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I have a strange issue. I had been able to drag and drop a midi file into biab and then have biab render it into 6 audio files so I could import it into another sequencer. All of a sudden that stopped and now when I press on the master to drag it across to drop it won't do anything. Any idea how to reset biab so my drag and drop will work again?

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Methodman, which version of BiaB are you using?
Did this change after an upgrade?


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Duh somehow I ticked off the checkbox for it in the plug in as soon as I saw that I checked it and its working fine. Thanks.

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All good, thanks for letting us know, as this tip can help others too - maybe even me!


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Originally Posted By: VideoTrack
All good, thanks for letting us know, as this tip can help others too - maybe even me!


the tip is sort of useful, unfortunately I see no answer given..?? ... no info giving on were to fix this.. I am now having this problem. It's obviously a setting that I must have changed, but, I can't find it..

Actually in my case, drag and drop stopped working in Real Band for some reason. (RB 2016)

EDIT: Figured it out.. You can't use Drag and Drop while running RB in Administrator mode.. is that a bug or working as designed?

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unfortunately I see no answer given..??


The impression I got was that he had to enable the DAW plug-in mode for it to work.

Press the [Plugin] button on the main toolbar and choose the menu item Start DAW Plug-in mode, or go to the Windows menu and choose Plug-in Mode for DAW.


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see my edit.. thanks..

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All good, thanks for letting us know, as this tip can help others too - maybe even me!


the tip is sort of useful, unfortunately I see no answer given..?? ... no info giving on were to fix this.. I am now having this problem. It's obviously a setting that I must have changed, but, I can't find it..

Actually in my case, drag and drop stopped working in Real Band for some reason. (RB 2016)

EDIT: Figured it out.. You can't use Drag and Drop while running RB in Administrator mode.. is that a bug or working as designed?

Well, that actually surprises me. I always run RB and BiaB as Administrator, and Drag Drop works in RB for me OK.


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All good, thanks for letting us know, as this tip can help others too - maybe even me!


the tip is sort of useful, unfortunately I see no answer given..?? ... no info giving on were to fix this.. I am now having this problem. It's obviously a setting that I must have changed, but, I can't find it..

Actually in my case, drag and drop stopped working in Real Band for some reason. (RB 2016)

EDIT: Figured it out.. You can't use Drag and Drop while running RB in Administrator mode.. is that a bug or working as designed?

Well, that actually surprises me. I always run RB and BiaB as Administrator, and Drag Drop works in RB for me OK.


This doesn't surprise me. I can not drag and drop if I run Sonar in Administrator mode. It must be something in our systems if other can DnD to RB and other DAWs.


OK, a random thought;
Why does toilet paper need a commercial? Who's not buying it?

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I suppose I should have also mentioned that I am using Windows 10 with all the up to date patches as of this post.

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I suppose I should have also mentioned that I am using Windows 10 with all the up to date patches as of this post.


Same here.


OK, a random thought;
Why does toilet paper need a commercial? Who's not buying it?

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