Apropos creating RT solos: depending on the availability of used and unused combo instruments/tracks, multiple real tracks soloists can be used by generating different solo instruments in available combo instruments/tracks. For example, soloist #1 (trumpet) is generated in the soloist track, and if the strings track is empty or not particularly critical to the arrangement, solost #2 (sax) could be generated out of the strings track. Entry of each soloist into the song can then, as has already been noted above in a previous comment, by using the mute and unmute check box for each track the the Bar settings main menu. In this way multiple real tracks soloists can be used in a song. While the originator of this issue did not distinctly specify whether they desired different solo instruments to play in different sections, or whether they desired having one solo instrument play throughout multiple solo sections, the use of the bar settings can control where any track may play in a song... Does this help clarify what can and can't be done with real track solos?

As for using the midi based soloist functions, Russ, my experience is that it has the same single instrument to single track limit that RT soloing has. However, given the greater "control" functions of midi commands that can be edited into any midi stream of data, couldn't you insert a change instrument command, as is often done even in some of the canned BIAB midi jazz styles, within the same instrument track? Though to get different solo streams characteristic of the specific midi instrument range and timbres, separately generated solist tracks could only be cut and pasted using the more robust midi sequencing features of RB or Sonar or your favorite sequencer, right? BIAB has not been the "GoTO" midi sequencer from day one, right?

Forgive this comment for mistaking your use of the midi soloist, if that is what you were doing. I did want to correct a mistaken impression elsewhere in this thread that multiple RT soloists were impossible to set up within BIAB. Peace..

Last edited by DrDUBose; 10/23/10 08:01 AM.