I totally agree. I have had this happen to me 2-3 times since I installed 2023.

Here is what I do to get the failure.

1. Open BIAB.
2. Go to Stylepicker and highlighted a style. In this case I randomly picked _DEEP2.STY
3. Listen to the demo. I did not load the song demo at this time, just listened to it.
4. Loaded the song demo and exited style picker
5. Clicked on Regenerate
6. Got a popup message saying "Error: Error starting ASIO driver (error = invalidMode)

I then loaded about 4-5 other random styles and got the same error message after following the exact steps above.

Now here is the kicker. I changed my ASIO driver from Focusrite Scarlett 2I4 to MIME and did not get a single failure after trying another 4-5 random styles.

Went back to Focusrite Scarlett 2I4 as the driver and it failed on the 1st attempt.

Looks like the problem is between Focusrite Scarlett 2I4 and BIAB so..... I then downloaded the latest ASIO4ALL driver (v2.15) and set BAIB to use that one and it failed on every try using the above steps.

I then went back to MIME and could not get it to fail at all.

For the last experiment, I went into the ASIO settings and UNCHECKED "ASIO always on" and could not get it to fail after about 5 attempts at random styles.

Looks fairly obvious where the conflict is.

For myself, I will either uncheck the "Asio always on" or go to MIME. Either way, I could not get it to fail.

Running Windows 10.

Hope this helps.

BIAB2025
Windows 10 Pro
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