Upgrade Manual

Chapter 5: RealTracks and RealDrums

101 New RealTracks in 3 new RealPAKs!

Another 101 RealTracks have been released with Band-in-a-Box 2010, bringing

the total number of RealTracks available to over 375. You can get them all pre-

installed when you order the hard drive version of Band-in-a-Box 2010! They

are also offered with matching sets of RealDrums in three new RealPAKs:

RealPAK: Jazz 3

- 6 RealTracks Sets (34 styles)

- 1 RealDrums Set (3 style groups)

RealPAK: Rock-Pop 3

- 5 RealTracks Sets (33 styles)

- 1 RealDrums Set (4 style groups)

RealPAK: Country 3

- 5 RealTracks Sets (34 styles)

- 1 RealDrums Set (2 style groups)

All RealTracks users will enjoy these new features and enhancements.

Fast RealTracks Generation

No more long waits for RealTracks to generate! RealTracks generate much

faster, 4X faster on average. A typical song with RealTracks that took 20

seconds to generate will now generate in about 5 seconds. And if you freeze

some or all tracks in the song, playback of RealTracks is almost instantaneous.

This “speedup” feature works

“automatically;” you should just notice that generation of RealTracks is much

faster. This feature uses CPU resources during playback. If you have a multi-

core machine, you may not notice this at all, since it will use different cores than

the main Band-in-a-Box thread. If you have an old machine, low on memory,

slow hard drive etc., you can disable this “speedup” feature. This will insure

that your machine is doing less CPU work during playback. This is done in

RealTracks Settings dialog.

RealTracks Shots, Holds, and Pushes

RealTracks now support new features, including Shots, Holds, and Pushes.

Simply type in the chords as you normally would, adding periods (…) for shots

and holds, and the RealTracks will play them.

Note: You need the installer that creates a LibraryM/Holds folder in your RealTracks

folder.