Members ElectricPuppy Posted September 27, 2009 Members Share Posted September 27, 2009 I agree totally. Do you have a recommendation on a reliable lightweight host that you can use like this, something that doesn't try to be the King of DAWs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted September 27, 2009 Members Share Posted September 27, 2009 I'd go for http://www.energy-xt.com/ or http://www.renoise.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted September 27, 2009 Members Share Posted September 27, 2009 The OT has a Mac. Macs come with two excellent free music performance apps. You know about GarageBand. The other is AU Lab. AU Lab gets installed when you install the Xcode Tools from your install discs (these are mostly programmer tools). It's a nice, focussed, well-designed mixer program for testing out AUs (Audio Units, the Apple equivalent to VSTs). Controls can be mapped to MIDI, it accepts audio inputs, and it's really quite a nice mixer platform for live performance. And since its main reason for existing is to test AUs for bugs, it's rock solid with some handy information available (CPU load window, error reporting). So if you can't find a standalone VSTi you should consider these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members crazycarl Posted September 28, 2009 Members Share Posted September 28, 2009 if you do go the lightweight host + any plugin route, I'll recommend u-he Zebra 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mildbill Posted September 30, 2009 Members Share Posted September 30, 2009 ... Just a host that doesn't allow you to open any other stuff, ... Guess I'll have to change my definition of a host then. I always took it to mean a program that will allow other softsynths to be run from within it. I'm no computer wiz though, so what do I know? Hai guyz - I'm back after a short absence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ElectricPuppy Posted September 30, 2009 Members Share Posted September 30, 2009 Howdy, Wild Bill, welcome back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members electrobaby Posted September 30, 2009 Author Members Share Posted September 30, 2009 Im pretty certain I am gonna go with Massive. Also if I use it in standalone mode and I use Steinberg Groove Agent 3 in standalone mode...I probably cant sync the two can I? Seeing that neither is a host. I was just thinking if I wanted to sync the arp/seq patterns in massive to the groove agent pattern. How can I sync them together without using a host...or can I?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fierywater Posted September 30, 2009 Members Share Posted September 30, 2009 Massive's a lot of fun, but it can and will beat your CPU over the head if it's not powerful enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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