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I am using 2020 and find I can not do what I was doing with previous versions.
When I created a new song and satisfied with it I would render it to WAV and the 2 files appear together in whatever folder I save them to. I name folders for each year ie 2019, 2018 etc and put all new and revised songs in these folders. In previous versions I would open these old files, play them, perhaps edit or refresh them and resave to the original folder and then save to the latet year folder as well as 2020 for playing and performing.
Here's the problem: previously when I saved the file to a new location both MGU and WAV were saved together
and appeared the same as in the old folder. Now in 2020 when I do this only the MGU is saved and I have to render the file again in the new location.
I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and knows a solution?
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If your .MGU has an audio track, it will be saved as a .WAV file with the same name as your .MGU. If you save the .MGU in a different folder, the audio track will automatically be saved along with it in the new folder. E.G. MySong.MGU and MySong.WAV
When you render a song to .WAV, the rendered file is typically called something like MySong_render.wav by default. This isn't the audio track for your song, but is the rendered version, so will not be attached to your song like the audio track is. My point is that perhaps you were previously naming the rendered versions of your song MySong.WAV and that's why you are noticing different behavior.
Andrew
PG Music Inc.
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Thanks you Andrew for your reply.
Your opening comments are exactly what has been happening in all versions I have used prior to 2020.
In versions before 2020 I would always follow the same procedure:
Create a song as MGU. Render as WAV and save. Both files appear together in the same location.
Open the MGU file to play and the audio in attached to the MGU file. Everything is good
The problem now is that if I simply wish to save that song to another folder,say from All songs 2019 to All songs 2020, only the MGU gets saved. I then need to rerender the file in the new location to attach the WAV and save. I still finish up with MGU and WAV in the new location but this process was not required before. It's more of a nuisance than anything. But I thought there may have been some kind of fault known to users that could be sorted out.
Regards: Bill
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Hey Bill,
Here is what I do BEFORE I render the WAV ...
I create a sub folder underneath the folder that I saved the MGU under and name it something like "100 BPM". When I render the MGU to WAV, I simply instruct BIAB to point to that new folder. Works like a charm for me.
Hope, this helps!
Cheers, Mike My Music * Asus ROG Strix G15CF 32 GB DDR4 4TB HDD + 1 TB SSD NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB Win 11 AKAI EIE PRO Sound Interface. BIAB/RB 2024 UltraPak Build - Latest
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Thanks Mike, What my real problems is that the method I used in BIAB 2016 and 2018 does not work in 2020. In the previous versions I could open any of my rendered files and play them. The MGU and the WAV appeared together with MGU above the WAV. Because I save song in files named Songs 2018, 2017 or Songs 2016 etc, I sometimes want to open one of the songs from these locations and save to my current catalogue Songs 2020.
Previously I would simply open the song, then hit "save as", nominate the new location and both MGU and WAV were saved exactly the same as the original files. When I do this now only the MGU get saved and I then have to rerender it. It's not a huge problem and I can still finish up with MGU and WAV together in the new location but I was trying to find out if this is a problem that can be fixed.
Regards:Bill
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