Larry; Yes, it IS VSTsynthfont and NOT Synthfont...

"Why you are even trying to use IL Minihost (or even any of the 3rd party apps that pipeline mentioned) to play a VSTi that already works in BIAB "natively," VSTsynthfont works in BIAB." Well, I can only answer for my self. I use Midi files a lot for various project. Many with up to 16 tracks, Classical symphonies and such. When loading those, all the 16 channels go to the melody tracks, as u know. Using ILminihost and VST synthfont, I was hoping that VSTsynthfont could play most of the channels, with a decent sound and I could load Kontakt in there to play channels that the Kontakt instrument I have sounds a LOT better. instead of have to load kontakt in to the melody and/or solotrack every time I load a new midifile, I prefer to have it all set up as the default synth, so that I don¨t have to do that every time I load a new midifile. Then this problem occurred, that VSTsoundfont played only piano for all the channels.

However, after a lot of googling last weekend, I think I found the best solution yesterday. At lest for us Kontakt owners. I guy over in the NI forum had did a great job, making a Kontakt substitute for Bandstand, calling it Handstand. It's a GM/GM2/GS/XGLite bank with 632 instruments bank, loaded it on each slot. See here;
https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/kontakt-general-midi.225353/

His 'Handstand' as coquetry to 'Bandstand' here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u3s5eq8i9wxky2m/AABGR08yG_pWPmKCo9Jqc71ma

I downloaded it yesterday, and it was easy for me to replace many of the instruments there with my best Kontakt instruments and save it as the default Kontakt library. It takes a little time to load it, but, when loaded, it plays everything in BiaB now with a LOT better general sound, EVERY TIME I load a new midifile...

However, this genius Pipeline always coming up with even better solution to almost all limitation in BiaB. So now instead of using ILminihost, he came up with Blue Cat Patchwork. So now I can also ad chains of other stuff, like FX, and plugins native to Reason, and whatever, all as the default synth in BiaB, that loads automatically when starting BiaB, and stays there for every new file loaded... Can't be much better than that... wink

Last edited by Trygve Larsen; 02/16/20 01:59 PM.
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