Hello JamesNikolas,

Welcome to the forum and to Band-in-a-Box.

The eight default Band-in-a-Box tracks are named Bass, Piano, Drums, Guitar, Strings, Melody, Soloist and Audio. Generally speaking Band-in-a-Box styles uses the Bass, Piano, Drums, Guitar and Strings tracks for style arrangements leaving the Melody, Soloist and Audio tracks for your use.

Both the Melody and Soloist tracks are capable of handling 16 midi tracks with the restriction that the sound is generated by the default midi synth module. Of course both tracks can also be used for audio.

You also have the Audio track. One "trick" that works well is to use the audio track to record the audio output from other tracks. That frees up those tracks for use again.

Using the F5 bar settings you can direct the Band-in-a-Box program to use up to ten instruments on each of the five tracks it traditionally uses to create arrangements. By recording arrangements to audio and then using the tracks again you can create very dense arrangements.

Jim Fogle - 2025 BiaB (Build 1128) RB (Build 5) - Ultra+ PAK
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