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I have a couple of older Cakewalk products that I never use and I recognize those things that show up in your Biab window. You're right, they're not synths that you can use in Biab. The TTS-1 should be there if you can see a few dll's with that name. You can't install the TTS-1 by itself, it's only used with a Cakewalk product so you have to install the program that it's a part of whether you need it or not. Since it's not showing up I guess the thing to do is to uninstall Sonar and try again and this time pay close attention to the instructions in the install window and make sure the TTS-1 is included. And, if it's possible don't install those other things that showed up in Biab's midi window since they're useless anyway.

Just a comment to clear up a misconception on your part. Biab has no sounds of it's own. None. It's entirely up to you the user, to provide whatever synth you want to use with it and this is all over PG's website. The prices can be $40 for the Forte up to $400 for the Ketron to $2,000 for my Kurzweil, how much you spend is up to you. The main thing is the more you spend the better it sounds, big surprise there. All PG is doing is giving people a freebie to get started. Free is worth what you paid for it. Roland stopped supporting the VSC like 15 years ago so when it was discovered that the VSC won't work with 64 bit Windows, PG managed to find a workaround for people who haven't picked up a proper synth yet by working with Coyote to write some software to allow your built in MS Wavetable to act as a DXi synth. Just the Wavetable by itself (not the DXi version) has horrible latency and you can't do automatic rendering with it. You have to have a DXi/VSTi for that. The problem with the Coyote Wavetable version is it still only uses your MS Wavetable for sound and it still sounds like crap. In my opinion, this is not a reason to switch to 32 bit Windows, there's lots of very good reasons to use 64 bit and I won't bore you with them here.

I know you said in your original post you're not a "techo". There's probably stuff I just referred to here you don't understand. You have to learn this and understand it or it's going to be a long hard road for you. This stuff is tricky at first but like anything else in life once you learn it, it's easy.

Keep plugging away and keep posting your questions here, we'll get you going.

I got interrupted while I was writing this and I see John posted about installing the 32 bit version of Sonar. Note that's not changing your Windows to 32 bit. A lot of programs now ship with both 64 and 32 bit versions. Almost all 32 bit programs work fine with Windows 64 bit including Sonar and Biab. The thing is 64 Bit Sonar is faster and handles memory better than the 32 bit version but I'm taking you into the weeds of "techodom" again. Bottom line reinstall Sonar or look in that other folder. One way or another you have the TTS-1 and will be able to use it.

Bob