The GM2 standard basically has two banks of 128 instruments (GM1 only has one bank of 128 instruments). So you get the standard 128 General MIDI defined instruments, but you also get another 128 instruments to use from (many of which are variations on the original 128).

To use the GM2 selection, you have to make sure that you have a GM2 synth in use. The selection, I believe, allows you to set it however you want (it doesn't know whether the synth is GM2 or not), so you have to make sure you match it up properly.

The Coyote ForteDXi is GM2 compatible.

One thing a number of folks do also is to purchase Cakewalk Music Creator (which you can order from PGMusic for $49, and that gives you a pretty good DAW, but it also gives you the Cakewalk TTS-1 GM2 Softsynth, which is also much better than the CoyoteWT).

John

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