Alndln Posted March 21, 2001 Share Posted March 21, 2001 I just checked out a cool little free VSTI (VST instrument) from a company called MDA called the MDA Piano,while I'm not going to trash my Giga Piano or X-3, this little thing sounds very cool and is definitly usable and free.Also while your there try the MDA pak 3 which includes a comp/lim/gate which sounds fine and uses very little CPU,great if your already loaded up on plugs and tracks already.Unfortunately the MDA piano is PC only at the moment with the Mac vers. soon to follow,but the rest are all cross platform.Go to www.mda-vst.com Enjoy!!! "A Robot Playing Trumpet Blows" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alndln Posted April 5, 2001 Author Share Posted April 5, 2001 Ok,the Mac version is now availible as well.This is "free" guy's,as in no money. This message has been edited by Alndln@hotmail.com on 04-04-2001 at 05:02 PM "A Robot Playing Trumpet Blows" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieB_dup1 Posted April 5, 2001 Share Posted April 5, 2001 How the hell do you use these VSTi thingies!?! For the life of me, I can't figger out how to make 'em work. http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/frown.gif Do you have to do something special or have an external KBoard MIDI'd to your PC in order to input notes, or what!?! How does a "gear" guy go about learning how to use things like VSTi's anyway!?! I know how to use plugins, of course, do VSTi's work in sort of the same way!?! StevieB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alndln Posted April 5, 2001 Author Share Posted April 5, 2001 You have to have a vst host program such as Cubase/Nuendo, or in my case a VST adapter so I can use it in non VST environments such as Cakewalk/Sonar ect.And yes you have to trigger it with a midi controller such as a midi keyboard or midi guitar pickup ect.If your not using Cubase/Nuendo and have a PC go to www.fxpansion.com and try the adapter. "A Robot Playing Trumpet Blows" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisencocasema.net Posted April 5, 2001 Share Posted April 5, 2001 Originally posted by Alndln@hotmail.com: I just checked out a cool little free VSTI (VST instrument) from a company called MDA called the MDA Piano,while I'm not going to trash my Giga Piano or X-3, this little thing sounds very cool and is definitly usable and free.Also while your there try the MDA pak 3 which includes a comp/lim/gate which sounds fine and uses very little CPU,great if your already loaded up on plugs and tracks already.Unfortunately the MDA piano is PC only at the moment with the Mac vers. soon to follow,but the rest are all cross platform.Go to www.mda-vst.com Enjoy!!! Yes it's nice. But I find the way the piano responses to notes off, causes weird releases of it's sound. Tweaking the parameters doesn't help. Maybe there's a new version out. I have to check it. But for the moment I don't use it because of the bad sounding release (ADSR) effects. ------------------ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Denike Posted April 6, 2001 Share Posted April 6, 2001 Also, Native-Instrument's new Spektral Delay demo is available for download . . . if you're into messing with sound, or so-far unheard of effects, try downloading the free demo from: www.native-instruments.de/english/2_products/9_nispektral/1_nispektral.html and pressing the 'Demoversion' bullet, or going there directly : www.native-instruments.de/english/2_products/9_nispektral/nispektral_demo.html Or you can try the proxy-server / mail redirect address: www.ni-spektral.com/sd-news-e I hope that one of those links work . . . This message has been edited by Steven Denike on 04-05-2001 at 10:25 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted April 6, 2001 Share Posted April 6, 2001 >>How does a "gear" guy go about learning how to use things like VSTi's anyway!?!<< Within a day or two, check the home page for a brief video tutorial on setting up VST instruments. Also, my May or June keyboard column is about VST instruments. In a nutshell, a VST instrument has a MIDI in and a digital audio out. In a sequencer, the VST instrument shows up as a possible MIDI track output. If the instrument is the selected output, anything recorded on that track will play through the VST instrument. To monitor it as you play, enabling software thru should do the job. The output is a digital audio stream that goes to your recording software's mixer (they all have some kind of mixer). In other words, the mixer can get an input from a digital audio track, or the output of a VST instrument. When you enable a VST instrument, everything is pretty automatic: the instrument shows up as a MIDI device, and as another channel in a mixer. VST instruments are really cool, check 'em out. Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 6, 2001 Share Posted April 6, 2001 Originally posted by Anderton: >>How does a "gear" guy go about learning how to use things like VSTi's anyway!?!<< VST instruments are really cool, check 'em out. Yes they are and you can check some of them out in a review I published some time ago in the swedish magazine FUZZ. If you can't get the mag, or read swedish, I translated it and put some mp3 demos at: http://home.swipnet.se/Nermarks_hemstudio/spelain/hemstudi/VSTinstEng.htm I hope you'll enjoy it. Best regards, Mats Nermark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alndln Posted April 7, 2001 Author Share Posted April 7, 2001 Here's another one that's free at the moment because it's in beta,but this is one excellent synth.It's by a company called Linplug and it's called the Omega.It's sort of a combination sample/analog synth. Go to http://www.linplug.com/products/Omega/Omega_Beta_test/omega_beta_test.htm "A Robot Playing Trumpet Blows" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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