Is there a stand-alone host that will enable VST instruments to be used directly, e.g. with a keyboard? I'd like to try out some of the freeware synths etc., but I don't have (or want) a VST enabled sequencer like Cubase. If there's a free one with VST support, that might be a different matter...
It would be rude of me to hang out here without giving everyone the opportunity of hearing what I sound like. But remember, nobody made you listen. :D
http://www.mp3.com/PeterMaydew/
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As I get nearer to the "pipe and slippers" time of my life, my nylon string technique (if I can call it a technique) seems to be taking precedence over all the others. However I still want to make a racket with effects and things; I want to sit in front of my PC without worrying about monitor...
Some of you with collections of old reel-to-reel tapes may have already come across this problem, and some may even know the solution. Apparently Ampex messed up their binder formulation in the mid to late seventies, the result being that it absorbs moisture over time eventually rendering the...