Once an Audio Track has been moved to a Performance track, it will not play until you Regenerate the song. If the other tracks are like you want them, freeze them before regenerating. I have not tried regenerating just the Performance Track but I assume that will work the same as Regenerating the song.

Two ways you can get increased track space\extra channels on your complex songs:

The first is to utilize the BIAB feature that allows alternating or inserting up to 10 instruments on any track. Note that these instruments can play simultaneously during playback if desired. You can enter and change out instruments by choosing the bar you want to change an instrument, using F5, select RealTracks, select the legacy channel you are working with and in the lower bar, select the new instrument from the list. Ok out of this menu.

A second way to access this feature is to select the RealTrack Picker, in the upper left corner, select the Medley button and a window opens with 10 available slots to place instruments. You can also select when and how the instrument medley plays out. It can by a certain number of bars or by part marker etc.

You can exceed the 8 channel limit of tracks in BIAB using the following method:


This can be done in a multitude of ways so I will go through the steps on one way so you can see how it can be accomplished.

Create a chord chart, with tempo, key, and a style selected. Add any shots, hold, or rests, intros and endings. Pan and set volume levels. Generate this song. It will be the foundation portion of your song. Render and export this song as a Stereo WAV file.

Import the exported stereo file back into your song. Be sure the Audio Channel plays in sync with your BIAB mix.

Convert the Audio Channel to an Performance Track and move it to the Bass Track. (it can by any channel, I'm using the Bass Track for simplicity.)

Kill the Audio Track

Select new instruments for the remaining Mixer Tracks, (Piano, Drums, Guitar, Strings, Melodist, Soloist) and feel free to utilize the multiple instrument per track feature to add more instruments, or sound effects.

Mix, pan and set levels of this mix to match and merge with the Stereo Performance Track located on the Bass Track.

Render this new mix and Export this mix to a WAV File.

At this point you can repeat the above process to add more instruments and channels or stop is your song is complete.

Yes, you are commiting to sub mixes and Bouncing track mixes but this is all done digitally so there is no loss of resolution because each render is a digital to analog first generation export.

If you are not satisfied with a render, back up a step and remix and render a new mix.

You can create a render with dozens of instruments and dozens of channels using this method.

BIAB 2025:RB 2025, Latest builds: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop; Windows-10-64 bit, Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz CPU and 16 GB Ram Memory.