Re: (idm) soft synths / MS-20

From Mike Baugh
Sent Sat, Mar 6th 1999, 20:35

>The new plug-in standard 2.0 for Cubase VST is going to allow plugins to
>receive MIDi onformation. Be prepared for an explosion of softsynths,
>samplers, and effects to hopefully be coupled by manufacturers producing
>huge midi controller boards with as many knobs sliders and buttons as
>possible. My setup right now is a pentiumII-400Mhz running win98 with
>two monitors (soon to be three) a MIDI bitstream controller (40knobs, 8
>buttons, etc.) used to control ReBirth through Cubase VST, Generator,
>VAZ modular, and a few external modules. Software will never eliminate
>dedicated equipment purely for the reason that we like the hands on
>interaction of devices. It will be very important to have excellent
>controllers for the future.


Building Blocks is a pretty interesting piece of software as well, it's the
same idea except it deal exclusively with MIDI messages...you can program it
to make some pretty interesting things happen as well, again, very CPU
intensive...you can find it at:

http://midiworld.com/AuReality/software/

cya------->mIkE