So when I'm working on a song, and I've generated (and regenerated, and regenerated) all the tracks, and I hit on the perfect guitar solo, when I drag the guitar part into the "drag & drop" export box in the corner, it generates ALL of the tracks in the song, not just the one I'm trying to export.
Why does it do this? And is that something that could be eliminated in a future update? I mean, why waste the time generating EVERYTHING if it's only going to give me one track when it's done?
Are you dragging over the Master by chance? Doing this would drag over all tracks. If you want, for example, just the guitar, simply drag the guitar to the drag & drop areas of Band-in-a-Box and that should do the trick.
No. I am not dragging the master channel. I'm usually pulling from the other end of the row of options, as my one-off tracks tend to be instruments added to the tracks after the actual style tracks, so I'm never close to the master.
When I read these types of comments I fear something got broken. Or that something the rest of us have just gotten use to is being called out by a newbee. So I just tested in version 836. It did create a single wave file for the realdrum instrument as it should have when I dragged it to the .wav drop zone. So it is working fine.
But when I dragged it to the desktop (which is my normal workflow) it also created a signal file but it was a different RD?? Odd?
I somehow seem to recall that there was an earlier issue with dragging to the drop zone and I don't know if it's related. That's why I was trying to find what version the O/P is using.
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I've been working with it for a couple of days to find out exactly when and why it does this.
VideoTrack, I'm using BIAB 2021, with the latest updates as of this post.
So it happens when I change out instruments. I will change an instrument, generate the whole song to listen to it, then when I drag that track to the D&D box, it generates everything again. It's just oddly redundant and time-wasting. I just upgraded my system last week to a Ryzen 5900x, so it doesn't take NEARLY as long as it used to, but it's still a strange waste of time: I LITERALLY just regenerated the entire song. Why are you doing it again, BIAB?
VideoTrack, I'm using BIAB 2021, with the latest updates as of this post.
So it happens when I change out instruments. I will change an instrument, generate the whole song to listen to it, then when I drag that track to the D&D box, it generates everything again. It's just oddly redundant and time-wasting. I just upgraded my system last week to a Ryzen 5900x, so it doesn't take NEARLY as long as it used to, but it's still a strange waste of time: I LITERALLY just regenerated the entire song. Why are you doing it again, BIAB?
When you say you have the latest build, is it build 833 here? Just checking because sometimes the "check for updates" feature inside of Band-in-a-Box is a build behind what is posted to the website. https://www.pgmusic.com/support_windowsupdates.htm#833
When dragging an instrument to the drag and drop area, it will render before being able to drag to your computer. Generating your tracks in Band-in-a-Box makes up the tracks within the software, whereas rendering the audio prepares them for export; these are two different processes.
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MovingAir. re Drag/Drop getting all instruments. but want one. maybe i'm misunderstanding your issue "but" what happens if you SOLO the trak in the bb mixer before dragdrop; then do the dragdrop ?.
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You can go to Options | Return to factory settings, then choose Return All or Most to factory settings and see if that helps clear up the issue. It may not, but if it continues, I'd definitely suggest e-mailing to support@pgmusic.com with some frozen SGU or MGU files that they can test and see if they can replicate the problem.
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Or that something the rest of us have just gotten use to is being called out by a newbee. So I just tested in version 836. It did create a single wave file for the realdrum instrument as it should have when I dragged it to the .wav drop zone. So it is working fine. 
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