I accept your point about terminology...tracks vs instruments...but I'm pretty sure you've also referred to these as tracks more than once in making your case that we already have more than 7 tracks, right?

Originally Posted By: Charlie Fogle
To apply an effect to an individual midi patch when it's located on a single track that has multiple patches, the 16 individual channel patches are moved to individual tracks. The same procedure works for those 10 RealTrack slots on a BIAB Mixer Legacy Track.

So, short answer...you CANNOT apply a plugin to an individual instrument on a medley track, right? Moving the instrument to its own track would be the only way, right? Same with freeze, reverb and tone, right?

Originally Posted By: Charlie Fogle
Manually enter RT slots using Bar Settings. In your example, use Bar Settings to enter RT's manually.

Changing instruments bar-by-bar is a work-around to not having enough tracks in the mixer. I cannot imagine a scenario where this would be preferable to simply using an available track.

Originally Posted By: Charlie Fogle
At a bar you want to Mute - select the RealTrack "Silence" then at the bar you want an instrument to begin playing, change the RT from Silence to what ever RT you want to use.

Again, a decent work-around but not nearly as good as simply clicking the mute button on a track!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge about all of this. I honestly appreciate this expanding of my BIAB knowledge!

My take-away is there are complicated, obscure but potentially useful work-arounds to BIAB's 7-track design. These work-arounds may even be considered cool features to power-users such as yourself.

But for the mainstream BIAB user I remain convinced additional tracks would be preferable. Clicking a mute button on an additional track is gotta be better than using bar settings to insert the RealTrack called Silence! And so on!