I was looking at the (options, preferences, text hints) section to try and figure out which of the four checkboxes I might uncheck to turn off the "better real tracks hints" or any hints that come up when I first start a song. The only popup I want is the popup that tells me I have to hit the spacebar to start the song as a result of my checking the checkbox "Pause Play Until MIDI or Key received". So I did a help search "hints" and was presented with a lot of reading of topics that is not remotely related. I tried "hints summary" and found nothing in that reading material. I don't suppose anyone knows how to keep the "Pause Play Until MIDI or Key received" popup while suppressing all other less important hints. I am using this "Pause Play Until MIDI or Key received" as a way to know the real tracks have been built rather than having to watch all the stuff that is flying by fast at the top. Its too bad some hints could not be moved to the end of the song :-)
Thanks Noel. That's interesting. I will make that change on my notebook. I am curious. I have never tried it but I am assuming that auto means if I click on that message it automatically does the substitution. If this is true is the auto substitution smart enough to keep the same number of instruments (same number of tracks) when doing that substitution (I always choose a style with at least a quartet or larger with piano-and-guitar or guitar-and-guitar). I am asking because maybe I could leave it on for none live use (my desktop) and turn it off for live use (my notebook). Right now it only popups up on maybe 2 or 3 of the 70 BIAB files I have and I can't remember which ones they are.
As I understand it, the substitution is done on a track by track basis. This means the number of instruments will remain constant.
If you see a track with ~ in front of its name in the mixer, this means that there is a better Realtrack available given the song's tempo but no substitution has occurred.
If you see ~~ in front of the track's name, this means that the 'better' track has been substituted.
And yes, clicking on the message will substitute the Realtracks (well it did in 2017, I haven't yet tried it in 2018).
Thanks Noel. Just by chance I had BIAB up and for the first time after your pointing it out I noticed that there are two tracks that have the ~~ in front of the track description. So I guess I must have saved the BIAB file and it kept those tracks with the markers. All this time I thought clicking on the message was telling it I didn't want to make a change and if I wanted the change I had to go in to the style picker and pick a new style.
On a related issue, why do I sometimes get 2, 3 or even 4 "playback paused......." yellow flags instead of just one? It seems to happen when I play a song more than once.
Clicking on the popup does not seem to work for getting the real tracks more suited to the speed. I found the solution by googling "FInding the best band in a box real tracks". Finally google worked for BIAB :-)
Tony, BIAB 2018 introduced seeing multiple yellow, yellow-green and green messages like never before. I do think there is a limit of four or five, don't remember which one it is that someone said. And you can turn off the appearance of these messages, although I don't recommend doing so.
I would guess, given it's a new feature, PG Music would be receptive to a post in the Wishlist Forum with suggestions about how you think these messages should appear.
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Actually, I was wrong about BIAB not auto fixing the real tracks. I had the "Options, Preferences, Allow Auto-realtracks Substitution based upon tempo" turned off on my notebook machine where as my desktop had it turned on. I was confusing the settings across machines. I just turned it back on for the notebook since now I practice the jam session operation and repertoire a week in advance.
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