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I'm running RealBand 2020 on the USB Hard drive and when I go to render a wav or wma file it seems to take forever....
What's up with that?
Horst Hartung Windows 10 - RealBand 2020:Build(3); Xtra Styles PAKs 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8; 64 bit Intel Xeon CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz; 4 TB HD; 550 GB SSD PCIe Drive, 16GB Memory. Behringer UFX1604 Digital Mixer. Music: https://soundcloud.com/horst_hartung
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How long (in minutes or seconds) does forever mean?
How many tracks in the file you're rendering?
How long is the song?
Are you saving to the external drive or internal?
Have you tried running Realband from your C: drive?
Give us some info to work with.
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Make your sound your own!
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rharv,
How long (in minutes or seconds) does forever mean?.....Before 2020 it used to take seconds....now it's taking about 20 minutes
How many tracks in the file you're rendering?.....anywhere from 4 to 16 tracks and never had this problem before
How long is the song?....were talking 2 to 4 minutes long
Are you saving to the external drive or internal? I'm saving to the F:\BIAB\RealBAnd 2020 USB Hard Drive
Have you tried running Realband from your C: drive? Don't want to....in case my computer crashes I don't want to loose all of my songs...I've had that happen before and I'm NOT going through that again.
Horst Hartung Windows 10 - RealBand 2020:Build(3); Xtra Styles PAKs 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8; 64 bit Intel Xeon CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz; 4 TB HD; 550 GB SSD PCIe Drive, 16GB Memory. Behringer UFX1604 Digital Mixer. Music: https://soundcloud.com/horst_hartung
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rharv,
I'm in the process of doing a final mix of about 16 songs so I can release an album and this new version of RealBand 2020 is giving me a giant headache. very unstable and crashes a lot and I guess running it from the USB Hard Drive is really slowing things down....
I'M NOT HAPPY
Horst Hartung Windows 10 - RealBand 2020:Build(3); Xtra Styles PAKs 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8; 64 bit Intel Xeon CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz; 4 TB HD; 550 GB SSD PCIe Drive, 16GB Memory. Behringer UFX1604 Digital Mixer. Music: https://soundcloud.com/horst_hartung
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In response to your concern about running RB from the C: drive .. you can run the program there, but Save the work to any drive you want.
I'm just talking about running the application on C: (the part that does the work).
You can still save to whatever drive you want (though an external USB will usually be slower).
And it will be even slower if it being used to run both the application AND be the drive it is writing to when it saves. Two different processes taxing a USB drive..
Let's say you run RB from C:, and Save files to F: .. if C: dies you haven't lost anything.
It's just a suggestion and trying to help .. again, I don't work here, most of us forum members do not work here.
Yelling that you're not happy, in a post directed to me, made me want to clarify.
Not sure what you expect me to do personally.
/Have you tried the Live Help Chat option at top?
//Maybe you'll get lucky and someone from PGMusic can take a look and help.
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Make your sound your own!
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rharv,
I'm sorry....I wasn't yelling at you.....I was yelling at PGMusic in general.
your advise seems to have merit....although PGMusic advertising boasting to run BIAB and RB from the USB Hard Drive while having plenty of storage on the USB Hard Drive to store all of your music seems false in my eye if it has these kind of results.
I probably will run RB from my C: drive if it fixes my issues....but I really think that PG Music needs to develop RB more than BIAB.
At the very least separate the two so that developers can really put some serious programming efforts into it. It's a much better product than BIAB for serious Musicians that need the Realtracks and Drumtracks and all of the audio tracks that BIAB is limited in.
I buy BIAB because of RealBand and I never use BIAB...I have no need for it and it frustrates me that RB doesn't have the same support that BIAB has.
OK....I'm done with my Raging Rant and am sorry to anyone that I've offended.
Horst Hartung Windows 10 - RealBand 2020:Build(3); Xtra Styles PAKs 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8; 64 bit Intel Xeon CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz; 4 TB HD; 550 GB SSD PCIe Drive, 16GB Memory. Behringer UFX1604 Digital Mixer. Music: https://soundcloud.com/horst_hartung
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In response to your concern about running RB from the C: drive .. you can run the program there, but Save the work to any drive you want.
I'm just talking about running the application on C: (the part that does the work).
You can still save to whatever drive you want (though an external USB will usually be slower).
And it will be even slower if it being used to run both the application AND be the drive it is writing to when it saves. Two different processes taxing a USB drive..
Let's say you run RB from C:, and Save files to F: .. if C: dies you haven't lost anything.
It's just a suggestion and trying to help .. again, I don't work here, most of us forum members do not work here.
Yelling that you're not happy, in a post directed to me, made me want to clarify.
Not sure what you expect me to do personally.
/Have you tried the Live Help Chat option at top?
//Maybe you'll get lucky and someone from PGMusic can take a look and help.
Note: any drive can fail not only C Drives. In most cases the C Drive is the best place to keep System and Programs. In the case of BB and RB I set them up on the C Drive and the RealTracks, RealDrums (G drive) and my song files and renders on (L) different drives. I do this to make backups etc easier and also different needs on different drives. I do similar with a number of resource heavy VSTis (some have many gigs of data that I don’t want filling my C Drive which is only a 512 SSD). Tony
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A 1 T drive and you mess with a 160 G usb drive?
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AND those usb drives are high speed usb 3.0 did you read that?Do you have usb 3.0?
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Before 2020 it used to take seconds....now it's taking about 20 minutes Rendering definitely shouldn't take 20 minutes. I agree, you should test this on your C: drive, and unplug the USB drive - maybe there is a problem with it, loose connection, power supply issue, or whatever. Just copy the RealBand folder to your C: drive and run the program from there. Start with a file that others have, like a Band-in-a-Box demo song, or one of the files from the RealBand sample folder, and test how long rendering takes.
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I Moved everything over to my C:\ drive on my computer and it seems to be working fine now....I guess it didn't like working from my F:\drive.
Anyway....I finally got all of my songs finished and will soon be coming out with my album on March 1st, 2020 distributed through TuneCore.
The songs are available on soundcloud if you want to listen....
Horst Hartung Windows 10 - RealBand 2020:Build(3); Xtra Styles PAKs 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8; 64 bit Intel Xeon CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz; 4 TB HD; 550 GB SSD PCIe Drive, 16GB Memory. Behringer UFX1604 Digital Mixer. Music: https://soundcloud.com/horst_hartung
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I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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