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i am using band in a box 2012. i have had a little trouble with my computer lately, so i had to reinstall my band in a box. on one song that i have when i loaded everything back up,will not play the drums. this happened one time before on the same song. i somehow accidentally fixed it, but i have no idea how. this time i have not been struck with the same luck. i am sure its got to be something simple, or i would not have happened up on it like i did before. if anyone can help me, i would greatly appreciate it.

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Hi, and welcome to the forum.

Do you mean the drums for other songs work correctly? If not, the answer may be different depending on whether you mean MIDI drums, or RealDrums. Assuming it's RealDrums, my guess is that you installed the RealDrums to a different location when you reinstalled the program.

Go to Opt., Preferences, RealDrums. Look near the bottom right corner for Use a Custom Location. Is that checked? If so, the location of your Drums fodder for BIAB should be shown there.

We will need to know what you chose when you installed, to be able to help. For example, are you running the program from your internal hard drive but the RealDrums and RealTracks from the PG Music external drive?

If drums for other songs work correctly in BIAB, then it might be that the one problematic song has somehow become corrupted, and you should create a new file and re-enter the song.

Another thing to try whenever BIAB is not behaving correctly, is to do Opt., Return to Factory Settings. Then reboot your computer and restart BIAB.

Also, don't forget that you can always just call PG Music Support, and they can fix you up.

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i'm running everything from an external hard drive. every other song works perfect. it is drums from one of the styles. i have a few songs with those drums on them, and they are working correctly. so surely it is corrupted. i will rebuild the song and see if that fixes it. i'm not sure why that didn't dawn on me to try that. this is the only song i have ever had problems with. thank you very much. i appreciate your time.

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Sounds good. Just to make sure, have you tried any other song with that same drum style? There is always the possibility that the drum file, or its text description, has become corrupted and your song is fine...


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