Attention Band-in-a-Box Windows users. If you've found your MegaPAK to be a pleasurable experience you'll love the UltraPAK for PC. Not only does this money-saving music software upgrade include the latest version of Band-in-a-Box 2007.5 but you also get the remaining Soloists sets and 12 additional add-ons - 101 Essential Phrases & Riffs 50 Country Guitar Solos Duets 200 Folk Songs 50 Novelty Piano Riffs Classic MIDI FakeBooks 1-3 Bluegrass MIDI Fakebook CopyMe Master Swingin' Jazz Master Blues Piano Solos Master Jazz Guitar Solos Vol. 1-4 and Master Flatpick Guitar Solos - to give you the unabridged Band-in-a-Box collection.

How has Band-in-a-Box improved with the 2007.5 version?

One of the bigger updates is a major overhaul to RealDrums which replaces the MIDI drum track with actual recordings of quality studio Jazz/Rock/Country drummers. More than samples they are full recordings from 1 to 8 bars which perfectly sync with other Band-in-a-Box tracks giving your song ideas a more realistic feel. They will instinctively adjust to changes in tempo/volume and you can even add third party WAV files or create styles that control fills/post-fills/pattern lengths/substyles etc.

Other enhanced features include MP3/WVA/WMA generation; Audio Chord Wizard which can analyze an audio file and figure out the chords for you; "Reharmonist" which generates chord progressions in the genre you choose for all or part of a song; auto-memo generation; a melody influenced soloist that allows you to choose how much the melody will influence the pitch rhythm note density and more of the solo; and a Soundtrack Generator for producing original music that you can tweak to fit any style of film or video. You also get support for TranzPort a wireless remote control that works up to 30 feet away so you can work on a piano while cueing up your "virtual bandmates". Improvements have been made to the notation audio dialog practice and chord functions as well as better DXi features. With Band-in-a-Box there's just loads of fun to be discovered.

Inside the Video Tutorial PAK
Oliver Gannon's Songwriting with Band-in-a-Box Oliver Gannon's Secrets of the Stylemaker 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 and the popular Practicing with Band-in-a-Box great video instruction for effectively using Band-in-a-Box for soloist improvisation and accompaniment skills.

PG Music Band-in-a-Box UltraPAK Upgrade from Any MegaPAK Windows Specifications:

• Memory (RAM): Minimum 128MB
• Hard Disk space: 300MB minimum for MegaPAK (3GB including RealDrums)
• PC Sound Card or MIDI module

PG Music Band-in-a-Box UltraPAK Upgrade from Any MegaPAK Windows Features:

• Includes:
• Band-in-a-Box 2007.5
• Style Sets 0-68
• RealDrums Sets 1-10
• Soloist Sets 1-20
• Melodist Sets 1-8
• Video Tutorial PAK
• 101 Essential Phrases & Riffs
• 50 Country Guitar Solos
• 200 Folk Songs
• 50 Novelty Piano Riffs
• Classical MIDI FakeBooks 1-3
• Bluegrass MIDI-Fakebook
• CopyMe
• Duets
• Master Swingin' Jazz Piano Solos
• Master Blues Piano Solos
• Master Jazz Guitar Solos Vol. 1-4
• Master Flatpick Guitar Solos
  
  Features
• Fully integrated RealDrums replaces the MIDI Drum track with tons of real recordings of top studio Jazz/Rock/Country drummers lasting from 1 to 8 bars that play in perfect sync with the other Band-in-a-Box tracks
• Change tempos or volumes during playback using the same tempo/volume controls as MIDI
• PG Audio Wizard automatically figures out the chords tempo bar lines and key from any MP3 WAV or WMA (Windows Media) audio file and displays them and can even stretch the file to different tempos while preserving pitch
• Audio Piano Roll displays notes from imported files so you can hear the original MP3 playing in sync with the bar lines in Band-in-a-Box and add your own parts to it (i.e. Strings RealDrums)
• Soundtrack Generator lets you create style depth length and instruments used to create original soundtrack music
• Generate chords for a melody or an improved chord progression for a melody with the new "Reharmonist" feature
• New "Melody Influenced" Soloist lets you choose a strength (%) setting allows to control how much the solo will be influenced by the melody or choose melody influence (%) and one of several presets to control the type of influence (pitches/rhythms/note density etc.)
• TranzPort Wireless Remote Control support
• Audio Settings dialog makes it easy to mute solo or change the volume of the audio track
• Punch-in audio recording
• Hear existing audio parts when overdubbing
• New Audio-Offset feature allows you to synchronize any point of an imported audio file with bar 1 of the Band-in-a-Box song
• Audio settings dialog accessible from the MIDI Drivers dialog or Audio menu
• Batch-convert a folder of songs to Audio files (MP3 WAV or WMA)
• Chord "Breaks" feature for practicing tempo control
• The Keyboard "QWERTY" Wizard now works with MIDI keyboard input
• Automatic Memo-Generation
• New "Practicing Window" allows "1-click" access to Ear Training dialog games (Pitch Invasion etc.) Metronome CopyMe Sight Reading 101 Riffs series and more
• Expanded "Trade 4's" feature lets you do "Trade 2's" or "Trade 8's."
• Soloists can be filtered by Genre to show only melodists in that genre or filtered to show/not show soloists from sets you don't have
• QWERTY Input is now compatible with international keyboards
• Large text block can now be appended to the Lead Sheet window and printout
• Fakesheets can now optionally include 2-bar song ending
• Auto Piano Hand-Splitting with left/right hands displayed in red/blue on the piano and on bass/treble clefs on notation and even provides a display and printout on imported piano MIDI files
• Notation enhancements including smoother summary information lyric entry guitar chord diagrams Event List Editor filter and Hot Key support
• Several DXi features have been enhanced
• Panic button feature enhanced to reset a "hung" DXi/VSTi driver
• Simplified Latency selection
• Better ASIO4All support
• Patch list (.PAT) now provided for the Roland VSC DXi synth and the list of available synth DK/PAT files is enhanced to support newer sound cards
• MIDI Latency Calibration
• Function to auto-determine correct keys of a song using only the melody
• Yellow "Fly-By Help Hints" expanded throughout
• Enhanced Chord Entry and Editing
• A "Fold" routine converts a song with a single large chorus to multiple smaller choruses with optional tag ending
• Search/Replace Chords feature added
• Chord deletion over a range of bars can be done by selecting the range and pressing DELETE with no confirmation dialog is required
• Stylemaker displays current patch numbers for the parts on the main window.
• Melodists can be filtered by Genre to show only melodists in that genre or filtered to show/not show melodists from sets you don't have
• Direct Render to MP3 button: Renders Band-in-a-Box song to MP3 in a single step using your Roland VSC DXi (or other DXi/VSTi synth)
• Feature on program boot-up detects and prevents conflicts with the THRU channel and other Band-in-a-Box instruments
• Convenient buttons for setting "no-harmony" in harmony dialogs loading "song demo" on Style menu and more
• Jukebox option stops Jukebox when set is completed
• StylePicker auto-rebuilds when new styles have been added

Put all of Band-in-a-Box's features and add-ons at your fingertips with this cost-effective upgrade for Windows users.