Removing unwanted options

Steve English · Post by **Steve English** » 7 Sep 2013 1:25 pm

Do any of you remove files that are not necessary to your needs?

I only need country stuff, no rock, jazz, pop, etc. And I don't need all of the styles and files that support anything other than country.

Do any of you have suggestions on what files are absolutely necessary for biab to function in the country-use only?

Seems like about 95% of my biab program is doing nothing but occupying a massive amount of space and resources on my system, and I'm interested in a more efficient use of that space.

Can anyone point me in the right direction with regards to this?

I'm currently using 2009 with real drums and instruments.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 7 Sep 2013 1:59 pm

Go through and listen to all those styles. I have found styles "other than country" that work well for some country songs that the "country" styles suck at.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 8 Sep 2013 2:16 am

I agree with Richard. Lots of other useful styles.

My BIAB folder is 9.7GB, which includes extra stuff that you do not have, relatively small considering the size of hard drives (or SSD's) today.

As far as System Resources, other than the hard drive space, if you are not using it its not loaded or taking any system resources (e.g. memory) when you run BIAB.

Steve English · Post by **Steve English** » 8 Sep 2013 10:27 am

Using biab 2006, I ended up with the following results:

The original program started with 914mb.
I reduced that number to 50.2mb

The original program started with 9203 files.
I reduced that number to 60

The original program started with 95 folders.
I reduced that number to 6

The entire program now fits easily on a 1gig usb drive, with scads of room left for more of my saved creations.

It includes all of the country styles C_ *.sty files, of which more than 2/3rds of them I'll never have a use for and will eventually remove.

I can plug my thumb drive in to any of my 6 computers and run the program directly from it. This includes all midi conversion/transfer capabilities (I routinely export to Sonar for mixing/mastering). I have all of the midi input and program editing features intact that are required for creating any drums and instrument performances.

Now I can focus on eliminating all of the tacky "Ina-goda-da-vida" drums fills that always pop up at the most inappropriate times

:eek::eek: and not have to wallow through the miles and miles useless (to me) "styles".

ALSO: All of the files I removed are in a folder on the same thumb drive should I ever need to utilize them

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 8 Sep 2013 11:26 am

Now I can focus on eliminating all of the tacky "Ina-goda-da-vida" drums fills that always pop up at the most inappropriate times ShockedShockedShocked and not have to wallow through the miles and miles useless (to me) "styles".

That's my biggest gripe about BIAB. I only use it a few times a year. Of course, if one is willing, those drum patterns can be edited. Not worth it to me because I use the program only if I need to to learn a song at home. Whatever prompted the morons developing those styles to ruin them with crappy drum parts? Otherwise, BIAB is useless to me. I think version 10 is as far as I have upgraded over the years.

True, there are many styles that could be dumped. There's only about a half a dozen that I ever use. But seriously, there are some styles under other genres that far beat the crappy styles that are listed under country and I use them more. Most of the country styles suck.

I do like your idea of being able to run the program on any computer off a thumb drive.

Steve English · Post by **Steve English** » 9 Sep 2013 3:40 pm

Thanks for your input Richard, I've always appreciated your postings.

I'm old school midi, and have been in to it since the days that my recording facility was a beta test site for Passport Designs 4 and 8 track sequencers. The pic below is a partial of my midi setup circa 1986-87. The computers will time stamp it

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Admittedly I'm not the ideal candidate for a biab type product, but it was acquired years ago and I'm just now starting to prepare for a rv'ing experience that will allow me to travel quite a bit. I've been assembling my "travel music package" and getting back into writing and programing....but used to doing it from scratch with a controller and sequencing software.

I've just run into too many obstacles with biab to make it work for me in my scenario. I think it's an excellent program in the right application, but not mine.

Thanks again for your comments and help.