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Originally Posted By: newbert
As documented in this thread, I'm still trying to get my Kawai VPC1 to simply play along with BIAB 2014. I don't really care about recording - just playing along. I started a new thread here because my hardware configuration has changed.

FWIW, the VPC1 is just a MIDI controller with no native sounds, so a software piano needs to be used. (I use both Pianoteq 5 and Garritan CFX Grand Piano not simultaneously, of course.) My efforts to get them to work as VST plug-ins with BIAB have failed so, on advice from someone in the "Piano World" Forum, I purchased an external sound card (a Lexicon Alpha) and got it recognized by my Windows 7 system. So now the system has two sound cards, one external and one internal, with the idea that BIAB would use one and the software piano that I'm using at the time would use the other. The software pianos would be used in "standalone" mode - not as a VST plug-in.

Does this make sense so far? Well, I thought that it did. However, although I can configure BIAB to use one sound card, while Pianoteq uses the other, Garritan CFX doesn't seem to have a setting to choose the sound card. (I'll post a question about that on Garritan's website, but in the meantime please bear with me.) Consequently, I have not hit on a combination of settings between BIAB and the software pianos to allow me to play my software pianos with BIAB running (and/or vice-versa).

Both software pianos require ASIO to work, and I use ASIO4ALL v2 for that purpose.

Since this is a BIAB forum -- What should my MIDI/AUDIO settings be in BIAB to give me the best chance of getting the software pianos to work alongside BIAB? (They both work fince by themselves, as does BIAB.) And if anyone would like to take a stab at settings to try either in Windows itself or the software pianos, that would be great too.

I appreciate any advice on this.

Thanks.






Well - after that longwinded post, I finally hit on SUCCESS! laugh

If anyone's still interested in what worked --- It came down to un-checking the box in Windows's "Manage Audio Devices = > Properties = > Advanced that says "allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" for both sound cards, then picking this combination of audio drivers: MME in BIAB, ASIO4ALL for Pianoteq, then the external card's native ASIO driver for CFX.

Kawai VPC1 MIDI Controller; Asus A53E Laptop running Windows 7 - 64 bit; BIAB 2017 UltraPlusPak (upgraded from 2014 EverythingPak), running from Laptop's Hard Drive.