I thought I would share my experience to aid other people who are considering downloading the EverythingPAK.

I'm pleased to say that the download completed this morning and it is now installed over the top of BIAB Pro 2015 as per PG advice. Actually, I still have the 49BonusPak and JBridge to install but that shouldn't take too long compared with the mammoth BIAB/Realtracks install.

I used Firefox with DownEmAll plugin as recommended by PG on my desktop PC. This worked flawlessly apart from the two tutorial packs (songslessonpak and videotutorialpak) which refused to download any more than about 1Kb each. I downloaded these from my laptop without issue. Go figure.

The main bandinabox_realband_2015_full installation ran without issue.

I had a couple of oddities after master_realtracks_installer_2015 had completed. The following didn't install..

realdrums21-29.exe
realtracks_shots_holds_246-294.exe

I reran the realdrums21-29 installation manually and it worked fine but realtracks_shots_holds_246-294 kept giving peculiar errors. So I re-downloaded it and although the file size was exactly the same as the first downloaded copy it ran perfectly. So PG's advice was spot on there.

After running the main BIAB program and letting stylepicker build its database I then went into Check for Updates. The program is on version 411 which is the latest (I'll get around to beta 412 later) and it then detected and applied the April 2014 updates to the Realtracks.

I had a very quick play to make sure I could create a song and was so impressed with the results I saved it (using _ACBLZ2 slow blues style)!

Now a couple of Observations/Questions:

1. Bearing in mind that this is a clean install over the top of BIAB Pro 2015 which was installed cleanly a couple of weeks ago with the default realtracks. On the Check for Updates screen it shows that I have 1352 Realtracks installed - shouldn't this be over 1800? At least that's what it says here --> http://www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.packages.every.htm

2. I think the installation instructions could be clearer on a couple of points.
a). I had to ask support whether to uninstall BIAB Pro 2015 first before installing EverythingPak or just install over the top. It would be easy enough to cover this on this page --> http://www.pgmusic.com/tutorial_downloading-realtracks.htm .
b). After installation I noticed a file called style_demos_audio.exe which wasn't mentioned in the RealTracks install log and it's not clear whether this was installed or needed to be run separately. If this needs to be run separately then it should be covered in the installation instructions.

EDIT: After installation of the 49BonusPAK it says I now have 1405 Realtracks. An extra 4 seem to have crept in somewhere but still some way off >1800.

Last edited by receder; 12/16/14 05:34 AM.
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