Music Production, Synths and Software

Music software and synth UIs are kind of ok now i guess

VCV Rack under Windows 7?

Rack2 needs opengl 3.2 so either:

• Use Rack 1.6 or
• Dropping the DLLs opengl32.dll and libgallium_w32.dll from the mesa-dist-win package into the Rack 2 directory got it to actually start up
• Do not expect performance

vst hosts for Windows

• VSTHost
  • tres buggy
  • no vst bundle support
  • 32, 64-bit and 9x versions
  • simple to intensely complicated patch bay
• opencma / LightHost
  • holy crap have the computer muted before you run it
  • lives in the system tray which is probably a turn on for someone
  • 32 and 64 bit versions in different archives
  • Windows binaries but supposed to be able to compile for Mac/Linux
  • Probably have to know how to build JUCE projects (proJUCEr? no build instructions)
  • Multiple instances with param -multi-instance=uniqInstanceName
• Tone2 / NanoHost
  • cromulent but won’t run vst3
  • can run multiple instances
  • 32 and 64 bit versions\
  • Supports XP-11
• VCV Rack
  • great if you have the HP but automation controls are limited to like 24 inputs
  • no 32 bit vsts == sadness :(
  • make sure to set the midi to cv module to polyphonic if you’re expecting polyphony or just let the plug-in talk to midi directly