Hi Charles and welcome to the forum.

While it is nice to have a somewhat better MIDI synth solution than what comes along with BiaB and RC software, you don't have to go out and buy one immediately.

The software comes with two software synths that can get you started out. The older one, the "VSC DXi" synth unfortunately can only work with older 32-bit Operating Systems (XP and before) while there is the newer "Coyote Wavetable" aynth that will work with the newer Vista/Win7 64 bit systems.

These install as options when you run the BiaB Installer File.

My advice to you would be to start out like that, get to know the programs a bit and then you will be much better situated to make the decision on what kind of higher quality MIDI solution you might want to get.

That said, the Ketron SD-2 hardware synth sold on this site is a darn good sounding little box...


--Mac