Yep, unless you want to tweak every track for every song in BIAB, you really need a General MIDI compliant instrument such as Coyote Forte, Coyote WT, or Cakewalk TTS-1. But, it's also good to have the single track plugins for those times you want to substitute a different instrument sound for a track.

I generally make either Cakewalk TTS-1 my default GM synth, and then use VST's for when I want to substitute. Of course, a number of BIAB styles automatically invoke Sforzando, but that's seamless. And of course, any time you save a song with embedded VST's, the next time, it will load and play, so again seamless. But for getting a song going "out of the box", a GM multi-channel synth is de rigeur.


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