RealBand 2014 New Features There are more than 30 new features in RealBand 2014, starting with a great new look.

New GUI The user interface has been reorganized for easier and more intuitive use. The toolbar buttons are arranged in groups according to function.

Plus these great new features! - Node-based automation is available by dragging the lower track border down to reveal the turquoise-

colored line that indicates level. Click and drag on the line to make volume changes.

- The Tracks window now lets you resize track heights individually by dragging the border with the

mouse.

- Vocal Synth support automatically generates synthetic vocal tracks from a MIDI track that contains lyrics. Go to the Notation window and right-click on the track with lyrics.

Select Vocal Synth and a file will automatically be exported for the creation of a synthetic vocal part.

The synthesized vocal will be returned as an audio file and loaded into a blank track in RealBand.

- DragDrop from the RealBand Tracks window to another program now supports 3 additional file

formats: MP4, M4A, and MP3 (in addition to WAV and WMA).

- MP4 and M4A files can now be dragged and dropped into the RealBand Tracks window. - New UserTracks (create your own custom RealTracks) are supported.

UserTracks are an exciting new feature in Band-in-a-Box and RealBand, and allow anyone to create their own audio styles for use in PG Music's Band-in-a-Box and RealBand. With a UserTracks style,

you can type in any chords into Band-in-a-Box or RealBand, and the UserTracks style you made will play that chord progression! For example, if you've made a UserTracks style by recording yourself playing a guitar groove, you can then type any chords into Band-in-a-Box or RealBand, and the result will be that it will play your guitar groove over these completely new, original chord changes! You can even change the tempo, or enter songs in ANY key, and it will still be able to play it! You can make a UserTracks style in any digital audio workstation (or "DAW"), such as RealBand, ProTools, or Reaper, and you don't need Band-in-a-Box or RealBand to make the style (though you do need one of those programs to use the finished style). You can also download backing tracks to record along with.

There is much more choice here, including a variety of different genres of music, and a variety of different tempos. Each one, however, will conform to either the Pop, Jazz, or Blues template. You do not NEED to use these backing tracks to make your style, but they can make the process easier.

- Audio Edit window lets you mark bar/beat offsets when creating UserTracks.

- Favorites menu item added for quick generation of audio Loops from your favorite loops.

- When saving a song to an MGU/SGU, several files will be saved automatically if the song exceeds 248

bars. (Since MGU/SGU format is limited to 255 bars). - When loading in an MGU/SGU, key sig changes are now read into RealBand. - When saving to an MGU/SGU, you are now prompted for an audio track, which will get saved as a

wav file with a similar file name as the MGU/SGU, so that Band-in-a-Box can load it in automatically.

- Import Wave dialog now supports MP4 and M4A.

- If, during editing, there is currently a sustained note in the notation window, on a guitar track, in

editable mode, and you click on a guitar string, the note will be assigned to that string. - Chords window font, and Notation window fonts, will likely look smoother on many systems. - Options to display full measure rests as slashes on each beat of the measure.

- Product activation is required. It is found under the Help menu. - Legato Strings feature for MIDI generated tracks (or MIDI SuperTracks). If the patch is a strings

patch, instead of retriggering the same note, it will play a longer single note. This results in a smoother strings part, since only notes that are changing between chords will get triggered again. For example, if the strings are playing F and Bb for a Gm7 chord, and then C7 chord comes and they play E and Bb. Now Band-in-a-Box will sustain the common Bb note since it doesnt change, and only change the F to an E (assuming that the notes are intended to be played as a sustained notes with no gap between them). Notes: This feature happens automatically, nothing to control it. If you want to force it to happen, set the track to a strings patch, generate, then freeze it, and then you could change the patch back to something else.

- Band button enhanced. Favorite styles and Recent styles menu added. Less menu items (new RealCombos.txt file). Load Song demo moved to the top.

- Rendering of RealTracks (via any method such as Drag/Drop) is now automatically Mono or Stereo

based on the original type. - Fast previews of RealTracks, RealDrums, and StylePicker by double-clicking in the list. - Loops enhanced, now support Acid Loops (for WAV and mp3 files). - Best RealTracks (and other RealTracks) dialogs now show memos. - Current Note indicator on Notation Window now shows transposed value if notation is transposed. - Nice handwritten Real looking Chords Font added. - Soloists can now be made to be simple variations (e.g. pedal steel parts). - Improvements made in entering and viewing guitar notation. Now able to rechannel to guitar channels

(11 to 16) over a range. Easier method of guitar tab entry, click on the string (on the tab), then click on the note (on notation, or on-screen guitar) to get it entered on that string/fret.

- rechannel guitar notes to a fret position over a range. - RealBand now auto-detects the location of Band-in-a-Box, according to the last folder that ran Band-

in-a-Box. - FlashMessageLog.txt feature added. Log of 'yellow and green messages', listing the message and

date/time, is saved in a file called c:\bb\data\FlashMessageLog.txt. This file is saved when you exit the program. The list can be displayed inside the program at any time, by choosing menu Help- View Message Log file.

Fixes FIXED - There was a bug fix involving either AlwaysOnMME and/or ASIO involving the VU Meter. FIXED - Tempo changes in an MGU/SGU that occurred in the 2nd or 3rd chorus were ignored when loaded into RealBand. FIXED - ASIO now issues a warning message if multi-client wrapper is selected and it could not connect.