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BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded #747292 12/31/22 08:57 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,199 Scotland George Nelson OP Expert
OP George Nelson Expert Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,199 Scotland	Hi The song plays for a couple of bars then locks. I noticed it locks when the big lyrics window shows (on opening the file) but no lyrics have been added. I need to ctrl alt delete. Anyone else got this problem. 2023 1006 George Windows 11 64 bit, Biab 2024 1111, Realband 2024 i7 Desktop Computer 16Gb Memory

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded George Nelson #747304 12/31/22 09:52 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23,216 Hamlin NY MarioD Veteran
MarioD Veteran Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23,216 Hamlin NY	Is this MIDI file something you made or is it from the Internet? Maybe you could post the file so others can look at it? Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer. It's called the Heineken Maneuver. 64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded MarioD #747372 01/01/23 07:21 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,199 Scotland George Nelson OP Expert
OP George Nelson Expert Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,199 Scotland	Hi Mario, here is a link to a song it is a mgx Me and Bobby Mcgee Thanks for taking an interest. When the file opens don't close the empty lyrics page and just play the song. It locks up with me at bar 5. Happy New Year George Windows 11 64 bit, Biab 2024 1111, Realband 2024 i7 Desktop Computer 16Gb Memory

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded George Nelson #747374 01/01/23 07:37 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 12,232 Wauconda DrDan Veteran
DrDan Veteran Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 12,232 Wauconda	Locks up here at Bar 9. By the way, this is an .mgx file not a midi file. BIAB – 2025, Reaper (current), i7-12700F Processor, 32GB DDR4-3200MHz RAM, 1TB WD Black NVMe SSD, 2TB WDC Blue SSD, 1TB WD Blue, 2 TB SK NVMe, 6 TB External, Motu Audio Express 6x6

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded DrDan #747376 01/01/23 08:21 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23,216 Hamlin NY MarioD Veteran
MarioD Veteran Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23,216 Hamlin NY	This is really weird. I clicked on the song and it opened BiaB. I then clicked on play. I clicked on the song again, a fresh start, and click on regenerate. I opened BiaB, another fresh start, the selected the song and hit play. Started BiaB again, selected the song and hit regenerate. I repeated these processes a number of times. In all cases the song played perfectly. Note that this is on my Internet computer that uses the on board Realtek audio chip. I will retry this on my music computer. {edit} I just tried this on my music computer. I use the Roland Octa-Capture as my audio interface on this computer. I got exactly the same results as above. As far as I can tell the only difference between your and my computer is the OS as I also have an i7 desktop with 16 gigs of ram. You are running Windows 11 while I am running Windows 10. Music Student is also using Windows 11. Maybe that is the difference? Last edited by MarioD; 01/01/23 08:37 AM. Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer. It's called the Heineken Maneuver. 64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded George Nelson #747377 01/01/23 08:21 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 433 S shlind Journeyman
shlind Journeyman S Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 433	It works fine here. I just played it up to bar 90 and it plays well and the lyrics are shown ok.

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded shlind #747378 01/01/23 08:22 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23,216 Hamlin NY MarioD Veteran
MarioD Veteran Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23,216 Hamlin NY	Originally Posted By: shlind It works fine here. I just played it up to bar 90 and it plays well and the lyrics are shown ok. There were no lyrics shown is all of my tests. Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer. It's called the Heineken Maneuver. 64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded George Nelson #747379 01/01/23 08:42 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 12,232 Wauconda DrDan Veteran
DrDan Veteran Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 12,232 Wauconda	?? Historically, a corrupted .mgx file (assuming that is what we are dealing with) could be opened and fixed in RealBand. Unfortunatley I never installed 2023 RB and now find I don't have a download access to it. Have to put that on the list. Could it be Win11?? BIAB – 2025, Reaper (current), i7-12700F Processor, 32GB DDR4-3200MHz RAM, 1TB WD Black NVMe SSD, 2TB WDC Blue SSD, 1TB WD Blue, 2 TB SK NVMe, 6 TB External, Motu Audio Express 6x6

