Originally Posted by Mike Halloran
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I'm running into an issue and I'm not sure if it's user error because I'm doing something wrong or if there's a bug of some sort (Mac).

No bug. BIAB wants to redo bass and drums every time you hit Play. This emulates a live performance in that bassists and drummers in many genres never play the same song the same way twice. There are ways around this including Freeze, using MIDI instead of RealTracks on some songs and Export. The manual is quite helpful and goes into this in greater detail.

When a song sounds the way I like, I Export the individual tracks and open them in my DAW of choice (not GarageBand since it turns everything into stereo tracks but there are those who use it). This is where I edit my performances down to the gnat's whisker—I'd go nuts trying to achieve that level of control in BIAB.

PGMusic decided years ago that, since GarageBand is free with the macOS, it made no sense to port RealBand over. That's unfortunate but there are many free and low-cost DAWs for the Mac nowadays.

Thanks guys for your help.

This is what is weird though, it's not redoing the bass and drums, it's completely removing them. The bass and other instruments from the original style chosen might be non existent for the first 16 bars then suddenly they pop in out of nowhere.

It's also behaving strangely if I unfold the song, then try copying and pasting the original bars (say 1 -32 for example) into the newly created bars. It's still treating the song ending as if the original ending (like bar 33 for example) exists. It won't play the newly pasted part, even though the chords are showing. It'll just end the song.

All this behavior only seems to happen when I start trying to incorporate a RealTrack Soloist. Just using the Melodist to create a melody at certain bars isn't doing it.

The only way I've found around in so far is to unfold the song, then create all the chords and structure first. Then if I use a soloist, I can highlight each region throughout the song and generate the RealTrack on the selected region.

That works but it's a pain because I have to do it for each region instead of just being able to duplicate. Also, if I want the exact same solo repeated, I can't do that because it won't let me copy.

Hope all that makes sense.

Oh, and I've tried freezing also. It doesn't seem to help. It keeps the solo in tact for the first pass through the song, but doesn't allow me to repeat. Also, I tried freezing the original tracks from the style and they are still missing at times.

Last edited by kottke; 07/26/25 11:10 AM.