Upgrade Manual

Chapter 5: RealTracks and RealDrums

With the Timebase option in the Assign RealTracks dialog you can play any

RealTracks at normal, half-time, or double-time. Half-time is used for fast

tempo songs when a much slower tempo RealTrack has been chosen.

Double-time is used for slow tempo songs

(e.g. ballads) when a much faster tempo

RealTrack is chosen. This allows you, for

example, in a ballad at a tempo of 70, to

add a RealTracks Sax solo with a tempo of 140, and play it as a double- time,

which will match the ballad tempo of 70. So now all of your existing

RealTracks can be used at 3 different tempos (normal, half-time, double-time).

Tempo swapping of similar RealTracks.

You can use this feature either automatically or manually. If you set “Auto

RealTracks substitution based on tempo” to true in RealTracks Settings dialog

or Additional Song Settings dialog, Band-in-a-Box will automatically choose

the best one to use.

For example, if you have a ballad loaded, with an Acoustic Bass RealTracks at a

tempo of 60, and you speed up the tempo to 140, and press [Play] button, Band-

in-a-Box will automatically choose an Acoustic Bass RealTracks closer to the

tempo of 140, if it is the same genre and feel. This means you can use a simple

Jazz style, and play it at various tempos, without having to set the best

RealTracks based on tempos. The RealTracks that support the Tempo Swapping

are listed in the next to last column of the RealTracks Assign dialog.

For example, if we load in a Ballad Jazz style like _BALFRED.STY,

we can see that the name of the Bass RealTracks style has a tilde (~) symbol at

the beginning. That indicates that it could be changed to a different RealTracks

at a higher tempo.

Now let’s increase the tempo of the song to a higher tempo, like 115.

We will see that the name of the RealTracks switches to a different RealTracks,

suitable for tempo=110.

So when you press [Play] button, you’ll hear the RealTracks closest to your

tempo, without having to do anything to make this happen.

If you don’t want this feature to happen automatically, then set “Auto

RealTracks substitution based on tempo” to false. When this option is

unchecked, the “Show message when better RT are available at this tempo”

setting will be turned on.