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I don't care if I never get the Kurzweil sounds through BIAB. I just need to be able to use it.



This is a contradictory statement but I'm trying to figure out what you're trying to say. You mean as far as playing Biab midi tracks is concerned you don't need your Kurz, you're ok with using the Forte DXi for sound? That's one thing and the simplest way to go. When you talked to support and you installed the Forte, you probably have that set up within Biab and are using it now for sound?

When you say you just need to be able to use your Kurz, use it for what? You mean you want to be able to play along with Biab or do you want to record what you play into Biab? Those are two very different functions. One only requires you to plug the audio outputs from the Kurz into your sound system and you can play along as much as you want, your Kurz has nothing to do with your computer in that case, it's like playing along with any record you might have. If you actually want to record what you play into your computer through Biab, then you need midi cables and a whole lesson about how to set that up.

Here's a confusing part for you. Your Kurz is two things, a synthesizer and a keyboard controller. The keyboard controls the built in synth inside the K2600. In the menus inside the Kurz you can bypass the internal synth and just use the physical keyboard to control a different external synth ie the Forte synth inside your computer via a midi cable. That means you're not using any of the Kurz sounds, only the Forte's sounds, you can play it or record it. That scenario is where the latency problem comes in. There's a built in delay when you try to use an external keyboard to control a software synth inside your computer. ASIO allows you to adjust that latency down low enough that you don't notice it. However, (remember I said this gets confusing?)there is no latency when you use an external hardware synth like your Kurz so then ASIO or no ASIO is completely irrelevant.

You said you know very little about this stuff and you may not be too excited about learning it either. If you can live without doing anything at all with your Kurz and just play Biab inside your computer then you've got your Forte and you're done but, and this is a big but, as soon as you want to hook up your Kurz in any way with your PC, it's school time and that's just the way it is. Time to open the books and start reading about basic midi, midi channels, different modes in your Kurz, msb/lsb, patch maps and how to hook up the midi cables and the audio cables.
Oh yeah, Bob's mantra that people have read here for years now. Midi is not audio, audio is not midi. That's one of the first things new people get confused about when they try to use an external keyboard/synth like yours, they think the audio is going through the midi cables. It's not.

Bob

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