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Just picked up JBB3 and haven't hooked up to BIAB 2011 yet. Could you elaborate on how to connect inside BBox? I agree that the Garritan instruments like piano and bass are great- not to mention the brass.



This is for PC, so if you're on a Mac, instructions will be a little different.

Assuming BiaB and Aria/JABB3 are all installed and JABB3 is authorized:

1) Launch BiaB and open the "DXi Synth Settings..." from the "Audio" menu.

2) Click in the first plugin slot and select "Add VSTi Plugin..."

3) A browser will popup so you can search for the plugin. Browse to wherever you have installed the Aria VSTi plugin. This may be in "Program Files", or somewhere else, but the end of the path should look like: "\Garritan\ARIA Player\VST".

4) Select either "ARIA Player x86_VST.dll" or "ARIA Player x64_VST.dll" on a 64bit system. If you aren't sure, pick the "x86" version to be safe.

5) After a few seconds of loading, you should see the Aria interface in your BiaB DXi configuration window. You can now assign instruments to each slot. For starters, I recommend a Jazz Brush kit, an Upright Bass, and the Steinway Jazz Piano.

6) For each of the three slots where you've assigned your initial instruments, the last number shown is the default MIDI input channel for that instrument. Click on each one of these last numbers to assign the MIDI input channels. Drums - 10, Bass - 2, Piano - 3.


You should now be able to play BiaB MIDI songs in "Jazz Trio" styles through the Aria Player, hosting your JABB3 instruments.

These three instruments are just a start, and of course, you can extend your instrument "rack" to include a soloist, say, a Trumpet on MIDI channel 8, etc. etc.

You can also save your Multi-instrument "Ensemble" patches by clicking in the black area just below "Ensemble" at the top, and then saving to whatever file name you wish. These will then be added to your "user" preset list, so that in the future, clicking in that black "Ensemble" area again will show a new "user" sub-menu, containing all of your custom Ensemble patches.


Hope this helps.