When I work in Real Band every now and then, it will in fact, render pickup notes on some of the solo tracks. It's not always willing to do that though. A regeneration can lose the pickup or create it. I guess it depends on how RB is feeling about that track on the regen..... so if I have something I don't want to lose, I will insert a new track and work with it.

SO..... a work around I will use happens in the very next step in my process. When I move it to Sonar (DAW) all the tracks start on Measure 3 with 2 complete measures for the count in. With a bit of copy and paste magic I can insert the pickup notes easy enough.

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