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Tell us again which synth you are using for the render.

Double check which one is being used in the MIDI devices dialogue. Then the DXi synth selection.

Note that even if you use a DXi/VSTi synth for rendering, support has recommended selecting the GSWavetabe synth in the device window as default (not MIDImapper or such).




OK, this is very complicated now.
Anyone who isn't comfortable with complex things should probably just avoid reading this post altogether

I was using the DXI synth but turned it off now.

Now there was a strange situation.
I could hear the midi file being played because sound was coming of my speakers, thus my internal sound card was being used.

When I tried to render, it went through the process, but nothing was heard when the wave file was played.
This is because it was trying to record through my Logitech camera mic, and I had set it to mute as I didn't want to record live sounds from it.

I didn't have any option to record the midi that I was hearing through my speakers.
(my internal sound card drivers don't load 99% of the time)

So I plugged in my UA-25EX Edirol once again.
Now it was showing up as a Midi option in BIAB.
I selected it for Midi In and Midi Out in BIAB.

Here is where I discovered something weird from another thread (How to force a Part B section to play? ).
I tried to change Substyle marker at the begininng of the song from 1a to 1b and although it showed 1b on screen, when the song was played (or replayed) it played substyle 1a !!!

But then I selected Audio, top right of screen and then mute and tried to play the file.
Nothing was heard at all!
This meant that what I was hearing was audio and not any Midi after all !!!
Not Midi from my sound card, not midi from my UA-25EX.

I confirmed this by changing Substyle 17b to 17a (bar 17) and replayed the song. Sure enough bar 17 played Substyle b, despite it showing Substyle a.

So it was definitely playing an audio file, there was no midi. But why wasn't I hearing midi from the UA-25EX now?
I was using an all-Midi quintet style (BOS_250 Bossa) after all.

Simple, I didn't know how to set up my UA-25EX properly. No one ever showed me how!
I thought, naively that if you plugged in the USB cable to the unit, everything would work automatically. All the sound would come out of the USB cable!
I thought it had a built-in Midi module (like most internal soundcards do). It just has Midi (ins and outs), that's all!

So I connected the Ins and Outs to my Roland SC 55mkII and turned on my external amplifier and replayed the BIAB song. Now I could hear the midi!

I tried once again to render the drum track.
It recorded, but when I played back the track was empty again!

Changed Midi Output from UA-25EX to MS wavetable.
It recorded, but when I played back the track was empty again!

This is where I currently stand....

BIABguy