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Hi All,
Have tried the DAW Vst as Stand Alone,in Cubase Pro 12 and latest version of Reaper.Cant get a Style or song to find Realtracks.
Im using audiophile version so all styles and songs load without any issues in
main BIAB prog.
Ive checked Prefs all \drives and folders are correct.
Any ideas.

Cheers Barry


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Barry,

Are you running Band-in-a-Box from your computer internal drive or from the external Band-in-a-Box drive?

If you're using the external Band-in-a-Box drive do you always plug it into the same USB port of your computer?
The external hard drive should be assigned a permanent drive letter. Here's how to assign a drive letter in Disk Management:

Right-click the drive you would like to change.
Click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Click Add.
Click the letter you want to use.
Click OK.

In the plugin, click on the "Preferences" button or navigate to File > Preferences to open the Preferences window.
Select "Folder Locations"
Visually verify the folder locations are correct or select the "Find Folders" button.

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In addition to Jim's instructions, after changing the folder paths you will need to open the Style Picker and click the Rebuild button at the bottom. A Fast rebuild should be okay. If the folder paths are already correct then a Rebuild may still help as well.


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Thx All,
Didnt think you would need to run a rebuild within the DAW plugin as you normally
do it within BIAB after installation.
All running fine now.

Cheers Barry


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Hey Barry,

Glad to read your issue is solved. What fix worked?

Please open your first post in this thread and select the "Mark As Resolved" button. This will help other users when they are searching for solutions to similar issues.


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Hi all.
The fix for me was:Run the BIAB Vst app in your DAW .Select any style then do a rebuild wait untill completed then press OK.
I thought having run a rebuild when running BIAB for the first time would have
worked for the Vst plugin,but not for me.
BTW Im running BIAB direct from the Audiophile harddrive which shows up as my D:drive which I never change and the Vst plugin preferences recognised and verified this.
So the rebuild within the Vst plugin solved my problem.
Hope this all makes sense.
Back to making music.

Thx All

Barry


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The plugin version and the main version are two separate programs once installed, so they require their own Rebuilds. It is the same with RealBand if you use that too.


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Chantelle,
Thx for that.Maybe I missed it on the videos,but might be worth mentioning
as it didnt occur to me.

All Good Barry


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