User Guide

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide
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If you freeze the whole song, you don’t have to wait
at all for the song to regenerate. Next time you play,
it is ready to go.
You can make tracks Frozen by pressing the Freeze
button (snowflake) on the toolbar, and then choosing
which tracks that you want to freeze or unfreeze.
There are a number of reasons that you would freeze
a track.
Reasons to Freeze a RealTracks track (audio):
- Frozen tracks will play back instantly, not requiring time to generate.
- They play back the same way each time, so if you like a solo, you can “freeze it.”
- If you send a song to a friend as “frozen,” they will hear the same performance.
- For the Soloist track, if you generate a solo, it can now be saved (by freezing the track).
Reasons to Freeze a MIDI track:
- You can edit the MIDI data, to customize the performance to match a certain song, and this will be saved. Use
the Notation window or Piano Roll to edit the track.
More reasons to freeze any track:
- Frozen tracks play back instantly, without requiring time to regenerate.
- They play back the same way each time.
- You can change the chord progression of the song, and have one part playing a different chord progression than
the rest of the band. For example, type a “blowing” chord progression, generate a solo, freeze the solo track, then
type a normal chord progression and generate the rest of the instruments (bass, guitar etc.) that will play the
normal changes.
- Have different instruments play different styles. For example, the Bass could be generated using Reggae, then
Frozen, and then the rest of the instruments generated using a Techno style.
Un-Freezing a Track(s)
This is also done by the Freeze button. Choose a
frozen track to un-freeze it, or choose “Un-Freeze all
tracks.”
Forcing Generation of a Song that is Frozen
Band-in-a-Box won’t touch tracks that are frozen. But if you want to change that, without having to Un-Freeze the
tracks, you can do this easily.
Hold down the SHIFT key as you press the [Play] button (the fly-by hint will remind you of that),
or go to the Song menu and choose Generate (even if tracks are frozen).