Okay, I recently upgraded to 2024 from the special that PGMusic offered. Now, I haven't been really using Band In A Box a lot in recent years, so a lot has changed since the time when I was the one offering solutions. How time flies and things change!

I've been having some serious issues with BIAB 2024 and I want to put them out there for people.
First, I'm having problems with Audio. The audio in my computer is working fine. I have a Creative Labs sound card and am using the digital ins and outs to go to external A/D and D/A converters. That is working perfectly. Cakewalk is working perfectly. Band In A Box is not. If I open the program and open up a song, no audio out. I have to restart Windows, sometimes multiple times to get the audio driver to work. Then, today, when I finally did get the audio to work, I went to record into a song, and only the bass track played back. Clicked on the individual parts, muting and unmuting, and I finally had to select a different style to get all the parts to play.

Let me say that I installed over Band In A Box 2023, but reinstalled everything, including all of the Real Tracks (which took me over a day to download).

Then, in recording, it didn't record the keyboard part. It did earlier, however, but then didn't next attempt, and of course, 153 bar song, I didn't notice until after I went to play it back.

Second: I'm using Bomdia+ as the style, a six-part MultiStyle. I don't have 'Choruses' in the song, it's all one chorus. So, to create a soloist for the middle part of the song, I either need to somehow convert it all back to three choruses, each chorus having the appropriate style parts, A/B, C/D, and E/F. I don't remember if that's possible or not. What I would really prefer to see in the Soloist Dialog is the ability to say 'Solo from Bar # to Bar #. This way, I can create the soloist and then export the song parts to Cakewalk on work on the melody and other stuff there. The song I'm working on, I want a piano for the first part, the soloist for the second part and then a brass instrument, trumpet, coronet, etc (not sure which yet) for the last part. I can generate a soloist for the whole song, and then delete what I don't want in Cakewalk, but that's not really how I want to work this. It shouldn't be too hard to add that capability.

I don't know if I need to do a complete uninstall and reinstall, something I do not really want to do since I didn't save the RealTracks when I downloaded them. I'd have to redownload all of them. (Should have bought the hard drive! LOL)

Anyone have similar issues, or know of anyone who did and offered solutions to get it working again? I'm a long time user, and it just seems to me a lot of these issues should have been worked out by now. No offense, Peter, I understand that programming for a Windows system can be difficult, but it always seems to be 'something' that prevents me from working until I go in and do something to fix it, and it works until the next time I want to use it and it's broken again.


GRRRR!!! Okay. Now it won't record MIDI. I can see the MIDI data indicator on the Thru track, but it's not recording. When I go into to the Record MIDI dialog and it says 'Record MIDI to' it giving me the option of two Real Tracks or Utility tracks. I selected one of the Utility tracks, and now when I touch the keyboard, it stops recording. If it's just playing back and I press any key, the playback immediately stops! So, now, I can't even play along with the song, let alone record on this.

This is immensely frustrating.

Gary

Last edited by Gary Curran; 09/18/24 02:04 PM.
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