NAMM 2019: Voltage Modular 1.2 features VST instrument and effect hosting

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Cherry Audio has announced the release of Voltage Modular 1.2. It’s only an incremental update but it has a huge new feature – the ability to host VST and AU plugins. Voltage Modular 1.2 Since it first appeared at NAMM last year Voltage Modular seemed to crawl to its release in September. But since its […]

VCV Rack can now host and CV control VST Plugins

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Wait a minute. Am I saying that you can somehow load a VST effect plugin, or VST instrument into VCV Rack and act like it’s just another module? Yes. Yes I am. VCV Rack Host Watching the continuing development of VCV Rack is pretty extraordinary. It first emerged just over a year ago on version […]

Portable processing with the SoundGrid Mobile Server

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I’m not sure it’s completely normal to put a computer server in your backpack when you’re off to run a live gig, but the Waves SoundGrid Mobile Server is a wee little thing that’s going to give you some serious real-time plug-in power for your show or the studio. SoundGrid Mobile Server What’s SoundGrid? SoundGrid […]

Digital Brain Instruments’ Transformer is a sample mangler and VST host

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Digital Brain Instruments has released a new sound design standalone application called Transformer. Incorporating convolution processing, it’s able to load samples, microphone and virtual instrument inputs and morph them into sounds unexpected and unknown. The convolution processing, DBI explains, lets you add new sound layers to existing audio and then perform them in different ways. […]

RetroKits RK-005: USB MIDI Hub that hosts, merges and interconnects everything

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We first saw the RK-005 back at Superbooth and it had us scratching our heads a little bit while pondering the possibilities of all this interconnectivity. But now it’s available for pre-order in limited numbers and I think we can get a handle on what it’s all about. RK-005 It’s a compact little box that […]

VeeSeeVSTRack: VCV Rack virtual Eurorack gets a VST plug-in version

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VCV Rack is the amazing open source virtual Eurorack modular system that just keeps getting better and better. Except for one thing – it is standalone and has struggled to run inside or alongside a DAW. Recently version 0.6 introduced “VCV Bridge” which allows for the routing of audio to and from your DAW on […]

Europa by Reason: Propellerhead release their first VST plug-in

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I don’t know about you but I’m still shocked by the fact that Reason can load VST plug-ins and that happened a year ago! Now in another shocker Propellerhead release their flagship Europa wavetable Reason synth as a VST and AU plug-in.  Reason and VST VST support is the one thing Propellerhead said they would never […]

Musikmesse 2018: Camelot manages hardware and VSTi’s for live performance

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All together now – “We’re knights of the round table. We dance when e’re we’re able. We do routines and chorus scenes. With footwork impeccable!” I’ve no idea why they’ve called it Camelot but it aims to bring hardware synthesizers and virtual ones around the same table to provide you with live performance hosting, layering, […]