news |
01-03-2006 |
okay ... and here are the updates from last month: |
01-02-2006 |
adding liquid instruments horn section
by überschall. |
25-01-2006 |
adding satellite sampler
by samplebase
(or by muon?) to the lists. |
03-01-2006 |
from what i know arne scheffler´s VST Lord
is the first (released) VST host for OS X to be a universal binary. direct download
>>> ableton live, D-sound rt player, and some other will follow shortly, cubase, logic, and protools will need a few months to supportintel macs. achitophel has released a VST monitoring plug-in called plug–in consultant which is similar to the one from steinberg, just displaying the actual C++ commands. it is an open source project, and it will work only for mach-o plug-ins. mona lisa is an enviroment to give developers access to OS X coregraphics, and an AU plugin version is already available as alpha version. mona lisa AU is a shell plug-in which can host other audiounit-plugins inside AU hosts, while allowing the hosted plug-in access to the processor of the graphics card that way - for example for DSP. of course it requires custom written audiounit effects to make it work, but they already promised us an example reverb. the new VST SDK supports a few more things, none of them would be a real surprise. version 2.4 supports double 32-bit and 64-bit signal processing, universal binaries output for the mac platform, and some additions to parameter organisation. it also contains mini host, a 64-bit capable host program for testing purposes. adding fabfilter twin instrument to the lists. adding mdsp duck delay, duck reverb, and flanger to the VST list. adding krishna instrument by devine machine to both lists. re-modellizer and nuke4all by osxtools.com are utility apps for the neuron software. mopis is a promising new synthesizer concept by nerthernet and will be available in both formats. we have to add four new pluggo plugs for OS X but i forgot the names at the moment. teragon audio notepad is still missing in the VST list. NWEQ Pro is the successor of NWEQ by WWAYM. freeverb is now available as audiounit and will be listed under dfx. in case we do not have it yet, we have to add mini tera to the lists, a preset-only version of tera. überschall elastik is a sampler from the old family with mpex timestretch, which comes with the complete sound content from the five others. tascam announces mac versions of giga virtual instrument, probably VST only for now. giga violin and gigapulse have not yet been announced for the mac platform, but who knows. also based on gigasampler engine is the muse sample player instrument by sonic implants - adding to the VST list. SH-201 editor is an editor software in VST instrument format for the SH-201 hardware synth from roland. adding cakewalk rapture wavetable synth to the lists. toontrack dfh ezdrummer is the younger sister of dfh, and has that drumsampler GUI many people were waiting for. arturia prophet V emulates the prophet 5 as well as the prophet VS. |
comment for 01-2006 |
it is 2006 - time to update my operating system. |