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Great info Dewdman! Thanks



And by the way, the SF2 included with Finale Notepad sounds rather good. Its a great improvement over the 2MB one included with Quicktime. I also like the synerGiS one I bought years ago for my pc, I'm not sure if you can even buy it now.

FluidSynth is not too bad, but the one from Finale Notepad is very well crafted. The more I research this, I'm finding a lot more GM soundfonts out there, so there is a lot of possibility with this.

One thing I'm not sure about is whether the Apple DLS player is considered GM or GS. When I use CoreMidi to route the midi over to my DAW and host the DLS player there as an AU, then BIAB now provides a lot of GM/GS control and it would be interesting to know which are applicable to Apple's DLS player (which was actually licensed from Roland as I understand it).

But at any right, the preference best of all would be for BIAB to provide the capabilities to access the full capability of the DLS player, then we could load different banks, stream from disk, and render the audio right in BIAB, together with any applicable real tracks.