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This is very wrong. I have paid a lot of money for BIAB, but I cannot use it (or very limited) without buying something else. Would be the same as buying a car and paying extra to get the key.



I can understand your frustration, but as has been said, BIAB is quite usable with the MIDI sounds that Windows provides. If you want better sounds, you'll have to invest in that yourself. PGMusic doesn't make MIDI sound sources themselves; they merely resell other companies' offerings.

It would be like me complaining that I bought an expensive new electric guitar and now you tell me I need an amp; or that the little 7-watt throwaway amp they included (which works, but you would never play it publicly) wasn't sufficient, and why didn't they include the big 200-watt amp?

Because sounds are different for everyone. Everyone gets to start with the basic Microsoft provided sounds (as the low-end capability), but then you get to provide your own, better sounds, based on what sounds good to you. Even on the forum here, we'll have arguments that this sound source is great, then someone says it's crap. It's all about which instruments you need, what style of music you are playing, what sound you are looking for, etc.

So, on the web site, there are several opportunities to buy other sounds (such as the Forte DXi or the TTS that comes with Music Creator 5. If PGMusic included those with the purchase of BIAB/RB, then they would just have to add them to the cost anyway. Me, I'm happy to choose what I want. The VSC is an old legacy system that isn't made anymore, so when the Operating System doesn't support it anymore, it's dead in the water and PGMusic can't really fix that. That's the only sound source that was ever included for "free" (although, I imagine part of the cost was actually included in the price of BIAB), but technology just overran it.

It seems that I remember posting that PGMusic might be looking for an alternative, but again, I imagine the cost would be factored into the cost of BIAB, or sold separately. Since they would have to license it from someone else, the cost would be passed onto you.

Probably not the answer you want, but it is what it is.

John

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