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- I was trying to help out a friend and new BIAB user today.
- They have Vista. I do not, I use XP Pro.
- Plus I haven't played with BIAB in awhile.
They want to:
- creat a BIAB arrangement then save it as a WAV file.
- Then Burn it as a regular CD so it can be played on a normal CD Player.
Here is what I did...
- With BIAB open and the arrangement showing I clicked on the WAV button at the top...
- Then clicked on "Render to Wav"
- Then Vista gave me this message... "NO WAVE INPUT DEVICES ARE INSTALLED IN WINDOWS"
- I clicked OK and then it told me it was rendering
- I then used Windows Explorer to navigate to the folder with the new wav file and told it open with Windows Media Player...
- Windows Media Player opened and said it could not play the file type !
My Questions:
1 - What does the "NO WAVE INPUT DEVICES ARE INSTALLED IN WINDOWS" message mean?
2 - Why won't Windows Media Player play the wav file... unless it was rendered incorrectly? (Was it?)
3 - I tried to use the search feature in Vista to find any "WAV" file on the hard disk to confirm that WMP would actually play a WAV file... but the search feature told me there were no WAV files on the disk... I found this hard to beleive... so guessed I was using the Vista search feature incorrectly... (I told it to find *.wav) HOW do you search for a file using Vista? It never asked me which disk to search or which folder to look in... ???
4 - Is my proceedure right for creating a WAV file from a BIAB arrangement? Must I save the BIAB arrange first? I was just using 8 measures of a C chord for this test... and didn't actually save the BIAB file... just told BIAB to "render" it as a wav file.
Thanks for any help on this.
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This may work;
Open control panel/sounds/recording tab. R-click on an open space there and select "show disabled devices." Stereo Wave recording should now be listed. Select that for recording and see if the wave file saves.
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Trax, Thanks for the help. I don't have Vista here... as mentioned... I'm trying to help a friend with system. I will try your suggestion when I go back over later today.
Would you... or someone verify that...
A simple BIAB arrangement can be directly rendered to WAV format.
... or must you render it to midi first?
... or what?
For the test we just have 8 bars of the "C" cord... with no repeats ... and clicked WAV... and then clicked "Render as a WAV file"
Thanks again for the help.
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*PGMusic development has been using Vista machines for quite some time now.
*Beta testers also used Vista machines.
*To perform Direct Render, BIAB will use the DXi synth. This can be confusing if you are using a MIDI output device other than DXi -- and won't work if you have no DXi synth installed. Install the VSC DXi that comes with BIAB if you have none other.
*To install the VSC DXi on Vista, you should first disable User Account Control (something all Vista users who intend to make music files like these should do) and also install under the 32 bit XP mode if applicable to your version.
It does work.
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Well, this brings more questions...
1 - How do you disable "user account control" on Vista?
2 - When you say... "and also install under the 32 bit XP mode"...
... do you mean install VSC DXi when you say "install" ??
3 - If so how do I tell Vista to "install VSC DXi under 32 bit XP mode" ?? Will it ask me during installation of VSC DXi?
I'm asking all this so that when I go back over to "help" with this I kinda have a clue... since I'm really not a Vista user and only have XP machines here.
Thanks again for the help.
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A quick Google will give you the instructions to turn off UAC. However, a better way is to download and use TweakVI for Vista. You can put UAC into 'quiet mode' which will give you some of the UAC protection without the nagging. Here's one place to find it: http://www.totalidea.com/product.php?Product=TweakVI
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Thanks Matt. I guess I'm not comfortable doing all this to someone eles's computer... especially since I have not worked with Vista before.
Is there any other way they can take a BIAB arrangement and turn it into an audio file... like wav, mp3, or whatever?
Or just burn it directly to CD so that they can play it in a normal CD player ?
Thanks again for the help.
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