Biab is driving me nuts again.... I finally managed to find, where TTS-1 dll is installed and picked that as a recommended DXI output. Only I get no midi sound out of the songs. I hear only the realdrums/-tracks.
What is the issue here?
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Happy New Year Stefan
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I notice that you are using ASIO as your audio driver. Some ASIO drivers only let a single application use them so if you have other audio software open, it's possible that is taking precedence.
What happens if you change your audio driver to MME or WAS? (I always use MME.)
Also, on the right side of the MIDI driver setup window, you "Native Instruments Bandstand." Try setting this to "Cakewalk TTS-1." This is a patch map but it would still be a good idea to align it with your softsynth.
Some translation issues here but, you don't have TTS-1 selected as Sound Card and you don't have "Route MIDI thru MIDI Driver" checked. This configuration works for me.
Sorry, nothing helps. Cycled thru the options WAS/MME... to no avail. Also amended the settings you mentioned Noel. I hear only the realdrums. Nothing else. Also switched the songs for a change.
No other music software was running in parallel.
Prima Donna is challenging again. I played on my Tyros instead with Biab today.....
Cheers Stefan
Last edited by Museeker; 01/09/2211:08 AM.
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OK I may have this one. I had a possibly similar situration with VituralMidiSynth which is a sound Synth much like your TTS-1 (maining it is not a DXi which is loaded in another place in BIAB).
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Edit- Sorry. I reread the post. Seems you TTS-s is a DXi which is not set up in the pictues I have here. But this may help you appreciate how hard/confusing this can be. The sound you are missing is coming from your Default Synth. You just have to tweek somethings. Keep pushing buttons. Look at the final picute I added and see how I change from the VisturalMidiSynth back to my default synth.
So my system has several Win10 outs for speakers. I found that for some reason the output Win device was set to my ASIO system. Now I don't use that for BIAB so those speakers are generally off. And I would hear no midi sound. I had to open up the separate standalone configuration app which came with VirtualMIDISynth to the driver where to play the sound. See the picures below.
Any chance you have some similar configuration, (multiple speaker system?) cause this took me weeks to discover.
My next steps would be to return to factory settings. This is found under the "Options" menu. I've often found that when BIAB doesn't do what it should, a reset will often solve the problem.
1) Firstly, choose the "MOST" option. This will reset everything except the MIDI and Audio drivers.
2) If (1) gave no joy, I'd then try the "ALL" option. After this, it's necessary to re-enter the MIDI and Audio drivers.
3) If neither of the above worked, I'd then close BIAB (this is important). I'd then go to "bb\preferences" and rename the following two files...
INTRFACE.BBW rename to INTRFACE.BBW.OLD MySetup.DK rename to MySetup.DK.OLD
Once I've renamed the files, I'd restart BIAB.
These are the files where preferences are saved. Renaming to something like the above effectively deletes them from BIAB. As a consequence, BIAB will create new ones when it starts up. This is the most extreme way of resetting BIAB and sometimes it's necessary.
If you need to get back to the old files, it's simply a matter of deleting the new ones and removing the .OLD from the above.
Are(or were) you using Cakewalk as DAW? I had trouble running mine because I think Cakewalk (or Roland) had something proprietary encoded into the plugin. I could never get it to run in anything but Cakewalk.
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