Greetings. I put together a song in Real Band, which is now a seq file. I added a realtrack for pedal steel and I would like to mute it for certain parts of the song. When I go to the measure I wish to change (mute or resume) in the chord view, and hit the F5 key, the only track choices I have to mute are bass, piano, drums, etc. and not the pedal steel track. How do I mute portions of that track?
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Well, RB is different than BiaB, and while Noel is showing how to do it in a way similar to BiaB, I'd do it differently in RB.
In RB, in the main Tracks view place the cursor where you want to make a change. Right click in the track data area of the track and select Insert Volume Change.
I'll post screen shots in a minute. If I recall this works with both MIDI and Audio tracks, which is one reason I always liked this method in RB. You can Undo, or manually change the volume change data, or redo over it.
There is also the 'Fill' option which can make changes smoother (fade out a track in this section, and back in at this section.. instead of sudden muting methods).
In the images below I set the cursor to end of Bar 8 (roughly) Right-clicked and selected Insert Volume change The pop up let me select a new volume (I chose 4, but zero would be muted) The last image shows the resulting volume change command at the end of bar 8 (4), which changes the original volume command set at bar 1 (100). Simply insert another at the bar you want it to stop muting (back to 100).
/note- 127 is max, and 0 is mute in volume settings
Last edited by rharv; 04/11/1801:28 PM.
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome Make your sound your own!
If you don't want sound there, just select and delete those bars on that track and save the song as the next revision. That way you can change your mind and go back if you wish.
The less variables you have in an equation, the easier it is to solve.
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