This makes sense, both the request and your understanding of the process. I would have done the mixing in a DAW and brought one track into BIAB, as you are aware, but you are correct that sometimes you just need to tweak a track based on new changes. It would indeed be nice to be able to do that within BIAB without using the audio editing tools.

This is an area of which I believe the developers are aware. The many Utility Tracks were just added, and the concept is for 'all tracks to be equal', but we have had many discussions on how to do that. The F5 bar settings dialog would need to be far larger and tracks use some new numbering system. Or we would need volume automation and a MIDI control surface to ride faders. The basic problem I see is created by feature creep, where the new features are causing reevaluation of the original way legacy tracks were handled. It is my hope that requests like yours, and all the other discussions we have had about this concept, will result in a different way of handling all the tracks in BIAB 2023.

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