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I have a feeling this will be a very simple thing and I'm gonna feel stupid...... but.........
First off......I haven't touched anything, honest............ but, when I select the Chord Builder nothing I press plays the sound of the chord, in fact there is no sound coming from it at all. Same thing goes for the drum set window, when I click on any of the drums there is no sound and no error message.
Everything else seems to be working OK.
Any ideas on what it can be?
Thanks
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It sounds like you have lost your MIDI output, and yet you say "everything else works" - does that include playing back a BIAB song that has MIDI tracks?
Have you tried exiting and restarting BIAB?
If that doesn't do it, try rebooting the PC.
If that doesn't do it, try Options, Return to Factory Settings in BIAB.
If that doesn't work, we'll need more info on your setup, especially your MIDI output settings and whether you are using a DXi.
Good luck!
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Depends on what you have chosen for your MIDI synth in the MIDI Output window.
In some cases, with "Use DXi" checked, you may have to also check, "Route MIDI Thru to..." and have another synth selected in the above window to hear those chords and such from the child windows.
--Mac
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Thanks Guy's, for some reason my reply yesterday didn't seem to have gone through.... strange. Anyway, what I tried to say before was that I had tried all the things Matt had suggested with no effect. However, what I did do was de-select, then re-select all the sound devices under the Windows 7 options (yes I am using it).
I personally find the sound setup in W7 over complicated. I know they are trying to cater for all eventualities but please.........!
Bottom line...... I now have all the sound back. I can hear the chords builder and the drum set chooser. All that's left now is to sort out that F%*7^^"£ .....ASIO thing again. This has been the bain of my life. I know it maybe better on MME but, I've got it installed and I'm gonna use it. Currently I need to run it at 40 - 50ms to stop the pops and clicks. W7 it appears is very CPU hungry and I'm still using a good old single CPU, not the quad-core they recomend.
Anyway, thanks again Guy's is good to now your there to help.
Peter
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Glad you got it going.
I'm using Windows 7 32-bit RC on a dual core with no problems whatsoever. It's much better than Vista for CPU load (and about everything else, too), and performs about the same as XP did. You may well have some other problem going on, but without info on your setup, we'll never know.
I never had any luck with ASIO, either, but that's because I often have two audio programs open at the same time, the particular sound card I use works better on WDM, and SONAR recommends using WDM over ASIO. But every situation is different.
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I have to say I'm not too familiar with the Windows WDM drivers. How do they compare to ASIO (assuming ASIO was working correctly)?
One of the main reasons I wanted to go for ASIO is the option of listening with FX's whilst recording. Can you do this with WDM?
Is latency an issue?
I've got the "old" Creative Audigy 2ZS card, and mainly use Cubase for recording. Is WDM OK with these?
I would do almost anything to get away from ASIO
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Try the WDM drivers on your setup and see what you can do with them.
That's the best all around answer, as there are many system and hardware variables to contend with here.
--Mac
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I just might do that very thing. Assuming the pc is still usuable afterwards I'll post the results.
Cheers
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