I bought Acronis years ago, works fine and this thread reminds me I need to do another clone. I haven't done one for months. You know how that goes, you set up a system to help you but then get busy and forget to use it.

You're issue almost certainly had nothing to do with a Win10 update. I automatically get all the updates with zero issues. If some update was really causing all these problems it would be all over these forums along with other musicians forums. You know the old joke about how to tell who's the sucker at a private poker game? If you don't know then it's you.

As far as jbridge you only need that if you want to use a 64 bit plugin with a 32 big program. Do you know that difference? It's a bit complicated but basically Win10 is almost always installed as 64 bit but it could be installed 32 bit if that's what someone wants. Long story as to why or why not to do that.

Biab is a 32 bit app. 32 bit apps run fine on a 64 bit OS. But an audio plugin that's 64 bit will not run in a 32 bit host such as Biab. It has to be "bridged" hence the name jbridge. If you're not using any 64 bit plugin's there's no need for it. If a Biab user needs jbridge buy it through PGM then you know you have the right one.

Here's an example, Sampletank. ST 2.5 that we all installed for free as part of the Biab installation is 32 bit. But the new ST 3 that I have is 64 bit only. I knew that in order to run St3 as a plugin in either Biab or RB I had to get jbridge and not just the regular jbridge you see on their website, oh no, that's too easy. There is a special version of it just for Biab which is why you can't simply install this stuff without reading and understanding all the little details.

If all this is Greek to you Google it. Like I mentioned earlier, if you're working with digital audio you at least need to understand the terminology so you can ask intelligent questions.

And Graham, I don't mean just you personally, it's more of a generic "you" for anybody else who may be reading this.

Bob

Biab/RB latest build, Win 11 Pro, Ryzen 5 5600 G, 512 Gig SSD, 16 Gigs Ram, Steinberg UR22 MkII, Roland Sonic Cell, Kurzweil PC3, Hammond SK1, Korg PA3XPro, Garritan JABB, Hypercanvas, Sampletank 3, more.