Look carefully at what I stated.

To reiterate, I said that I personally have had no unsolvable problems with it. Matter of fact, I've only had the one problem reported above, once. And I found the solve.

I've been collaborating on jingles and industrial musics using BB between my own Macs, Windows machines and also with other firms that use only Macs and only Windows for years.

I have never had a problem opening BB files created on a Mac with any Windows platform running BB.

The only problem noted was the other way 'round, when that one fella couldn't open the bb files created on my Windows machine. And it was easily solved once I figured out what wat causing his problem. That took a day or two of go-rounds, but when I finally asked him to email me one of his files that DID open on his Mac, I spotted that all caps suffix right away. Incidentally, my Win machine didn't care about the all caps, it ran the file fine, but his Mac was somehow set to use all caps for suffixes, a tweak he had done and not the default now anyway.

If you need to do this, just try it first. Cross bridges of problem only when and if one appears in front of you. For it may never appear.

The Windows version is "out in front" of the Mac version in quite a few ways. That means that there are some things that you can invoke in the Windows version that the Mac won't recognize or cannot do. The files will still load and play, though.

Sometimes the other guy does not have the Style file that I chose, or these days, may not have the RealTrack, depending upon what version of BB he bought and installed. Even then, the file loads on his Mac but will yield the "Style not Found" or "RealTrack N/A" messages.

TIP: I always include a full mp3 of the BB song done at my end. That way the other end can compare it to what they are hearing and see if their BB is actually playing all the little Bar Settings, etc. as it should. This is a big help and should be followed religiously IMO. Resolves problems that would otherwise go unnoticed until you hear what the other fellow did to the file and say, "Where's the fadeout?" or something like that. See, if his machine doesn't do one of the things you worked so hard on, he has no way of knowing that unless he can hear that full mp3 of what it sounded like at your end and compare.

--Mac

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