Band-in-a-Box 2023 New Feature - RealTrack Stems

Some RealTracks have multiple track recordings, such as quartet vocals, string quartet, blues horns, crooner big band and more. Previously, you could only generate a single track with the entire group. Now, you can generate the “stems,” which are the individual tracks as recorded. So, for example, for a string quartet you would get 5 tracks - the full mix and 4 separate tracks for each of the instruments. This allows you to mix them as you’d like and also mute parts if you want to play along.

In the RealTracks Picker, you can find which RealTracks have stems if you look at the “Stems” column. It will tell you how many microphones were used for recording.

You can also find them using the RealTracks Stems Available and/or Found menu item in the [#] filter button.

When you select RealTracks that have stems, you will see what they are just below the list. Using the checkboxes, you can load all stems, the selected stems, or the mix of all stems.

If you select all or individual stems, each stem will be loaded to separate tracks, so you can control volume, pan, etc. for each stem using the Mixer.

There is a demo song “RealTracks Stems - Crooner Jazz Horn Section stems.SGU” in C:\bb\Documentation\Tutorials\Tutorial - BB2023. When you open this songs, a mix of stems and 10 individual stems will be loaded to the Utility tracks.