User Guide

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010 for Macintosh
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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).
When you do this, the song will regenerate, the tracks will be rewritten, and the song will
stay frozen. So if you’re freezing songs to get the instant playback with RealTracks, but
get tired of the “same-old” frozen arrangement, just press SHIFT-PLAY, generate a new
arrangement, and press SAVE. Then the new “fresh-frozen” arrangement will play
instantly, even with many RealTracks.
Tip: Obviously, you wouldn’t use this feature to force regeneration of a frozen song if you
have made custom edits to the song that you don’t want to lose, unless you’ve saved the
song and have a backup copy.
All Tracks can be Edited and Saved.
MIDI tracks for bass, drums, piano, guitar and strings can now be edited, and saved with
the file. If you freeze a track, edits can still be made to it, because it is only frozen from
Band-in-a-Box making changes to it (you can still edit it), so that the MIDI track will be
saved to the file. So you can customize the bass part to match a certain song, and save it
with a frozen bass part, so that Band-in-a-Box won’t overwrite your edits. This includes
RealCharts – if you wanted to edit the notation of a RealTracks solo for example.