I'm considering going to the sofware way and would like to know what your setup is, things like what's your computer, your VST, OS and what success you had.

Would be good also to know what didn't work so we don't step in the sames holes

thanks
MJ

Your computer isn't relevant... Only the ammount of memmory 8gigs and the processor quad core intel count. Next to that the soundcard is very very very important offcourse..

Also i use Linux for the multi Asio solution

I use : (most of this under Wine)
Live styler
Ableton live
Q-ranger (just toying around)

As base of my sound i use NI Complete, with some lovely sample libraries added to Kontakt.
and various Vst's that i mainly use for solo stuff.

I have an old 88 key weighted Viscount Masterkeyboard and a 61 key Edirol from Roland

I dont think you will find many software setrups here, Rikki Bears has tried it and only Frank L Rosenthal is a die hard software setup fan.

If you arent an experienced Linux sysadmin or programmer i would not choose Linux as it requires a lot of scripting to get these things running.


I am on the verge of returning back to hardware arrangers, with VBSt's only added for solo stuff, nothing works out of the box and through its fun making things work... Just playing a song straight working right out of the box is fun too..

I think for me a full software solution is not yet ideal, i have come to see that a TOTL arranger with full midi master capabillities as the base of my system will be better for me.

Hi MJ ,
check back thru some of the early posts on the software/softsynth arranger forum.
A number of us have written about our setups.

The setups were fairly diverse.
http://www.synthzone.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro&BypassCookie=true

best wishes
Rikki

Hi Bachus,
what arrangers are you considering??

I've recently bought a secondhand v machine to midi to my korg.
Haven't had the enthusiasm to work it out yet, but it was going on ebay at a really cheap price, so thought I'd give it a go.
Might even be able to use it soundfont setup.

best wishes
Rikki

Please keep posting about your experiences on the V-Machine, Rikki. I am interested in finding out how well one of those integrates with an arranger...

Hi Diki,
will do, if I ever figure it out. haahaa
The guy who owned it, unloaded some of the stuff & added his own.
He did offer to try & get it back to factory standard, but Miss Know It All, volunteered to do it herself. haahaa
Just got to get round to reading the manual.

best wishes
Rikki