I have a weird problem: I try to render a song to wav and after a few seconds it starts to play the file and says "Rendering failed". I've rendered plenty of songs without a problem; this is a new one. BIAB 2018 (520)
There are different ways to render a file such as using menu commands and using the DAW Drop. Which method are you using? Where are you saving the WAV file to? How is your storage drive maintenance?
My first suggestion is to try an alternate command. Second is to load another file, a demo file or a project you completed earlier perhaps and try rendering a different project to a WAV file. Third is to perform storage drive maintenance. Check how much free storage space is left. Hard drives like at least 10 to 15 percent while SSD drives prefer at least 20 percent. Either defragment your hard drive or trim your solid state drive.
Quite right, some testing is required. I openend an older file which I rendered succesfully before and it showed the same problem. So, something has changed somewhere. Tried saving it to the partition of my hard drive with more space, but no go (shouldn't be a problem anyway, on both more than 100 Gb available). I render by going on the right side to wav -> Export song as audio file. I also tried it through the menu Audio -> Export song as audio file. Then the rendering seems to take longer, but in the end again the song starts playing and I get the message "Rendering failed". And no audio files are saved.
@Noel96: Thank you for your suggestions. I've never had a softsynth set up, as I never use it. When I have a song with midi-only exporting is no problem. The problem is exporting the Real tracks. So I thought Audio Settings might have something to do with it (#6 in your screenshot). I have 3 options there: MME, ASIO and WAS. But no matter which one I set up, the problem is the same. What bugs me most is that I hadn't changed anything in the setup; I'd just not used BIAB for a couple of months. So it seems logical something changed on my PC but what?
One of BIAB's quirks is that it has to have a soft synth set up for the program to render wav files. This has always been the case and applies to MIDI tracks as well as Realtracks.
What I suggest you do is...
1. under "Options" save your current setup -- this will allow you to retrieve it and to reload it into BIAB if you need to return to your original settings
2. now follow the instructions I set out in my previous post and set the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5 exactly as I have them on the image
3. exit back to BIAB, generate a song
4. try rendering that song
If my suggestion doesn't help in any way, it's then possible to reload you saved settings back into BIAB.
I'm not sure how you've rendered in the past without setting up a soft synth. I suspect that it was automatically set when you installed BIAB.
Now that BIAB is working correctly for you, use the setting under "Options" to save you present settings. Then if something misbehaves in the future, you'll be able to load these settings back in again and it should solve the problem.
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