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However have I got to purchase a soft synth for the audio part to play properly through the tyros speakers. I do not have a soft synth and it appears pgmusic want another $40?



Your Tyros is GM compatible which means you already have a good synth to work with Biab generated midi tracks. There's two ways to set it up, first your Tyros handles midi through it's USB connector to your computer. This is where drivers come in. Go onto Yamaha's website to their support page and see if there's a 64 bit driver for it. For my Roland Sonic Cell, they have a 64 bit Vista driver which works fine. If Yamaha doesn't have a 64 bit driver then the second way is to use an interface. The Tyros plugs into the interface via USB and it's the interface that needs the 64 bit driver and all of them have that. Hmmm, I just looked it up and it appears the last driver update was in 2004 for Win 98. If that's true then you need an interface. In addition to USB your Tyros also has standard midi plug connectors so any midi interface will work if USB doesn't. With older keyboards using regular midi cables may be best anyway.

Once the Tyros is set up inside your computer then Biab is "playing" the sounds inside your Tyros and you'll hear everything through the built in speakers.

This is just for midi, Real Tracks/Drums are a different story. Those are audio files and from looking at the specs the Tyros 2 has no ability to receive outside audio and play it. The newer Tyros versions probably can do that but not your older 2. In order to hear midi from your Tyros and RT's from Biab you need a mixer to route the audio outputs from your Tyros and the audio outputs from your PC to your studio monitors.

A softsynth is what you would need to have to keep everything in your PC, the softsynth plays the midi and the RT's the audio and your internal PC mixer handles it and the combined sound goes out to your speakers. But, this is the confusing part, that output is now audio not midi so you can't use your Tyros speakers for that.

Bob

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