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Hi Al, The song sounds really good. You used some great BiaB instruments. They fit together perfectly. And the guitar solo blends in well, too. Although it's always difficult to create longer solos with good quality using BiaB. Great work, Al. Andi ;-)
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James, We appreciate you - thank you so much for the great review. It means a lot. Bob
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Hi Andi and Deej, Sounds like a great cut from the late 70s. That's quite a collection of talented musicians! Deej has a unique and very pleasant voice - it shines on this one. Very nice production. That guitar just screams - like it should. A real nice visit from a great genre a few years back. Super in all respects. Best to all of you ... Alan Hi Al, Thank you so much for your great feedback. I really appreciate it. I'm glad you liked the song. Best, Andi ;-)
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I ran BIAB Audiophile on my Golden Gate Test Volume. After installing Rosetta 2 per the popup, it ran pretty well from the external drive, exactly as I expected. The pop-up has been updated in macOS 27. I'm testing a number of apps with Intel libraries. Each one is posting its own version of this: ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32809&filename=Screenshot 2026-07-19 at 11.37.16 PM.png) PG Music has fifteen months to get a Native version of BIAB to us. I'm not worried,
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Thanks, Scott - glad you liked it!
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Good info by Jim. I think, but cannot prove, that the recent thread about the 255 bar limit might be related to some recent change in a version of BIAB 2026. We haven’t heard about this in some time. That could be wrong, or coincidence that you just happened to find the same thing now. If you’re ok with this, try posting the song as an SGU file somewhere we can download it and give it a try, such as the public folder of a free Dropbox account. If I understand your point about Audiophile, it’s that you recently started using that version and speculate this is causing your trouble? If so, I actually doubt it. Uncompressing a WMA file (or now, a FLAC file), actually stresses your computer more than simply playing the WAV file that the program wants. But let’s give it a test. Oh, and there are some audio quality settings you could try. I’ll get to a computer and find them, but I think they are in Preferences. RealTracks. The audio quality is one. This Song Has Problems is another.
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Hi John, I'm sorry you're having crash issues. The good news is build 1114 is the last update for BiaB 2024 so it was good to read that's what your running. There is a chance you may be encountering a "traffic jam" at the computer USB port where the 2024 Audiophile external drive is connected. One change you may want to consider is to use the external drive as a read only drive and use an internal or second external drive for disk writes. If you want to use the BiaB external drive to store your song project then store the song file on the external drive once the song is complete. Typically Band-in-a-Box creates an error log when there is a crash. The exception pop up window gives you a chance to save a error log. You can find the log file by navigating to Help > Utilities > Display Error Log file. Windows crash files are called "dump" files and have the file suffix *.dmp. +++ HERE +++ is a Microsoft article about capturing a dump file. Once you have a BiaB error log or Windows dump file upload the file(s) to cloud storage (Box, Dropbox, Drive, etc.). Create a post detailing what you were doing when the crash occurs and a link to the files. That will give the developers and fellow users enough information to obtain a clear picture of what is happening.
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Guys, I’m seeing crashes far too often. I’m running BIAB 2024 (1114) on Windows 11 on a Lenovo laptop with plenty of excess disk space and tons of memory. Same laptop for the last four years, but in the last few weeks I’m getting a couple of black-screen auto reboots per day. Always happens in a re-generate. I’ve been using BIAB a lot lately as I’m retired from Engineering and recently “promoted” to bass player in a band, so I’m spending lots of time using BIAB as my back-up band for practice. I let W11 update at the mercy of the Microsoft gods, so likely the latest version. Maybe it’s something else in my system, but I’ve been using BIAB for many years. I’m that guy who uses it live in solo restaurant gigs, and It’s always been very trustworthy. The songs are pretty much standard lengths, so I don’t think I’m triggering the “255 bar limit issue”. Unless maybe … (and this just now occurred to me) after multiple stops and starts on the same song file, and sometimes even looping over a section I’m working on, maybe some buffer related to that 255 problem is overflowing? Now that I think (and write) about it, I’ve recently been using BIAB in a different work-mode than before, and that’s when the crashes began. Also, something possibly related is I’m running the Audiophile version off the drive supplied by PG, so the crashes probably happen as the program starts hitting that disk hard.
