Opened up an SGU in RealBand and the little comments thing comes up and the main page says "Generating Music. Please Wait..." on the title bar.
I actually wrote to say "and then it never came back" but it does actually come back an hour later. Is that right? What did it do in all that time?
(My larger context: I set up a song in BiaB and figured I would replace each of the tracks one by one with me playing a real instrument. I'm not sure if this is even the way to go about it but I thought that was a curious delay.)
I usually see an "Initializing Accompaniment" message but either way an hour seems really excessive. That usually lasts a minute or so at most here.
But yes, RB is an ideal tool to replace the BB tracks one by one. In my workflow, one of the first things I do if I plan to replace all the tracks is use the 'Make all BB tracks regular tracks' option, so it doesn't try to keep generating them (and possibly causing the above mentioned screen).
Then I can work in more of a DAW like setting.
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome Make your sound your own!
Yes, if you are going to replace them yourself, might as well just use what you have for now until you replace it, as opposed to repeatedly regenerating stuff you plan to replace anyway.
Here, if they are BB tracks in Realband they show with blue titles (track names) and regenerate .. after making them Regular tracks they have black titles and don't auto-generate.
Last edited by rharv; 06/20/1802:05 PM.
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome Make your sound your own!
I have a 10 year old, XP Pro 32bit machine with 4 GB of memory.....and it only takes about 20 seconds to a minute depending on the song and the tracks.
It tells me it's "Initializing Accompaniment". Even at startup it's only a minute.
So yeah, an hour seems extremely long. Even my old really slow laptop didn't take more than a minute or two at the most to generate the tracks in RB.
Larger context: Yep.... if you can play the tracks in question better than the RB RT players..... certainly. I do this all the time. Just mute the track it created and set up a new track to record your instrument.
More than one time, I have spent hours working on a part and in the end.... decided to work with the RB RT since it was clearly better. Either in tonal quality or performance. So.... don't delete the track until you're absolutely sure your track is the keeper.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.com Add nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.
The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
Which version of Windows are you using? Also, what's the make and model of your processor, and how much RAM do you have? If you're not sure about the processor and RAM, you can find out by going to the Windows Control Panel and clicking on System.
It's very peculiar and very consistent (in terms of taking a long time). It also doesn't seem to generate anything, oddly enough. Like after it's all done, I press play and it just flashes on the -1 measure.
I don't have anti-virus. It causes way too many problems for me as a developer.
"AHHHHH! NEW UNRECOGNIZED EXE! KILL IT!" "No, really, I just made it, it's fine." "TURN OFF CHECKS FOR THIS DIRECTORY OR I'LL KEEP SCREAMING!" "OK. Turned off." "AHHH!! WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT IS THAT .EXE!"
40 years and I've never had a virus except in circumstances I expected them (when checking suspect machines in loosely controlled business situations); I'm very disinclined to use anything that annoying.
Oh, I have a knack for finding weird stuff like this. I probably did something funky in BiaB.
The problem I have with BiaB's sound, so far, is essentially the aural version of "uncanny valley". I think I can get around that when I'm better with it but right now, I'm finding it hard to groove to.
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