Re: [MMM] skinny on plugins

Jacky and Jeff,

Thanks for the info.

I doubt I'll get very far into it right now, but I'll dig deeper in awhile.
At least I have a vague idea what the hades your talkin about.

Mooshy feeling,
GZ

"X. J. Scott" wrote:

> George,
>
> > VST plug-in synths are for Cubase only? They are micro
> > capable?
>
> Steinberg invented the VST interface but they have
> opened it up so that other people can write VST fx and
> instruments and even host the plugins in other apps --
> so its sort of like an open standard -- Logic and such
> can run the same plugins that Cubase does. That makes
> it so there's more incentive to write plugins since
> more people can use them. Also, plugins can be ported
> between Mac and PC not trivially but not as difficult
> as a regular App is to convert. You mainly have to
> rework the user interface for your plugin and have a PC
> for testing and compiler and sequencer to test in and
> all that but don't have to rewrite all the plugin code
> at least.
>
> GZ, I am not sure if your Cubasis supports VST plugins
> -- does it? Do you have reverb and chorus and eq and
> delays and stuff like that in Cubasis? Or are those
> things only in the bigger full Cubase version?
>
> The VST standard came out in Cubase 3.0 Mac. In
> Cubase 5.0, they upgraded the standard to VST 2.0
> which mainly includes three new things:
>
> 1. plugins can now recieved MIDI in and send MIDI out
> except sysex. This simple addition is the single thing
> that allows for a VSTi ('instrument') plugin instead of
> just an effect like reverb or chorus. Both write audio
> samples as output, but the VSTi plugins generate new
> samples (instrument voices or whatever) in response to
> MIDI events rather than just process samples like an
> effect box. There is practically no difference between
> VST and VSTi except what the plugin does with the data
> it recieves.
>
> 2. plugins can recieved timing info from the host. This
> means that VST 2.0 effects can now synchronize delay
> times and LFOs to the beat clock! How Cool!
>
> 3. plugins recieve a tuning parameter with each note on
> and other MIDI event they recieve. (Probably only the
> note on ones are of interest.) This feature seems to be
> something of a secret -- though a secret soon to be
> revealed in the next Cubase release, if John Lofflink's
> little birdie is right.
>
> > I'm still searching the archives trying to figure out the
> > thousand or so messages about reverb.
>
> > Any help appreciated. Is there a VST faq?
>
> There are some discussion boards and faq like things on
> the site Jacky mentioned.
>
> - Jeff
>
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