I've been getting on happily with BIAB2009 - that is until I downloaded the 2009.5 update. It may not be a fault in the update, but installing it has certainly changed things somewhere. I've reported the problem to support, but it may take some time for them to answer. In the meantime I decided to check here if anyone has had the same problem, and if anyone has found a solution.

I'm creating music for my songs under BIAB, and then recording vocals over the top using the audio track, and then render them to a combined audio file using DXi. I'm following the same procedure as before. Set up the midi chords and style. Add a solo instrument (manually) if required. Record the vocals. All the way along saving using save with patches and harmony - creating new filenames each time so I have a backup.

Please note that this is NOT an issue with rendering - or at least, not directly. It's one about how BIAB saves audio files depending on how you've modified or adjusted them. Sorry for the long preamble, but I wanted to set the stage clearly.

The problem is this - contrary to my previous experiences, whether I first "Save with patches and harmony" or whether I first - without saving - go to render with DXi, BIAB retains its own song file, but deletes the vocal that's been recorded. At first I thought I had done something wrong, but his has happened repeatedly.

Has anyone had the same problem, and found a solution? Or does anyone know of any setting that might have been changed (I can see nothing obvious in the audio-setup dialog). Can timeshift adjustment affect what the program saves, and how does BIAB deal with the temp files created when you apply a plugin to the sound file?

I've left mentioning the plugin until last because that's the only new thing I started doing before the problem first occurred. I just added reverb to a vocal track, noted the filename where it was saved, and continued. I tried importing the various temp files created and saving them with the program, but nothing I tried could import the plugin-modified audio file and save it with the song file. Is there no way of manually selecting where to store audio files created with BIAB and yet ensuring you can keep them linked with the song. I would expect some sort of dialog for each song with full details of how it's made up and what files are linked - but I can't find any.

Sorry for the length of this post, but although it's disturbing, it's not easy to explain.

All help appreciated.
Thanks

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