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Can anyone let me know why I'm not seeing the follow along cursor when I play back my tracks on BIAB 2014? I've looked everywhere to see if there is something that turns that feature on and off, with no luck. Did something change with one of the updates that I'm not aware of? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Hi, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "follow along cursor". Are you referring to Chord Sheet View, Notation Mode, Piano Roll Mode or Lead Sheet View? All of these a process follows what's playing. If you are meaning Chord Sheet View, are you referring to the fact that the bar that's currently playing has a black background (like the image below) and this black background moves along with the song?  Regards, Noel
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I don't see that moving cursor through the arrangement at all, and it is happening on all the different views.
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Passion4Blue, The first thing I try when BIAB does not behave properly is to reset to the factory settings. This is found under the "Opt" menu.  I suggest using the top option (marked in the above image) as this will keep your midi/audio drivers set-up intact. Regards, Noel
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Yeah, I tried that Noel and I even reloaded BIAB 2014 from scratch and I still can't get any of the visual playback features to come up. In other words, I went into Piano and Guitar View as well as Notation or the Chord views and even with the music playing there is no visual activity going on with BIAB. I've reached out to the Online help and they also told me to do the Factory reset. Geez, I may have to revert to an old version of BIAB if I can't get this working. Thanks for your help though.
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Not at a computer now, but a wild guess: did you change the default color scheme?
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Passion4Blue,
If you loaded an old songfile, it might something to do with that.
Do double-check that this is truly not behaving as properly try the following as a test.
1. Close the program down and restart it.
2. Do not load any song file or midi file.
3. BIAB will show a "C" chord in bar 1 by default
4. Without doing anything else, generate the song (which will be entirely based on the C chord in bar 1).
Let's know how it goes.
Regards,
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Noel, I tried just creating something new with a couple of chords..no go.
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Matt,
I'm curious about the color scheme? I don't believe I've changed it, but was wondering about that earlier. Not sure how I would have done that, but the thing is, would that also affect the fact that I'm not getting any notes playing on the Piano or Guitar Views as well as the Chord and Notation screens? Nothing, but the music plays on and I can input chords and all that measure by measure. Just not getting any visual playback of any sort. Weird...
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Passion4Blue,
Check to see if there is a new video driver for your video card. I've noticed from my time in these forums that when strange things happen display-wise it is sometimes an indication that the video driver needs updating.
Also, are you running two monitors? That can cause unusual behaviour, too.
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Just a thought, when I loaded BIAB onto Win 7, I couldn't read the top bar along the Menu. I had to change Win 7 color theme to another color.
Food for thought.
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I second the idea about video driver OR Windows video display mode and/or resolution. If your BIAB cursor appeared earlier and now does not, AND you have reset to factory defaults, the video driver/mode/resolution would be the next places I would look at. BTW, are there any other programs that show unusual display characteristics? For example, does RealBand look and perform per SOP?
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Not sure why my earlier post is missing?
When I installed BIAB in Win 7, I wasn't able to read the top line (above the menus). Support suggested I change Win 7 Color theme, when I did, my problem was solved.
Hope this post sticks around.
Cheers.
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Ah, so the wild guess wasn't so wild.
For reference, for others, can you post the solution - the steps to make the change? Maybe do it in the Tips and Tricks Forum?
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Noel and Matt, thank you both for your suggestions! I reached out to the Band in a Box Support group and this is what they suggested: Please close Band-in-a-Box and go into your bb folder (usually c:\bb).
Search for and delete the following two files: Mysetup.dk and interface.bbw
Once that is done, right click on the Band-in-a-Box icon and select "run this program as the administrator" to launch Band-in-a-Box.
This resolved the issue! I am once again a happy man!  Take care and thanks once again! Eddie
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Soolan and Jazzwombat thank you as well for your suggestions!
Things are back to normal.
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Hi Eddie,
Thank you for passing that on. Deleting those two files is the mega-ultimate factory reset. It's a great solution to keep in mind.
Sometimes when BIAB doesn't behave properly and factory reset doesn't work, moving those files out of the \BB folder will solve the problem. I usually suggest simply renaming them to something like <filename>.old. From BIAB's perspective, that's equivalent to deleting them because BIAB no longer sees them.
When those two files aren't in the \BB folder, BIAB is forced to create two new ones. All settings are lost when this happens but it's usually straightforward to set up midi/audio again.
Regards,
Noel
P.S. Now that everything is working, I suggest that you go to the "Opt" menu and select "Save preferences as" to save your current set up. Then, if things go wrong in the future, reloading this saved set up may well save you time and angst.
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