Topic by Jake Johnson

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Topic: Free VSTI player from Digital Brain (This one records audio)

For those who want to experiment with varying reverbs or other vst effects without opening a full DAW:

https://www.digitalbrain-instruments.co...hV84vymlb0

Main qualities:

1. Lets you open four instruments
2. Lets you use a single effect on each instrument
3. Lets you record the audio to a wav, FLAC, or AIFF file
3. Has its own EQ section, which may make the single effect feel less limiting.

Seems to play well with Pianoteq. The only problem is that the window in which the instrument opens is small. You can still work in it, and even edit individual notes without much squinting. Wouldn't want to do precise editing for hours on it, however. Is this something that Modartt could fix--could the default vsti view have a larger interface?

Last edited by Jake Johnson (10-02-2022 22:04)

Reply by Key Fumbler

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Re: Free VSTI player from Digital Brain (This one records audio)

Not to detract from this type of plug-in (I sometimes use standalone plugins myself - particularly Pianoteq) but I wonder how many people realise how ultra lightweight and instantaneous Reaper is to load. It is cheap too, being $60 for most users.
I know plenty of DAWs are expensive, resource hungry, slow to start (scanning plugins for an age) and relatively unstable too.
Reaper is miniscule at around 12 megabytes  too. Loads immediately (like a standalone) and has a similar resource footprint in terms of ram and CPU.

At $60 it's not free though. Reaper is always worth a shout when efficiency is required.

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Re: Free VSTI player from Digital Brain (This one records audio)

For my personal practice, Pianoteq is inseparable from Reaper.
I play my music in Pianoteq Standalone with Reaper running in the background on a track with Pianoteq VSTi, same preset loaded.
When I am satisfied with a sequence I drag it from the list of recently played and I drop it in the Reaper track.
And then I can do all the editing with efficiency and precision.
Afterwards I do the rendering in Flac with Reaper.

Last edited by Gaston (11-02-2022 12:12)
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Re: Free VSTI player from Digital Brain (This one records audio)

I used Cantabile free for the same purpose but once I tried Reaper it went immediately to the Recycle Bin. There is simply no competition currently (where currently means a decade or more).

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