Go with the "Use DXi" button and the VSC DXi synth for now.

Some of the GM bank sounds are indeed the same as the ones in the microsoft software synth, although the VSC has deeper layers. Edirol did the samples for the microsoft synth and that's the reason for the similar sounds, they share the same sample "heritage".

BUT -- the DXi synth also supports Upper Banks and many more patches in either GM/GS and GM2 modes.

After you get going for a while and better understand the care and feeding of BiaB, you can try your hand at switching to one of the physical MIDI outputs and send the BiaB MIDI data to that MIDI accordian if it has a GM compat soundbank in it, see if it sounds any better to your ears or not.

Once you really get into the swing of things you may find that for certain tasks you will like hooking up the MIDI accordian to make quick work of entering notes on the Melody or Soloist track as MIDI by just simply Recording as MIDI what you play. Then you might want to switch to the real acoustic accordian to add your final playing to the accompaniment you created by recording the Acoustic to the Audio Track.


--Mac

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