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February 06, 2018 - #TipTuesday - Installing the Band-in-a-Box® Hard Drive Versions
Have you purchased a Band-in-a-Box® UltraPAK, which ships on a portable USB hard drive? Once received, there are a few different options for you: Run Band-in-a-Box® directly from the USB drive only, Install Band-in-a-Box® on your computer hard drive (but leave the RealTracks and RealDrums on the USB hard drive), Install Band-in-a-Box® AND RealTracks on your computer hard drive, or choose a Custom Installation!
To summarize these options:
Option #1 - Run Band-in-a-Box® directly from the USB drive only. This allows you to use the hard drive "as is" and run the programs from it. It requires very little free disk space on your internal hard drive. Setup will install and register the PG Music notation fonts, VSC-DXi synth, VSC-VST synth, and PG Music DirectX audio plugins on your computer, but will not install Band-in-a-Box®, RealBand, RealTracks, or RealDrums on your computer's internal hard drive.
Option #2 - Install Band-in-a-Box® on your computer hard drive, but leave the RealTracks and RealDrums on the USB hard drive. This requires more hard disk space, about 2 to 4 GB. In addition to the plugins and fonts, this will install the Band-in-a-Box® and RealBand programs to your computer's hard drive, and allow you to run the programs from there, as if you had installed them from a DVD.
Option #3 - Install Band-in-a-Box® AND RealTracks on your computer hard drive. In addition to everything installed by Option 2, this will copy the RealTracks and RealDrums (Drums) folders from the USB drive to your computer's hard drive, as if you had installed the entire package from DVD. This will allow you to keep the PG Music hard drive primarily for backup, and use Band-in-a-Box® and RealBand (along with the RealTracks) directly from your computer hard drive. NOTE: This option requires a lot of free hard disk space (over 80 GB) since these folders contain many audio files, and the installation may take about an hour to complete depending on how fast your computer is.
Option #4 - Custom Installation - Choose exactly what you want to install. This option is for advanced users who want to be able to select exactly what is installed. For example, you could install RealDrums but not RealTracks, or skip the DX plugins, or install the Video Tutorials, etc.
For more detailed information, visit http://www.pgmusic.com/techfaq51.htm#163
No matter how you install and use your Band-in-a-Box® hard drive, make sure you're saving your songs (or a copy of them) to your own folder not on the hard drive - that way you'll have a back-up copy if your hard drive isn't available to you!
Posted on February 6, 2018 09:13 AM
Entries from February 2018:
- Feb 1 - My Favorite Things - Band-in-a-Box® Chord Sheets Display in Minor Keys!
- Feb 1 - User Showcase Song - Keep Singing Your Song
- Feb 2 - YouTube Find - How To Understand And Play The DORIAN SCALE In ANY KEY On Guitar
- Feb 2 - User Showcase Song - How Are You
- Feb 5 - Notation Window Enhancements in Band-in-a-Box® 2018 for Windows!
- Feb 5 - Introducing... RealTracks Artist Dave Milligan
- Feb 5 - User Showcase Song - Forever's Not As Long As It Used To Be
- Feb 6 - Welcome to the Team Mikke!
- Feb 6 - #TipTuesday - Installing the Band-in-a-Box® Hard Drive Versions
- Feb 6 - User Showcase Song - That's How The Story Ends
- Feb 7 - The Power of the Part Marker
- Feb 7 - User Showcase Song - Magical Voyage
- Feb 8 - User Tip - Forcing Tab in Band-in-a-Box®
- Feb 8 - User Showcase Song - The World Won't See
- Feb 9 - Band-in-a-Box® Song Title Browser Requests Forum
- Feb 9 - User Showcase Song - Beyond The Ozone - Into The No Parking Zone
- Feb 9 - Holiday Hours - Family Day (Mon, Feb 12)
- Feb 13 - Support for ABC Notation Format in Band-in-a-Box® 2018 for Windows!
- Feb 13 - User Showcase Song - These Lonely Streets
- Feb 14 - Band-in-a-Box® Customer Feedback - Feel The Love!
- Feb 14 - User Showcase Song - Love Bitter Blues
- Feb 15 - PowerTracks Pro Audio 2018 is Here!
- Feb 15 - #TBT - The Beginning of Xtra Styles PAKs for Band-in-a-Box®
- Feb 15 - User Showcase Song - No One Knows
- Feb 16 - RealBand 2018 Build 5 Update Available!
- Feb 16 - User Showcase Song - Just Plain Folks
- Feb 16 - Band-in-a-Box® 2018 Build 512 Update Available!
- Feb 19 - A Little Bit Of Me Music Video!
- Feb 19 - User Showcase Song - Valley of the Dolls
- Feb 20 - Band-in-a-Box® Patch Updates
- Feb 20 - YouTube Find - How To Play SLOW A7 BLUES Guitar Solo With 4 NOTES
- Feb 20 - User Showcase Song - A Marriage of Inconvenience
- Feb 21 - Introducing... RealTracks Artists David Wise & Shelly Justice!
- Feb 21 - User Showcase Song - CAGE
- Feb 22 - Beginners Help - Muting the Melody Notation
- Feb 22 - User Showcase Song - Il lago e la nebbia (The Lake and The Fog)
- Feb 23 - Band-in-a-Box® Video Testimonials!
- Feb 23 - User Showcase Song - Only Begin
- Feb 26 - Band-in-a-Box® Tutorial Videos - YouTube Channel
- Feb 26 - #MusicMonday - User Showcase Song Resource!
- Feb 26 - User Showcase Song - Just Turn Around
- Feb 27 - Introducing Band-in-a-Box Endorsing Artist Ian Hammond Brown!
- Feb 27 - #TipTuesday - Writing Interesting Songs
- Feb 27 - User Showcase Song - Perfectly Clear
- Feb 28 - RealDrums Picker Enhancements and QuickList Added with Band-in-a-Box® 2018 for Windows!
- Feb 28 - User Showcase Song - My Friend Miguel
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