The thing to remember is ST itself is not a GM synth and the Omnisynth is also not a GM synth, it's simply a collection of GM numbered instrument patches that is accessed by ST which is, all together now, not a GM synth.

Nobody but us Biab'ers gives a rip about GM. Since Biab is simple to use, you don't have to be a digital audio wizard to use it. The problem that creates is a lot of Biab customers don't understand this stuff and think "why can't I just press play and it all works?" It's because you're in the digital audio world now grssshopper and as soon as you want to go beyond using the basic Coyote Wavetable or Forte synths, you're in deeper water and that requires some education. And patience. And willpower. And not throwing your computer against the wall. Ask me how I know this...

GM has always been the old throwaway soundbank for synths. It's mostly used for playing midi files off the internet, that's it. Someone who's creating their own midi files from scratch won't use GM, why should they when as mentioned above the regular non GM sound banks gives you 23 pianos or 33 guitars, 19 basses or whatever else to choose from?

Everybody else in the digital audio world wants the best individual track sounds they can get and GM ain't it, 114 instrument patches? Pffft, nobody cares about that. If people did care IKM wouldn't be blowing it out for ten bucks, right? That means if we're using Biab and we don't want to go through the hassle of setting up each track individually for each song we have to jump through these hoops to get the best GM sounds we can.

Bob

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