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Hi
Not sure if this belongs in the mac or windows section, apologies if this is wrong...
So, I have finally given up on the possibility of the Mac version being 'equal' to the Windows version of BIAB. Particularly Real Band, which I would very much like to use.
So I wondered if anybody has any experience of running BIAB on a Mac with VMware Fusion? If not, it may be a new Windows laptop, which would be a pain.
Cheers
Mark
If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all...
BIAB 2019 Mac on a MacBook Pro. All paks & Styles.
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Why not BootCamp? It's in the Mac OS Installer and info is readily available.
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Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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Hi there
Thanks for the info. I will investigate the previous post more carefully.
As for Boot Camp, it is OK but means you have to restart the Mac into Windows. It is a one or the other at start up choice. The beauty of the Virtual Machine options are that you have both running at the same time and can thus access files between the two etc.
And I can still get access to my Mac email, documents etc.
B Ut it is a better option if there are hardware conflicts such as drivers. It doesnt happen very often in the virtual machine option but it does happen.
Cheers
Mark
If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all...
BIAB 2019 Mac on a MacBook Pro. All paks & Styles.
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I use Parallels to run BIAB for Windows on Macbook, you can move between OSX & WIN https://www.parallels.com
iMac, 3.7 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5, BIAB MAC2024 (802), Audient iD4
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So do I. Works a treat.
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Hi
Thanks for that, if it works OK on Parallels I am sure it will work on VMWare Fusion too.
Cheers
Mark
If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all...
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Hi,
I've talked to customers using Band-in-a-Box with Fusion and with Parallels successfully, but sometimes problems have arisen (mostly related to audio drivers) that I just haven't been able to fix.
Bootcamp is pretty much foolproof, and really works as well as running Band-in-a-Box on a normal Windows machine.
I haven't been contacted with customers running into issues with Parallels or Fusion in a while though, so it's very possible that newer versions are more dependable.
Thanks
Kent
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Thanks Kent, I will give it a go before I do the Bootcamp thing.
I will post back with how it went in case it helps others
Regards
Mark
Last edited by mark.ogier; 10/17/18 01:32 AM.
If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all...
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Not sure if the new WineBottler 2 is 64 bit ? You can get RealBand for Mac here RealBandMac or REATRAK for short. It gives you a way to integrate Biab to a powerful do anything DAW, It will import the chords and tracks from BBMac BBWin (BBLin ?) to the DAW REAPER 32/64 Mac Win Lin. Another way of doing things is get the Win app only version by doing a crossgrade, then create a WineBottler or with it WinOnX64 With BootCamp you need a WinOS or ReactOS and you can't use your Mac at the same time so you might as well just have an old Win PC. I do it the other way round, I have the main Win PC then Mac on an old Intel WinPC.
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Winebottler v2.0 is available for download but is still in development. Winebottler v1.86 is the latest stable release. The developer's website is +++ HERE +++ for more details.
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I've used Winebottler in the past, to run a utility for making wavetables for my Waldorf Blofeld synth, and it was very impressive, but I'd be pleasantly surprised if RealBand works very well with it (audio and MIDI driver issues seem likely). If someone does get it to work, I'd love to hear about it though.
Cheers
Kent
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