Comments on: BloXpander turns your PC into a Live VST rack with

By: saintjoe

saintjoe — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:56:10 +0000

@Korenelius, nice man! let me know what you think about it lol.

By: Korenelius

Korenelius — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:36:40 +0000

@saintjoe, great, you’re the shining light of Kansas man!

Just found the TimewARP for $80 …. new! heheeh

By: saintjoe

saintjoe — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:14:18 +0000

@Korenelius, yeah it’s a little different than hardware, hardware requires 64 bit drivers, but software is different. Most software that works on regular 32 bit windows, works on 64 bit windows…it’s just that for plugins the host has to specifically support 64 bit. If you don’t have any 64 bit plugins, you can still use all your regular software/plugins on windows 7 as normal, 64 bit isn’t required for windows 7, it’s required for any 64 bit host/daw.

By: Korenelius

Korenelius — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:10:35 +0000

@saintjoe, nice ….. so I won’t have any issue regarding the VST’s it’s just that I got a little cautious after a problem with my Ecler Evo5 mixer (after I bought a new laptop last year) which I use now as an audio mixer because they still didn’t provide a 64 bit version driver and therefore lost my Firewire AudioInterface capabilities and had to buy an extra soundcard. The support really sucks over there although the quality of the mixer is not bad.

By: saintjoe

saintjoe — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:43:40 +0000

@Korenelius, word, well…most 32 bit applications still work with windows 7, it’s just that if you have a 64 bit host, it will only use 64 bit plugins unless it has a built in bridge to use both. Basically 64 bit plugins break the limits of memory, etc that 32 bit applications have. So 64 bit plugins can access more ram and such. Doesn’t make as much difference for synths as it does sample based products, but having a native 64 bit plugin in a 64 bit host will have better performance than using a conversion bridge to use 32 bit plugins in a 64 bit host…so to speak.

By: Korenelius

Korenelius — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:33:26 +0000

@saintjoe, on the site of timewarp W7 support is not mentioned …. however on the site of sonivox they do mention W7 support so I guess I’m gonna have those sleepless nights …

Catanya looks good too and for that price I wont stay awake

Reaper seems the way to go … it’s not like I’m an expert on this whole 32versus64 bit story but if Reaper play’s all I’m a happy camper

Thanks and see you

By: saintjoe

saintjoe — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:06:04 +0000

@Korenelius, yeah there are a few ways to do what you want, but I’ve been asking for vst support in Maschine since I got it, hoping they do it

timewARP sounds nice, no x64 version…I had to buy bit bridge to use some of my 32 bit plugins in 64 bit hosts. Reaper x64 has a built in bridge so it can use both 32 bit and 64 bit plugins

By: Korenelius

Korenelius — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:02:34 +0000

@saintjoe, mmm I’ll try to fool around with Reaper then, seems pretty straight forward in your video.

Regarding the ARP q. don’t know much about catanya but will have a good look at it.

Just saw your review of the TimewARP2600, if this thing can do what I think it can do I’ll prob. won’t sleep for a few nights … but again like with the V-Stack it doesn’t seem to support W7 64 (yet?)

By: saintjoe

saintjoe — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:39:52 +0000

@Korenelius, sup bro, probably Ableton or Reaper are my favs when using as a rack for maschne. Bloxpander is cool but it’s really a full screen app, so you def need to have two monitors or two computers. As far as software arps, this one here seems to be a favorite, I haven’t used it but it looks pretty deep: http://www.7aliens.com/product-catanya.php

By: Korenelius

Korenelius — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:29:43 +0000

Hi SaintJoe,

First of all thanks for all of your testing and very clear reviews.

I’m working with the Maschine now for a while and I love it. I’m liking the workflow and sequencing so much that I want to use it as my DAW too. There are a few restrictions though as you know. One of those is that I’d like to start using my VST(i)’s and as long as NI doesn’t implement this I will need some kind of host. This app. looks like the one since Steinberg’s V-Stack still doesn’t support W7-64 (as far as I know). Ofcourse there are other possibilities like Ableton, Reaper, Renoise etc. What is your preferred way so far? I tried Ableton but didn’t really like it, except may’be using it for the final end-mix or live situation where I combine Dj-ing (NI TS Pro) with my own tracks.

Another thing I kinda miss is an arpeggiator, I do have some hardware with arps but depending on the setup I use they are or are not available to use, so do you have any software suggestions in this area?

Keep on