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Auditioning a Real Track in the Stylemaker copies file into iTunes

In BIAB 2012.5

Go to Styles > Stylemaker > Patch to open the Misc. Style Settings dialog

Click 'Style uses RealDrums and press the RD button

In this case I filtered by 'funk' > Selected JazzFunkFiery^.

I wanted to be sure it was the beat I was looking for, so I clicked the 'Audition' button (lower right).

iTunes launched and said it was copying file to my iTunes library, and then the style began to play.

I went into my iTunes library and found a copy of the file there.

Is it possible to preview real tracks without having copies placed into my iTunes library?


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That's a good question. When we audition a file we are using the same process that happens if you double click the file from Finder, so that it uses your default player program. That is usually iTunes. It seems odd that iTunes copies it to its library, just to play it. Perhaps that's a setting in iTunes?


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Perhaps that's a setting in iTunes?




Yes, this is in advanced preferences.


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I'll check that out, thanks!


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Yes, you can turn the copying off in iTunes, but I find it showing up in iTunes at all quite a pain.

What you can do instead, is go to Finder, and navigate to a .m4a, and choose Get Info. In the Get Info panel, choose Open With "Quicktime Player". Then click the button that says "Change All". Then when you audition in BIAB, the file will just show up in a little black Quicktime player.

That said, BIAB really should just play the audition from the BIAB app like every other sample playing app. Also, we should be able to audition variations as well, and do this rapidly. I have Maschine and auditioning sounds is so fast and easy, and in BIAB my biggest obstacle is finding the right sounds... so painful, and getting worse with the growing loop library. I've been tempted to cut up all the audio files into variations, and load them all into a Maschine Library just so I can find things fast...

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I agree 100%. I wish auditioning styles in BIAB could be done as quickly as auditioning loops is in Logic Studio.

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That said, BIAB really should just play the audition from the BIAB app like every other sample playing app. Also, we should be able to audition variations as well, and do this rapidly. I have Maschine and auditioning sounds is so fast and easy, and in BIAB my biggest obstacle is finding the right sounds... so painful, and getting worse with the growing loop library. I've been tempted to cut up all the audio files into variations, and load them all into a Maschine Library just so I can find things fast...




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