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Recently - using 2022 & 2023 - the same command unpredictably turns the chord sheet orange and strips the SGU of all useful information leaving "Stereo 32 bit" in the Mixer column and "None" in the Plugins column of the mixer.


For a track to be an orange 'performance track', there needs to be a wave file saved in the same directory as your .SGU file, with the same name as your .SGU followed by the name of the track. For example, let's say you have a song "C:\bb\MySong.SGU". If you also have the file "C:\bb\MySong Bass.wav" this wave file is a 'performance' track for the bass track. When you open MySong.SGU the bass track will be orange, and this file will play instead of (re)generating a bass track. Use case for this is to freeze a particular track so that it will always play exactly the same, or to be able to play an .SGU without having RealTracks needed to generate one or more of the tracks. (Of course in the last few versions of BIAB there is a dedicated freeze feature that is much easier to use for freezing tracks, and doesn't require the entire track to be saved as audio data.)

Just to be complete, there is also a way to create a performance / audio track containing the entire song. That can be done via Audio menu | Render song to Audio track. The program does this by disabling the style tracks and rendering all tracks to the 'Audio' track, creating a file "MySong.WAV". A wave file with the same name as your .SGU is the audio track of that song.

Note that when you render / export a BIAB song to wave, the rendered files are named by default "MySong_RENDER.WAV", "MySong guitar_RENDER.WAV", etc.

Assuming that you are using the regular Export Song as Audio File function that you always have, here is what could be happening.

A) You are selecting the option to render each track as individual files.
B) Saving the rendered files in the same folder as your .SGU
C) At some point, renaming some of the files from *_RENDER.WAV to *.WAV or * trackName_RENDER.WAV to * trackName.WAV. This would make the program see them as audio (performance) tracks for the .SGU.

You can fix that by renaming the wav files, or the .SGU.

Andrew
PG Music Inc.