Originally Posted By: Jim Fogle
I use the Cakewalk by Bandlab multi-timbrel MIDI player as Band-in-a-Box's default soft synth.

Try:

Ctrl+E > MIDI Driver > VSTi/DXi Synth > Scan for Sonic Halion.

If you point Band-in-a-Box to the folder containing your VCTi synth it should pick it up.


Thanks, Jim!

You are an awesome poster and help here ... but, in this case I think you misunderstand the nature of my query.

I've used Halion Sonic successfully in BIAB for a long time. What I want to do is be able to use it's audio multi-output feature so each MIDI track it is playing is piped out on an individual audio output setting from Halion Sonic routed to the BIAB master bus in the mixer. That way I could individually process the tracks' outputs.

As it now stands, once you instantiate your softsynth on the first slot on a track, the other slots are bypassed as BIAB only seems to route the softsynth main output directly to the master bus, using the tracks for input only despite the green activity in the little channel heading. IF you route from Halion Sonic internally to any other output other than main you get no sound.

The 'volume' control on a MIDI track is CC #7 sending input, whereas on an audio track it is a gain control amplifying the audio.

I think the final answer is that BIAB's internal architecture is pulling the softsynth output directly to the master bus. You hear all the individual MIDI voices because they are mixed in the softsynth and sent out the main to the BIAB mixer master bus output.

I'm concluding that what I'd like to do is not possible.

Last edited by DFT; 12/13/22 05:17 PM.
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