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I have something weird going on with BIAB 2018.
My mate is running 2018 Pro and I am running 2018 Ultra.
He has created a song and the style in Pro comes up as Reggae_3.sty and when I load the .SGU file on my PC it comes up in my Ultra Pak as Reggae_2 which sounds totally different and in the style picker menu I only have Reggae_1 & Reggae_2
I can load Reggae_3 "from disk" and I also find many more Reggae styles there than just 1 & 2
I did a base install of 2018 on a spare laptop and left it in demo mode and it was fine.
Makes collaboration rather difficult when we share files, he sends me the SGU and I convert it to .WAV and load it into the DAW so we can add our instruments and voices.
Any ideas because it is rather frustrating
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Hi Dave, I find myself wondering if this might be a mix up between Realstyles and MIDI styles. I have been installing updated versions of BIAB over the top of older versions since 2006. In addition, as far as I can recall, I've bought all bonus packages along the way. My thoughts are that this should mean that I have every style. When I filter the style list for 'reggae_' (without inverted commas, I get.... These are MIDI-only styles that were released in the mid-year update of 2002. I do not have any REGGAE_1 MIDI style. In addition, when I filter the style list for 'reggae1' and 'reggae2' separately, I find... These are Realstyles (i.e. use Realtracks) and were released with the end-of-year update in 2010. This is seen by the fact that these styles' names start with an underscore as the first character. With the above in mind, is it possible that you friend has been using a MIDI style to create his songs and you've been looking for Realstyles to use in its place? It would help a great deal towards solving your problem if you could use Dropbox or equivalent to post a download link to the song from your friend. Forum members could then have a look at things a little more closely. (If you want to keep the song private, just delete the chords and melody, save it as a new name and then post a link to that newly named file.) Regards, Noel
MY SONGS...Audiophile BIAB 2026
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Thanks for the reply Noel.
I only have 2018 and have never had another version and the same is the case for Max.
Since I located the style from disk another one has magically appeared, my BIAB installation is on my I drive so everything is in the default named folders on that drive.
Weird thing now is that another of the songs that Max has written in BIAB has DEPOTRIG.sty ( train beat ) and I had done the same song using BIGRIG.sty also train beat but adds steel to the sound.
If I change Max's arrangement to my style the steel is not there.
Not to worry we are working through these one at a time, I play guitar and bass and we also have a pedal steel playing mate so it's not an issue as we want to use as much of our own instrumentation as we can.
Last edited by suthol; 03/29/18 07:57 PM.
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