I'm going to answer Jim and Bob together.

Bob Wrote, "Do you absolutely need to render the BIAB file every song? Are you arranging on the fly?"

I prepare the song in BIAB (choose the rhythm accompaniment, etc.) then hit 'Generate and Play' and after it's generated hit 'Freeze' then save it into a folder in BIAB as part of our gig list. When it's time to play the song I open the folder, click on the song and when it's loaded, hit Play and start strummin'.

Jim, we use Real Band for most of our songs. We had already checked, "speed up generation of realtracks (disable on slow machines)" but didn't check "High Quality Tempo/Pitch Stretching (disable on slow machines)" so I'll try that.

"Another option is to render the songs to an (wav, MP3 or wma) audio file and use the media player of your choice the play the audio files."

We hadn't thought of that. Thanks for the suggestions,

Danny (aka Gretschky) and Ian (aka Flugleboneman)