KVR Audio

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:52 pm

I read that there was a Steinberg made Minihost included in the new VST 2.4 SDK so I downloaded it but couldn't find it. I assume therefore you have to compile it yourself?? I was interested because I would like a light host to play my Hartman Neuron VSTi in, so far it only works in Orion Platinum and crashes in Chainer, Savihost and Tobybear's Minihost, but I have read that it was only really thoroughly tested in Cubase (and presumably Nuendo) and thought it possibly stands it's best chance of working well in them and that possibly a Steinberg made Minihost would conform to the same standards. Anyone know how to compile a copy (or who has done so already)?

bambooman · Post by **bambooman** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:39 am

hmm, very simple

try to get a copy of:
CubasisGo 2.0/3.0
(i have 2.0 laying around somewhere)

that used to be the smallest cubase.

laserbeak · Post by **laserbeak** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:45 am

lol but is there really a mini host in the sdk?

alienmachine · Post by **alienmachine** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:11 pm

It downloaded the SDK and, yes, it looks that there is one: minihost.cpp located in vstsdk2.4\public.sdk\samples\vst2.x\minihost\source
I haven't tried to compile, though.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:40 pm

I don't see why they supply it uncompiled - I mean its for testing purposes right? I would assume they designed it to replicate the "ideal" modern VST host environment (but without any bells and whistles) and that's why I want to try it with Neuron VS.

jackson · Post by **jackson** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:07 pm

It's there to demonstrate a basic VST host implementation in C++. I doubt the codebase is anything like Cubase's VST implementation (as wacky as that sounds)

Steinberg Minihost