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***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.***

I have tons of resourses.

***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.***

Haven't tried that. My problems seem to be locking up the program not sound output in nature. Are you saying that the return to factory settings button will address the lock up if it's not a dirver problem? *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.***

I never use more than one i/o setup.



***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.***

I was told that on the phone talking with TS. You have to choose one would be and approximate quote.

**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,


--Mac




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