Not quite, Gonzo. The issue is General Midi or GM. Biab defaults to GM but a user has never been forced to use GM. GM is a no brainer convienence thing. The basic Wavetable synth in your PC that sounds mostly like a kazoo is GM. The Ketron SD2 that costs $400 also has a GM soundbank that sounds great. It's up to the company how good a GM soundbank sounds. GM has 128 patches and 39 of those are special effects like helicoptor and gunshot. That's very limiting. GM gives you one or two examples of each instrument, that's it. What about all the killer different types of keyboards, trumpets etc, etc that full blown synths have? My Kurzweil PC3 has just under 1,000 patches for example. Your Massive synth is probably similar. You can access all of those sounds with Biab but since they're not GM it doesn't happen automatically. That all this is. GM is simple, automatic but very limited. That may be good enough for you but if you want more then you need to set up your different instrument patches manually. To make this even more confusing a lot of synths don't bother with a GM soundbank because frankly most pro's don't care one whit about GM, they think it's for amateurs who know nothing about this stuff.

Biab 2012 now allows multiple synths to be used so yes you can play one yourself and use several more for other instruments if you want to. Older versions don't allow that.

Bob

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