Thanks to everyone for your responses.
I haven't yet started my experimentation with some of these suggestions due to time constraints, but the thought did occur to me that in the interest of simplicity to accomplish the goal of protecting a track from being recorded over in RB wouldn't it be easier if there were a padlock icon or other mechanism to click on that would lock the track?

The background reason for my original question:

At this time I've only been doing some "simple" multitrack recordings by laying down separate tracks of variations of rhythm guitar, lead guitar, banjo, dobro and bass and some vocals depending on the song. Years ago in PTPA I used the drums in that program for my "metronome" while recording. Now I'm using some styles and even using the bass from them in my recordings instead of doing my own (they sound good and I'm probably getting lazy). I'm not at this point in time trying to construct an entire song with total BIAB accompaniment from start to finish.

My workflow has been to lay out the song in its entirety with the chords in BIAB with the chosen style, tempo and key and then I'll designate the sections with bar-based section letters. I then create the SGU file and load it into RB and then designate the sections once again with bar-based section letters (since the BIAB ones and RB ones are not compatible). I then record the rhythm guitar on a separate track, then record the other instruments each on a separate track. Often times I just lay down a portion of a separate track in the proper place for a lead instrument break, and do a few on separate tracks so I can choose which ones sound best to keep later on.

In that process of recording on multiple separate empty tracks is where I sometimes (often) end up recording over a previous recorded track, and that is where the "padlock" would come in most handy for me. I've been paying much more attention to which track is armed for the recording, but that "padlock" would surely come in handy.

There are probably better workflows to accomplish the same overall goal of constructing a song, but I have been counting on my previous very limited experience in PTPA, BIAB and RT to help me get the job done. The advice from everyone here on the forum in the past and present is and has been very extremely valuable to me to help increase my very limited experience with those programs. All suggestions and help are very valuable to me and appreciated, and my eyes and ears are always open. Thanks to all.

BluegrassPicker

Last edited by BluegrassPicker; 03/12/26 10:17 AM.