Hey folks,
I am new to the concept of VST Hosting so bear with me. I’m trying to figure out a Live performance solution similar to Waves’ SoundGrid studio(too expensive and too much for my purposes) and came across Steinberg’s own VST Live. I’ve downloaded the demo to try and it seems really cool.
So basically, in order for VST Live to hear something, it needs midi tracks programmed in to VST Live’s arranger program but I should probably export my Cubase Project into VST Live - but in my head it defeats the purpose of Cubase - I was wondering if it was possible to send the direct outs from my tracks in Cubase, unless the only way to do this is to export/import into VST Live.
I was going to use VST Live as the host for a laptop with Cubase on it. You’re saying it’s not a good idea to send outs from Cubase to VST Live and just use VST Live when it’s performance time?
… maybe I misunderstand something here. It sounds that you want to run Cubase and VST Live at the same time? That’s not a good idea with Windows if several Audio applications are running with the same ASIO driver. But maybe you have virtual cables installed? And you …
.. maybe you give us some more hints about your plan? Or, have you tried it already? Does it work?
Although VSTLive is not similar with soundgrid it does more in any other terms.
Emagine you can not only use VSTL with a dedicated audio-interface as some kind of “sound-grid” (your VSTLive computer will then be the DSP too)
BUT VSTLive can act as
Backing track player on steroids
MIDI sequencer on steroids
-Video player (6 diff destinations)
DMX playback
Lyrics (teleprompter)
Notes
-…
So your confusion is rather coming from that afaik Waves Sound Grid is rather exclusively for live mixing with waves plugins “only”, while VSTlive is not giving as fancy mixer view as Waves but does the listed features above too.
Long story short:
You probably won’t necessarily need Cubase + VST Live running primetime, rather you can make an essential export (stems, bounced material, MIDI tracks) to VSTLive.
Of sure, you can make something “sound-grid” with a dedicated VSTLive computer with dedicated audio interface and keep a Cubase computer for e.g.: your backing tracks.
Meanwhile VSTLive currently isn’t as sophisticated as CubasePro + Waves SoundGridSystem together
If Cubase and VST Live are to be run on the same Computer, it might be difficult, that depends on how Dante drivers behave on your system.
Otherwise yes, but you should be able to acheive the same with just Cubase, so we’re not quite sure what you expect. You have the same routing and plugin capabilities in both apps.
If you want to run VST Live on an external system, it can work as a routing/plugin processing matrix just like Cubase can, if that’s your goal? It is always good to describe a high-level structure. You may envision is multiple musicians each with their own Cubase (?) streaming to central matrix and that matrix should also include plugin processing? That should work, but again you could do that with Cubase as well. VST Live may be more suited because it is a bit more lightweight, but if you cannot acheive what you want with Cubase, you will probably not be able to acheive it with VST Live either.