A typical song with RealTracks generates in about 10 seconds. But there are several factors that control that:

In general the formula would be something like this

TimeToGenerateRealtracks =
(Length of song in seconds) x (Number of RealTracks) ÷ (CPU speed of computer and hard drive)

Tips:

- When sketching out the song (changing chords etc.), use 1 chorus, instead of 6 choruses - the song will generate abbout 6x faster!

- If you have a RealTracks that you use a lot, you can convert the WMA to WAV, that'll take up more space for that RealTracks (about 400MB instead of 70MB), but it'll generate about 25% faster. To do that, Prefs-RealTracks Settings- and press the [..] button beside the Install, which lets you select a folder to expand to WAV (the [..] beside the Archive button would undo this)

- Replay button won't generate the song again, unless the chords have changed.

- Right click on combo button, and de-select song needs regeneration. Then rePlay button will not re-generate the song even if the chords have changed.

- Right click on a single instrument at the top to regenerate that single track only.

- Freeze a song, to move all the tracks to the audio track, and then it won't regenerate, and will reload quickly next time.

- If using Vista, and using an external USB hard drive for your RealTracks, make sure that User Account Control is disabled - otherwise Vista requires all kinds of permissions to read and write data to the hard drive.


Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.