Members fcoulter Posted September 17, 2013 Members Share Posted September 17, 2013 I'm sure that this has been dealt with recently, but when I searched the forum, the most recent post I've seen was about five years ago. Technology tends to advance, so I figure that there may be updates to this.I tend to be the auxilary keyboardist for musical theater productions. (Musical theater scores tend to have far more instruments than most local theaters can afford to hire. The musical director will generally hire musicians for the various parts until they reach their budget limit, and then use an auxilary keyboardist to fill out the rest of the parts.)At any rate, I'm planning on using my relatively dumb keyboard and drive some vst instuments on a Windows 7/8 computer. My keyboard has really good piano and other such sounds, but not so good solo orchestral instruments. My keyboard is dumb enough that it sends on a single channel.What I would like to use is a vst host on my computer that can process the midi in, splitting and layering as I want, and then drive the vst module. I would like to be able to change settings quickly in a performance situation.I'm also cheap, so I'd rather not spend a lot of money on this software. Free is very pretty.So, what's out there that meets my needs?Thanks in advance for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zzzxtreme Posted September 17, 2013 Members Share Posted September 17, 2013 Vst host - reaperAnd there's a free orchestral soundfont. Dont remember then name, but u can look at my profile and search all my topics I posted. Nice sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tullsterx Posted September 17, 2013 Members Share Posted September 17, 2013 I use CantabileI think there is a free version but I'm not sure how funtional it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members midinut Posted September 17, 2013 Members Share Posted September 17, 2013 I use Cantabile as well. I just recently purchased the "Solo" version, but may upgrade if it works out for me. I've just started scratching the surface with it so can't make any comparisons to Forte or offer much other than saying it works, and it's deep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mcmike100 Posted September 24, 2013 Members Share Posted September 24, 2013 Reaper. I tried Cantabile and ended up buying a Steinberg host (which I can't remember the name of). It was terrible. Then, I tried Reaper. I ran two keyboards into my laptop, with a whole host of VSTi instruments, and it worked flawlessly for live work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fcoulter Posted September 25, 2013 Author Members Share Posted September 25, 2013 When I go to the Reaper site, I find a lot about using it in a studio, but little about live performance. The Cantabile site talks only about live performance. Given all the capabilities of Reaper, wouldn't using it only as a vst host for live performances carry a lot of unneccessary overhead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zzzxtreme Posted September 26, 2013 Members Share Posted September 26, 2013 Give it a try. Its really light on resources Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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