Originally Posted By: John Payne
And so now I just re-re-reviewed where the RealTracks/Real Drums were expected to be found, expecting to see that BIAB was looking appropriately to the BB folder in the D drive, as they were earlier. But the fields were blank. So I've now re-pointed them to the correct directories on the D drive and all is well.

So it appears my original problem was somehow this morning BIAB was using the WAS driver and as I tried horrible things like returning to factory settings and reloading I'd somehow simply wiped out the field that points to the Realtracks/drums files on the D drive. An interesting aspect of this is, at least on this machine, when you try to use the WAS driver BIAB stops. Must be waiting on something?

Anyway, I just knew this was somehow something simple I was overlooking. I've used this program for many years here at home and on live gigs and once again I've proven to fail it far more often than it's ever failed me.

It's a great program and since the pandemic an important part of my day-to-day life. Thanks to Chantelle and all the others at PG and your all out there for your support and help.

Glad that you were able to determine what the issue was! Although your external device should have still worked with WAS if the correct inputs were selected, they tend to work better with whatever ASIO driver they come with - if they came with one at all. The loss of the RealDrums and RealTracks directories makes sense if you did a full or hard return to factory settings as it would have cleared out your program preferences. Did you use the Options | Return To Factory Settings menu? If so, it should have given you the option to back up your settings in a file that could be reloaded. But if you deleted the mysetup/intrface files in the preferences folder within the bb folder, this would make sense as to why those directories would have needed to be reset.

Regardless of my musing and what exactly caused it, we're glad you're up and running again!

Cheers,
Ember