KVR Audio

hotmitts · Post by **hotmitts** » Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:09 pm

I'm personally looking for one that works on Windows, and could host multiple MIDI plugins in a chain, routed to VST.
Of course I googled, which came up with some suggestions, but not much detail about what they are like.
Free or budget price would be ideal.
Thanks for looking.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:13 pm

search KVR for the term 'subhost'

MXJIA · Post by **MXJIA** » Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:44 pm

DDMF Metaplugin may work for you. It reminds me a lot of FL Studio's Patcher.

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:52 pm

Kushview Element

fairlyclose · Post by **fairlyclose** » Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:57 pm

https://nugenaudio.com/sigmod is a bit cheaper I think - can go on sale sometimes too or maybe jrrshop or audiodeluxe have their standard discounts on it too

kPere · Post by **kPere** » Fri Jul 29, 2022 8:33 am

Halonmusic wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:52 pm Kushview Element

Yeah, this one worked great for me as a VST3 host for Reason - great chainging abbilities. Ugly GUI but it works and is free

hotmitts · Post by **hotmitts** » Fri Jul 29, 2022 10:47 am

kPere wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 8:33 am
Halonmusic wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:52 pm Kushview Element
Yeah, this one worked great for me as a VST3 host for Reason - great chainging abbilities. Ugly GUI but it works and is free

I'll look into that
...thanks folks for suggestions

EDIT -it looks like it's $5 for the latest version, for updates there's a subscription...
'Access to Element pre-built releases for 14 days'
..so you get a keeper but no updates after 14 days I think is what that means?

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Sun Jul 31, 2022 6:31 am

It was a commercial project which was later transformed into an open source project. The binary downloads have a price tag. I bought it before it went open source and have access to new versions for free. Free software needs support as well…
The developer is extremely helpful. Just out of curiosity I downloaded the sources and he helped me to get it compiled…

hotmitts · Post by **hotmitts** » Sun Jul 31, 2022 7:59 am

Tj Shredder wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 6:31 am ...Free software needs support as well…
The developer is extremely helpful. Just out of curiosity I downloaded the sources and he helped me to get it compiled…

Absolutely, always good to support the developers.
I was just trying to work out what the various options on display actually meant. from the way it was worded, alongside the subscription options. Maybe me, but for a moment I thought it was access for 14 days only...but it meant access to any updates for that period.
Anyway I took the plunge for only $5.
I'm just trying to route the MIDI outs from Playbeat3 into different keys of a VST drum instrument, making random MIDI patterns to trigger VST percussion. I haven't worked out how to do that yet in Kushview Element, have to sit with a few tutorials I think. I can see yo just connect the nodes but it doesn't seem to work with what I want to do

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Sun Jul 31, 2022 8:11 am

Tj Shredder wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 6:31 am It was a commercial project which was later transformed into an open source project. The binary downloads have a price tag. I bought it before it went open source and have access to new versions for free. Free software needs support as well…
The developer is extremely helpful. Just out of curiosity I downloaded the sources and he helped me to get it compiled…

Is he still active? Also bought way before it went open - source, yet couldnt access the new Updates for quite some time now, and no Luck when trying to contact him either.

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Sun Jul 31, 2022 9:34 pm

We chatted on Discord…

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sun Jul 31, 2022 10:09 pm

Contra Lite (Free) by Audio Vitamins maybe?
https://www.audiovitamins.com/downloads/

Is there a free alternative to Blue Cat's patchwork ?