[Les Cargill]

Matt Ion wrote:
Bob Cain wrote:

Matt Ion wrote:

Looking for software, preferably free (open source?) that will allow VST
and/or DX effects plugins and VST instruments to used "live" - something
that will take the sound card's input, apply plugin(s) to it, and then
pipe the effected sound back out the sound card for reinforcement. I
know we used to do this using ADAT Edit (a stripped-down version of
Logic) on the old studio machine that had the Alesis PCR card, but Edit
won't run without the PCR hardware. I've found a few other commercial
apps that work well (like SpinAudio's stuff) but of course, this being
for typical musicians, they don't want to spend any money on it if they
don't have to...



If I understand, you are looking for something free that adds system
sound output drivers to which can direct sound inputs or application
outputs, run the stream through a selectable plugin or rack of them
and send the result to a selected system sound output driver.


That's about it, yup.

If so,
I'm looking for the same to distribute with an application demo of
something I've developed. I've spent some time looking for it to no
avail (and hope I've overlooked something.)

This can be well effected with the combination of Virtual Audio Cable
(VAC) which adds the drivers and does routing and AudioMulch which
will host the plugins/instruments (and do a lot more if you want) but
these two are not free. VAC

http://nrcde.ru/music/software/eng/vac.html

costs $30 and AudioMulch

http://www.audiomulch.com/

costs $89.


Hmmm, SpinAudio's stuff is a lot cheaper than that and does it all in
one package (I think Virtual mixer is just under $80; they have two
others that aren't so fancy and don't have the mixer for around $30).

Oh well, the search continues. I've found one called Ableton Live that
will do it as well, but that's not free either.

Seems to me I did see some SDK stuff along these lines in my searches,

There is a *very* rudimentary VST host included in the VST SDK.

though... you could maybe take a look at www.sourceforge.net for some
opensource APIs?

Thanks for the tips, anyway.

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Les Cargill