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I own Miroslav Philharmonik and Sample Tank 2. Does anyone know if there is a way to use the synth engines out of these programs and make them work in BIAB and Real Band?



You can use one of these but not both at the same time with Biab because it can only access one midi output port.
Real Band on the other hand has 16 midi ports so no problem there. The problem with these is they are not GM synths and Biab works best with a GM synth like the Forte DXi, the Roland TTS-1 or a hardware synth that has a GM bank like the Ketron SD2. Those just load up and play. I have Sample Tank and I even bought the Onmisynth GM soundbank for it thinking it would work like any other GM synth but it doesn't. You still have to go into the ST window and set up each instrument on the appropriate midi channel that Biab is using for that instrument. ST lets you create preset banks but even that doesn't do much for you because one style Biab may want an acoustic bass with an electric piano and another style it wants a finger picked bass with an acoustic piano and the same for all the other instruments and it just becomes unwieldy, as least for me it does. Now, Biab will let you select a midi channel too but that doesn't change anything as far as this is concerned. Some people don't mind setting up the instruments for each song and if you want, you can use ST but for most of us we just want to select a style and hit play seamlessly and only a dedicated GM synth will do that.
RB is a different animal and most don't use it for immediate one time play like they do Biab. I will mix and match all kinds of different synths searching for the right combination of sounds. I use ST with RB a lot but not Biab.

Bob

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