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I was going to hook up my speaker outputs to my tape imputs (BIAB was up). Then got an error and could not click it away nor could I shut down and had to hit the power off button. At bottom of windows screen there is a little box that says "bbw"..it doesn't open and or does not click away. Any idea what this is? The last time I tried plugging into my tape recorder BIAB was not running and all went well. Thanks, Jerry
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Follow That Dream Sam Karaoke King -------------------- Turning that corner again - I have to keep following that dream, no matter what
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Did you reboot the computer?
Be careful, you may have a difference in voltage potential between that device (recorder?) and your computer.
--Mac
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Yep rebooted and "bbw" was gone. Tried to load BIAB and just get the "bbw" at bottom of screen
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Yep rebooted and "bbw" was gone. Tried to load BIAB and just get the "bbw" at bottom of screen
Can you Right Click on the button and get the context menu?
If so, click on the "Move" option and use your cursor arrow keys and try to move the window back on screen - it's my guess that BBW has somehow moved off the screen - used to happen a lot with Microsoft Word - if you always opened it maximised and one day restored it to a window it would dissapear off the bottom of the screen 'cos the window position would move down about one pixel every time it opened...
I also get something similar if I close m$ Picture Viewer if I close it from my secondary monitor - it dissapears off screen next time it loads and I have to move it back on. Doesn't happen if the previous close is from the primary monitor.
--=-- My credo: If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing - just ask my missus, she'll tell ya  --=--You're only paranoid if you're wrong!
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Right click has 3 options..Restore..Minimize and Close...zip nada..I am running Vista 64 if that helps..rebooted again and message said windows could not close down because BIAB was running and showed the "bbw" icon..clicked close..rebooted same thing again. I am not a PC wiz so all help in laymen terms best..thanks
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Reinstall - shouldn't take long
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Don't reinstall, try this first:
Look inside your bb folder and locate a file named, "intrface.bbw"
Delete that file and then start BB up.
--Mac
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Well, yes - try that first. However, I think it will end in a reinstall
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Mac/Sam, I located this file "intrface.bbw" and deleted it. BIAB is now working but without what seems another error. As soon as BIAB is loaded a popup WARNING your current drum kit has no closed high hat note assigned to it...load a song and other warnings..no bass drum..going to explore some more i'll let ya know what i find. thanks for your help. jerry
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Right click has 3 options..Restore..Minimize and Close...zip nada..
That suggests windows thought it was running full screen...
Glad you now have access thanks to Macs suggestion - I'm not sure about your drum kit error but I'm sure I've seen similar references in other threads - perhaps a forum search will help.
--=-- My credo: If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing - just ask my missus, she'll tell ya --=--You're only paranoid if you're wrong!
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Mac/Sam, I located this file "intrface.bbw" and deleted it. BIAB is now working but without what seems another error. As soon as BIAB is loaded a popup WARNING your current drum kit has no closed high hat note assigned to it...load a song and other warnings..no bass drum..going to explore some more i'll let ya know what i find. thanks for your help. jerry
Opts -> MIDI/Audio etc.
Select anything else for your MIDI output, say Okay, play any song partially, then go back to the same place and reselect your chosen MIDI device again.
That usually clears this one up.
--Mac
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Hi Mac, Did as you said above and no change. Still get warnings abot drum kit. Though it says hi hat, bass drum or whatever not assigned I can hear the drums fine. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Jerry
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106. Error message: "Your current drum kit has no bass drum note assigned".
Symptoms
You get one of the following error messages when you try to play a song:
"Warning: Your current drum kit has no bass drum note assigned".
"Warning: Your current drum kit has no snare drum note assigned".
Solution
One possiblility is that you have modified your drum kit, but you did not assign a MIDI note number to one or more of the drum sounds. Go to Opt. | Preferences | Drum Kit, and check to make sure that none of the drum sounds have been assigned to "0". For General MIDI drum kit definitions, the default note number for the Bass drums is 35, and the default note number for the Snare drums is 38. Assuming that you are not using a non-General MIDI synth, you can set the bass and snare drums to those values.
Another way to resolve the problem is to close Band-in-a-Box and delete the file MySetup.dk from your Band-in-a-Box folder (usually C:\bb). Note that this will return some settings back to factory defaults. See FAQ topic 97 for information on which settings are affected by this file. If you have previously modified/customized any of these settings, you should make a backup of your .dk file before deleting it.
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Mac, Went to ops/pref/drumkit..all are set to 0. I never changed any of this myself. ???
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Mac, I re assigned drum kit values manually and so far so good. Got other issues tho that are from of the new style sets western swing..high pitch frequencies like a ham radio..this happens for several measures in several parts of a song. If I change the chord from lets say G to G9 it goes away, after all it is swing why play a commom chord when there are so many more interesting ones to play. I really appreciate your help and with me being a novis I'm sure I'll be back with something else. Thanks, Jerry
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