<< Well, we're making progress! You have admitted that my earlier "cannot" regarding plugins, reverb and tone were correct!>>
It's true the 4 plug-in slots on the BIAB Mixer will effect the entire Medley Track and all the instruments residing on that track. That's an intentional and expected result and in no manner at all a flaw or coding error. A Medley Track functions similar to an Fx Bus in a DAW - You route multiple instruments to a specific Fx bus and the Fx bus effects all of the instruments but they're only instruments you want 'effected' by that effect. For instruments you don't want to 'effect' or the single instrument you 'only' want to 'effect', you route differently. It's exactly the same with the BIAB RT Medley and just like with a DAW, there are multiple other tools and methods to apply an effect to a single instrument.
<< "Bottom line is there's a total of 77 actual mixer tracks available in the BIAB Mixer in the years prior to 2021 release." - No, I think you have made this very point. There are slots for instruments but not additional tracks. >>
No offense, but here, you don't understand the concept nor the application. Regardless of the terminology; slots, inserts, channels - on the Legacy Medley Track, these areas are populated using a sub-mixer that has tracks. Open the RT Medley Window and see for yourself.
<< You claimed I can freeze individual instruments on a medley track. Exactly how would I do that? >>
I have explained how to freeze an individual instrument on a Medley Track. Again, you've not grasped the concept and how to adapt the concept to other applications.
<< I was comparing it to simply pressing the mute button on a track. Having one instrument on a track allows me to do this quickly and easily on the fly during a session. Going to bar settings or medley to set up a mute is not nearly as quick and easy.>>
But there's no comparison to be made. A single Track and a Medley Track are two different elements with completely different purposes. I didn't say the Medley creation process was faster or easier than pressing the mute button on a single track. I did say using the 'Silence' RT is better than using the Bar Settings Mute and Return to Normal buttons. PG Music staff have posted the same point here on the forum in the past. I listed solid reasons it's the better choice for when you're using the RT Medley feature.
<< Well, we will just have to disagree here! wink >>
And I still do. wink In good nature of course. You've asked valid questions and taken the discussion of RT Medley's further than any previous conversation I'm aware of. I'm thankful to you for that and I'm sure PG Music is too. This has been the epitome of what a Forum discussion should be, legitimate questions and comments done in a civil manner.
<< It is always the responsibility of the designer to observe how users use (or do not use) something and adjust for that. Building an awesome thing that most people don't know how to or want to use is a design fail.>>
Even if your statement is completely true, no software is responsible to give a user the background theory, principles, techniques and knowledge base for a discipline such as Recording Audio that we're dealing with here. Every question we've discussed have dealt exclusively with recording audio principles, techniques, terminology that have been applied by recording engineers, artists and hobbyists for more than 1/2 a century. There's been no mention of mis-coded software, design flaws - although some questions you've posed have inferred a flaw because you haven't had enough experience with the software feature to fully apply and grasp a concept.

RT Medley, Song Medley, Multi Styles, MIDI converted to audio, RealTracks, Utility Tracks and all the other Recording Audio features built into BIAB - NONE, not a single one is a design flaw.... none...

Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 12/12/20 02:05 AM.
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