>>> 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.

Hi,
Welcome to the forum. There isn't anything I can think of that would cause static on a _BOSSAG.sty.


You should determine if the statis is on all instruments, or just a single instrument. If it's a single instrument, and its a MIDI track, then.... A few of the styles use SampleTank, and if you haven't registered that, you would get static. It's easy and free to register SampleTank. Keep in mind that doesn't affect styles like _BOSSAG that are all RealTracks, so I don't think that's the problem, but if its only happening on a few styles, and they are ones that use SampleTank (ie MIDI SuperTracks styles)... then it would be time to do the free register.

If that isn't the issue, please do the following:
1. Do a geekbench measuring the speed of your system. http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/
You need about 1,500 to run BiaB. Anything more than that is better. Let us know the result.
2. Make an audio file (wma) of one of the songs. You can upload it to soundcloud.com in BiaB 2013 and then send us the link. Or upload it to any other site, so that we can hear it. It would be significant if the audio static makes it on to the rendered file or not.

It depends what you mean by static. If it's a brief sound, that can mean that your audio buffers are running dry. Those are "audio dropouts". There are a number of causes of that. Googling "audio pops" or similar will get you help on that, and others might have other links.

Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.