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Great video , beautiful song. I like snow because i am from Finland!
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Hi Bob. Thanks for that. I like to try and fit some sort of melody in, otherwise it’s just a poem. A decent melody can disguise a mediocre lyric and vice versa. Maybe we should try one together sometime. I haven’t done a collab for a long while. Vic
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Hi Vic! The theme is well supported by the style, melody, instrumentation and your vocal, which illustrates the tiredness and pain of many years, but with some hope. The line which intrigued me … I'll turn around at no. 9. … what happened there? Who lived there? Does it mark a point the singer can’t move past? He’s just passing through, but always turns around at number 9. Is his memory of a relationship which is now broken only held there by the physical place in which it took place? A very emotive song, and very well arranged. Andrew
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Hi Rob. I’m pleased to hear you like it. Always good to get at least one like. Well, the guy already knows why he’s there. He’s just not sure he should be. Is it time to move on? Maybe not. Thank you sir. Vic
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Hi Bob! The March style works well for this anthem - reinforces a sense of moving forward and progress. I reckon the last verse would be a good one to be sung by a crowd - it’s got the plural - ‘us all’, ‘we will’. Andrew
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I listened to this when it was released, and I had NO IDEA until today what the hell he was singing about in this song. Neil Young crafted a surreal, time-traveling narrative about environmental destruction. He has often stated that he wrote the lyrics organically while under the influence of drugs, leaving the song open to interpretation.The lyrics move through three distinct eras in human history: The Past: The opening verse paints a quasi-medieval scene with knights and peasants, establishing humanity’s timeless relationship with nature. The Present: The second verse features a deeply personal, surreal vision of Young lying in a "burned-out basement". The lines "Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s" act as a protest against human exploitation of the Earth's resources. The Future: The final verse imagines a dystopian future where the planet is dying. In a sci-fi twist, it depicts the "chosen ones" escaping the ruined Earth in silver spaceships to colonize a new home in the sun, leaving the rest of humanity behind That's pretty much how I had understood it. I had devised a way to sing "Look at Mother Nature Nature on the run in the 2020s" to fit the metre of the song, but chickened out
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Hi Ken! Good music and a good message! Andrew Thanks as always for listening. Glad you liked it 
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DaveTune, BIAB/Rosetta has been a subject of discussion on this forum at least since AAPL said ( 5+ years ago) they would one day abandon Rosetta. Years ago PG Made the argument that we did not need to "worry" about such things. It didn't matter. Like deficits. The software performed adequately. We knew Rosetta was there. As a software developer, I thought Rosetta was stupid. But I know Lots of stupid stuff lives on in spite of my willingness to point out how wrong it is. Burdens we carry. As i said BIAB has mostly worked just fine. The negligible performance difference some of us may have believed was there was, after all, negligible. I got that same message the other day. It bothers me a lot. I'm wondering when we will hear something meaningful from PG. PG Music has confirmed in one of the many other threads on this subject that they will not abandon their Intel market until they have to. I see no reason to doubt them on this. This means we will see a Native version of BIAB in 2028 and not before. They might surprise us but I don't expect a repeat of 2018 when they gave us a version that could be run in 32 or 64 bit (you had to select). Apple Silicon Native apps don't run over Intel and I don't expect them to release two different versions simultaneously. If this bothers you well... be bothered, I guess.
