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I work a song up with Real Styles, and sometimes add a RT Soloist, or a RT on either Guitar, Strings or Piano tracks. I get it just the way I want it and I have used "save as", or File/save song with patches and harmony. Now, I am getting confused as to what is correct to:

1. Save all my "active" tracks
2. Save my added Real Instruments, wherever they are, (i.e.) on the Guitar track, or on the soloist

I am coming back to my songs the next session, and some songs have the RT's still there, and some don't. It must be because I am not consistant with the way I am saving them? I hope I don't have to render them and all that, because most of the time they are not even finished, and I want to start in where I left off.

What is the solution?

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I found info on thread #209291, apparently RT's on solo track do not save, so I guess what I will do is put the "RT solo" on melody or strings, use the right click bar settings option, and turn it on and off where I want. I am just trying to find a way of putting solo's where I want them, (which I can do now) but having individual control over them. I might want to use RT guitar #383 at various places throughout the song but not be limited as to "one regeneration of it" just turned on and off here and there. And saved of course, so I can start in where I left off. May just save final instrument adjustments for Real Band? The whole issue may be much easier. So if I do that, is there all these special saving methods in RB for retaining all of the RTracks?

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Hi,

RealTracks you have assigned to the Soloist track are saved with your song in the same way that RealTracks assigned to other tracks are. The track needs to be regenerated when you open the MGU, because an MGU doesn't store audio (wave) data.

In RealBand, you would save your song as an .SEQ file and that file would contain everything exactly the same as when you generated the song before saving it. SEQ files contain both MIDI and audio data, so they can be very large.


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Thank you. I guess I will have to use RB then, because I keep regenerating untill I find a riff I like. I don't want to lose it by regenerating upon reopening the song.

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