User Guide
Chapter 13: Tools and Utilities
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Chapter 13: Tools and Utilities
Roland VSC3 Virtual Sound Canvas
An important part of Band-in-a-Box is the band that you actually hear. This is determined by the MIDI driver that
you use for output. The Roland Virtual Sound Canvas (VSC) is a top-quality software synthesizer.
You need to install the Roland VSC3, which is a separate install from the Band-in-a-Box program. When you
install the VSC3, you'll see a “Roland VSC” MIDI Output driver listed in the Band-in-a-Box MIDI Driver Setup
dialog.
Use the Roland VSC3 with Band-in-a-Box and any other MIDI program
that supports MIDI Drivers (almost all of them do). To use the Roland
VSC3 for your output sounds, choose Opt. | MIDI driver setup... and
select the “Roland VSC” as the MIDI Output Driver.
You will also find the Virtual Sound Canvas listed in your Windows
programs. This allows you to run the VSC3 as a stand-alone program.
The VSC3 has a latency of 430ms; it takes 430 milliseconds to produce
the sound after instructed to do so by Band-in-a-Box. So you should set
the latency to 430ms in the Opt. | MIDI Driver Setup dialog.
In addition to using the Roland VSC3 for output, remember that you can use it for the Direct-to-Disk rendering
feature of converting a Band-in-a-Box song to a WAV file (described elsewhere).