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Will you be making BIAB for Mac versions? I hope so. The drums sound great.
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Will you be making BIAB for Mac versions?. Adapting the files to be used on a Mac shouldn't be difficult (the audio and txt files are essentially the same on PC and Mac, I believe) , but preparing a proper automated Mac installation would require a test machine (which I don't have in this moment) and quite a bit time, which unfortunately I don't have in this moment, either  I don't know if I'll prepare automated installers for Mac in the future, but in the next days, I'm going to upload the files of the free RealDrums on a compressed archive, so the interested Mac users can manually install them on their systems.
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Has anybody else here had a response from this site after ordering. I’ve been waiting for several days with no information where I can download the files or any response to an email I sent.? Hi Frank, I'm sorry of hearing that. I sent you the links just a few hours after you placed your order . Maybe it was automatically detected as spam, you can check your spam inbox. Anyway, I've just sent you the links again with my personal email, please let me know if you're still having problems with the download. Sorry for the inconvenience! Glad to report that all is well. I ordered all of the packs but somehow they initially got lost in cyberspace. The file packs subsequently sent to me by Sergio’s email I could download directly except one where I had to use ‘GetRight’ to resume the download automatically (3 times) because there was a ‘busy’ interrupt at his Server. Nevertheless it succeeded in the end. Sergio was however very helpful and is investigating this “problem”. I have the audiophile version of BIAB and run it from my USB PG Music hard drive. I simply ran each pack exe files separately on my computer and set the target folder as the main BIAB file (G:/bb in my case) on the PGMusic supplied hard disc. Started BIAB clicked on ‘Drums’ and then clicked the Real drums menu and clicked the ‘Rebuild’ button. The drum parts ‘Artist’ then appears as ‘www..realdrumsforbiab..com’. They all work very well indeed and are a great addition and give a different slant to the supplied drum styles. Great work Sergio! Recommended. Regards F
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Adapting the files to be used on a Mac shouldn't be difficult (the audio and txt files are essentially the same on PC and Mac, I believe)
Correct. You would just replace wma files with m4a files.
For audiophile, you replace wav with aiff files.
Have Fun!
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Thanks. I will look for the compressed archive and see how to convert wma to m4a.
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Great to see your site up and running. I've already had a quick look and I can see lots of packs I'm interested in. As soon as I get time I'm going to go and order some.
Thanks Cerio. This is a great addition to the great work PGM already does.
Best of luck.
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Peter,
I installed Cerio's free drums CFunkySoul-B on my VMFusion machine and then copied the RD drum folder back into my Mac partition. I converted the wma file to m4a. I copied the folder into the DRUMS folder. I opened the RD picker dialog and hit rebuild. The new drums did not appear. I then looked at a few of the drum styles in the DRUMS folder and noticed they had additional files with the extensions .bt0 and .bt1. How do I create these file types? They are not part of the PC RD specs.
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Fred
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Now that I've purchased your complete set of RealDrums Packs, and had some time to check a few of them out, I can say with confidence to anyone who's interested that they are really good. Thanks Cerio. The Disco pack really fills out the genre nicely. PGM's disco drums, while good, were a little too camp for most of the disco songs I like. Yours are more subtle and cover a wider variety of works in the genre. The Nirvana set is really close to what you'd expect for popular Grunge from the era. Another great addition. BTW, I've taken the liberty of adding a link to your website from the BiaB wiki. You can see it here.Please feel free to add anything else you'd like.
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BTW, I should mention your marketing strategy seems really good. The free samples get people to check out your product. The introductory prices are great and the grouping in packs (or sets) is a great idea. I think you'll do well.
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I copied the folder into the DRUMS folder. I opened the RD picker dialog and hit rebuild. The new drums did not appear. Hi Fred, I don't have the mac version, but I suppose that it works the same way. Did you copied the "CFunkySoul-B^" folder into your "drums" folder? (resulting in \bb\Drums\CFunkySoul-B^ ) I then looked at a few of the drum styles in the DRUMS folder and noticed they had additional files with the extensions .bt0 and .bt1. How do I create these file types? They are not part of the PC RD specs. You don't need these files at all, at least on the PC version. They're automatically created by BIAB the first time you use a realdrum audio (wma) file. Hope it helps! Now that I've purchased your complete set of RealDrums Packs, and had some time to check a few of them out, I can say with confidence to anyone who's interested that they are really good. Thank you very much, Paul, for your kind words and for adding my site to Biab's Wiki, I really appreciate it
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What, no jazz drums? 
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Cerio,
Yes I did copy the folder into the DRUMS folder. After I hit rebuild the drums do not appear in the RD list. I checked the DrumFolderNames.txt file after the rebuild and your drums are listed in that file. I am not sure why they won't appear in the RD drum picker list inside the program.
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Yes I did copy the folder into the DRUMS folder. After I hit rebuild the drums do not appear in the RD list. I checked the DrumFolderNames.txt file after the rebuild and your drums are listed in that file. I am not sure why they won't appear in the RD drum picker list inside the program. Here's a few things to check. Dis you check in Prefs|RealDrums 'Use custom folder' and make sure this actually matches where you have the drums installed? Do you perhaps have a filter applied to the picker? Is the 'Show RealDrums that are not favorites' box checked? How about the 'Show if tempo or feel don't match' boxes?
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Cerio,
1st of all congrats on this venture! Secondly I am listening as I type and can promise to be back later with checkbook in hand as I like what I am hearing.
Later,
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Fred, just another suggestion you can try: one of the first lines of every txt file of your new realdrum (I'm not in the computer now, sorry) points to an audio file. If you have converted these audio files from wma to m4a, probably you are going to need to change the lines of the txt files accordingly (from nameoftheaudiofile.wav to nameoftheaudiofile.aiff, I suppose: please check Pgmusic drum txt files as a reference) Please, let me know if that works. Cerio, 1st of all congrats on this venture! Thank you very much, Danny!
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PWarren, thanks. I have the drums in the standard location, no custom folder. The boxes you mentioned were checked.
Cerio, I changed the audio file extension from wav to aiff but this does not solve the problem. Your drums are listed in the DrumFolderName.txt file. I deleted that file and had BIAB build a new one. CFunky is still not appearing in the RD stylepicker window.
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Cerio, I changed the audio file extension from wav to aiff but this does not solve the problem. This is the first line of the file MetalEV^1-SloppyHat,BellRide_085_Style.txt, from PG Music (PC version): wavename=MetalEv^_085_Style.wav Is it identical to the Mac version? PS: I suspect that your problem is related to the file naming / structure convention used by realdrums. Are you sure that you didn't changed anything?
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The only thing I changed in the txt files was replacing .wav with .aiff. I converted the wma to m4a. Otherwise, I just copied in your entire folder of CfunkyB drums as is.
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I assume then that the first line on your MetalEV^1- SloppyHat,BellRide_085_Style.txt (Mac version) is identical to the Pc version.
If that's the case, I'm sorry, but in this moment there's no other thing I can suggest you to try (there's nothing special on installing Rd, just copy the folders and press the rebuild button) Unfortunately, I don't have a Biab for Mac to try to replicate the problem. Maybe Mac owners can help. Please, let us know if you find a solution.
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