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I'm a brand new BIAB user. I have no training or eduction in MIDI or acoustic recording. The closest thing I have ever done to the technical side of that is plugging a guitar into the correct jack on a 10 channel PA.



I hardly know where to begin if you really know nothing about midi or computer based digital audio recording. Biab is simply a midi command generator that triggers a midi synthesizer. If you know squat about midi, then this would not be obvious to you. Biab has no sounds of it's own on the midi side. Real Tracks are a different animal. Midi can indeed sound like a kid's toy if all you're hearing is the el cheapo sound ship on your computers motherboard. Synths can either be software ie a "softsynth" or hardware like a keyboard or desktop sound module. The quality of the midi sound you get is entirely dependent on the quality of the synth you play it through. The other thing is General Midi or GM. Biab works easiest with a GM synth or soundbank. You can download a free fully functioning GM softsynth called the Forte DXi off this website. It costs $40 to buy but it's free for 30 days. It's not as good as the Ketron SD2 that PG Music sells for $389 but not bad either. Way better than what you're hearing now and once it's installed it will simply play with Biab with minimal tweaking. Try to get that installed and working and come back. You may also have the Roland VSC DXi included with your Biab package depending on which one you bought. It's not too bad either but may not work depending on what operating system you have.
Also, go to this website and click on the tab at the upper left "Getting Started" Audiominds This site is run by one of the forums resident experts, Mac. You need some basic training and that site is a good start.

Bob

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