Band-in-a-Box 2022 New Feature - All Tracks Equal

Now all 24 tracks (8 main tracks and 16 Utility tracks) have the same capabilities. You can generate RealTracks, RealDrums, MIDI SuperTracks, Loops, etc. on any track. Styles can be made using up to 24 tracks. You can edit audio on any track, not just the Audio and Utility tracks.

For example, when you click on a Utility track label in the Mixer, you will see a menu with settings and actions, which has always shown for the main tracks, so you can use it to generate RealTracks, RealDrums, MIDI SuperTracks, Loops, etc. on the Utility track. Also, in various track generation dialogs (RealTracks Picker, Loops Picker, MIDI SuperTracks Picker, etc.) the track selector now includes all 24 tracks to allow you to select any track within the dialog..

To make a style with up to 24 tracks, launch the StyleMaker, press the [Misc] button on its toolbar, and press the [More] button in the Misc. Style Settings dialog.

In the More Settings dialog, select a Soloist or RealTracks for each of the tracks you need in the “Assign Soloist (MIDI) or RealTracks (audio) to style” area.

Some new styles were made using Utility tracks. You can find them in the StylePicker by pressing the [Other] filter button and selecting Styles that use Utility Tracks from the menu.

You can edit audio on any track.

Previously, when you generated RealTracks on Utility tracks, Band-in-a-Box created very large audio .WAV files. So, if you made a lot of songs with Utility tracks, it took up too much of your hard drive space, and this often made it complicated to organize your files. Now, the Utility tracks work the same way as the main tracks have always worked, so Band-in-a-Box won’t create audio files and instead point to the source material. This is called wave instructions, in which Band-in-a-Box saves a list of different parts of the source material. Those instructions are tiny and they are saved in the small Band-in-a-Box song file (.MGU/.SGU).