Rally, I just remembered something from years ago. We had a forum member named Mac who was our absolute top dog tech guru. For whatever reason he stopped posting a couple of years ago.

The Forte DXi came out maybe 8 years ago. Mac discovered the samples used were in Gigasample format. At the time Gigasampler was a sensation with great sounding samples. Their samples were also huge like I remember the Bosendorfer piano by itself was over a gig in size. Mac replaced the entire Forte GM soundbank with Gigasamples and wrote about exactly how he did it. Don't ask me how now, it's been years and even with what I know, it's above my pay grade.

You sound like you don't know a whole lot about this (if I'm wrong, I apologize). This stuff is tricky. Just one example, to use a GM soundbank in real time all of the samples have to be loaded into your RAM. If the samples only take 500mb, no problem but what if the entire soundbank is 8 gigs? Far easier to learn how to use a dedicated drum plugin for the drum track.

Finally to state the obvious, good sounds cost real money. When it comes to midi, Biab has no sounds of it's own, all PG gives you is the bit of software that converts your basic Windows synth into the Coyote Wavetable that Biab can use. The quality of midi sounds is dependent on what midi synth you have. The costs can go from $40 for the Forte to literally thousands. Right now I use Sample Tank 3, others use hardware, some use more expensive software like Kontakt, some can't stand the hassle of midi and just use the Real Tracks.

Bob

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