Thanks Deb,

The method you describe works, but way too slow compared to what Cubase does instantly.

1) With Cubase, and BIAB open at the same time, you drag the name of any track from BIAB into the Cubase timeline. No need for the VST. It prints the track (already rendered) into the Cubase project, ready to be moved around and further altered or mixed. You can choose only what tracks you want, or all of them. The main BIAB program renders tracks quicker than the VST plugin, so you can experiment, change, and re-render faster in the main program than you can in the VST.

2) If you involve the VST you have to re-open the BIAB file and have it re-render each track (quite slow). So, you really waited and rendered them twice for no good reason.

3) I like to get each track perfect in the main BIAB program using the F8 key (multi riff) by listening to each track and selecting any bar I don’t like, then hit F8 and it will render just that one bar, in a second or two, as many times as I like, until I accept the one that sounds best. That way each track is perfect, and frozen, and I can just drag the whole perfect track into Cubase. The VST doesn’t (yet) have this important F8 feature.

4) I would be interested to know if you try this method on your system (directly drag the name of an instrument of a BIAB track – the leftmost name in the mixer) directly into Studio One and see if you get the same message I do (“cannot find file”)

5) There should be a way to get Studio One to directly receive the BIAB track in the same way that Cubase does.

6) An intermediate method, faster than using the VST, is to drag a BIAB track into a folder and then drag from that folder into the timeline of Studio One. This works on my system, but, of course, is slower than directly dragging into Cubase, although still faster than the VST plugin.