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Perhaps somebody has posted on this somewhere else in the forum. Many threads on this already. I fired up BIAB today on my Tahoe 26.5.2 Mac Mini. Got the "you will be dead and in a grave soon" message. Apple has been popping that one up for years. Any app that still functions over Intel will pop it up now and then. Didn't realize 6 years had passed since AAPL promised to kill rosetta. Huh? Rosetta was for enabling PPC aps over Intel and was killed in 2012. Rosetta 2 was introduced in 2020 to enable Intel apps on Apple Silicon Macs. Apple announced in 2024 that Rosetta 2 would go away with macOS 2028 in two years. Anyway, I'm sure the Apple Silicon version will soon be ready for Beta Testing? Perhaps but it's highly unlikely. Rosetta 2 is still supported in macOS 27 GoldenGate. Since an AS Native version of BIAB will not run over Intel Macs, I don't see PG Music cutting off that share of the market until BIAB 2028. They did release a 32/64 bit version in 2018 (you had to select one or the other depending on your macOS) but dropped 32 bit in 2019. I have a test Volume running macOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 3. I've not tested BIAB over it yet but will soon—not expecting it to behave any differently than it does over Tahoe but I'll find out soon enough. So far, I'm having trouble with 3rd party MIDI drivers (but not CoreAudio/CoreMDI) and Apple's Books.app is broken— again.
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Vic, You have such an excellent touch with a melody. I love this - a new favorite. Your vocal is great and the overall production is perfect. Great job! Bob
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Defo M AUDIO Air the bees knees . While I agree with you that for price/feature/performance, the M•Audio AIR line is the best around, the AIR interfaces have been discontinued. Only the 1–2 channel interfaces have been superseded with something newer. Amazon still has a new one for $329. eBay and other sites have them in the $150–$300 range. Besides M•Audio, I have a large number of interfaces from MOTU, Mackie, Zoom and a Neuman MT 48. My AIR 192|14 is the one normally sitting on my desktop. 4 mic/instrument CombiJacks (phantom switchable 1–2. 3–4) with enough gain to drive an SM7b + 2 instrument level Ins + 2 line level Ins all with separate USB Outs to your DAW + 4 Analog out incl. 2 Monitor + 4 Ins from your DAW over USB including Loopback + 2 headphone amps + MIDI + USB I/O blend control + power supply & on/off switch (I like to turn it off when not in use) + software suite (that I have never used) + telephone support (yes, M•Audio answers the phone). I also like the top-mounted controls. M•Audio AIR 192|14 ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32808&filename=Screenshot 2026-07-19 at 11.27.15 AM.png)
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DaveTune, BIAB/Rosetta has been a subject of discussion on this forum at least since AAPL said ( 5+ years ago) they would one day abandon Rosetta. Years ago PG Made the argument that we did not need to "worry" about such things. It didn't matter. Like deficits. The software performed adequately. We knew Rosetta was there. As a software developer, I thought Rosetta was stupid. But I know Lots of stupid stuff lives on in spite of my willingness to point out how wrong it is. Burdens we carry. As i said BIAB has mostly worked just fine. The negligible performance difference some of us may have believed was there was, after all, negligible. I got that same message the other day. It bothers me a lot. I'm wondering when we will hear something meaningful from PG.
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I’m running the the 2026 version of BIAB Audiophile on a new Mac Studio with an M4 Max chip and I just got a pop up notice that this version of BIAB WILL NOT RUN ON A FUTURE MAC OS UPDATE. So, will one of the PG Music staff please respond to these posts. Will this very expensive program cease to run on Mac silicon in the very near future?
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Poignant lyrics. Gentle flowing instrumentation and melody---very pleasing. Great vocal too. Thanks for listening! Glad you enjoyed it!
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Great song with lyrics I'm sure many of our fellow old timers will relate to! Your vocals are very similar to a lady who was a regular here, but hasn't posted this year, though hers excelled when she sang jazz. Have you ever tried jazz? I also use Audacity for arranging and mixing as I was already familiar with it before I discovered BiaB, but due to PC space limitations I don't do any mastering. I've tried such as compression, etc, in Audacity, but found it made little difference. However, you do get a really nice sound and everything is balanced nicely. Thank you for the compliments! I never have tried singing jazz. I enjoy it but never considered singing it. I appreciate the input on my mixing/mastering. This is new to me and I did a lot of trial/error and studying on Youtube. As far as Audacity goes, same here. I was already kind of familiar with it and haven't taken the time to study the DAW in Biab.....yet. I still should look into it as it seems pretty in depth.
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