actually i'm not particularly after a chainer, nor anything too fancy.

what it is, is that having installed about 400meg of Synthedit vsti's last night...i decided it would be better to store them outside my VST plugins folder (maybe on a cd) and load them as needed...thus freeing myself startup time, disk space and menu space

so what i'm after is a plugin that lets me dynamically load a vsti/fx dll and will remember the settings etc, as if i was using the original dll itself.

a big bonus would be for the loader to store the path settings to the dll so that if its not available when i load a song it asks me for the dll.

anyone know the best solution,

thanks
j.

EnergyXT.

Jeskola Buzz floppy pack loads VST (the loader is done by the author of Chainer). It will load the plugins, supports midi in, and step based tracker sequencing with modular audio routing. Don't expect miracles from this, it's freeware/donationware, but it will do the work for sure.

i meant one that would run in Cubase....and would allow the loaded synthedit (etc) plugin to run transparently.

j.

Sorry?

by transparently i mean the loaded plugin runs as if you'd just loaded the plugin itself rather than into the chainer etc

as an example

say i load energyxt and then load a synthedit bass .dll into it. the first problem is that i lose my automation parameters for my bass.dll because cubase will be trying to record automation for energyxt not for bass.dll

i know energyxt lets you set up CCs to control parameters but thats not the point - its not a transparent operation.

j.

Maybe discoDSP's yet-to-be-released Highlife would suit you better. It loads a VSTi, transmogrifies that VSTi's current patch into a sample set, unloads the VSTi, and then saves the sampled instrument as one of its own patches. It's not quite what you're looking for, but I'm pretty sure that what you're looking for doesn't exist.

Interesting idea, though. Keep all those extra VSTs, but also keep your vstplugins folder tidy...

pough wrote:

transmogrifies

gotta love that

I'm not sure if the number of VST params can be change after a plug is loaded. But I guess it would work if a VST loader plug-in would define max possible params, then map those automatically to each loaded VST's. Bass.dll gets the first 16, AnotherBass.dll gets the next 8 etc..still its not transparent when you add/remove VST's.

Did you try to set up a CD-rom folder in energyXT (D:\VstPLugins\SE\ or something)?

In the next version of eXT you can also drag and drop VST dll's from windows explorer onto the main window. Beats browsing thru 400 menu items...I'm not sure if it helps, but I use it myself when checking out demos before installing into my super-clean-and-tidy VST folders

jorgen

jorgen wrote:

In the next version of eXT you can also drag and drop VST dll's from windows explorer onto the main window. Beats browsing thru 400 menu items...I'm not sure if it helps, but I use it myself when checking out demos before installing into my super-clean-and-tidy VST folders

Fantastic idea, Jorgen, I really appreciate this.