Thanks again for trying to help Charlie.
Trying is the operative word. frown



Originally Posted By: Charlie Fogle


If you're interested, try these steps. It should take less than 2 minutes.

If Biab is open, close the program.

Open RB and wait for all the messages to complete and it to initialize.

You should be seeing the Tracks view

At the top of the screen in the VIEWS Menu, click on the CHORDS button
You should be seeing the familiar Biab Chord Chart.

Enter 8 to 12 chords as you normally do

Return to the TRACKS page

There may or may not be a STYLE chosen. Once you've used the program it defaults to the last Style used (or that's how mine reacts and I don't recall setting the program up to do that so I think it's the default setting)

Regardless, if there is a Style in the Style window you are good to go, if not, choose a Style from the StylePicker.

The only other change you need to make is to set the END BAR number to the number of chords you entered on the Chord Chart page. 8 or 12 or whatever your number of bars are. The other defaults should be fine.

There is a Large Button 'GENERATE' - Click on that button and select the first entry "Generate all BB Tracks (Entire Song)

You will get a spinning cursor and you can monitor the generating tracks by watching the small bar across the very top of your screen.


It has now been close to 10 minutes and nothing has been generated, no sounds etc.

There is no "small bar across the very top".

The CPU/RB indicator at top right shows in red that activity is red-lining it at 98%+ all the time!

I have been afraid to touch anything on the screen because I know if I try all will be frozen.

I will now try...

The only key that worked was "Esc".

A pop-up said " BBOutput.txt not found OK

Small circle goes around on screen...
Top says Generating music...please wait...

going on another 5 minutes now...

If it takes 15 minutes to generate 12 bars, this program
is not for me.

I somehow managed to Esc out of the freeze.
Had control of the program again.
Play wasn't working.
I tried to Exit and got a message saying "RB is trying
to do something important like generate a song etc.
If you exit now the program will likely crash."

I was stuck in a catch-22 situation.
Nothing was working for me.
But closing the program would crash it!

Arghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




A BIAB user for more than 30 years (if you can believe it) !