Well hope you can get it fixed soon, I KNOW it's frustrating especially if it is your ONLY GM synth



While you wait I can I make a suggestion and it’s all FREE and sounds pretty good (the GM soudns you end up with are very very good)

1. Read about it here

http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth

2. Download CoolSoft Virtual MIDI Synth (IT IS A GM synth) here. GET version 1.17.1 DO NOT try version 2.00 - 2.00 is a BETA .

http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth#download


3. If you have more than a few GB's of RAM than use the SGM-V2.10 sound font, listed further down the first page (it's the best GM sound font package I've ever tired, and I have tried all the free GM SF sets).

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zo8l3dgf2989266/SGM-V2.01.7z

You will need 7zip to unzip - if your favorite unzip utility doesn’t already unzip it

http://www.7-zip.org/

4. Next install Virtual MIDI synth during install it will

a. Ask if you want it as your DEFAULT MIDI Out Device I suggest NO (you can configure it in BIAB, or later if you like)

b. Asks (actually it tells you) to add a sound font to work (it won’t make any sounds if you don't install at least one sound font bank) but when you check that box and it just takes you back to Coolsoft site where sound fonts are listed - after downloading other fonts or not and you close your browser windows it will ask to to re-boot PC, just go ahead and re-boot.

c. After re-booting you should find a "CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth" program folder in your Start Programs list.

d. Run "Configure Virtual midi synth" and add your now unzipped SGM-2.01.sf2 (where ever you unzipped it at) and I would not change or worry any of the other defaults right now.

PS this is a technical geek thing (and no you don’t need to worry about it ) so this is just info but the Virtual MIDISynth acts like a DEVICE, actually you can think of it as an EXTERNAL MIDI Device. That being the case it installs like a device and not like a "program" so it does not install to the C:\Programs Files. If you are looking for where it installs to (please DO NOT MOVE IT or muck around with it), "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\VirtualMIDISynth\.."


5. Open BIAB:

a. Remember "Virtual MIDISYNTH" is NOT a VSTi or DXi: so you can treat it, and think of it, as an external GM module. So within BIAB go to

Options -> MIDI/Audio Driver setup

UNCHECK "Use VSTi/DXi synth"

Under MIDI Output Driver select the " CoolSoft VirtualMIDI Synth"

Now exit that menu and the CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth Mixer window will open (remember think of the Virtual synth as a piece of external hardware, so just like a piece of external gear you can set volume on each part as well as over all volume)

Now pick a BIAB song with MIDI parts or a whole GM song it should play just fine (and if the mixer gets lost under BIAB just "Crtl-Alt-M" will pop it back up

Good luck with above and with getting Forte working

Larry

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