Does the Free VST Wrapper really work?

[Alanfc]

I am really looking hard at this stuff now.
I see the Cakewalk Direct X site has a "Lite" VST wrapper, but whats the catch? Why is it free?

I know I'm really cheap but for now I must try this Lite version, unless there's some tragic flaw in it. My search of the Cakewalk board showed a few mentions of the Lite but no real details or warnings.
Any comments appreciated
-Alan

 

[zone_ahead]

If that's the Spin-Audio one on the Direct-X Files site - you can only use one instance of it per track and it doesn't save your settings when you close the project. The later which made it pretty useless for me.

If I were you I would just download the demos of the cakewalk version and then when that expires download the DirectXizer. Both have 30 day unlimited use. That will give you 2 months of wrapper use before you have to fork out the cash for one of them.

 

[moskus]

If that's the Spin-Audio one on the Direct-X Files site - you can only use one instance of it per track and it doesn't save your settings when you close the project. The later which made it pretty useless for me.

And you can't use it with VST Instruments....

 

[Alanfc]

I see

luckily I'll only be using guitar, bass, analog drum machine, voice.


But actually I think I'm gonna just save up the $60 for the real paid version off the Cakewalk site

thanks

 

[dachay2tnr]

It's included in Sonar 3.0 - both versions - if you are planning on upgrading.