Originally Posted By: The Soundsmith
I am using - for this song- the internal midi synths, whatever they are, supplied in BiaB.


I read somewhere you're a B3 guy, so am I but I sold mine and I use the Hammond SK1. Not the same as the real thing but it weighs 12 pounds and sounds pretty nice.

Anyway the quote above may be part of your problem. There are no internal Biab midi synths. PG provides you with the Coyote WT which is nothing but a small bit of code to go with your built in Windows synth that the computer uses for sound effects. Not a very good synth, it's worth about what it cost you. Any synth you use including this one or Kontakt or any other synth has to be enabled by you, the user, inside Biab nothing happens automatically. The easy way to think of this is Biab has no midi sounds of it's own, the sounds are up to whatever the user decided to use.

Start with the basic default synth setup. On Biab's main screen see the Preferences icon right below the Melody instrument and click it. That opens another window. Click on Midi Drivers and that opens another window. This is where the fun is. Set your midi input driver, output driver and midi soundcard. This will vary depending on what you're using. In my case I use both hardware and software so I have my Roland Sonic Cell and Microsoft GS Wavetable for my input and output drivers. On the far right is the soundcard and mine is set to the General MIDI Instrument Misc. This raises a very important question, do you know what that means? Do you know the difference between a GM synth and a regular synth? If you do fine, but if you don't that's another discussion and it's vital you know that.

For now what's next is in that same window on the right but in the middle is an active screen button VSTi/DXi synth settings. Right above that is a checkbox that says Use Vsti/Dxi synth. Click that then click the synth settings active box. What you now see is whatever synths you have installed on your system that Biab can see. The Coyote Wavetable is probably the first one. Select that.

Here's where GM is important. Biab defaults to GM instrument mapping and the Coyote WT is a GM synth. Trust me everything will now play it's proper instrument but you may not like the sound quality.

Do these steps to get Biab into it's basic default sound mode and when you hear what you're supposed to hear then you can follow Noel's excellent instructions to use your other synths. However, those other synths are not GM so that means the default instruments will not be mapped correctly but all that means is for each song you have to assign the instruments manually. Not a big deal but it's not as convenient as using a GM synth.

Bob

Last edited by jazzmammal; 09/09/14 09:52 PM.
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