Hello everyone,
Now version 3 is out and the application has become well established, I am curious to see what the main uses of it are for.
I originally bought it as a keyboard player, for playing virtual instruments (VI) in a live gig. For creating patches that could mix various different VIs together in one place. For its low system resources and its ability to create multiple different parts for a song and switch instantly between them.
For this, it has proved an excellent solution. There is nothing else that runs so lean and efficiently. It lets me run 8 layers of VIs simultaneously, from heavyweight synth patches in Omnisphere, large sampled piano libraries and multiple instruments from orchestral libaries. All on a 2021 Windows laptop.
It is so good at this, I use it more now at home than when gigging. I much prefer playing to recording. I love leaving the DAWs turned off and firing up a project in VST Live to play my chosen synths and other instruments. VST Live makes this effortless. It even handles the midi mapping for my keyboard controls and selection of the right settings, patches and effects.
The one blemish is that the plan to use live with the band has fallen by the wayside due to the lack of an Android app. Having an app only part of the band can use is worthless. We are soldiering on with everyone responsible for their own lyrics (lots of paper still - crazy) and dependant on the drummer for tempo. We don’t do fancy light shows (yet) or use backing tracks, so until my one man crusade to get an Android version of Mods bears fruit, it will remain just for my keys rig.
What are you all using VST Live for?
meanwhile doing all possible and spending lots if money for ultra-low latency, for every single msec that can be saved