Hi

I had fun with bb2008 in the past, though used it less and less and then went off travelling for a couple of years.

I came back a couple of months ago and since then I have picked-up a little with it again, and after upgradinmg it to 2008.5 I have recently started to get more involved. And now I am aiming to try doing more so I felt I should give myself the best start, and have bitten the bullet and purchased the MegaPak 2013 upgrade.

I'm making this post just to check my thinking on a couple of things, and I would be grateful if someone who is more familiar than me with BB - and more expert too which isn't difficult! - could just advise on the following couple of points.

After the purchase I received a download link to 12 .exe files, which are now on my computer:

amplitude 3.9.1 setup
bandinabox realband 2013 mega
bb2013 new features video
hi-q instruments sampletank 01
realtracks mega 2013 1
realtracks mega 2013 2
realtracks mega 2013 3
realtracks mega 2013 4
realtracks pro 2013 1
realtracks pro 2013 2
realtracks shots holds loops combos
sampletank 2.5 setup

So firstly, I assume that what is required is to run all of these, presumably starting with the *bandinabox realband 2013 mega* .exe file, that one updating my 2008.5 to 2013, and then the others dropping content in to various bb folders after that, or creating new ones if needed.

- Correct so far?

So I ran that first one and found afterward a nice shiny 2013 waiting! smile

I had expected to find *some* realtracks installed as I thought 2013 was supposed to ship natively with a selection in place which of course 2008 never had, however the appropriate folders were empty so I guess ALL of the realtracks within the upgrade are in the 6 realtrack mega and pro files listed above.

- Would that be correct?

I just don't want to be missing a number of realtracks if there should in fact have been a starter selection installed when running the core-upgrade exe first.

In any event however I have now run all 6 realtracks .exes, though when I clicked the first file to launch it nothing happened - or so I thought ... then literally 5 minutes later it started!!! By that time I was already sure the files had been corrupted! Then the rest all did the same, took 5-6-7 minutes to launch. Disconcerting for a while.

- My last question concerns the remaining exe files ... I have no familiarity at all with them, don't know enough yet to be able to recognise what they are - but I am thinking I will be seeing a big change from 2008.5!

So, are these last few files still essential, or maybe optional but not affecting the use of BB?

I see for example that one is a tutorial video so I guess that could be left out if anybody wanted to ...

I have no idea what "sampletank" is and whether I need the two files that refer to that, though presumably the "shots holds loops combos" install is needed?

If I do need to launch any of those others, do they need to be in any particular order?

Forgive the very basic questions, I just don't want to have to battle the computer first before being able to battle my BB learning-curve smile

Any comments/advice would be very welcome, thanks!

H.