I think it would be helpful to me to take it from the top. The book provides very generic "install whatever driver you want" kind of help but this stuff has a lot of choices, not all of which match what is in the book pictures. Furthermore, us nubees simply don't have a clue "what we want". So...

Chapter 1. BIAB is installed.

The next step is MIDI setup (pg 8 of my book) . I have installed the m-Audio 2x2 drivers and have selected the correct port for the input midi.

The Output MIDI I assume I want the Roland VSC but it is not a choice. My choices are

None
MS Midi Mapper
MS GS Wave Table
and the two M-Aidio hardware channels.

How do I get the Roland VSC to show up so I can select it? This in the MIDDLE section for MIDI output Driver?

The Synthesizer / Sound Card has a rather extensive list of drivers, most of which I assume I do not have. Note to BIAB developers - where possible only present valid choices (I am a developer, I understand the tradeoffs).

So... Synth / Sound Card: there are six choices that are for the Roland VSC - DXI, DXI/GM2, DXI/GS, Midi, Midi/GM2, Midi/GS. What are all of these things and which would I reasonably want to choose?

Below that there are two check boxes - Use DXI synth (which I checked) and Route MIDI through MIDI driver (which is checked, I do not know whether I checked it). Am I supposed to check these boxes?

I ran the driver wizard but it was useless to me. As opposed to the picture in the book, there is only one single driver - MS GS Wave Table Synth. Where is the Roland VSC? I thought I have the Roland VSC installed? If I "play the piano test" it plays but is not an even tempo for the notes, but rather bursts of notes. The book says "This assumes that the correct windows sound drivers are installed and configured" but does NOT tell me how to do that. If the windows sound drivers need to be installed and configured, then logically that process needs to be explained BEFORE we get to this part of the instructions. I only have the one driver apparently, but (I assume) I want the Roland drivers, which I assumed came with BIAB since they are mentioned as "included with BIAB" in the book. Do I need to go get them somewhere?

I am guessing that if I get this section of the setup straightened out I will be a long way down the road toward using this beastie.

I am a "computer expert" for the world around me so I understand that things are pretty complex to the novice. Unfortunately the novice is ME when it comes to BIAB, MIDI, synths and so forth.

Oh, one last question (for now)... When I load BIAB and play keys on my DP I see the notes being played on the upper left keyboard and I can hear the keys I play but there are only two (well three) sound levels - off, soft and loud. How do I set BIAB to "hear" different key velocities from the DP?

Thanks for your patience and assistance.

jwcolby
Ensoniq ZR-76 keyboard, m-Audio Minisport 2x2 Anniversary Edition
AMD x2-3800, 2gb RAM
XP SP3, BIAB 2008