John, critter,

It's possible to apply TC Helicon to part of a song in BIAB but it's much to easier to work with in Realband. In BIAB, the choice is to write harmony directly to the vocal track or to write individual harmony tracks to hard disk. I used to choose to have the harmony written to hard disk. I then loaded those harmony tracks into RB or Sonar and mixed them. In RB, TC Helicon harmony tracks can be written directly to RB tracks: this makes for easier mixing.

Also food for thought is that BIAB only allows a single vocal to be recorded and then TCH is applied to that vocal. What I used to do was to record my vocal in Sonar where I could do multiple tracks. I then cut and pasted parts from those tracks to assemble the best possible sounding vocal. I would then loaded this final vocal into BIAB and applied TCH. RB makes it possible to do the above without leaving the program.

While I could do everything I needed with BIAB/TCH, it is certainly easier to use in RB. I'm pleased that I spent the $50 to get Powertracks (12) and have RCH in RB.

Critter, what I suggest is that you play around with TC Helicon in BIAB see if you can make it do what you want it to. It may well be that in BIAB it will do everything you need.

Regards,
Noel

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