soloists)
Melodist Set 1 (over 50 Melodists)
RealDrums Set 1
RealTracks Set 1
Rock & Pop RealTracks PAK Sets 20-27
and the FREE BONUS 12-PAK.

1. Styles Set 68: Requested 8
2. Roland VSC (MIDI and DXi)
3. Styles Set 72: Pop Frets
4. Forte DXi Demo
5. New Features Video
6. Styles Set 73: LA Pop Jazz
7. 12-PAK Video
8. 101 Essential Riffs for Country Guitar
9. Styles Set 38: About Time
10. RealDrums Set 14: Techno 1: Progressive
11. Styles Set 69: Techno
12. Master Swingin’ Jazz Piano Solos

New Features in Band-in-a-Box 2009 for Windows are...

• Faster Generation of RealTracks. The time it takes to generate the RealTracks is now 3x’s faster.
• “Waveless” and Much smaller size, only uses 1/8 of the hard drive space compared to previous! RealTracks and RealDrums no longer need WAV files – they can use WMA natively. This frees up huge amounts of your hard drive, so that the RealDrums and RealTracks take up only 1 /8 of the space that they used to take! The handy “Archive” function will remove the no-longer-needed WAV files with a single-click. This means that the new version uses up much less hard drive space than previous versions.
• Tempo stretching quality enhancements. Now the RealTracks sound great over a much wider tempo range, typically -15 and +40 beats per minute.
• Stereo panning is now available for the RealTracks.
• Automatic prevention of audio clipping. (New Float mixing and Peak Limiter added.)
• RealStyles™ available - these are styles that include all “Real Instruments,” with no MIDI. Up to 7 Real Instruments all at once in a single style!
• Improved transitions for RealTracks eliminating Pops/Clicks.
• Right click menu is available for each part in Band-in-a-Box (bass, drums, piano, guitar, strings), allowing you to quickly assign RealTracks, (or RealDrums) to that part along with other functions like mute, solo, save single track, etc.
• RealTracks browser dialog shows comprehensive information about the RealTracks, including name, genre, feel, tempo, type, demos, and preview. Lists can be sorted or filtered by any column.
• Easily save a style (.STY) with RealTracks, directly from the main screen (“save what you hear” as a style).
• RealTracks work for Rests and Shots.
• Endings are now present in RealTracks.
• Name of RealTracks or RealDrums display at the top of the screen for each part.
• Right click on a part to save that single track to disk as a WAV file.
• RealTracks demos now present in RealTracks – demos folder, and can be opened from the StylePicker.
• RealTracks Preview function to hear how a RealTracks will sound, without losing your current song.
• Ability to time shift a RealTracks by certain amount, to achieve more laid-back playing for example.
• Variations of RealTracks can be made, for things like a simpler type of soloing, or certain variations.
• RealTracks can have multiple substyles. For example, the Jazz Acoustic Bass plays “2”’ feel in “a” substyle, and “4” in “b” section.
• Soloists can solo over different chords than the chords of the song. For example, the Metal Guitar Soloist can have a tonal center controlled by the user, different than the song chords. So that the Metal Guitar can be soloing over a G chord, while the chords of the song are G F G Bb, for example.
• “Crescendo” Soloing can be generated for some RealTracks that have the intensity of the solo building up with the flashiest part of the solos played as the solo builds.
• Musicality of the solo phrasing improved, phrasing much closer to human.
• RealTracks button added to Soloist dialog, with color coding to allow quick access to RealTracks.
• RealTracks folders now have descriptive names. Instead of cryptic names like RacG001, they have names like “Guitar, Electric, Soloist Cowboy Ev 165”
• Bass track can now play RealTracks.
• StyleMaker lists RealTracks names on the main screen.
• Non English versions will work with the newest RealTracks without a new translation of the Soloist list (Default.SOL file).
• Archive and Install WAV buttons to control the use of the WAV files for RealDrums and RealTracks. WAV files are no longer needed as the program can use the much smaller WMA files. If you prefer to use WAV files (slightly higher fidelity and slightly faster operation), these commands provide the option to install or archive the WAV files on a global or folder by folder basis .