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hello,
I have a few Xpro paks and in particular the Xpropak 5 which uses the “synthmaster” synths,
I had already bought these synths which I find very useful and quite complete so I have the pro version of synthmaster and I have not installed the synthmaster supplied with BIAB.
I thought it could be problematic for the system to have 2 synthmasters…
but for the moment BIAB has not detected that I have the “synthmaster pro“ already installed on my mac and when I load a style with “synthmaster” tracks BIAB plays them but there are no sounds.
How should I proceed to get BIAB to play these synthmaster tracks without having to re-install the versions provided by BIAB?
THANKS

mac M1max, Monterey 12.6.8, I have all the synthmasters in 2.9.1 installed:
synthmaster player
synthmaster 2.

Last edited by phil T. Bône; 09/09/23 04:09 AM.

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BIAB has not detected that I have the “synthmaster pro“ already installed


Band-in-a-Box should recognize your existing SynthMaster plugin. In the Plugins tab of the Mixer window, click to select a plugin for any MIDI track, or go the Plugins button in the toolbar | Plugin Options. Scan for new AU plugins and/or VST plugins. Does it show up now?

That doesn't mean it will work automatically with the SynthMaster settings built into the Band-in-a-Box styles. Those are looking for SynthMaster 2 Player and specific presets installed with it. However, as far as I know there should not be any problem with having both SynthMaster and SynthMaster Player installed.


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Hi Andrew,
I managed to get the synthmaster plugins working and everything is ok now...the songs are loaded with synthmaster sounds on the midi tracks.
I have one last problem which is that when I want to rebuild in stylepicker, there are 2 options:
1-rebuild fast only PG styles, this one works perfectly
2-rebuild slow PG music and 3rd party styles, this one has a problem it stops re-building at 20% and then this “unable to open….” window appears. Like on the pict.
Where can this come from ?
I may have an idea, is it not possible that it comes from personal styles which are not completely sure, which dates from the beginning where I used BIAB.
if that's it Where could these styles be found so that I can delete them?
thanks Andrew
phil

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In the /Applications/Band-in-a-Box/Data folder, create a text file with the exact filename bbw.lst (contents of the text file doesn't matter), and then try the rebuild again. Please let us know if that fixes it.


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well done Andrew,
you are an Ace, the method was the right one,
the stylepicker has been rebuilt > 100%.
Thank you very much, you're the best ;-)
phil


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Andrew or PG Music Team, Phil T. Bone's issue and Andrew's response is perfect for the PG Music Chat and technical FAQs. How's this for a recap?

BBW for Windows Error Message

Issue: "Unable to open file /Volumes/Band-in-a-Box/Applications/Band-in-a-Box/Data/bbw.lst" error message occurs while performing a slow StylePicker rebuild.

Solution: In the /Applications/Band-in-a-Box/Data folder, create a text file with the exact filename bbw.lst (contents of the text file doesn't matter), and then try the rebuild again.


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