Old 12-12-2018, 06:50 PM   #1
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Default Anyone tried BIAB 2019 VST in Reaper?

I have had no luck with it in Reaper - crashes continually and even had one complete system lockup!

I tried it in Cakewalk, which ended in a crash

It did work in Bitwig.

Update:
It seems as though the VST uses WMP to playback and generate audio files that are to be drag/drop into Reaper.
I was able to get it to work in Reaper by closing all other apps and setting my buffer size to 1024 spls - not ideal, but it does work.
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Old 12-12-2018, 10:31 PM   #2
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Could you be more specific on how this works ? For an "offline" activity like exporting / importing files it does not make much sense that the buffer size of the sound card is involved.

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Old 12-13-2018, 04:50 AM   #3
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The product comes with a shitload of audio files - these are used by BIAB to "generate" separate audio tracks (within the plugin) for an entire band based on the style you have chosen.

This process can take up to 3 minutes, when it doesn't crash or lock up. The crashing occurs during the generate phase.

Once these have been generated, the plugin apparently uses WMP to playback these files. It seems as if another app is also hooked into WMP (whether active or not), the generate process can take 10+ minutes (or of course, just crash). And the buffer size in my ASIO driver needs to be at least 512 to prevent crashing as well ( no clue why)

The 1024 buffer size matters when the actual playback within the plugin occurs - if lowered, you hear nothing but digital distortion.

Once the BIAB tracks are drag/dropped into Reaper, all is good.

The standalone works as expected, with only seconds to generate the audio tracks.
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Seems like a bug...

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Old 12-13-2018, 06:45 AM   #5
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That seems to be the consensus on their forum. They acknowledge that there is an issue but I'm not sure how high they are prioritizing it.

As this is v1, if they continue to develop it, it could be a great plugin. But as it stands now, it seems to be just a more direct way of exporting tracks from the standalone and importing tracks into a DAW. (ie Drag and drop)
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As this is v1,
It's not even 2019 yet so it obviously is v -1 .

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Old 12-23-2018, 12:20 PM   #7
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This was posted today:

Here is a video showing the plugin being used in a variety of ways in the DAW Reaper:

https://youtu.be/6dmfRXp2CSA

PGMusic is promising this version for release tomorrow. The last 3-weeks has been a blood bath with errors and crashes, but all are hoping this current build it the one.
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