>including near instant playback direct from disk"
>So it's just using Reaper tracks with the BBW4 track data to give instant playback ?

- you can get instant playback inside the style picker to audition hundreds of styles if you want. And this is playback within 3 seconds.
- you can also get the reaper instructions. One thing, once we send the instructions to reaper, it’s not as instant as I thought it would be. Reaper takes time to set up each track. But it’s worth the wait.

>>I can't play the tracks in the VST ?
- if you want to play them in the VST, there is the stylepicker, which is part of the VST. If you don’t wanting the playback from the VST main screen and not the style picker, then you need to wait for WAV files. where you can play them in the plugin main screen.
Note that you can play them directly in reaper via instructions, which was the great suggestion that you gave us!

>And BBW4 playing the styles demos to your chords ?
Yes it generates your song chords, which you can then render,

>So basically the BBPlugin Standalone and the BBPlugin running in any other DAW is still working the same way generating up wav files ?
The big change for daws other than release is that they can audition their song with many styles without generating any wav files, and when they find one they like they generate the wav files once, where it then goes into their song . In daws other than reaper, people can try out their song chords in the style picker and hear the results almost instantly. (Within 3 seconds typically. I note that this is faster than the process where reaper plays them via instructions, because reaper needs to set up the tracks, make the reapaeaks files etc. so if you want to try out 20 styles in your song, you’d likely prefer the style picker to find the one you want, and then render the reaper instructions and they get sent into reaper. Unless you prefer to always send each of the styles to reaper.

As you know, with the previous version of the plugin, generate wave takes about 20 seconds, so if you tried out 20 styles that would be 400 seconds (7 minutes) of waiting, now you can do it instantly (in the style picker), where each style starts playing within 3 seconds so the wait time is negligible, and no wav files are made for the auditions.

Last edited by PeterGannon; 12/05/23 10:02 PM.
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