I have another little wrinkle, Matt. I noticed that the count-in was no longer displaying the numbers in the upper corner, so I went in and checked. Sure enough, that option WAS turned on. I tried changing to a different sound, type of lead in, etc. Still distorted.

Then while I was playing the song, I clicked on "mixer"... there was a short delay with NO SOUND. Then I soloed the drums... and THEY SOUNDED DISTORTED, JUST LIKE THE COUNT-IN. What's more, it locked up BIAB so that I could not take it OUT of solo, nor could I exit the program. I had to use Task Manager to quit BIAB and get it to stop drumming!

This all makes me think that maybe I do have a computer memory problem. I have 6 GB of RAM in 64 bit, and 4 GB in 32 bit, but I'm wondering if the processor can't access that memory or if it's corrupted somehow. Too many weird things for it to be software only, I think. I have another computer, but it's an older Win 7 machine and I don't want to use it for my studio work. Otherwise I'd just load it on to that and see what happened.


BIAB 2020 with Reaper 6, on an AMD 8 core CPU, 16GB RAM, 240 GB SSD and 1 TB HD. Retired and trying to make some serious music, before Arthur Ritis spoils the fun.