Originally Posted By: babarton
MarkL, You say the BIAB accompaniments work fine, so I'm assuming you mean that you can hear them play thru your stereo.

That's correct

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If you play the standalone version of TruePianos, do you also hear that thru your stereo?

Yes
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If you open BOTH BIAB AND the standalone TruePianos, do they both play?

I can't use both at the same time because they give an error message about not being able to use the hardware on the soundcard. sorry I forgot to mention that information. The BIAB support line told me to install Truepianos as VSTi, which is what I did (see below).

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In BIAB, the "live" midi keyboard is referred to as the "THRU" track. What do you have listed in your midi input source and as your midi output source in BIAB? This will be found in your settings.


Not sure I'm in the right place, but on the page under Opt-> Midi options it has checkmarks on "Local ON (Ext. Keyboard)" and "Turn External Keyboard's Local On at end of session". On the page under Opt->Midi Driver it shows the Midi input and output drivers as Delta AP MIDI, which I recognize as my soundcard.

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Unless it has changed, BIAB for Windows can only use a general midi synth. I don't believe TruePianos is a general midi compatible software synth (in quickly looking at their web site). I think you could play the standalone TruePianos and BIAB at the same time, but I don't think you can direct your BIAB thru output to this synth while the rest of output is played thru whatever general midi synth is selected in your midi output in BIAB.


Here's the response I got from BIAB support, I interpreted it to mean I could use Truepianos as a VSTi and BIAB as the host, which would allow me to play the keyboard and accompaniment through BIAB at same time:

Originally Posted By: BIAB Support
Basically what you would want to do is to install TruePiano VST and carefully note the placement of the TruePiano(s).DLL file (the actual VST plugin file)

Then get into Band-in-a-Box and navigate to the "VST DXi Synth icon" which is the silver icon with VSTi written in it.
Navigate to the track you would want to have it on (usually "piano") and use the top slot to select "Add VSTi plugin" and navigate to the location of the true pianos DLL file and double left click on it.

More information can be found in the manual by searching the Help index for -> VST Synthesizer


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I may be entirely wrong about this - hopefully someone more knowledgable will happen along.

I appreciate your help, I'm swimming in the deep end of the pool.