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latest everything as far as drivers are concerned. fasttrack pro midi/audio interface, exp 32 sp3, amd dual 2.8 processor 4 gig ram. I'm told you have to choose a dxi with audiofile 11. Any time I open biab on this pc it crashes. I've been told by TS my mb is dying or dead, my audio interface is dying or dead and the next day I played a three hour gig with no crashes. That was the last time. Gail said reinstall on puter hard drive w/audio on Tera drive. Still crashes as of yesterday, some times spontaneously or when I click somewhere in the app. The end app. in windoze is glacial in it's speed. I have spent hours of my life waiting for this software to shut down because of a feeze then I get to click too many times to make really really really sure I actually, really, honestly want to shut down. This is why it's good not to keep a pistol near the computer.

Ron



***Sometimes long editing sessions inside BiaB chews up resources, so the very first thing I always do when confronted with such shenanigans is to Reboot the Computer and then check operation with BB.

If no joy there:

**Have you tried, inside BiaB, Options -> Return to Factory Settings -> Button number 2 (the second one down) - this will reset your MIDI and Audio selections using the Wizard that pops up when you first install the program. I have found that this one will sometimes correct things that have gone wrong with the way the program finds the Audio and MIDI drivers.**

*If attempting to use ASIO sound drivers with more than one Audio program open at the same time (such as one minimized but not closed down completely) it is possible to get errors such as this one as ASIO wants to be a "one man dog" in order to get the lower latency accomplished. Answer to this problem is to switch to Windows Sound (MME in BiaB, which, with your XP system would really be the WDM) such that only one Audio Proggie is attempting to call your ASIO drivers at the same time.

You don't necessarily *have* to use a DXi synth, it is just typically the better sounding synth available when software synths are all that you have. For example, I use hardware synths as well as the DXi software synths. However, when you are not using a DXi synth you lose the ability to do the fast "Direct Render" of songs to Audio and instead have to record the performance to audio from start to finish.

**If the Return to Factory dance above yields no joy, be sure to check the hard drive(s) involved and DEFRAG them whether Windows reports that they don't need it right now or not. Windows has no idea about the things we do with Audio and wrote that diskcheck code as regards their idea of a "typical" user, in other words filetypes like word processing, etc. and not streaming audio. I have sometimes found that a good overnight Defrag of all of the disks in use can stop things like this from happening in BiaB.

Good Luck,


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