NotePad is basically crippled and not at all useful because of it ho features except manual input of text. Is there anything better?
Well yes. The free VSTNotepad.
I have been doing some research around text editing VSTS. Frankly, there are only about 8 products available. and none of them are great. Simple features like Bold, Underline Italics, copy and paste, are mostly missing and I have found that some products demand you dowload a heavywieght product manager to use them. None of them are great or well thought out.
VSTNotepad is free. It is a no strings download. It does have the key mission critical feature… it can copy and paste.
“Whoa” I can hear you, “So what?”.
Cubase Notepad cannot do this. This means if you want to store a hyperlink, you have to type it in - manually - strings of random digits. No thanks.
VST notepad is installed likeany other VST, as a VST Effect
VSTNotePad is inserted into a track as an effect but it does not change sounds.
You can grab a URL to, say, a tutorial for the hosted Instrument, or, perhaps a link to a forum, or, the manufacturers web page right there, in the instrument track.Any hpyerlink you want!
Of course you can also write any relevent text you like, you could also copy and paste some crucial explanation of a bit of the VST manual, from a PDF.
The point is, then there will no longer be a need to come out of Cubase and go hunting and pecking around. The help and info you have decided you need is right there when you load the track from a track archive. It can be part of the process of polishing your track and prepping it for future use.
Once you have made your notes, you can save your track as a track archive and further iterations of teh archive will contain all teh information you need about the track and any useful weblinks.
It would be great if someone could create a VST text editor that had functions like Bold and Italic, Font sizes, etc, available too. Ideally, it could be a part of VST4, so that one might make your notes on any VST in your system, to be available on a button on any future instance of the VST GUI. This way any tutorial abvout a VST could be made avaiable to any instance of a VST.
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