You can use a second piano part on a different channel doing just the held chord. At the appropriate bar to play the held chord, mute Piano 1 which will be you main piano instrument. On a free track, load a piano 2 and play a held chord at the appropriate bar. Mute the held chord track on the bar after the ring out decay concludes and unmute your main Piano 1. Match the volume, pan, Fx and tone settings of both Piano instruments. They should match Piano 1, your main Piano part. Raise or lower Piano 2's volume to match Piano 1. This should not be an issue if you are using the same Piano RealTrack except that when you select Piano 2 in the RealTracks Picker, you will also select the 'Hold' button so the Piano plays a held chord, this can sometimes result in a difference in volume that needs to be addressed.

If you don't have a free track, this can still be done on any other track for a bar or two where the piano hold is a more important instrument than another on those particular bars. For instance, if in your song the Lead Guitar resides on the Melodist track. At Bar 2 where the intro held piano chord needs to be; Go to Bar Settings and select the RealTracks Button and replace the Lead Guitar Soloist with a Piano Instrument doing a held chord. Move forward two bars and go to Bar Settings and replace the RealTrack Piano back with the Lead Guitar instrument. Selecting the RealTracks button opens the RealTracks Menu allowing you to select any RT.

In this scenario, during the intro in either case, whether the second piano resides on its own track or is sharing a track with another instrument, the piano held chord will sound out and decay to silence over the selected bars. If it's on a shared track, the next bar after the decay, the lead guitar instrument will replace the piano. If it's on its own track, after the decay, mute that track.

Either way, it can be repeated anywhere throughout the song.


Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 10/15/18 02:28 AM.
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