User Guide

Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide
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RealStyles are styles that use only RealTracks and no MIDI instruments. These style names begin with an
underscore.
RealStyles and Styles with RealTracks have their own categories in the StyleMaker.
Finding all styles that have RealTracks.
Open the StylePicker and locate the categories called “RealStyles” and “Styles with RealTracks.”
Click on a category to list all of the styles that are present that include RealTracks.
Using RealTracks in Solos.
Press the Soloist button (Shift+F4) and launch the Select Soloist dialog. Get to Soloists in the range from
#361and up.
You can do that by:
1.
Typing 361 and pressing [Go to].
2.
Choosing Favorites to return to a recently chosen Soloist.
3.
Click on the [RealTrack] button to jump directly to the start of the RealTracks
soloists listings.
As with other Soloists, press the [All Solo] button to make sure that the Soloist will be
generated for all choruses, or [Melody and Solo] if you just want the Soloist for a certain chorus.
Saving RealTracks Soloists
Soloist generated RealTracks are saved with the song, so you will hear the RealTracks play the same solo when you
reload the song.
When you generate a solo using RealTracks, Band-in-a-Box will remember this, and when you go to save the song,
Band-in-a-Box will ask you if you want to save that solo (and thereby freeze the Soloist track). If you say yes, then
the solo will play instantly the same way when the song is reloaded. Of course, you can freeze the soloist track
yourself at any time.
Saving Your RealTracks
As with Band-in-a-Box MIDI parts and RealDrums, the RealTracks can be saved by rendering the
complete performance to an AIFF file or the individual RealTracks to separate AIFF files.
The RealTracks selection that you assign to a song will be saved with the song, but the audio track that was
generated is not automatically saved with the Band-in-a-Box MGU file. This is because the Band-in-a-Box MGU
file only contains chords/melody/lyrics (and an optional audio track AIFF file).
If you have generated a RealTracks part that you want to keep you can use the Freeze feature to save it.
Frozen tracks will reload with the song and play exactly as saved.
Are other RealTracks available?
There are one hundred and one sets with over 500 RealTracks instruments with many more to come.
See
http://www.pgmusic.com/products_realtracks.htm for the latest releases.