Here's what I found brousing SmartElectronix pages:
Works excellent in Plogue Bidule--the drum sequencer is especially useful.There are four MIDI plugins: XYPad, 8LFOs, DrumSeq and StepSeq. These were the first plugins I ever made and as such aren’t great and need rewriting. I used some, how shall I put it... "idiosyncratic" methods when hacking these together and was still learning the VST SDK, so apologies if these do not work as expected.
Different VST hosts handle MIDI from plugins in different ways - some don’t support it at all! Different versions of hosts also handle MIDI differently - e.g. Cubasis 3 used to accept MIDI from VSTs in the way it accepts MIDI from outside (e.g. a midi keyboard) - it would send it to a central buffer and then send it to the selected MIDI track. However, after v. 3.0r2, Cubasis no longer sent this stright away so you couldn’t have one VST triggering another.
XYPad allows you to control two MIDI ccs at the same time.
8LFOs provides, obviously, 8 LFOs that send on any MIDI cc with various waveforms, syncing and control options.
DrumSeq was made to provide a simple grid edit drum pattern sequencer to make my life a bit easier in Cubasis (kinda fallen by the wayside now that Fruityloops works as a VSTi!). Still handy for controlling drum sampler VSTis like Computer Music's SR202.
StepSeq started off just for creating simple MIDI cc patterns - e.g. for filter hocketing. However, it kinda bloated and got out of hand cos I kept adding options and functions. So now it can also send midi notes (either a set note or you can use a little piano roll), you can select which patterns are active at any one time and there's a pattern playlist.
There are two versions of each plugin: one works as a VST instrument and the other as an effect. Using either version means you sacrifice one of your VSTi or VST effect slots, but you can always record the midi output once your happy with it and unload the plugin. Exporting the bank will also save the plugin state - so you can reload it all later if needs be.
Very good stuff, my hearty thanks go to Dunk!
