Hi, last week created a RB file via a song I wrote BnB and it worked great. Built a new song over the past week, opened it up in RB and see things are playing but no sound; new song plays fine in BnB. I've tried all the driver permuations with no luck, Win11. Hooked up my Yeti mic and am able to record and hear, however none of the other tracks have no sound but tracks are active. Please help, pulling my hair out here!
I have tried restarting PG apps, RB & BnB, restarted computer, still no sound. I have seen an Exception in RB as well this week, maybe a rebuild of it would help?
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then.. 2..post back any clarification you need as a result of step 1.... and also post back the info requested in the above thread includeing your windows sound settings for recording and playback INCLUDEING advanced tab settings.
3..dont use mme....youll get latency. you should be useing a proper asio usb interface. post back what your useing to get sound out of your pc as has been requested INCLUDEING settings. dont use onboard pc sound....it looks like you are ??
lets start there...
Last edited by justanoldmuso; Yesterday at03:12 PM.
my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..) https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs (90 songs created useing bb/rb) (lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)
Hi, I don't think its the computer. After checking the output device setting did the sound check and it worked yet RB is still silent. I've tried the laptop speakers and headphones via jack, still don't hear anything. I did some screenshots of the Audio settings and tracks. I don't see anything as Muted however there are Bars that I used this option for Ahs and Ohs, guitar soloist, trumpet soloist, however there activated when needed, chorus, bridge, etc. I'm not doing any MIDI myself, yet, just leveraging BnB options... I have a USB Yeti mic, has worked nice in the past, this is what I recorded a track to see if that input was working and it is. I haven't done the A to D interface this time around.
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Do you have another program open that could be using an ASIO driver? Often ASIO drivers take control of the output sound and stop audio programs from using the output channel.
With the recent screenshots I notice a couple show MME as the Audio driver, but it shows as Windows Audio in the background of a different one.
If you scroll thru the images and focus on the Audio Driver Type it changes in one of the screen shots. Is this the one where it works? I point it out in my screen shots of what you shared below
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your setup is not like those used by the majority of recording studios. I would suggest you get a USB audio interface.... and one that is multi-client meaning you can run many programs at the same time. See pg tips forum multi-client thread for the typical interfaces used by recording studios.
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my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..) https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs (90 songs created useing bb/rb) (lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)
Hi again, this has gone from bad to worse as RealBand is unable to open a file; Tried with 3 songs, one of the files I was able to load in RB earlier today and it worked, which leaves me to believe its something to do with something within the songs, a mute, as someone asked about but I haven't found that fix and won't now until I rebuild RealBand. I've rebooted my laptop a few times and then restart RB, it'll load and say its loading the song but it won't anymore. I'm thinking its time to re-install; is it possible to just remove and reinstall just RB. I didn't find RB in the apps list nor did I find an uninstall executable, but I do see the BnB uninstaller... Contacted PG Music help, said just delete the folder and re-install.
I do have an ASIO device and tried it but it didn't change the result, silence.
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Hi again, this has gone from bad to worse as RealBand is unable to open a file; Tried with 3 songs, one of the files I was able to load in RB earlier today and it worked, which leaves me to believe its something to do with something within the songs, a mute, as someone asked about but I haven't found that fix and won't now until I rebuild RealBand. I've rebooted my laptop a few times and then restart RB, it'll load and say its loading the song but it won't anymore. I'm thinking its time to re-install; is it possible to just remove and reinstall just RB. I didn't find RB in the apps list nor did I find an uninstall executable, but I do see the BnB uninstaller... Contacted PG Music help, said just delete the folder and re-install.
I do have an ASIO device and tried it but it didn't change the result, silence.
When you say "it worked" does that mean that the song successfully played?
When you say that "it's loading the song but it won't anymore", did the tracks all appear, etc. or did the process just stop completely?
If it was my system, I would rename the existing BB folder to something like BB-Bad and then just do a new install following the install prompts choosing the defaults with no changes. Be sure that it doesn't try to install anything into the BB-Bad folder. Also be sure your new shortcuts are directing BIAB and RB to run from the BB folder, not BB-Bad.
I would also download Audacity and try a sample recording and playback there to see if your record and audio settings are working there just as a sanity check, even though in the end your BIAB / RB settings might not be the exact same when you find the answer for those programs. This step would just tell you if anything works and what those settings were so you could try them in RB / BIAB or tells you if nothing works and then you can work on that as a start which might open the door to your BIAB / RB issue for a direction to pursue for a solution.
Finally, I would create a simple song in BIAB with a few chords and a style and save it with a name like TEST123.SGU or something. Then I would load that file into RB and see if it loads and plays.
It's all a part of the process of trying to narrow down and isolating the problem.
(If you don't have anything you would want to scavenge from the old BB folder later after you fixed the problem and you just want to start over, you could just totally DELETE the existing BB folder along with all the sub-folders and skip the rename and just totally start over from scratch. That's what PG Music was suggesting, and that would give you your clean installation of BIAB and RB).
And, just to make sure .. are any of the tracks Muted? Or is one of them SOLO'd .. that would prevent all the other tracks from making sound.
I just now had a chance to read more thoroughly on this thread.
I would bet that you nailed it in your response above. SOLO would definitely be a suspect if he recorded with his Yeti and could see and hear it play but nothing else could be heard. Unfortunately the screen shot with the tracks doesn't show what we need to see on that issue.....
The disk space issues as you mentioned is a good thought as well.
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