User Guide

Chapter 5: Playing Songs in Band-in-a-Box

Freeze Tracks

Freezing (locking) MIDI or RealTracks/RealDrums

Any track can be frozen (MIDI or RealTracks). When frozen, it won’t get changed or re-generated. This saves time

when replaying previous songs, and allows you to freeze an arrangement that you like. 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 frozen tracks 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 for the Freeze button. Choose a frozen track to un-freeze it, or choose “Un-Freeze all tracks.”