Hi Ron,

This is a never ending and personal quest - just when you think you have something you like it is not long before you are looking for something better - but there are basic things that give you a good platform

1. You mention DX but I hope you have found the VSC DXi on the BIAB pak disc's which is superior in sound quality to the basic and old VSC DX

2. If you are using Vista 32 then you need a soundcard that can deal completely with the faster way that Vista deals with audio and the one I have found to be excellent value is the Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme gamer sound card which has sound creation features and the "what you hear" recording feature

3. Now that BIAB has developed it's "Real" (drums and tracks) ranges, audio files of piano-bass-drums and guitar etc - these do really make the sound like a studio quality output - we have made quality demo/backing tracks CD's with these and they can even fool musicians with quotes like "which studio did you use?"

I have over the last few years been lucky enough to have all the top samples - soft synths - etc and some are good but expensive - as a musician I did not like spending hours setting up etc.

Another option is a hardware sound module which are easy to use and give an excellent sound like the Ketron SD2 and SD4 and of course the Roland SonicCell which also has guitar and mic inputs

However I have settled with the options 1-2 and 3 above

jazzman

BIAB - RealBand - 2022
Windows 10 64
Zoo computer with 7i processor- SSD 1TB -2TB HDD
Roland keyboards