First time post, so first let me take the opportunity to say thanks to all those who have posted solutions and suggestions for others - you have been very helpful.

I got BIAB 2013 and RealPak 1 Jazz about 2 months ago and have never really gotten it off the ground. Part of it is just learning curve, which is fine, but something is not right. The installation also came with other software - RealBand, CustomShop, NewAgePianist - that I don't use and have no idea what they do.

In BIAB, I've entered chords for a jazz tune and I want BIAB to play them while I practice the head and then take some solos. Pretty basic, right? The style is _BOSSAG Bossa with Guitar, I have RealTracks in the BIAB folder but haven't added them to the song yet. I press GenPlay, it generates the song and after a few seconds it starts to play. Sounds OK, except every 8-10 seconds it gives 2-3 seconds of nasty static.

After reading some of the threads here, I have: reset to factory specs, downloaded and installed the patch for the latest build available from this site, and run DPC latency checker which indicated no problems. One of the threads, by Gary Curran and back on page 3 now, suggests that static such as this may be due to expired trial software. This sounds possible, but I have no clue which software it might be. So now I have my eye on all that RealBand, CustomShop stuff that I'm not using. I'm tempted to deinstall everything except BIAB and the RealPak. Only downside to this is I don't want to deinstall something that is vital to BIAB functioning properly. So, my question: what does BIAB *have* to have in order to work properly, and what can I safely get rid of?

I'm using a Toshiba mini-book, Windows 7, 1GB RAM, Intel Atom CPU N455 @ 1.67 GHz, plenty of hard drive.

Thanks for any suggestions/ideas.