Originally Posted By: Ric4001
Originally Posted By: Charlie Fogle

And try as I might I cannot find any instructions for how to freeze individual tracks within the medley group. It either freezes them all or none of them as far as I can tell. Any idea how this can be done?
Yes. PG Music created a RealTrack to do this. 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.


I'm also curious how to freeze individual instruments within a medley group. Unless I'm misunderstanding it, I think Charlie's response above explains how to mute instruments within the group, but not how to freeze.


You're not misunderstanding Ric4001 and I appreciate you taking time to comment. I did not spell out the step by step instructions completely but hoped I had given enough information that the dots could be connected well enough to complete the task.

My thought is that this portion of this thread has somewhat drifted off topic into the Medley Track feature and away from the OP's original criticism of the Utility Track RealTrack Picker. The two subjects are related, but not the same. They share the fact that both topics rely heavily on users unfamiliarity with long-time BIAB features and I think the forum would be better served if these questions were asked and responded to as individual posts perhaps in the Recording, Mixing, Performance and Production Forum.

Nor is this thread the proper venue to teach the simple techniques that allows BIAB to produce tracks and arrangements far more complex, dynamic and full than just selecting and playing a style over a user's entered Chord Chart. For anyone wishing to do so, BIAB can produce a 20 instrument arrangement that brings various soloists in and out. Smoothly transitions between intros, endings, instrumental breaks, riffs and turn around's and perform flawless fade-in's and fade-out's far quicker than projects where the user creates individual tracks, sometimes multiples of individual tracks for comping and then exports these individual tracks that are then imported into a DAW where they are comped, merged and cut/pasted into the desired audio the user desires. BIAB can perform that conglomerate of tasks faster than using the two software programs do collectively and they will sound indistinguishable in arrangement between the two results. Meaning the chosen instruments in each will come in/fade and interchange the same in both arrangements and play the same number of instruments.

I agree with Misha, JJJ and others there's a disconnect with users and these features. Wouldn't it be cool if Dr. Gannon popped in and approved a contest for users to create and post a verifiable single render, solely in-house BIAB song the equivalent of a DAW project of 20 tracks (two full RT Medley Tracks leaving 5 Legacy Tracks for alternate use) giving the winner a free 2021 BIAB upgrade package. What a great motivation it would give to users that to this point haven't delved into BIAB beyond the demonstration stages PG Music has provided over the years. For sure, BIAB is not a one trick pony and it's time to dispel that myth and get the secret out.


Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 12/12/20 06:36 AM.
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