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Biab crashes everytime I try to record my guitar #524314 02/13/19 09:30 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
Joined: Feb 2019 Posts: 6 J jarrett2me OP Newbie
OP jarrett2me Newbie J Joined: Feb 2019 Posts: 6	Please can someone help. I have macOS Mojave version10.4 . I have biab for mac 2018 version 263 . I go thru focursite scarlett 2i2 interface and the same has happened with focursite sapphire . When every I try to record mu guitar the biab crashes after 30 seconds and then an error message comes on . I have tried re loading the programme but nothing works . `I have emailed and talked to senior support and all the tell me to do is re load the programme !

Re: Biab crashes everytime I try to record my guitar jarrett2me #524424 02/13/19 11:56 PM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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furry Veteran Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 7,258 Scottish Highlands	Have you tried changing your audio jack to the guitar ? I used to get that when I had a faulty cable for some reason Graham............ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKBPq93IQFTD3q-zBqxghbQ?view_as=subscriber

Re: Biab crashes everytime I try to record my guitar jarrett2me #524454 02/14/19 04:17 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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Janice & Bud Veteran Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 16,142 GA USA	Posting this in the help forum or the Mac forum or the off topic forum or all three would get you more responses. This forum is for posting your productions. Good luck! Our albums and singles are on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Pandora and more. If interested search on Janice Merritt. Thanks! Our Videos

Re: Biab crashes everytime I try to record my guitar jarrett2me #524522 02/14/19 10:48 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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Kent - PG Music PG Music Staff K Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 1,382	Hi Jarrett, What does the error message say? Thanks Kent PG Music

Re: Biab crashes everytime I try to record my guitar furry #524785 02/16/19 06:36 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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OP jarrett2me Newbie J Joined: Feb 2019 Posts: 6	Thanks I will try that

Re: Biab crashes everytime I try to record my guitar Kent - PG Music #524787 02/16/19 06:43 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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OP jarrett2me Newbie J Joined: Feb 2019 Posts: 6	the error message is he following: Process: Band-in-a-Box [23946] Path: /Applications/Band-in-a-Box/Band-in-a-Box.app/Contents/MacOS/Band-in-a-Box Identifier: com.pgmusic.Band-in-a-Box Version: 2018.0.258 (2018.0.258) Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: ??? [1] Responsible: Band-in-a-Box [23946] User ID: 501 Date/Time: 2019-02-16 16:41:20.697 +0000 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.14 (18A391) Report Version: 12 Anonymous UUID: 87502D5F-5D00-6678-3C0E-56C25BBA7853 Sleep/Wake UUID: 610F4A3A-2B52-4579-80ED-EEF70B542CE4 Time Awake Since Boot: 1200000 seconds Time Since Wake: 270000 seconds System Integrity Protection: enabled Crashed Thread: 4 com.apple.audio.IOThread.client Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Termination Signal: Trace/BPT trap: 5 Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x5 Terminating Process: exc handler [23946] Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0xa7c15e22 mach_msg_trap + 10 1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0xa7c1635f mach_msg + 47 2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x938e7f1d __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 289 3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x938e75de __CFRunLoopRun + 3196 4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x938e6665 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 584 5 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x938ff65f CFRunLoopRunInMode + 82 6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92ed50ef RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 325 7 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93079549 GetNextEventMatchingMask + 367 8 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x930791d4 WNEInternal + 180 9 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93079112 WaitNextEvent + 48 10 com.pgmusic.Band-in-a-Box 0x000a4039 MMYUTILS_MASTERGETNEXTEVENT$SMALLINT$EVENTRECORD$$BOOLEAN + 89 11 com.pgmusic.Band-in-a-Box 0x0017dc50 BANDINABOX_HANDLEEVENT2 + 32 12 com.pgmusic.Band-in-a-Box 0x00011465 P$MAINPROC_MAINLOOP + 21 13 com.pgmusic.Band-in-a-Box 0x00030876 FPC_SYSTEMMAIN + 70 14 com.pgmusic.Band-in-a-Box 0x00011435 start + 53

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