KVR Audio

terriandralph · Post by **terriandralph** » Tue Oct 02, 2018 11:27 pm

I have found in my workflow that having a locking feature on a VST saves a lot of time and aggravation when trying out different presets without having with every preset change to change the microtuning. Some VSTs don't have a microtuning locking feature per se, but once the tuning is changed it remains on that tuning until another tuning is selected, even when a preset is changed.

Here are the VSTs that I know have this capability:

Linplug VSTs
U-he VSTs
Spire
Serum
Omnisphere

Does anyone know of any other VSTs that have this capability? Thanks.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Tue Oct 02, 2018 11:33 pm

Other than the ones mentioned, I am not personally aware of any.

terriandralph · Post by **terriandralph** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:34 am

Not sure how this can help me now, but I believe Alchemy 1.55 (and perhaps previous versions?) were able to lock microtuning through a "preserve" feature. Can anyone verify this?

Schmidi · Post by **Schmidi** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:44 am

What about a midi scale plugin? That could render all vsti useable

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:51 am

pretty sure Synthmaster has the global tune to Hertz feature which doesn't require reloading when browsing patches.

martinjuenke · Post by **martinjuenke** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 8:13 am

Search function is your friend:
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terriandralph · Post by **terriandralph** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:24 pm

Thanks all for the suggestions.

While microtuning options such as alt-tuner can microtune almost all VSTS and will keep the tuning through changes of presets (at the time I found it was hoping it was going to be my silver bullet), the biggest problem I have with it is that you can't tune an entire chord with it, just single voices.

EnsoLake · Post by **EnsoLake** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:01 pm

All Applied Acoustics vsti's (minus Strum) have this capability too.

monomaker · Post by **monomaker** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:36 pm

Silent Way has this now (SCL/KBM) so it's pretty easy tuning external monosynths, asides that there are many plugins on the thread Martin mention, above. All the TAL plugins now support it too.

Alchemy could indeed lock TUN tunings, so we'll be on that old version until the end of time! It still works great.

terriandralph · Post by **terriandralph** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:23 pm

Again, thanks all for the continued responses.

Didn't know about Synthmaster and the AAS VSTs.

jackoo · Post by **jackoo** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:36 pm

ZynAddSubFX

terriandralph · Post by **terriandralph** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 1:47 pm

Thanks for adding to the list jackoo.

monomaker · Post by **monomaker** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 12:15 am

Fathom synth as of yesterday! Support for SCL & TUN, drag and drop.

Haven't tried it yet but it sounds very promising.

I noticed Gladiator 3 has a "Microtuning" section, but the way it was written about makes me think it's not actually a microtuning section at all but a stack detune system. Anyone know what the score is on that?

Iu Gob · Post by **Iu Gob** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 5:45 pm

ModulAir
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Pianoteq

terriandralph · Post by **terriandralph** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:22 am

Thanks for the added responses since I last checked the post!

Looking for VSTs that have microtuning lock feature