Receptor vs. Brainspawn Forte 2

[dudegruvy]

I have been happily gigging with my receptor rev c, and I'm looking for a backup in case of a disaster on the road. I've decided to go with a laptop and Brainspawn Forte2, and a usb audio card to do the heavy lifting. It's lighter, cheaper, and will run all my windows vst's. Plus, if someone kicks out the powercord onstage, I have hours of battery backup in the laptop. The choice seems to be a no-brainer. Are there any naysayers?

[looneytunes]

I used Forte as my PC host for quite a while. It was a very logical host for live performance. At home, my needs were going the way of 'offload processing for a DAW". 'Vienna Ensemble Pro' became better suited as my PC host for this, and I stopped using Forte. I think if I were using a VST host live, Forte would still be the choice.

As a backup for receptor, about the only thing Forte and Receptor share in common is that they are hosts, and they have some kind of scene mechanism.

My $0.02, FWIW,
Kevin L

[AnalogGuy1]

...and just another 2c, I own both Forte and Cantabile. I prefer Cantabile for a number of reasons, including its built-in midi player and sample players that can easily be programmed to be controlled by various midi events. Way cool. It also has built-in automatic jbridging support for 32 bit VST's if you install the 64 bit version.

[David Carpenter Wind Core]

Forte has rewire support just rewire to reaper or ableton or other host for midi player or sample player I haven't found an app that has the stability of forte.

[megadeth]

Try Sensomusic Free as host : it is free and the presets manager rules