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This is the 2012 MEGAPAK Band-in-a-Box, featuring more than 100 new features and more than 200 new RealTracks for you to work with just from this past year's development cycle alone. That is wholly apart from the rich feature set that made Band-in-a-Box one of the most popular and most beloved titles in the history of music software. Plus you get all of the other libraries listed here.

General Information
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 œnothing to œsomething in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your œon demand backup band.

Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose the style youd 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.

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 œintelligent 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 on-screen 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 sixteen 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. 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 thats œInternet 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.
eMedia Band-in-a-Box 2012 MEGAPAK (Win-DVD)
eMedia Band-in-a-Box 2012 MEGAPAK (Win-DVD)
eMedia Band-in-a-Box 2012 MEGAPAK (Win-DVD)

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  • Band-in-a-Box 2012
  • Includes RealBand 2012
  • Over 160 RealTracks instruments in 36 bands and RealDrums Sets 1-6
  • Styles Sets 0-77: All MIDI Styles Sets, over 1500 MIDI styles total
  • Soloist Sets 1-11 & 16-20: Over 300 Soloists
  • Melodist Sets 1-8: Over 200 Melodists
  • FREE Bonus 10-PAK

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  • Windows 2000 / NT / XP / Vista / 7 (32 or 64-bit)
  • Minimum 512 MB RAM
  • Hard Disk space: Minimum 400 MB for the main Band-in-a-Box and RealBand 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
  • DVD drive
  • Sound card or MIDI module