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I'm a Mac user and run Parellels and Windows and use BIAB for Windows, while it's okay there are a couple of issues that bug me about it. I don't want to switch to the Mac version of BIAB as there is no RB for Mac. Coles supermarket chain are selling Acer EM 250 Net Books for $389 AU and I was toying with buying one specifically to run BIAB/Real Band. There are a couple of Net Book brands around of similar specs. The specs for the Acer are:
10.1" LED screen. Wireless connections. Integrated webcam. Multi-in-1 card reader. Weight 1.1kg. Microsoft Windows XP (home). 160GB hard drive disc. 1GB RAM. Intel Atom processor 1.6GHz. 1 year warranty.
I was wondering if any forum members have any experience with this machine or any Net Book for that matter. Particularly interested in thoughts on how successful it would be running BIAB.
Andy
Andy
Macbook, 2.4 GHz, Lion OSX, 4mb RAM running Windows 7 through a Bootcamp partition,
750Gb 7,200 RPM hard drive, Ultra Pack fully installed on HD
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Just about every report of users that have bought *any* of the Intel Atom netbooks made by any manuifacturer have resulted in good reports as to working with BiaB. This forum and the Off Topic forum have entries in it somewhere that reflect that.
Especially consider using the outrigger USB drive with it and BiaB, for the internal drives don't tout all that much capacity. 160gb might be just enough room for OS and BB with RealTracks, but I doubt there would be much left over in the way of freespace. Not a kill, the reports of netbooks and the USB drive BiaB have all been good also.
--Mac
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I have one, it's amazing. I put it in my camera bag, backpack, and took it to Cuba. It sits beside my easy chair. My main system is an HP media deal with 10 gigs of memory Vista and 1 tb hd. I do most of my work on that in the 'studio' downstairs. Upstairs I have an acoustic piano and a standard Bose radio CD player. I put the acer on the piano and run band in a box from an external hd. and use the Dxi software synth and have no issues other than about 4 or 5 seconds longer to generate a song, or bit more if it's all RealTracks. I find a laptop too big anymore, and do 90 percent of my stuff on the wee thing. I do have Ubuntu on my laptop on my big screen TV but the Acer is faster to work with, don't need to pull the wireless keyboard and mouse out...and well, just take care of it and you sure get your money's worth. If I put a buck in a jar for every hour I've used it there be thousands in there...
John Conley
Musica est vita
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I have the dell mini with Atom chip and BIAB works BUT seems nothing allways works the way its supposed to. My most recent problem is i have been using a Yamaha MIDI UX16 single midi interface for years on other systems. I downloaded the driver for this to install on the mini and get an error message that the driver is NOT compatable with this chip. Looks like if I want to be able to record ar play an external keyboard of anykind I will have to purchase a new midi interface.
Dell 610 dual Monitor, win 7-10, Sonar Plat, ProTools 10 & 11, Reaper 4, BIAB/real Band 2022, Easy Drummer, Superior Drummer, Kontact Essentials, Personnel Orchestra, Korg Legacy Analog & Digital
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Well, the UX16 IS a bit long in the tooth as computer periphals go.
New USB MIDI connects are very inexpensive, time to get one.
--Mac
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My Edirol USB midi gizmo didn't need any stinkin drivers, just plug and play, on everything.
John Conley
Musica est vita
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Yes, I also have found that the "Class Compliant" USB to MIDI stuff seems to work very well indeed as vs the stuff that requires installation of proprietary drivers.
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OK, if I wanted to be able to hook up two keyboards at once the axiom 25 to send and the Yamaha psr 740 to send and recieve what would I need? 1 in/2 out? If I also wanted to receive on my mp32 and my tx7 at the same time would a 1 in/4 out be what I'm looking for?
Dell 610 dual Monitor, win 7-10, Sonar Plat, ProTools 10 & 11, Reaper 4, BIAB/real Band 2022, Easy Drummer, Superior Drummer, Kontact Essentials, Personnel Orchestra, Korg Legacy Analog & Digital
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Ask sales and support questions about Band-in-a-Box using natural language.
ChatPG's knowledge base includes the full Band-in-a-Box User Manual and sales information from the website.
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Band-in-a-Box 2025 Italian Version is Here!
Cari amici
È stata aggerate la versione in Italiano del programma più amato dagli appassionati di musica, il nostro Band-in-a-Box.
Questo è il link alla nuova versione 2025.
Di seguito i link per scaricare il pacchetti di lingua italiana aggiornati per Band-in-a-Box e RealBand, anche per chi avesse già comprato la nuova versione in inglese.
Band-in-a-Box 2025 - Italiano
RealBand 2025 - Italiano
Band-in-a-Box 2025 French Version is Here!
Bonjour à tous,
Band-in-a-Box® 2025 pour Windows est disponible en Français.
Le téléchargement se fait à partir du site PG Music
Pour ceux qui auraient déjà acheté la version 2025 de Band-in-a-Box (et qui donc ont une version anglaise), il est possible de "franciser" cette version avec les patchs suivants:
BIAB 2025 - francisation
RealBand 2025 - francisation
Voilà, enjoy!
Band-in-a-Box 2025 German Version is Here!
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Video: Summary of the New Band-in-a-Box® App for iOS®
Join Tobin as he takes you on a tour of the new Band-in-a-Box® app for iOS®! Designed for musicians, singer-songwriters, and educators, this powerful tool lets you create, play, and transfer songs effortlessly on your iPhone® or iPad®—anytime, anywhere.
Band-in-a-Box® for iOS® :Summary video.
Check out the forum post for more information.
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