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.....There are about 500 different MIDI voices in your piano, and 11 MIDI percussion banks. You will likely want to have a Patchmap to drop into the BB folder and select inside BB so that you can access all those by name using the + button to the right of the standard GM patches already listed in the dropdown. Check the PGMusic Support Pages, under Patchmaps to see if someone has already written and posted one to download. If you don't see one for your 640, don't despair, there's a wizard inside BB that can convert a Cakewalk .ins file to a bb patchmap with a single mouse button push. Websearch engine should bring up a cakewalk .ins file for this popular instrument.

Other than that, there's no hard pat reason to have to hook it up to the computer if all your needs are just to be able to play piano along with Band in a Box.

Have Fun,

--Mac



Thanks to everyone for your responses. I already have the laptop connected to the keyboard via USB cable and the USB-MIDI driver has been installed. Not sure whether MIDI is set-up correctly in BIAB to have it play thru the keyboard though. Does anyone know the exact settings to use for that? (Sorry for the newbie question....)

Also, I just checked the Support files here and didn't find a patchmap for my keyboard. Googling for a cakewalk.ins file came up empty as well. So how critical is it to have/use a specific patchmap for your keyboard? (This is all very new to me....)

Thanks again!

Last edited by newbert; 01/20/13 08:25 PM.
Kawai VPC1 MIDI Controller; Asus A53E Laptop running Windows 7 - 64 bit; BIAB 2017 UltraPlusPak (upgraded from 2014 EverythingPak), running from Laptop's Hard Drive.