Easiest Way to Create a Backing Track in 10 Minutes Using Band in a Box

I've been using Band in a Box for 4 years now. I appreciate your videos, which have helped me be a better artist. I play my guitars synthesizers, but I love how BIAB helps add layers to my music.

Absolutely love your video tutorials. They are in easy to understand form, and best of all, it all works! Thank you Mr Clarke. Dave in Australia.

I have so many questions, but I am so very new to Band in a BOX...I'll keep on watching in hopes to improve...many thanks for your time and effort...PEACE

Love it! Much easier, thanks for the video Henry. 👍

Excellent tutorial Henry. Many thanks for your efforts.

Dear Henry, I heartily thank you for this short but fantastic tutorial. You have made my day, again. In a previous tutorial, you showed a different way to bring the Midi Files into Band In a Box. It did take a little time. In this new tutorial, you make it very clear and easy for all of us who follow your channel. Great work! And once again, thank you for your cheerful and wonderful way of sharing your knowledge with us. Kind regards and blessings to you and your loved ones. Yogananda+ From Australia

Love what you've done with that song! I was hoping from the title to find out how to create midi tracks from RealTracks. Great video!

Thank you! You converted a midi type 0 into individual midi tracks on different channels (I did not know how to do that), converted them to real tracks and then pasted these real tracks in you daw. It's much easier then to add effects. I have the inverse problem: converting real tracks into midi tracks to be able to use good VST plugins like Pianoteq, Addictive Drums or Amplesound Upright Bass. It's done by clicking on the Patches tab on the upper right corner.

HENRY EXCELLENT!! Thank you for your work!! and knowledge sharing!!

Great video! Thank you so much!

Very helpful Henry. Thank you, good upload.

Aha, this is cool. I used to use this idea on Roland Intelligent keyboards/&modules.

Amazing hack!!!!!!!!

Some great and helpful info! After watching part 1 it took some serious searching to find this vid. Both are great but... A suggestion for you take a link from this video with your intro & explanation and pin it to the top of you're part 1 video. It would be helpful for new viewer's like me. Great job

Hello Mr. Henry - any chance that you would make a video showing how you use Sonar/Cakewalk to import and mix your BIAB exports? I have thought about doing it myself, but you such a good teacher I know you would do the best job!

Excellent tutorial Henry, as usual. Thank you. An important point, IMO is the quality of the MIDI patches. What do you use? Probably the best solution could be to use Kontakt's libraries (very high quality!), but I'm rather confused about using them. Any other suggestion about MIDI sounds?

Thanks for the tutorial! I understand how Real Tracks rendered to audio clips but how did you render the midi tracks to audio? Were you using a software TTS-1 synth? Is there a better quality GM VST for BIAB that you would recommend? Thanks!

Dear Henry, thank you for this and for all your other great Tutorials. I have tried to do the same but after tracking the Master to the empty Cakewalk Project I only get one Audio Track in Cakewalk; it does not split to the single Audio Tracks. What am I doing wrong? At minute 6:20 of the Video you say "I put my thumb on the Control Button, my other Index Finger on the Up Control Button". What does this mean; what is the Up Control Button? May be there is a special combination of Keystrokes you use to get the Audio Tracks separated after tracking into Cakewalk? I would be very grateful for some further explanation. Thank you in advance. Best regards from Germany. P.S. May be meanwhile I have found the solution: You pressed the Strg + Shift - Keys; and it also works in Cubase that I normally use. Concerning Cubase you also have to press and hold the Strg + Shift - Keys and then you first have to track the Master to the WAV - Lettering in the "Drop-Area" of Band in a Box; as soon as it is finished you can drag the WAV into Cubase; Cubase asks to decide between separated Tracks or one single Track. Thats it.

Awesome tutorial Henry. This is exactly what i want to do. But first i need to buy Band in a Box; does the Band in a Box "MEGAPak" allows me to do all the things (realtracks etc...) you demonstrated?

Hi Henry - thanks for the great tutorials! I saw the same question I have asked previously but not answered :^( Question: Looks like you did some prep work in Cakewalk before dragging he BiaB files over, as I see some Audio tracks. What did you do? Can you just drag the tracks over into a completely blank Cakewalk project as well?