Hey jcland - Nice to have input from another XG user - I actually use the DB50XG daughterboard on a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz - I've tried to find an inexpensive SW - best on e-bay has been approx $250.
Guess I was being slightly melodramatic the other day. I've used BIAB since the early 90s and I'm a firm believer in what it's accomplished.
"Jumping through hoops" to render RT tracks to waves about describes the process. On several occasions I've actually received memory error messages transitioning to the DXi and lost all of the RTs I had developed for that MGU file after the program froze.
I can't say I'm crazy about the "XG users should etc" window that keeps opening when I want BIAB to boot in XG mode. . . this has been since before V 12 - if I didn't want XG, why would I ask for it?
Anyway the sooner this RT/DXi rendering thing is fixed the better. But I guess XG users will still have to render XG Midi into Wave in realtime.

Cheers - Ian

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