Host for keyboardist?

[Gianluca13_2]

I'm keyboardist and from a lot of time I'm looking for a VST host really suitable for live performances. What I consider something of indispensable is:

- a very flexible midi implementation with articulated midi filter able
to transform every kind of MIDI message in another one or
cut definitively it
- a very flexible midi routing for supply MIDI message to every VST plugs
but also to external hardware synthesizer.
- a little MIDI sequencer not very strong just for some little pre recorded
parts.
- an audio file player perfectly integrated in sync with transport commands
for play complex bases pre recorded in wave format.
- and most important: a system to recall a complete song with VST plugs,
layout MIDI implementation, wave file player with the right wave file
loaded and program change for external synth, that all via a program change
sent by my master keyboard.
- finally the transport commands must be remapped for start and stop via
MIDI message

does this exist?

Cheers,

Gianluca

[kara]

You could have a look at Usine
from www.sensomusic.com

It was developped with that goal in mind

k

[Gianluca13_2]

Thank you Kara

I tested Usine and gave me the impression of an useless exasperation of modularity concept. Every thing must be made by hands, also a simple keyboard split is a problem to implement and can be achieve only by a script. Maybe this exasperation is functional to a very deep flexibility but from my point of view this risk to bring me far from my main goal that remain music and creativity. Transform me in a programmers every time I need an immediate and straight tool to implement a support for play live a song is something very different from my attitude. In example I tested and used for many time Energy XT the first version 1. 4 and I found this more near to what I look for but his programmer started a new version XT2 and seem to me hi turned in another direction.
And version 1.4 is obviously no more developed and leaved with his limits and bugs.

[Muzik 4 Machines]

mainstage on mac (comes with logic8)

[Gianluca13_2]

Excuse me.

I forgot something very important.

I need something for Windows.

Cheers,

Gianluca

[xb27]

I tested Usine and gave me the impression of an useless exasperation of modularity concept.

no luck Gianluca because Usine is made for you!!!!

[jamesb]

Hi. I've been using EnergyXT for my sound module when playing keyboards live.
I know what you mean with XT2 taking a different direction. However, the mixer in XT2, and quick project loading, make it worth persisting with I think. I currently load up XT1.4 inside XT2 to do all my MIDI processing and it works really well.

[olepro]

I'm keyboardist and from a lot of time I'm looking for a VST host really suitable for live performances. What I consider something of indispensable is:

- a very flexible midi implementation with articulated midi filter able
to transform every kind of MIDI message in another one or
cut definitively it
- a very flexible midi routing for supply MIDI message to every VST plugs
but also to external hardware synthesizer.
- a little MIDI sequencer not very strong just for some little pre recorded
parts.
- an audio file player perfectly integrated in sync with transport commands
for play complex bases pre recorded in wave format.
- and most important: a system to recall a complete song with VST plugs,
layout MIDI implementation, wave file player with the right wave file
loaded and program change for external synth, that all via a program change
sent by my master keyboard.
- finally the transport commands must be remapped for start and stop via
MIDI message

does this exist?

Cheers,

Gianluca

Cubase

[Muzik 4 Machines]

sorry

[koolkeys]

Maybe try Temper? It's made for complex MIDI stuff like that.

Brent

[Gianluca13_2]

Mmmm…

Temper seem an interesting nice object. I hope to see this little become a big. For the moment it
Raise very well. Still some lack some little bug but……

Thank for replays.

Gianluca

[dougsyo]

I thought of Project5. I'm not sure if the current (v2.5) has a demo or not, I know there was one for 2.0.

Doug

[Gianluca13_2]

One of the feature most critical for me is the songs recall. I play around thirty, song for every concert with five musicians in the stage. I can't search every song with a mouse in a monitor. Some time I can't neither see the monitor cause light condition or reflex produced by the sun or by lights. And more there is no time. I must launch a song in absolutely certitude in the most quick way as possible. The click metronome must start ,right bases must play and me with absolute correct setup must start to play the right synthesizer with the right sound in the right zone of keyboard. I encountered just four software able to recall a song in some way: Energy XT 1.4 with file mapping feature, Forte with scene system feature, Cantabile with quick session system and Kore with something similar to Forte scene system. But every one have some other strange limit or some dangerous bug making it no completely suitable or worst reliable All the others software I know are not able to do that. And seem to me this is a feature very easy to implement and to imagine. So I don't understand way this is a lack in the majority of software I know.

Not so different is the situation in the side of midi filters.

I think no one for the moment have really thought and realized a software for us keyboardist.

Cheers Gianluca

[dougsyo]

IIRC, Forte is the software used in the OpenLabs Neko, and it's specifically designed for gigging musicians. If you can give the folk over at http://www.brainspawn.com some feedback, maybe they can address it.

Doug

[asseca]

- and most important: a system to recall a complete song with VST plugs,
layout MIDI implementation, wave file player with the right wave file
loaded and program change for external synth, that all via a program change
sent by my master keyboard.

VstHost also has an interesting song recall system called "performances", the MIDI-filters are also quite powerful ...