I'm surprised you couldn't get Coyote to work.

I'm sure you realize it, but there are two different Coyote products. BIAB should automatically install the Coyote WT (WaveTable), which is just a DXi wrapper for the sounds Microsoft provides with your OS), so it sounds the same as the MS GS synth (but allows you to use it as if it were a DXi synth).

There is also the Coyote Forte, which comes as a 30-day trial. The clock starts ticking as soon as you install it. At the end of 30 days, you need to buy a $40 license key to keep using it. There are lots of folks here on the forum that use it all the time in various Windows installations, so I wouldn't say its a junk synth. I've used it on Windows XP, Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows 7 32-bit, and Windows 7 64-bit, on three different computers with different motherboards and different soundcards, so I know it works.

Make sure it is installed (there is an installer on the disk or drive you received from PGMusic). Once installed, you should be able to select it as your default synth. You might need to rescan your DX plugins to make sure it shows up. Also, you need to reboot after installing it. (What?!? Reboot?!? I never reboot; you shouldn't have to reboot. I'd rather spend 2 weeks on the forum figuring out how to make it work without rebooting than spend two minutes rebooting the computer - sorry, rant over, but I've heard that too much). I know that when I didn't reboot, Forte did not work properly until I did.

Something is amiss if it's not working for you, but Forte went through extensive testing an lots of folks are using it successfully. If there truly is a bug, I bet Norm from Coyote (he's the Peter Gannon of Coyote) will help you work through it. I know that's happened in the past.

Let us know, so we can help you figure it out.

John

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