Originally Posted By: Charlie Fogle
Originally Posted By: Mike02392
+1 (think I've +1'd this idea at least 5 times!)

Today I regenerated a track about 15 times trying to get a cymbal crash in one place but not in another. Annoying (but still easier than exporting the whole thing!)


If one treats a RealTrack as if it is a live studio recording rather than a software program with unlimited regenerations of audio and apply techniques that have been used since the earliest days of multi track recording, 'freezing' part of a RealTrack is easy, fast and much more efficient than multiple regenerations of a random process. The BIAB Algorithm has total control of a regeneration, not the user. This makes it a completely random process since the algorithm has no way of knowing what particular audio the user wants to save.

Freezing a RealTrack in the BIAB Mixer on a Legacy Channel is a single track action, The BIAB Audio Editor Window has all of the DAW functions necessary to complete the steps quickly and with the same ease as using an external DAW. There is no need to render and export an audio track for editing in a DAW to preserve a specific piece of audio. Editing an audio file in BIAB is no more of a work around technique than doing it in a DAW. They function the same. If you encounter a recorded piece of audio from a RealTrack you want to preserve with a 'freeze', regeneration is not what you should do.

So, what should you do? BIAB has a feature that actuates an advanced freeze process that freezes and saves the audio exactly as it is at that particular moment. That action also automatically names that saved track and changes the color of the track giving a greater notice of the freeze than the snowflake of a normal freeze does. The action also transforms the track from a virtual track containing no actual audio into a WAV/WMA audio file that can be moved for editing in the Audio Editor Window. It is available with a few mouse clicks. It preserves the audio for editing and then placement anywhere it's desired to be on your Chord Chart for as many times as one wishes. It's possible to save a track then regenerate the track after a save multiple times creating several tracks for use to comp into a completely unique and custom track.

As users, we don't know the intricacies to how the BIAB algorithms search, select and compile the audio of a RealTrack. We don't know if it always chooses entire phrases or if it selects part of a chord from one area and the ending of the chord from another. If the latter is the case, 15 regenerations may be the beginning of hundreds more regenerations before that same audio is randomly generated again.

JohnJohnJohn nails the solution. It's creating a User Performance Track that contains the audio desired to be frozen and is a straightforward process. It's commonly understood that a User Track is a live performance but that is only one purpose and a single way it can be used. There are many different possible ways to create and use User Tracks, including creating one from a RealTrack performance that has specific audio desired to be used in a song project.


Thanks for such a comprehensive response! I've read it a few times, have checked JohnJohnJohn's post, and have read the section in the manual on usertracks, but unfortunately I don't understand what you're saying frown I'm sure it's my fault... is there a step-by-step guide or tutorial I could have a look at that might help me understand?