Ron,

I've just had a spot of lunch and that got me thinking again. There is one other way we can approach this and see if it works. It will sound confusing but it is not all that much effort to do this. If you're game, we can try this using a manual process.

Firstly, a bit of background about BIAB and audio.
When BIAB creates and saves an audio file on the Audio track, that audio file will have the same name as the MGU or SGU file and it will reside in exactly the same directory as the MUS/SGU file.

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For example... The MGU file I tried was called... NEVER_AGAIN.MGU

When I imported an audio file onto the audio track and saved the MGU after it was imported, the audio file was called... NEVER_AGAIN.WAV

Both these files were in their own folder called d:\BIAB Songs\Never Again\

With the above in mind...

1) Go to your song's folder and **delete any .wav or .mp3 file that is <songfile name>.wav or <songfile name>.mp3

  • In my case this file was: NEVER_AGAIN.WAV (I didn't have any mp3s)


  • **If you want to save the existing files, simply change their name so that the end extension is not .wav or .mp3.
  • I usually add .old to any file that I want to keep but that I don't want BIAB to see. So in my case, I would hide NEVER_AGAIN.WAV by renaming it to NEVER _AGAIN.WAV.OLD


2) Go to Studio One and save the vocal as 16 bit, 44,100 Hz.(either mp3 or wav will work since BIAB works with both formats).

3) Take the saved vocal file and copy it to the same folder that the song's MGU/SGU file is in. Check the date/time stamp of the file to make sure that it was the one that you just created.

4) Rename the vocal file that has been copied to the song's folder as <songfile name>.WAV or <songfile name>.mp3 if you saved an mp3.

In my case, I would name this vocal file to NEVER_AGAIN.WAV

5) Now start BIAB and open the MGU/SGU file. I would open this using "File | Open" within BIAB rather than double-clicking on the file in the song's folder.

That's it. The audio file will automatically be attached to the MGU/SGU file.

Hopefully this will work for you!
--Noel

P.S. This is a great learning journey we're on smile

MY SONGS...
Audiophile BIAB 2026