KVR Audio

DuX · Post by **DuX** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:10 am

Minihost is excellent for making new patches and, of course, some live jamming... and it looks magnificent and everything, but I find only one minor drawback... no "hold" or sustain button for holding those arpeggios, sequences and notes while you're programming or maybe I'm missing it somewhere? I noticed one thing also, probably a bug and it's not on my monitor: when I change patches in "Discovery", be it by mouse or by arrow keys, sometimes I get an "exception at address" error, but everything still works afterwards

, strange? Usually that means closing the program, but in this case... I don't know

Anyway... "hold" button... "hold button"...

tobybear · Post by **tobybear** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:32 am

@DuX:
- I'll check that Discovery thing...
- did you try holding down ctrl key and click for example with the middle mouse button a key on the virtual keyboard? The notes should then play in "hold" state while you can change settings.

@BigTick:
I thought I'd scan only DLL files, but I look through the code again to make sure it does exactly that in the next release

Cheers

Toby

www.tobybear.de

DuX · Post by **DuX** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:44 am

Thanks, Toby

I usually look through the documentation

But you must admit "hold" function should be a bit more obvious, though

TechnoWeeniePas · Post by **TechnoWeeniePas** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:57 am

ClifAnd2k wrote:I have been using Forte Solo to convert VSTs to standalone. Up til now, it has been more stable that whatever version of Minihost I have.

I have found the last few versions quite stable. I have problems with GalactiX 1.4 unfortunatly where it will load the GUI and then crash the program. However it seems to crash all the free hosts that I have tried...seems to work in the demos of the mucho expensive ones though

Other than that one VSTi though everything I have tried works great.

mistertoast · Post by **mistertoast** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:44 pm

How's it good for creating patches? Does it have a preset lab like Chainer that lets you morph, blend, and randomize?

I guess I'll just download it. :->

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:47 pm

MidiSpy works now !!!

Using CA5000 own ranomize causes an error,
but no crash.

Cheers

default · Post by **default** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:56 am

Toby

that is soooo cool. yes ,I will down load it and try it, thank you very much!

tobybear · Post by **tobybear** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:57 am

MiniHost 1.01 has been released (same download location):
- GalactiX working (hopefully)
- VSTSpy does now only scan files with DLL extension
- improved preset change behaviour

Cheers

Toby

www.tobybear.de

TechnoWeeniePas · Post by **TechnoWeeniePas** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:03 am

tobybear wrote:- GalactiX working (hopefully)

Works fine here

Thanks for the update!

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:46 am

tobybear wrote:@DuX:
- did you try holding down ctrl key and click for example with the middle mouse button a key on the virtual keyboard? The notes should then play in "hold" state while you can change settings.
www.tobybear.de

Yes Toby, this works but with just one hand close to impossible to do...

Why not add a button for constant hold ?

Cheers
Midiworks

edit:Rhino 2 demo blocks and then need to force quit minihost.

Crackbaby · Post by **Crackbaby** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:30 am

http://www.maxxclaster.com/programs.html

ej 1.1 is trouble when loading. You have to press ok 127 times to load it. Holding down enter-key solves it. But if you shut down minihost while ej is loaded and then start up minihost .. uh .. trouble! Or is it just me?

Best regards!

tobybear · Post by **tobybear** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:45 am

@Crackbaby:
I can only test with ej 1.1 demo version - it brings up 127 times a messagebox saying that it can't save presets in the demo, I suppose you mean that? I can't do much about that, I suppose the full version does not behave this way.

I'll try to see what I can do, also with the Rhino 2 demo.

Cheers

Toby

www.tobybear.de

Pro-Sounds · Post by **Pro-Sounds** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:58 am

I tried to use USB's Ultrafocus in miniHost. It loaded fine but many of the controls (mainly buttons) wouldn't function once loaded.

Pro-Sounds · Post by **Pro-Sounds** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:00 am

Crackbaby wrote:http://www.maxxclaster.com/programs.html

ej 1.1 is trouble when loading. You have to press ok 127 times to load it. Holding down enter-key solves it. But if you shut down minihost while ej is loaded and then start up minihost .. uh .. trouble! Or is it just me?

Best regards!

I don't have this problem with eJ.

tobybear · Post by **tobybear** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:00 am

Mmmh, Rhino 2 demo running fine here (except for the "saving is disabled" message).

Cheers

Toby

www.tobybear.de

Tobybear MiniHost 1.0 final released!