Yes. BIAB does not use RealTracks to play your melody. This has been requested, but for now, you must use a MIDI instrument.

All RealTracks are either backing tracks - comping over the chord changes, or soloists who play over the chord changes. Either type is pre-recorded playing snippets.

This is the way BIAB has worked since the introduction of RealTracks in, I think, 2009.


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