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Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2011

50 New Features!

The new features in Band-in-a-Box 2011 for Windows are…

We’ve made big improvements to the sounds of the RealTracks, so that they sound more natural over a much

wider range of tempos with the élastique Pro V2 time stretching engine by zplane.development. These

improvements are built-in, so there’s nothing you need to do to get them working. Your existing songs will just

“sound better” over a much wider range of tempos. Please watch the demo videos for audio examples of the

improvements.

We’ve made the size of the RealTracks much smaller so that they now only take up 30% of the space that they

used to. After you install the program, you can run the feature in the RealTracks Settings dialog (Preferences),

which will shrink the size of your RealTracks folders. The previous Band-in-a-Box 2010.5 “Everything Pak” had

100GB of RealTracks; this now shrinks to 30GB. The Audiophile version also shrinks by 70%, so that it is only

30% of the previous size. And the audio fidelity is improved, since it sounds better over a much wider range of

tempos with the élastique Pro V2 time stretching engine!

We’ve made an iPhone

version of Band-in-a-Box, available from the Apple App Store. The Band-in-a-Box iPhone

version works by connecting to your Windows desktop version of Band-in-a-Box 2011 and allows you to generate,

play, and save songs on your iPhone

, iPod touch

, or iPad

™

. And your iPhone generated songs have the same high

quality RealTracks sound.

If you have a copy of Band-in-a-Box 2011 for Windows

, then with the Band-in-a-Box iPhone version you can:

• Quickly transfer your existing library of songs from BB Desktop to BB iPhone, including chordsheets and audio

(M4A). See the chordsheets and play the songs anytime on your iPhone, without re-connecting to the Band-in-

a-Box desktop.

• Enter songs from scratch on your BB iPhone by typing in chord symbols to the song.

• Generate audio on your BB iPhone for the songs by pressing play. The songs play on the iPhone and are stored

on the iPhone as M4A files. This connects across your home network (LAN) or the Internet (from anywhere) to

your desktop version of Band-in-a-Box.

• Send songs from BB iPhone to BB Desktop.

• The iPhone version communicates with Band-in-a-Box for Windows using a utility program called Band-in-a-

Box Server (c:\bb\bbhelper\BandinaBoxServer.exe). This program runs in the system tray (lower right of

Windows taskbar).

• The iPhone version will see the “BB2Go” folder (c:\bb\BB2Go). Any Band-in-a-Box songs that you put in this

folder are visible to the BB iPhone. You can send files back and forth from BB iPhone to Band-in-a-Box for

Windows, and the files go to the BB2Go folder.

• You can add audio to the Band-in-a-Box files in the BB2Go folder from the Band-in-a-Box Windows menu

with the BB2Go command, and select the files that you want to have MP4/M4A audio added. You can also

generate the audio from the iPhone version.

Note that these features require QuickTime

for Windows

to be installed, which you can download from www.apple.com.

More documentation for the BB iPhone version is available at http://www.pgmusic.com/help100/.

We’ve added a huge number of new RealTracks (101), with great new Jazz, Pop, and Country Styles.

33 New Jazz RealTracks! These include:

• Jazz Swing Piano comping and soloing with NY Jazz great Mike LeDonne.

• Vibes Swing/Bossa comping and soloing with Steve Nelson.

• Gypsy Jazz: John Jorgenson (guitar), Gonzalo Bergara (guitar), Tim Kliphuis (violin), Simon Planting (bass),

and Rick Reed (drums).

• Smooth Jazz Piano Soloing from Jeff Lorber.

• Smooth Jazz Guitar with Dwight Sills.

• Swing Jazz Guitar with Oliver Gannon.