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1. When I save my biab arrangement using the "bar settings" dialog to make changes to instuments (ie. mute guitar or back to normal etc.) the song loads into realband with truncated parts. In other words instead of a 5 bar intro with realguitar (as I programmed in biab) it will only be 3 bars. I know that RB starts -1 bar, so I even tried adding a muted bar in biab to compensate...no go.. it still truncates the real track wav file when loaded into realband.



There seems to be some sort of bug going on right now. This can be worked around by exporting your BIAB song using the File -> Make a Standard MIDI file command instead of trying to open the BIAB sgu/mgu file directly inside RealBand. Make sure that you select the Opt to "Include 2 bar countin" when doing this, apparently that isn't working correctly when turned off for some folks. Also make sure that the little Bar Offset box at the right side of RealBand has a "-2" offset entered into it. If you have any RealTracks, export them separately as separated wav files using the RightClick on each one and selecting that from the menu popup. Inside RealBand, select New and then Open the MIDI file. That should bring in all the MIDI tracks, if any. Then use the Wave Files command under the File menu in RB -> Import WAV file command to import each of the wav files tracks to a track that you have already preselected. That should put everything into RealBand okay.

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2. When I freeze an arrangement in biab the realdrums revert back to midi drums in the frozen version. go figure...



Gimmie a bit to look into that. Had it working, forgot what it took (grin).

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3. I had high hopes for the conductor feature in a live church setting, but it is real buggy.
I had to give up on the idea until I could figure out it's idiosycracies.



If you could be more specific, perhaps I could help. One thing I noticed is that use of a hardware MIDI synth rather than software makes use of the Conductor a lot easier here. No probs when the hardware synth is operating. Software synths, like the DXi, work sometimes, depends on setup and a few other things, I think.

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4. The jukebox feature in RB chooses the order of playback of songs EVEN when I uncheck random playback.



With Random unchecked, playback is in alpha-nu order. I take advantage of that on gigs sometimes by setting up a folder and changing the filenames to suit the order of playback. For example: "001ShallWeGather" -- "002AmazingGrace" will force Shall We Gather to be played before Amazing Grace even though it starts with an S. All I have to do is click on the filename once in Explorer window to append the numericals in front. Also, use of the Shifted numbers (~!@#$% etc.) will force a filename to be played before any numbers. Like, "!AmazingGrace" with that exclamation point in front.

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I am using vista 32..quadcore 6600 processor- 4gig of ram-Emu 1820m audio box with asio drivers




That should certainly do the job, I for one would be a little concerned about the 1820 and the Patchmix in such situations, could add another layer of complication I may not like in live performance. For playback only, consider using the built in soundcard or perhaps installing a simpler PCI card like the M-Audio 2496 or something. Less is more in this situation. The built in soundcard is likely very good at playback and that's all you are doing at that point.

*Hire a piano player. Seriously. I'm lookin' for a new Sunday gig. Where you at? (grin)


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