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Some years ago, when the VST was first introduced, I played around with it in Ableton and became quite familiar with it. I have now come back to it, still using Ableton. When I load this into a midi track in Ableton, all seems to work fine, but when I select a style I am directed to the style list. After selecting a style and OKing it, the stle does not appear in the plugin. Has something changed that might be preventing this happening?

The VST is 2022 v4.8.13

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Most likely you need to rebuild the Stylepicker - there should be a Rebuild button at the bottom, click that and do a Fast rebuild.


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That was the first thing I tried. But, I tried again within BiaB and then again, just by way of experimment, from the DAW plugin. No joy though. Someting is definitely different from the last time.[Linked Image - Only viewable when logged in][Linked Image - Only viewable when logged in]

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Look to your DAW. Is the BIAB-VST track muted or is another track soloed?


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All tracks enabled. Everything seems to work as before. I'm using BiaB 2022 and assume that is not a problem. I pick a style using 'select' in the top bar and OK in style picker. I do the same with with the style bar and then OK in style picker. But nothing.

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Originally Posted by jonel
All tracks enabled. Everything seems to work as before. I'm using BiaB 2022 and assume that is not a problem. I pick a style using 'select' in the top bar and OK in style picker. I do the same with with the style bar and then OK in style picker. But nothing.

Does this happen with all styles? I say this as if you purchased some new styles they may not be compatible with BiaB 2022. I know this is a long shot.

Is anything running in the background? Sometimes anti-virus, anti-malware, etc can cause problems.


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Hi Mario,
No, it's not just the styles. If I open a song I can see the message at the bottom of the vst that it's opening the song and then it tells me it's looking for a style and then ... nothing happens.

This is something that I experimented a lot with in the past and then I just continued to work the way I did previously. Everything appears to be up to date.

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Try running Ableton as administrator - right click the Ableton shortcut and Run As Administrator (this is different than simply opening the app while logged in as an administrator).


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Ableton already runs as administrator to address other shortcomings of working between applications.

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