I know I just saw something about this recently, but I can't seem to search intelligently enough to zero in on what I need.
I have a project that generates fine in BIAB. I save the MGU file, and open it in RB.
Drums do not generate, and I get an error saying that the directory RB expects to find them in does not exist.
I thought I saw an explanation of how to edit something that has some real drums in the wrong place making RB unable to find them. If anybody finds it before I do, please holler at me. Thanks.
I know I just saw something about this recently, but I can't seem to search intelligently enough to zero in on what I need.
I have a project that generates fine in BIAB. I save the MGU file, and open it in RB.
Drums do not generate, and I get an error saying that the directory RB expects to find them in does not exist.
I thought I saw an explanation of how to edit something that has some real drums in the wrong place making RB unable to find them. If anybody finds it before I do, please holler at me. Thanks.
Meanwhile, I'll keep looking...
update... I can't get ANY drums to generate!
Pat You might have to go looking in BiaB for these settings. RealBand uses the file locations from BiaB as far as i can tell. Options > Preferences > RealDrums and check that the folder shown exists and it contains the drums. I think this is related anyway, others may chime in with more info. Trevor
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Sometimes, when RB stops doing what it does, a reset works. I don't know if you have Silvertones reset program that he wrote. If not ....
... reset RB to factory settings by renaming the EALBAND.INI file and RB.CFG to something like REALBAND.INI.OLD and RB.CFG.OLD.
I'm pretty sure you know all this but, just in case ...
Doing the above renaming will effectively "delete" those files so that RB is forced to create new ones (thus the factory rest). If the problem is not solved by doing this, you can always delete the newly created files and then return the original files to their original names.
The error message saying the directory does not exist is wrong... the directory DOES exist, and the real drum is in it
The same song in BIAB finds and plays the real drum... so the directory settings in BIAB are correct. Its only in RB that I can't generate realdrums.
I'm wondering if that last blue screen crash changed something on the hard drive that RB needs. As I write this I'm reloading everything from the USB hard drive to see if it overwrites any hard disk errors that may have been caused by the last crash.
I checked preferences to make sure that the drums folder was set to C:\bb\drums and it is. Yet, RB still isn't finding the folder.
So on a lark, I copied the whole drum folder to the REALBAND directory.
now the real drums generate. Something in the program is missing the C:\BB\ part of the path and so it looks in the root directory
it must be, because when I put the drums there, it found them.
So now I want to ask if y'all can generate real drums using RB updated with the dec 5th patch?
Using RB 2015 (2) I can generate Real Drums with no problems. I would have done this many times previously, but performed the operation again just now to double check. My paths are defaults, as shown:
BIAB & RB2024 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones
My folders are set up just like your screen shot... and yours works... yet, until I moved the drums folder to the realband directory, it didn't work here.
I wonder what the heck is going on to produce the results I'm seeing??
My folders are set up just like your screen shot... and yours works... yet, until I moved the drums folder to the realband directory, it didn't work here.
I wonder what the heck is going on to produce the results I'm seeing??
Time to talk to the Support team at PGM?
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Forgive me if you already checked on my solution below, but It held me up for days, so, I thought I'd speak up.
I had the exact same problem as described in this post. None of my realdrums would generate. The way I solved it was following SolidRock's advice above. But hear me out before you re-check his post.
I didn't do it for awhile because my path settings looked right at first. (and I re-checked many times)
Then I looked really close at the error box that disappears right after it tells you it couldn't find the folder. Gotta look quick. No wonder I missed the drive letter. That's because I was concentrating so hard on memorizing the rest of the message.
I had to attempt to regenerate like ten times before I realized that the error message said it was looking in my F drive.
Literally everything else was using my E drive. But for some reason, not the drum generation.
Regardless, when I actually went to the screen described by solidrock (options/preferences/song generation/paths) all of the paths on the 'select folders' dialogue box were already correctly pointing to my E drive. So how could that be the problem/solution? In spite of that, When I clicked "ok", it must have sent a message to the drum generation code and now everything works correctly.
Okay, here's something I would try. I am assuming you are using the external BIAB/RealBand hard drive for RealTracks/RealDrums (which can result in drive letters changing).
Make sure your external drive is plugged in. Go into Windows Disk Manager, find your external drive, and explicitly set a different drive letter for it (use a drive letter you don't normally use - maybe R: for RealTracks or P: for PGMusic).
Then go into BIAB and RealBand and set the folder locations for RTs/RDs to that new drive letter.
My experience has been (with both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1) is that once you set the drive letter explicitly, it remembers it when you next plug in that disk, rather than just assigning the next available drive letter. And I've found it keeps the drive letter assignment, even if I plug it into a different USB port.
Just a thought and worth a try. Takes a couple of minutes to do.
John
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