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Annoying issue with Hi-Q tracks, well actually just one. Even when first opening BIAB I keep getting a little yellow pop-up that says:
"D:\music\bb\DX Settings\Hi-Q 001 01 Piano, Acoustic Mellow Grand sampeltank.tgs does not exist, cannot install to track: Drums"
1- Duh? This is new behavior (I've been playing with and around with multiple VSTis in last day and this is recent so I figured it was something I set or configured badly. So next I,
2- confirmed that the file does exist and where it's looking for it (I've double checked spelling, spacing, etc.) and I can SELECT in the a Hi-Q selections in Mixer, and elsewhere it LOADS and plays fine.
3. I've not only done a reset to factory settings (all), I've also reinstalled the HI-Q instruments, AND the complete BIAB 2013 install file (before latest update -366 build ) but same issue.
Again it is more annoying than anything else but it IS annoying! When I start BIAB or try to load a song (like some of the Demos) that have a HI-q or super MIDI piano tracks.
Any ideas??
Thanks in advance
Update: re-checking my re-check the "…Mellow Grand...tgs" is really and ONLY "Hi-Q 001 02…" (not Hi-Q 001 01). So not sure if somehow I lost variation 1 (assuming there is a variation 1 of Mellow Grand) or what. Why is BIAB all of sudden looking for a non-existent Piano Hi_Q instrument? And worse why is it trying to assign it to "drums"
Still looking suggestions/help/confirmation?
Larry
Win10Pro,i9,64GB,2TBSSD+20TBHDDs,1080TI,BIAB'24,Scarlett18i8,Montage7,Fusion 8HD,QS8,Integra7,XV5080,QSR,SC-8850,SPLAT,FL21&others,Komp.14,IK suite&others, just a guitar player-AXE FX III &FM9T, FishmanTP, MIDIGuitar2, GK2/3'sw/GI20
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Never mind it is a minor glitch in some DEMO songs for a few styles
e.g., Jazz Latin styles
M_BOLERO.STY and the songs are "Bolero Quintet with Piano [90]" and "MelodicBoleroQuintet w.Piano[90]"
M_GRACHA.STY and song Guaracha Quartet w. Piano [180]
And on the FLIP side (different non-existent HI-Q piano) in Jazz Ballads
M_SJZBAL.STY. SmoothJazzBallad with Piano [65]
Is trying to load the non-existent:
"D:\music\bb\DX Settings\Hi-Q 001 02 Piano, Acoustic Grand sampeltank.tgs does not exist, cannot install to track: Drums"
It should be looking for " Hi-Q 001 01 Piano, Acoustic…"
And I am sure a few others but I'm not going on fishing expiation to find them all. In any case if I close BIAB with those loaded when I re-start BIAB it complains about non-exsitnat (typo'ed in Demo song) HI-Q instrument
So some of these Demo songs need to fix what HI-Q they want to load (again just an annoyance - doesn't cause world or program to stop)
If someone wants to confirm (at least with those songs) to ensure my morphine and Vicodin aren't causing the issue I'd appreciate it
Larry
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Hi Larry,
What is the date of the file M_BOLERO.STY in your bb folder? I suspect you need to download the update patch... In my testing those files don't have the problem you describe.
Edit: I think we found what the problem is (with styles in MIDI SuperTracks Set 6) and we'll fix that in the next patch.
Last edited by Andrew - PG Music; 01/28/13 04:27 PM.
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Thanks
I get a lot wrong but nice to know I'm not a total flake (altough I am total A.H.)
Larry
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Hi,
New to BIAB 2013 here. I last had Version 2006, and used it alot to set up arrangements for big band. I never really got excited about it until a friend of mine sent me a track using RealTracks. Wow - Now you're talking!!
Anyway, I am having issues with the Hi-Q feature and Sampletank 2.5 free version. I'm about ready to write it off. Sampletank Support gave me a standard answer and closed the ticket. PG is still open but unable to resolve it yet. I thought I would toss it out here and see if anyone else has had this problem....
Regarding Sampletank 2.5: once installed, I get the following yellow boxed error message when trying to select a Hi-Q instrument:
"Solution is to move Band-in-a-Box instrument folder from here:
C:/Program Files\IK multimedia/Sampletank2.5\Instruments\Band-in-a-Box\
To here:
C:/Program Files\IK multimedia/Sampletank2.5\Instruments\Band-in-a-Box\\Band-in-a-Box\"
Oh yes, and of course I get the "Hi-Q instrumentS not found" as well.
And I did experiment with adding another subfile named Band-in-a-Box, but that didn't work either.
I've downloaded updates, reinstalled, moved files around, checked all over the internet... but not luck so far.
Any ideas?
(Intel dual core, 2 gig of memory, 250 g. hard drive, XP Pro, BIAB 2013 with Mega Pak.)
Thanks for looking.
Anyway, I LOVE BIAB 2013, in spite of this. :-D
Jazz
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Hi CJ, Welcome to the forums  It sounds like the folder containing your BIAB instruments is not in the usual place. If this is the case, then to solve the problem it's: (a) necessary to find the folder's path; (b) double-check that it's the correct folder; (c) set the path in SampleTank. 1. Below is the path where my Band-In-A-Box folder (#2) is located (#1).  As you can see it's "C:\Program Files\IK Multmedia\Instruments". For your installation, it may well be that the folder could be in "C:\Program Files\IK Multmedia\SampleTank 2.5\Instruments" or else where. It should be under IK Multimedia somewhere. 2. When you find the Band-In-A-Box folder, double-click on it to open it. There should the below collection of sub-folders (#1). To confirm that these are the correct folders PG Music installed, double-click on the Bass sub-folder and you should see the instrument files for the Bass sounds (#2).  3. When you find the correct Band-In-A-Box folder, copy it and its sub-folders to the ...\Instrument folder that contains the other SampleTank sounds (if it's not already there). 4. Make a note of the path for the Instrument folder. 5. Open Band In A Box. 6. Click the VSTi button to open the window for assigning softsynths  7. Select "Default Synth" (#1), click on the drop-down menu (#2) and select "SampleTank 2.x" (#3). SampleTank will probably take 10 - 20 seconds to load. If your loaded SampleTank is red, whereas mine is green, don't worry about that as it's purely cosmetic.  8. When SampleTank has loaded, select "Prefs" (#1), click on "Browse" (#2) and then navigate to the folder where the "Band-In-A-Box" folder is located (#3) and then click OK. Note: Do not accidentally select the Band-In-A-Box sub-folder; it's the folder that contains the Band-In-A-Box sub-folder that must be selected. (That's why my path stops at "Instruments".)  9. When that is done, reset the "Default Synth" to Coyote WT (or VSC/DXi if you have a 32 bit operating system) by following step #7 above but selecting "Coyote WT" for step #3 rather than "SampleTank 2.x". 10. Close the VSTi setup window. The Hi-Q sounds should be good to go now. Let us know how it turns out. All the best, Noel
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Hi Noel, Thanks so much for the quick turnaround. Your directions were letter perfect and easy to follow. Of course I had done all that, (I thought), and so without a great deal of expectation, I decided to CAREFULLY follow your instructions. Guess what? I had messed up things so that I never would have figured it out without your help. IT WORKS! Of course I am still getting some strange error messages depending on how I select a Hi-Q instrument. ...but As long as it is working, I'll figure out the source of the problems. Are you a tech support guy by any chance? If not, you probably should be. Thanks again. Jazz jazzman1315@yahoo.ocm
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Quote:
Are you a tech support guy by any chance? If not, you probably should be.
And a big +1 to that.
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