Thanks Matt and yes, you’ve got it.

In BIAB, a RealTrack isn’t a fixed audio file until it’s frozen or exported. What you’re seeing in the Tracks View or Audio Edit Window is a representation of generated data that only becomes audio when BIAB renders it. Once you export that track to a DAW, it’s rendered audio and becomes static, any editing happens after the fact.

This is where things differ fundamentally. If you generate and export four individual RealTracks (either in BIAB or in a DAW), each one creates its own unique performance of the same chords. The notation, phrasing, and timing will all be different because each is a separate generation.

However, when those same instruments are combined using the RealTrack Medley Maker, they all share the exact same generated performance and notation while remaining discrete instruments. That’s something you cannot recreate by exporting multiple individual RealTracks, each export will always be a different performance.

The Medley Maker is one of several tools that are bypassed when users export tracks early and do all arranging in a DAW. Staying in BIAB allows you to program fades, crossfades, instrument changes, and transitions automatically, often in a single bar, using BIAB’s generation engine instead of manual DAW editing.

If anyone wants to dig deeper into how this works, I’m happy to discuss it here. It’s actually simpler in practice than it sounds.

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