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It seems in BIAB I can audition both styles and realtracks but not in RealBand. They generate just fine but no auditioning capabilities. The directories are set properly.

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1st quick question, have you upgraded to the latest patch? RealBand has had several patches in the past couple of weeks.




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Yes I did the new update today before posting. frown


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There's two kinds of demo file auditioning, one plays back an audio file via the Internet, the other actually loads the demo songfile into the program. A machine that is not hooked up to the web cannot retrieve the former.

Other than that, can't think of anything offhand that would stop it, perhaps if this isn't the problem you could provide a more exact step-by-step of what you do, might help to shed some light.


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Hi Mac, very simply open new song..... Pick a track and open the RT ...... Pick an instrument....click preview and nothing happens. I can generate the track...no problem there. But this all works fine in BIAB.....seems odd.


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Just tried what you listed here, with a Bossa guitar Realtrack and the Demo button works as advertised here.

Both checkboxes below the timeslider for the Demo Player are set to True here, and am online, don't know if that makes a diff for you or not.

Solo and Band buttons also work.

Could not duplicate.

Maybe a direct contact to pgmusic Support might solve this one for you faster than this forum can, worth the shot.


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Don't think it works if using an ASIO driver in RB, might have to use WDM.


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Originally Posted By: multitracker
Don't think it works if using an ASIO driver in RB, might have to use WDM.


VERY good point!

The Demo player uses Windows Media.

Sometimes aftermarket sound devices and use of ASIO will keep Windows Sounds from playing thru the aftermarket device.

If you don't have speakers hooked up to the internal sound device in the PC, try a set of headphones in the earphone jack on it and play a Demo, if you hear it on the built in sound, that's the problem.


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Thanks guys...that is exactly it...can't use ASIO (Soundblaster card). It's odd that BIAB works fine.

Thanks for the help.


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From what I've seen, RB is far more pickier on audio drivers than BIAB.




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This may be the cause of the problems I'm having as well. After installing the ASIO drivers for Audio Box, when trying to add drums in RealBand a prompt ask if I wanted to revert to the ASIO drivers. I clicked yes thinking they were proably more current, and now my Real Drums are out of sync again. How does one revert back to the original WDM driver?

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Options - Preferences- Audio tab (MME/ASIO is in a dropdown)

Or click Prefs icon - Audio tab


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