I was wondering what had gone wrong. I knew that I had, at one time, been able to add audio effects to MIDI instruments, such as my Melody track. However, even though my melody was playing correctly through the software synth (I use VSTSynthFont), my VST plugin list for the Melody track was empty.

I finally found that assigning VSTSynthFont to the first VST slot for the Melody track allowed me to then add audio processing such as Reverb, Dynamics, and even Amplitude3 to the remaining slots. For instance, I was able to find an excellent Amplitude effect for the steel drums part.

Now, I'm not quite certain what routing is going on in the back-end of BIAB, such that SynthFont can be assigned as the overall synthesizer, but then reassigned to a single track; I probably knew at one time how back-end routing worked, but have long forgotten. It works, though, for which I am glad. The value of being able to add audio processing to MIDI instruments during live performance can hardly be overstated!


Joel