Wednesday, May 23, 2012


Ok, i'm not the chattiest person in the world... So, for those interested, here comes the news :
I worked a lot on vst3... my mistake, don't do that... ever. There's some good things in it but I still can't figure a way around the lack of raw midi messages. And I can't see the point, why the hell did Steinberg removed that obviously useful midi filtering capability ?

Anyway, the thing is : beside wasting my time, there's some improvement I'd like to extract from that -useless- vst3 version of vstboard. And, yes, I made that mistake : I thought that vst3 was going to be the next standard anyway so I jumped into it blindly, adding other improvements in the process, and merging all that in a new version -and there's a vst2 wrapper anyway !- So I thought I was safe... what a mistake ^^ Of course, because I'm a not-so-good-hobbyist programmer, all that spaghetti code is inter-dependent, and extracting the good parts from the bad mess could be time consuming.

So...
I usually jump on a task and work on it full-time until exhaustion, boredom or death. Unfortunately, this time, nothing releasable came out of it soon enough. After the -sick of it all- threshold, I usually drop the project entirely and spend 100% of my time on /anything/ else (mostly nothing) It's an endless -too much-, -nothing at all-, -too much again- loop and I'm right in the -nothing at all- part of it ('m fine, thanks for asking !) and can't predict when the -too much- part will kick back in again. But I suppose it will, eventually? Maybe tomorrow, or the year after... I'm not planning anything.

So by the meantime I encourage you to explore the enormous amount of very good, and sometime free, vst hosts out there. I think the idea behind VstBoard "panels" is quite unique (yeah, I'm proud of it), but the execution is... so-so... and will never be stable or optimized enough (still proud of it though, in a "not bad for a noob" way !) And if you find an alternative, some sort of "Cantabile mixed with Hermann's host" monster : please comment, links are welcome !

I'm still amazed by the good reviews and all the suggestions. Thanks for that, and to all those who downloaded that thing and gave it a try, I appreciate !

'til next time...

9 comments:

  1. hope your doing fine :) . if you ever come to portugal\lisbon, give me a ring and i'll buy you some beers. sad that vstboard died. it is unique software that is already complete (feature wise), .... it just needed to be stable.

    hugz

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  2. HI,

    Just wanted to say "bravo" for all of this, Vst board I think brings sevral very good ideas, it is a nice piece of work.
    About VST3, I agree with you, the MDI is missing in a way, at the same time I use it and I'm pretty happy with it.
    The raw MIDI has been removed in sevreral host already and There is a reason, but this problem can not be fix by the host but by the plugins,
    Anyway well done!

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  3. Congratulations on you achievements so far. I hope to see your ideas solidify further somehow, somewhere, sometime.

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  4. great program, exactly what i needed and well executed and free. many thanks and best wishes! :)

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  5. Hi

    Is it possible to use this as an Effect Chainer with a DAW like Cubase, Magix Music Studio or LMMS?

    Thanks!

    VSTmuseum

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  6. Hi, yes it's supposed to work as a VST2.4 plugin. I tried an old cubase, reaper, live and some other but every host has its own understanding of the VST api. so, it should be supposed to probably work in almost most of the cases, or something...

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  7. I´m sorry to hear that vstboard is beeing put on the shelf... on the other hand I can relate to giving so much of ourselves to a project and in the end feeling that the excitment is gone. So i understand! But hope it is temporary... vstboard is a great tool and it really works (for me anyway). As a guitar player, i never found a software package that "has it all" and with vstboard i´m able to combine a lot of them ie. gr5 effects with lepou amps, with a pitch shifter from waves gtr in front of it and recall the presets really fast, and controll everything via midi. So it is a great live tool that deserves the attention and the credit for all the work that has been put to it. I´m amazed that it hasn´t become a standard yet, at least for guitar players. So, I´ll keep using vstboard and advertise all I can, with the hope that someday the "too much" part kicks in for you!

    Bravo!



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