KVR Audio

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 8:06 am

I have vstforx but would like to try some other similar graphical chainer plugins. Any alternatives that are free?

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 10:02 am

Studio Units, its free and has some unique features and allows feedback routing

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 10:14 am

thanks - that does look just the thing except ... it is only for 32 bit plugins

A real shame

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 11:52 am

Mux is pretty awesome too

Timfonie · Post by **Timfonie** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 12:03 pm

+1 for MUX (it's not free though)

A good free option, inl. 64bit: Image Line recently introduced Mini Host.

bpblog · Post by **bpblog** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 12:08 pm

MUX from MuTools (not free) and the recently relesad beta of Minihost Modular by Image Line (free).

eidenk · Post by **eidenk** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:01 pm

VstBoard (free) has an x64 version too.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vstboard/

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 9:42 pm

thanks for those other suggestions - MUX looks pretty good but is way more than I need, mini host looks just right, and I'll also check out the VSTboard

thanks again, woggle

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 10:18 pm

bpblog wrote:the recently relesad beta of Minihost Modular by Image Line (free).

Seems to run lightly and works well. Loads MIDI, audio and synth VSTs.

firepile · Post by **firepile** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 10:23 pm

Metaplugin

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 11:04 pm

firepile wrote:Metaplugin

damn if that was still $15 I would probably get it, but $49 is a bit too much - but it doesn't allow for 32 and 64 bit plugins at the same time. That seems to be a universal issue

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 11:21 pm

If you like FL, IL Minihost will probably be what you want.
Not saying FL could use some room for improvement, but... it could.
Minihost looks like a lot of fun in a small package, but will lack some more advanced things

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 11:25 pm

I'm wanting something to overcome the awful Reaper interface for plug in chaining so that I can build more complex parallel and in-series fx. But the Reaper interface is so unintuitive - eg follow the instructions in the manual for parallel fx chaining on p305 of the manual. That seems pretty straightforward. Then reduce all the inputs to the JS mixer - you still get a sound, with no input volume! Now I am sure there is a great reason for this buried somewhere in the haphazard and clunky interface, but typically one expects zero input volume to lead to zero output.

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 11:28 pm

camsr wrote:If you like FL, IL Minihost will probably be what you want.
Not saying FL could use some room for improvement, but... it could.
Minihost looks like a lot of fun in a small package, but will lack some more advanced things

I mainly do audio and use imported midi files I write using software I've written. I never do pattern based music, so even though I've looked at FL a few times and it looks an amazing deal, it isn't really for me. Reaper is almost fine, but the interface is so clunky and each new version seems to run Kontakt worse than the last. Unfortunately I don't have much money so a lot of DAWs are out of my price range

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 11:32 pm

Well, save up, then

Try out AudioMulch, it sounds like what you want.

any alternatives to vstforx?