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Thanks to all. Maybe I should tell you what I am trying to accomplish on the cheap. I want to generate backing tracks with BIAB and am not satisfied with the included Roland Sound Canvas, nor Native Instruments Bandstand that I have installed. I like the sounds in Proteus VX. What program can I export the midi from BIAB into that I can run VSTi and DXi instruments and audio that doesn't cost a fortune. I also have Adobe Audition 1.5 that will play external midi instruments and GM, but not DXi or VSTi. I trying not to spend a lot of money on this because I don't play keyboards. I also have Powertracks 4.0 (yeah I know its old) and would upgrade it if I knew it would work. Thanks again.



Proteus has a lot of usable sounds and sounds much better than VSC. It will assign 16 channels of midi and each sound is tweakable. It takes a little more effort than VSC to figure out how to use it but once you do it's not that hard to set up. It's free to get you to upgrade and if you give it an honest try you might, who knows but it's not crap. Cakewalk includes TTS. Guess which pay for product that was (it used to get raves). Don't expect 1 synth to cover all the instruments. Every synth has a few duds.

There is another deal called Independence Free. I haven't tried it because it was a huge download. I can't remember if it was a sampler or just what but lots of folks liked that one as well.

Call PG and ask them if Proteus works.

DTuna