Originally Posted By: Charlie Fogle

In the meantime, you may want to select a completely different style, generate it, then return to the original style and I'm thinking that will in a sense, do a hard style reset and your style's Realtracks should be back to normal if I've guessed correctly.


thanks guys -

I did try this fix, also closing the song and reopening it (without success). I know the volumes are good, because I even use the "solo" option and I cannot get anythign to come out.

I will try a full copy-paste to new song tonight.

As for the "Realband" option. I did open it up, and it seemed incredibly slow to me - First I tried to open an existing song (took about 5 minutes to open and wouldnt play any music).
i then tried making a new song and similarly got no sound. I have a feeling its because of the audio setup (which I dont ever remember being prompted for in the main BAIB software).
This is a spinoff topic, but since you guys have probably seen it happen before, I am hoping someone could come in on this!



Just a bit of background - I have been recording music for 20 years - I play mandolin, guitar, (tenor) banjo. I have gone from magnetic tape recording all the way through to digital recording. I have used professional studios, Fostex standlone systems, Cubase, Mixcraft, Reaper. I still find BIAB a very compelling tool - why? Becuase it can "play" instruments I can't - even the session musicians do a better job of the Tenor Banjo and Mandolin than I can, even though I have been playing both in a band for years. As far as I am concerned, Realtracks are a game changer.

The only thing I am asking myself though is "where is the spark?" - if you assemble a song from all these prerecorded elements, how do you keep a song original ? Your own lyrics and chord choices dont *quite* seem enough. Perhaps this is a question for the general topic rather than extending this topic!

thanks again all - hopefully someone has some new insights!

BIAB user since Feb 2017
Songwriter for far too long