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded DrDan #747439 01/01/23 07:52 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,199 Scotland George Nelson OP Expert
OP George Nelson Expert Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,199 Scotland	Hi MusicStudent, I ran Realband and opened the file. It played and showed the Lyrics (although I had to find them - on track 6 by the way) So I saved the song and opened it once more in BIAB but it hung up the program at bar 9. Funny that it played ok in Realband but not in BIAB so I don't think it is related to the OS. P.S. I have sent an email to support for them to take a look at this problem. Regards George Last edited by George Nelson; 01/01/23 08:07 PM. Windows 11 64 bit, Biab 2024 1111, Realband 2024 i7 Desktop Computer 16Gb Memory

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded George Nelson #747445 01/01/23 11:34 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia AudioTrack Veteran
AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	I'm not sure if this might assist, but you could try Options > Return to Factory Settings (Most), restart BiaB and try again. BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded AudioTrack #747449 01/02/23 01:35 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,199 Scotland George Nelson OP Expert
OP George Nelson Expert Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,199 Scotland	Hi AudioTrack, Been there and done that but no difference. Thanks for taking an interest. REGARDS George Windows 11 64 bit, Biab 2024 1111, Realband 2024 i7 Desktop Computer 16Gb Memory

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded DrDan #747454 01/02/23 02:57 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 732 Florida etcjoe Journeyman
etcjoe Journeyman Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 732 Florida	Originally Posted By: MusicStudent Locks up here at Bar 9. By the way, this is an .mgx file not a midi file. maybe referring to an all-midi style vs. this being a midi file. My wife asked if I had seen the dog bowl. I told her I didn't even know he could.

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded George Nelson #747455 01/02/23 03:03 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 732 Florida etcjoe Journeyman
etcjoe Journeyman Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 732 Florida	Opened and ran fine for me all the way through. 2023, build 1006, Windows 11. Had no issues. chose different audio drivers and midi devices and could not get it to crash. My wife asked if I had seen the dog bowl. I told her I didn't even know he could.

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded George Nelson #747461 01/02/23 04:38 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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MikeK Veteran Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,610 Buford, GA	Locked up for me at bar 5 as well. Had to use the Task Manager to shut down BIAB 2023/1006 on my Win Home 10 machine. Cheers, Mike My Music * Asus ROG Strix G15CF 32 GB DDR4 4TB HDD + 1 TB SSD NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB Win 11 AKAI EIE PRO Sound Interface. BIAB/RB 2024 UltraPak Build - Latest

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded George Nelson #747470 01/02/23 05:41 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 433 S shlind Journeyman
shlind Journeyman S Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 433	If I play it from the Chord Sheet view: It works fine and plays fine and the lyrics are shown ok. It works fine to play again and again and and to generate and play again. If i play it from the Notation view: It plays fine the first time around. If I play it again or generate and play again it Crashes in memory violation. If i play it from the Piano Roll view: It Chrashes the first time around with memory violation. But within the Chord Sheet view it seems to work ok. Then I did a Factory Reset and now it seems to play fine in all Views (chord view, notation view, load sheet view and piano roll)

Re: BIAB Locking up when old midi song loaded shlind #747481 01/02/23 07:00 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23,216 Hamlin NY MarioD Veteran
MarioD Veteran Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23,216 Hamlin NY	Duplicating what shlind did I played the song from the notation view and it played perfectly AND it showed the lyrics. The lyrics were with the notation. I played it from the piano roll view and it played perfectly but no lyrics were shown. Once I expanded the big lyrics window the lyrics and chords were shown in the chord sheet, the notation view and in the piano roll view. This is probably just my inexperience with the big lyrics view as I have never used it before. With this MIDI song either crashing or playing perfectly regardless of the OS this bug (?) may be hard to exterminate. I used the MIDI monitor and saw a ton of redundancy with the CC values. Although I have not used this MIDI monitor I have used others outside of BiaB and I as far as I can remember I have never seen this type of redundancy. Those whom are having crashes may want to delete the redundancy as see it that helps. Attached Files (Click to download or enlarge) (Only available when you are logged in) MIDI Monitor 2023-01-02 11.53.36.jpg (582.08 KB, 10 downloads) Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer. It's called the Heineken Maneuver. 64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware

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