I am a relative newbie, but impending retirement should see me being able to devote much more time to BIAB.

I have a problem regarding Real Tracks, together with their relationship to notation. I have a composition with a Real Tracks solo that I really like and wanted to repeat it for 8 bars using a variety of Real tracks instruments. I naively thought I’d just have to change the Real Tracks soloist instrument, generate and save each new track as a .wav for later importation into DAW. However, each time I do this, a completely new solo tune is produced.

I then thought as a ‘second-best’ alternative to save the track as MIDI and use MIDI instruments instead, although, of course, they sound nowhere near as good. However, a bar and a half of the notation is blank part-way through, although the Real Track solo carries on playing through these bars.

I then experimented with editing the soloist notation, but this seems to make no difference at all to what the Real Track plays.

I expect I’m making a beginner’s error with all of this, but can anyone explain please how to change a track to bring up a different Real Tracks instrument while keeping the same tune, and why changing notation on a Real Tracks track seems to make no difference to what is played?