I've been trying (a lot) and searching here in the forum, but I couldn't find a good solution. It's driving me crazy. I'm sure I'm missing something. The problem is simple. I have a frozen track (a RealTrack). I'd like to transpose it. Here's the things I tried (in BIAB 2023):
1. I transpose the whole song. All other tracks get transposed, but not the frozen track (understandably so, this is fine obviously).
2. I unfreeze the track, transpose the whole song, play back (without regenerating anything! just the normal playback) and the previously frozen track is now in the new key, but it has been regenerated (even though I never told BIAB to regenerate). This not what I'm trying to achieve, obviously.
3. I unfreeze the track, transpose the whole song, then refreeze the track (before any playback), and then play. The frozen track is still in the original state, no transposition happened
4. the following actually worked, but there's a catch (a big one): I edited the track in audio edit, selected the whole track, and applied the edit / transpose function. Done. Track transposed. That's what I wanted. However ... now my track, in the mixer, is called "Artist" (in orange color), the track name was changed to "user edited ...etc etc", so it seems that it lost its "real track status", so to speak, so I cannot treat it like a Real Track anymore (I cannot unfreeze, regenerate it, change a riff or two etc etc). It looks like an audio track, not a Real Track anymore. Pretty inconvenient. This method is ok only if I am 100% sure that I will NOT change the arrangement of that track anymore, ever.
So, my question: is there a simpler / more intelligent / more convenient way to tell BIAB that I want to transpose a frozen Real Track without losing the "Real Track" status?
Hoping this will help others too.
Thank you!!