Mal recommended using FreeAmp3, so I had to test it out. Here's my test project with scratch vox**. I started to break into "Ample Examples", a non-FAWM2009 song which also never completed (http://noise.dillfrog.com/songs/177).

Blar. So I'm moving on.

Verdict: FreeAmp3 is nice, but I ran into the multi-core SynthEdit bug when I had multiple instances running. Got around that by copying the VST about 4 times, one for each instance. If none of this makes sense to you, that's okay!

** Yes, there're vocals but I'm still calling it an instrumental 'cause they're just scratch. Not necessarily lyrics.