The HQ patches are Sampletank. Without ST you could not hear those patches. Here's a bit of background on all this.

For years PG included a decent freebie synth called the Roland VSC. They wanted the program to have at least something that customers could use to hear Biab with. The problem with that synth is it's 32 bit only. It's also a 20 year old antique legacy synth that Roland has completely abandoned so there's no 64 bit updates coming.

That means PG needed something else so first they came up with the Coyote Wavetable and then ST. ST allows anybody to create their own patches and have them link to ST. Since IKM started giving away the basic ST some years ago, PG created the ST HQ patches. But, as I referred to earlier, ST is not a GM synth so PG created that drop down box where you can link up those patches manually and it works pretty slick. You don't have to go into the plugin window itself to do the linking like you do with any other synth like Kontakt for example, it's right from Biab so that's pretty cool.

If you like the ST sounds, IKM has sales all the time where they sell their Omnisynth GM set for $10. There's a video tutorial here that explains how to get it to interface with Biab because it's not automatic but it will do it with some tweaking.

Have I said yet you need to become a computer nerd to use and work with this stuff? You do but it's fun and is part of working with digital audio. In spite of all the advertising hype, none of this stuff simply loads up and plays exactly like you want it to out of the box. Lots of tweaking and hair pulling until you get it right. This isn't a slam on PG, this is all the companies selling digital audio software and the computers that run it. PC's are not designed for this so there's workarounds for the workarounds.

Bob

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