Originally Posted By: Jim Fogle
Windows 11 is two months old and you're wanting to go back to 2018 and talk about about Windows 7?

Wow! June 2018. How time flies when one is having sooooooooooooooo much fun :-) It seems like Yesterday.

The BIAB system requirements say BIAB 2022 runs on Win7 and if they say it does it should. Reaper is supported back to Win Xp. Cakewalk does not support Win7 but I found no bugs so far running it under Win7 while doing everything I need which is admittedly not that taxing on a DAW (yet).

Regarding BIAB saying it runs on Win7 so far so good except the VST Plugin has bugs both running under Reaper and Cakewalk. The standalone Plugin also has issues. I give odds of 90% the BIAB Plugin bugs have nothing to do with Win7 (10% odds I could be wrong). For example maybe it is me. I am new to the plugin and maybe it has some quirks I do not know how to work around yet. I have a series of emails with PGmusic going on this issue. Having said that it is pretty close to being able to do what I am after. It gets the chord labels into a Reaper Midi track perfectly. However getting the chords from BIAB into the Plugin has issues (I have to clean up beyond the chorus and if the chorus size is unusual part way into the end of the chorus).

My preference (as the creator of BIAB backing tracks for my Jazz Jam Club member participants) is not to bother with a watered down plug in at all. Instead use all the power BIAB has to offer (great program) and export the tracks as I have been doing but add in the added feature of the ability to export chord and section labels as well that are formatted for whatever DAWs the user uses with a simple checkbox to switch it on. In my case I would switch on Reaper and Audacity (section labels and chord labels for both). However maybe a new club member could be using whatever DAW and I could be creating these for 5+ DAWs. I have no way to predict so the more the better.

Last edited by bowlesj; 12/25/21 05:31 PM.
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