Hi again, Bob.

Firstly, thank you for being so detailed in your letter to Kent. It really helped me understand your situation. I also appreciated the amount of detail you went into because that allowed me to re-create your situation. This was very valuable.

I have BIAB 2017 and everything seems to be working for me here. I have build 456 installed (this update was only released yesterday). If you haven't installed this patch yet, I suggest that you download it from the below link and manually install it. It could make a difference.


http://www.pgmusic.com/support_windowsupdates.htm


Originally Posted By: trapper456
2. What harmonizer are you using? The one that is built in with Band in a Box.

The above harmoniser you mention is TC Helicon software. I've had a play around with it and below is how I went about successfully adding harmony.

1. I loaded a song (108 bars) into BIAB that had an attached audio file.

2. Next, I saved the song with a new name so that I could always get back to the original audio if I needed.

3. I then generated the song and let it play through.

4. After the above, I loaded TC Helicon and set it according to the settings shown in Image 1 (below).

5. I generated the harmony.

6. I next saved the file so that the audio would attach itself to the MGU file. (The one time I tried to continue without saving, I received and error. I wonder if this might have been what happened for you?)

7. After saving the file, I once again entered into TC Helicon and then set it up as shown in Image 2 below.

8. I generated the harmony and then saved the song.

Everything worked fine.

As mentioned in point #6 above, I did get an error once. This arose because I moved on to generating more harmony without saving the file after generating previous harmony.

Let us know how you go.

All the best,
Noel


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SPECIAL NOTE: Because TC Helicon writes to the audio file, make sure that you back up the audio file before adding harmony. The audio will be found in the same directory as the mgu/sgu file and it will have the same name except with a .WAV ending.

For example.... if the song is called MySong.MGU, then the audio will be called MySong.WAV and is found in the same folder as MySong.MGU


EDIT ADDED
Matt Finley's thought below about running BIAB in administrator mode is a very good idea and one that didn't occur to me. (I always run BIAB in admin mode and this might be why TC Helicon worked for me.) To start BIAB in this mode, right-click on the shortcut that you use to start the program and select "Run as administrator".

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Image 1: Initial settings for TC Helicon harmoniser.
TC Helicon settings 2.JPG (78.06 KB, 219 downloads)
Image 2: Second harmonisation settings.
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