KVR Audio

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:55 am

What a great concept, I can't believe I haven't looked at this before now. It turns any VST plugin into a stand-alone that you can play from your computer keyboard or via your controller. The Preset Manager is abso-f**king-lutely awesome. Whether you make your own or not, it allows you to put all your favourite patches into one bank with incredible efficiency. The MIDI tools are handy and fun.

For trying out synths or making patches [or just organising the ones you already have], this is the best $15 you will ever donate. Seriously.

projectdan · Post by **projectdan** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:14 am

Its got some nifty preset randomize features too. Its just a very usefull bit of software.

Reqs · Post by **Reqs** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:02 am

How is it any better than the free savi host (aside from preset management)?

Just asking...

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:13 am

It has an arpeggiator, a chord maker and step sequencer for goofing around with, the UI changes colour to match the loaded VSTi - good for making a stand-alone look the part. Like SAVIhost, you can simply rename the .exe file to the name of your synth and it becomes a stand-alone for that synth.

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:58 am

How did you find out about that Bones?

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:06 am

It's preset handling is the best. For making new banks out of fxp's it's indispensable. But for playing VSTi's I've gone back to Savihost at the moment as it seems to handle midi better for most synths (with the exeption of Kubik).

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:30 am

Kriminal wrote:How did you find out about that Bones?

Some dickhead!

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:32 am

aMUSEd wrote:It's preset handling is the best. For making new banks out of fxp's it's indispensable.

Yep, thats what this dickhead uses it for

chrissill31 · Post by **chrissill31** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:04 am

Thanks for the heads up Bones, i wouldnt have even looked at this but im glad i did.

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:36 am

forgive my ingnorance but after you re-manage your presets for a paticular vsti, lets say trilogy, or absynth or whatever, how do you keep your newly mangaged list when using the vsti in your standard host, or can you only do this in minihost?

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:43 am

You just save it as a .fxb bank and load it into the synth in whatever host you use. Its so f**king easy it oughta be illegal.

soulkraka · Post by **soulkraka** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:45 am

BONES wrote:Its so f**king easy it oughta be illegal.

Its so f**king easy it oughta be the norm.

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:07 pm

thanks much for that, and this savihost is not up to par or is it?

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:25 pm

stale bread wrote:forgive my ingnorance but after you re-manage your presets for a paticular vsti, lets say trilogy, or absynth or whatever, how do you keep your newly mangaged list when using the vsti in your standard host, or can you only do this in minihost?

For most VSTi's you'd just save a FXB and load it into your synth. However Absynth and possibly Trilogy have their own preset formats I think so you wouldn't be able to alter them.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:30 pm

stale bread wrote:thanks much for that, and this savihost is not up to par or is it?

Savihost is great if you mainly want a simple ligtweight standalone but don't need the extra bells and whistles - I find it more reliable at the moment on my system. I tend to use Minihost if I want the extra's like to make or manage preset banks. If the midi was more stable I would probably go back to Minihost though as I prefer it's patch handling (unless Savihost developed better patch handling along the same lines)

How Damned Good is MINIHOST!?!