Hi,

I want to know if there exists a VST effect which you can place on a channel, but this effect doesn't actually change the sound in any way.

Instead it simply acts a router to route the sound on that channel to any available sound card outputs available on the computer, which the user can select.

And vice verse, this VST could also act as an instrument, in which case it can use any of the computers soundcards to 'get' input from.

I know exactly why I am asking this as it could open up a whole world of possibilities.

Anyone know anything?

Thanks
OrangeMan

Serious hosts like Nuendo2 let you do all that...

Just buy a fucken big desk

i suspect, as usual am not completely sure, energyXT can probably do this

if not now, then tomorrow

re- post on the energyXT forum

It's true, most hosts let you do this but not ALL. And I have ONE particular host in mind, which I would love to use with any hardware interface I want.

Orangeman

Pro Tools does it.

Do some research.

Buy Nuendo2.2.... It's as good if not better and you can use any hardware interfaces you want. Plus native support for all the lovely free plugins on KvR.

Chickenman wrote:

Pro Tools does it. Do some research. Buy Nuendo2.2.... It's as good if not better and you can use any hardware interfaces you want. Plus native support for all the lovely free plugins on KvR.

What do you mean 'Pro Tools does it'? Does what? ProTools only allows routing to digidesign hardware. I don't need to do Reasearch, I know PT well enough to know what it can and what it can't do. You cannot route audio to any outputs you may have available, as you can on some of the other hosts. Simple as that. And forget about Nuendo. No professional recording outfit would ever have Nuendo in their installations. Not the best app to attract clients one might say

OrangeMan wrote:

And forget about Nuendo. No professional recording outfit would ever have Nuendo in their installations. Not the best app to attract clients one might say

Oh that's a good way to get people to answer you around here.

Devon

OrangeMan wrote:

And forget about Nuendo. No professional recording outfit would ever have Nuendo in their installations. Not the best app to attract clients one might say

i think its been a long time since you went in a real studio dude...

Absolutely...customers don't go to studios because they want to use the advanced capabilities of ProTools (not). It's the other way around...studios use ProTools simply because of the reliability of its hardware. In fact you'll more likely hear PT users bemoaning the lack of facilities on PT as compared to something like Nuendo or SX or Logic etc. PT is not the studio standard for hosting, it's a standard for reliable never-stops-or-crashes hardware.

I once very nearly splashed out on an expensive h/w setup, and PT didn't come into the equation anyway - Soundscape was going to be a far better buy.

any modular host w/ asio or any host that allows multiple routings will let you do this easily. a vst that always springs to mind for this is Oli's quadpan (ignore the name its for much more than panning).

OrangeMan wrote:

It's true, most hosts let you do this but not ALL. And I have ONE particular host in mind, which I would love to use with any hardware interface I want. Orangeman

You can make that in SynthEdit, and save it as a VST.
Cheers,
A.F.

kritikon wrote:

Absolutely...customers don't go to studios because they want to use the advanced capabilities of ProTools (not). It's the other way around...studios use ProTools simply because of the reliability of its hardware. In fact you'll more likely hear PT users bemoaning the lack of facilities on PT as compared to something like Nuendo or SX or Logic etc. PT is not the studio standard for hosting, it's a standard for reliable never-stops-or-crashes hardware. I once very nearly splashed out on an expensive h/w setup, and PT didn't come into the equation anyway - Soundscape was going to be a far better buy.

Right, where do I begin. Let me start by saying you are talking absolutely utter crap, and obviously have no idea, from what you have said.

Anyone who has uses ProTools, will tell you that it is no way as reliable as you make out and has its fair share of bugs. Many users have very unstable systems which crash all the time. Not unlike Cubase or Logic. Secondly, the first thing that clients ask you 99% of the time is 'Do you have ProToos?'...WHY? well the the reason for that is not becasue its reliable (what a joke!), but because of the fact that they can bring in their projects files which the have done elsewhere in ProTools, work with them in whatever commercial facility they might choose. And they know that they can even go away afterwards, and do a final mixdown at home if need be on their smaller LE setup. And yes, PT is the industry standard for this reason, and not because it's reliable, because its no more reliable than any other host.

I'm sorry, but you guys seriously don't have a clue, and I'm not here to be arguing about this either. You can reply if it makes you feel better, but I wont be continuing with this futile discussion. I'm out..!

mute, no_signal...thanks guys, I will take a look at that...Cheers. OrangeMan.