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Did you know... In the Mixer Window:
-Hold Ctrl or Shift key to change all tracks at once.
-Hold the [Ctrl] key down as you click on the track slider, or drag the thumb of the slider.
-Hold the [Shift] key and it will move all tracks relative to the move of the original track.


Other Tips for the Mixer Window:
-Custom track labels. Click on the track description on the Mixer, and choose "Rename track title" to change the track label.
-Custom track descriptions. Click on the track description on the Mixer, and choose "Change track descriptions" to change the track description.


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Good stuff, thanks.

Just curious, are those first three tips documented somewhere (for when I forget the specific keystrokes)?


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Hi Matt - if you go to the BB folder, there's a file called "bbw.tip" which has almost 400 tips to help with Band-in-a-Box.

It's the same resource that the 'Tip of the Day' feature of the program pulls from.


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Good stuff, keep posting Callie...never hurts to learn a new trick or be reminded of an old one.

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And how to hear only 2 tracks, clicking the Solo buttons [S] of these tracks at the Mixer? Or even clicking the Drums and Bass check boxes for example, just below the Main Menu? Is it possible? Thanks.

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Thanks Callie. There's always something new to learn! I'll have to go and look at bbw.tip, too!


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Thanks Callie, and thanks for the tip about the bbw.tip file too


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Hi Abif - when I want to listen to just a few of tracks, I hit [S] for the first track, then [M] for the other tracks (which un-mutes them).

If you try and use [S] on multiple tracks, it will just solo the last track you selected.


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Callie, that actually makes a serious Wishlist request. Just yesterday I tried to solo two tracks like I would do in a DAW, and it doesn't work as one would expect.


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Thanks Callie and great Matt, several S buttons clicked would be a big candidate to Wishlist! Sometimes I need to hear only the bass and drums, cause most of time I notice that they are out of sync, even in the same RealStyle. It's just me? Sometimes I try to quantize the drums in Cubase, but it's difficult cause the drumset is all together in one track. Separate the pieces of Realdrums in tracks would be another candidate! I say kick in one track, hi-hat in other and so on...

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I've learned that by accident.

Solo one track, then unMute the other.

Same procedure in RealBand, but more confusing with the options there:
1. Solo more than one track, but the P/M button is only active for the first selected track
2. deselect the solo option for that track than the P/M button is no more active.

I have a topic on the wishlist some time back where I wish that BIAB and RB grow together. Make them similar in the essential interface regions for a "same look and feel". That is, have functions that are similar enough behave the same and their controls look the same possibly in the same location on the screen/in the floating window.


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