Hello Guitarhacker,

We definitely agree that the quality of RealTracks and VSTI's like Native Instruments are far better than soundfonts. Once you've purchased the Ultra Plus Pak (or higher) using MIDI instruments becomes kind of obsolete. However, every now and then a good soundfont can come in handy. In some of BIAB's (MIDI-based) urban styles for instance.
In our latest post: 'Memories Remain', we used two separate guitar soundfonts. We also used one in 'London town', but that was before we bought the Ultra Plus Pak, which in our case also ended most of our search for additional Soundfonts and vsti's.
We are not familiar with Cakewalk's Sound Center Synth (Rob bought Z3ta and Cakewalk Musical Instruments -which is very good quality and very compatible with BIAB- years ago). Can the Sound Center Synth be purchased separately? And does it have a GM mapping? (Rob has a serious RSI problem and long searches for proper sound patches is not really an option for him).

And yes, our contemporary search is for new songs. Well, the arrangements almost present themselves in BIAB with the styles and Melodist feature.
The hardest part now is finding a good singing line and proper lyrics....

We are Rob Meulman and Anne-Marie Bovenkamp from The Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gsdNLE7_Gy8qavoOplQow/videos
http://rnam.net/