Originally Posted by DrDan
Originally Posted by Matt Finley
Hit the Play button twice? Ok.

That was it! grin But that makes it sound so trival. cry

I warned you I can drone on and on and I can be a bit of a Drama King. crazy But I hope I have made a more important point. The VSTSynthFont is fully able to play GM sounds from BIAB with sound quality that far exceeds the Coyote WaveTable synth. If one is concerned the size of the synth has now increased from 200K to ~200M, just delete a few of the banjo RTs and you will find the room. grin
OK .. I think I'm more comfortable now with some of what's happening and has happened in the past.

For me at present, I don't have to hit play twice ... once is enough. I haven't (yet?) tried to find out why.

Some of those 25-years-old BiaB quirks have definitely muddied the waters for me ... Channel labes, names, patches, whatever. I only have to wrongly trust one of those and all bets on my trust are off.

You have similar patchnames not matching the GM names as I and that also had definitely mislead me and confused me.

Of course in the past I've set patches on VSTSynthFont to those I think I want, believing that BiaB wasn't setting them, only to have them then 'mysteriously' changed when the song plays. Especially if in the past it's maybe been on the second press of play.

I have two things to take from this:
1) VSTSynthFont can work exactly as one would like, subject to a couple of cautions/caveats.
2) There is so much historic and variable 'cruft' in BiaB, I'm not in the least surprised that people get confused and, probably, angly.

Personally these days I think a couple of hundrem MB for a decent soundfont is pretty much neither here nor there. If one is reallt desparate for memory, even FluidSynth's tiny default SF2 is only 8M and sounds much better than Coyote. ToH is ~ 426M. Compifont is nearly a Gig. I could probably use that on a Raspberry Pi.

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