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I'm a newbie BIAB user and the drag and drop feature isn't working . Anyone know why?

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Originally Posted By: paulsaunderspriem
I'm a newbie BIAB user and the drag and drop feature isn't working . Anyone know why?


What version? If it is the current version, I can pretty much assure you it is working. Having said that, I do appreciate for someone new it can be tricky.


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Not only what BiaB version but what DAW are you drag and dropping into?

Also is it all MIDI, RTs or both?


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Thanks mate , it's BIAB 2017 and I'm wanting to drag and drop a part into Mixcraft. I can't even drag the part to the desktop.

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"Also is it all MIDI, RTs or both."

It's both . I've run the song through several times , I've written a load of songs , they're all on youtube under my name Paul Saunders-Priem and I'm wanting to use some of the BIAB parts in my songs.

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I'm using the 2017 version Ultrapak.

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I know it's a lot of prelim questions, but what build #? Help, About will show that.


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I'm running version Version 2017 (459). I've just loaded BIAB up , then the song and everytime I click on the pedal steel button at the top a circle with a line through it appears . I think I'm following exactly what was demonstrated in the BIAB tutorial on drag and drop . Is there a target folder I'm supposed to drop it into ? It's the same whether I use an MGU file or SGU file.

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A " Could not create wave file " message pops up as well as " Error creating mono wave"

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I've "reset to factory settings" and no change.

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Paul,

Exit BIAB and to restart it, click on the shortcut and select "Run as administrator". Does that make any difference?

Also... did you run the setup.exe on the USB drive and install the program?

Sorry for even more questions, but it's only way that we can get an understanding of your setup so that we can begin problem solving.

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No running as administrator doesn't make any difference and I ran setup.exe from the files I downloaded. Why is this so awkward? It's a very basic thing to do surely ?

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Originally Posted By: paulsaunderspriem
... and everytime I click on the pedal steel button at the top a circle with a line through it appears


Paul

OK, back to some real basics might be required.

Tell us what Style you are using.

Is this 'pedal steel button' you mention a "radio button item" with words 'pedal steel' alongside? Or does it look like a button (i.e. Yes/No/OK? type of button).

And does the circle with the line appear as soon as you click this button, or when you try to drag it to somewhere? There is a difference. Please try to give all the detail you can of your actions.

Has this worked before? If so, what has changed? Anything?


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And does the circle with the line appear as soon as you click this button, or when you try to drag it to somewhere? There is a difference. Please try to give all the detail you can of your actions.

Has this worked before? If so, what has changed? Anything?

I'm using this style _CSWINGA.STY. Country Swing w/ Acoustic Guitar

It's a a "radio button item" with words 'pedal steel' alongside it

The circle with the line appears as soon as I click it. When I move it, it remain as a circle and line

This is the first time I've used the program and I've got it specifically to drop parts into my Mixcraft DAW so I can then further change them. I'm sick of writing my own parts from scratch !

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Maybe you should post the BiaB file so others can take a look at it.


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Is this what you mean MarioD

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Maybe what you are seeing is normal operation. You should be able to click/hold and drag it (with the circle and diagonal cross displayed) and drop it on the Drop Zone to produce a WMA, WAV, file etc.

Does it work if you do this:

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Nope , nothing and the Drop Zone doesn't highlight green or any colour either.

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Just out of interest when I click on the DragandDrop folder option nothing happens . I can't find this folder with the path given. Is that the problem?

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Originally Posted By: paulsaunderspriem
Just out of interest when I click on the DragandDrop folder option nothing happens . I can't find this folder with the path given. Is that the problem?


This could be the problem.

Are you saying that if you if you do the following then nothing happens?

1. Right-click on the Drag/Drop zone (#1 on image below)

2. Select "Open DragDrop folder" (#2)

If you don't have the DragDrop folder off x:\bb (where x: is your installation drive), manually create it and see if that works.

Note: the program looks for \bb\DragDrop and not \bb\DragandDrop as you mention above.


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