Live Vst Plugin Host
Cantabile is a powerful and flexible VST host designed for live performing stage musicians who want to perform better. Cantabile is the best way we know to play VST instrument and effect plugins in real-time. This product should run on any host supporting 64-bit VST, AU, or AAX plugins. XLN Audio actively tests on the host applications listed below: Ableton Live 9 & 10; Apple Logic Pro 9 & 10; Avid Pro Tools 11 or later (Pro Tools First is not supported) Cakewalk by Bandlab; Propellerhead Reason 10.3 or later; Reaper 4 & 5; Steinberg Cubase 8. VST plug-ins are instruments and effects from third party manufacturers which can be installed and used in Live. VST2 plug-ins use the.dll file extension. VST3 plug-ins use the.vst3 file extension. The first (and currently only) master is a VST(i) plugin that can be embedded into any VST Host program (even another instance of VSTHost), called Legree. It comes as an effect and as a VSTi, since there are hosts that accept only effects, hosts that only accept VSTis, and of course hosts that accept both.
Element is a modular AU/VST audio plugin host. Create powerful effects racks and instruments by connecting plugins to one another. Load graphs on the fly for quick access to your sounds. Integrates with your existing hardware via standard protocols such as MIDI.
Features
- Runs inside your DAW as an AU/VST/VST3/AAX Plugin
- Convert VST and AU plugins to AAX
- External Sync w/ MIDI Clock
- MIDI Controller Mapping
- Graph Mixer – Adjust levels on individual plugins
- Global Channel Strip – single channel strip showing the current node
- Graph Importing and Exporting
- Sub Graphing – Nest Graphs within each other.
- Velocity Curves
- Route Audio and MIDI from anywhere to anywhere
- Play virtual instruments and effects live
- Create re-usable instrument and effect graphs
- Graph Pre Loading – Quickly change graphs by keeping heavy-weight plugins loaded
- Chain Multiple Effects Plugins together
- Flexible connectivity via Patch Bay and Graph Editor
- Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
- Internal Specialty Nodes
- Support for AU/VST/VST3 plugin formats
- Placeholder Nodes – when Plugins are missing, this passes the audio through
- Can also be added manually to build session templates with
- Built In Virtual Keyboard
- Multiple Undo/Redo
- Node replace – swap plugins without disconnecting
Hardware Integration
Element now supports MIDI controller mapping. The simple interface makes it easy to map hardware controls to plugin parameters. Check out this video demonstration on YouTube.
Element Screenshots
Graph Editor – wire any configuration you need
Patch Bay – Using patch points, simply route plugins to each other any way you want
Virtual Keyboard with global Channel Strip 808 massacre free download mac.
Compatibility and System Requirements
Because element runs on both Mac and PC, supports a wide variety of Plugin formats.
- OSX 10.8 or Higher – AU/VST/VST3/AAX
- Windows XP or higher – VST/VST3/AAX
Planned Features
Vst Host Download
- 32bit Bridging Support
- Scripting Engine based on Javascript
- Per-session keyboard splits and transposing
- Expose Node Parameters in Custom UIs
- Audio/MIDI Clip Trigger and Looping
- MIDI Monitor Utility
- Record Audio and MIDI Clips
- Modular Synth Building Blocks (Oscillators, ADSR, etc etc)
- LV2 Plugin Host Support
Here you can find some VSTHost add-ons that have been created by ToyleY.
VSTHost Slavery Suite
It was just a little question in a forum. 'Is there a way to route the output of vsthost to Kristal Audio engine? And without latency?' that triggered the addition of a slave mode to VSTHost. And since I got a rather bad taste of humor, it got the above title.
When started with the parameter /slave, VSTHost goes into Slave Mode and waits for a Master to control it. The first (and currently only) master is a VST(i) plugin that can be embedded into any VST Host program (even another instance of VSTHost), called Legree. It comes as an effect and as a VSTi, since there are hosts that accept only effects, hosts that only accept VSTis, and of course hosts that accept both.
You can download Legree here (.zip file, 209K).
Current version: 1.07
Comes in 32- and 64-bit versions
You can download the current documentation for the VSTHost Slavery Suite here (.pdf file, 171K).
Open Source Variant
Originally, I made VSTHost available including the complete source code. Since I had to find out that (parts of) it made their way into other people's programs, and that without even mentioning my contribution, the open source variant has been frozen. I continue to add bug fixes to the existing code base, but new features won't make their way into it any more. Starting with V1.16k, this program is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser GPL.
Anyway - the important part of the program is an implementation of a VST host in form of 2 classes:
CVSTHost
Live Vst Plugin Host App
This implements the audio callback needed by an effect plugin as a neatly encapsulated VST host class. This is practically platform-independent code. /cubase-guitar-vst-plugins.html. The few platform-specific things are encapsulated in.
CEffect
Vst Plugin Host
This encapsulates a VST effect, as loaded by the VST host. This class isn't fully complete - since I don't have a Mac, I've only included the Windows code. If a kind MacIntosh programmer could fill out the few Mac-specific sections and send it to me it would be great and, of course, publicized here!
Vst Host Program
You can download the sources for V1.16q here (.zip file, 285K).
Current version: VST 2.4 rev2 + ASIO 2.0 support, ASIO Channel selection, bug fix from V1.19-1.46