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    what programs are people using successfully (or not) to host VI on slave computers?

    While we are at it...why not include slave computer success and failure stories?

    I had more success using Cubase SX3 (a bit expensive - $600 - as a host) than Bidule.

    Unfortunately RAX is no longer available or is V-Stack....
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    V-Stack is still available. At least as of a couple of weeks ago. I'm using it now and it seems pretty good. No complaints.

    Mahlon
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    I'm using Forte. It's excellent, with one caveat: on my PC it overrides my soundcard's latency setting (256 samples) and changes it to minimum latency (64 samples), which creates a few clicks and pops in dense passages. I'm sure this little bug is easy to fix, but I'm still waiting for the solution!
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    @Mahlon said:

    V-Stack is still available. At least as of a couple of weeks ago. I'm using it now and it seems pretty good. No complaints.

    Mahlon




    I actually called Steinberg a couple of weeks ago and they told me they werent making it anymore. I see you can download it from their European download store...are you in Europe Mahlon?

    chris
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    Just FX teleport - work wonderfull for me and streams everything to my
    main daw Sonar. Latency is 10 ms.
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    Yikes!! Not making it anymore? Well.... there you go.... I guess I'll eventually have to use something else if they drop the ball. Ccuts, I'm in the U.S. in good ol' Memphis, TN enjoying the superb weather at the moment with a drink in hand, a small breeze, and the dappled shade from some birch trees making everything ever so sweet in the garden. Birds are chirping. Spring is here.

    Mahlon
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    @Conquer said:

    I'm using Forte. It's excellent, with one caveat: on my PC it overrides my soundcard's latency setting (256 samples) and changes it to minimum latency (64 samples), which creates a few clicks and pops in dense passages. I'm sure this little bug is easy to fix, but I'm still waiting for the solution!


    I've been trying out Forte as well. It's pretty good and shows promise, but if you also use GVi, which I do, you run into a serious GUI problem. I posted about it at their site and they have marked it for their to do list. Hopefully they'll take care of it soon.
    Make sure you let them know. They can't fix it if you don't tell them about it.
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    >I've been trying out Forte as well . . . if you also use GVi, which I do, you run into a serious GUI problem.

    I use GVI with Forte and haven't encountered any problems yet - what goes wrong?
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    @Conquer said:

    >I've been trying out Forte as well . . . if you also use GVi, which I do, you run into a serious GUI problem.

    I use GVI with Forte and haven't encountered any problems yet - what goes wrong?


    Two issues: The first is pretty minor. The forte menu for the plug is just a black strip if you have the plug docked. If you undock it, the strip shows the menu names. The menu still works when docked, but you can't see the names on it so you have to poke around to find things.

    The second is major as far as I'm concerned. When using GVI in forte and you bring up the loaded instrument list, you can't drag and drop an instrument to an empty slot. So you have to load up from browse for every slot, even if you already have the instrument loaded.
    I'm also not a fan of the file loading in GVI. G3 is much better. GVI doesn't show the hiearchy of files, so you have to click through every level to find patches.
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    I'm running Forte on a PC so can't comment on the docking issue. I can see all the menus I need to pretty quickly.

    >You have to load up from browse for every slot, even if you already have the instrument loaded.

    Yes, that's inconvenient. In GVI standalone you can drag and drop a loaded instrument into a new slot, shame this isn't true under Forte too. But is it a limitation of Forte's software, or of GVI?

    >I'm also not a fan of the file loading in GVI. G3 is much better. GVI doesn't show the hierarchy of files, so you have to click through every level to find patches.

    I absolutely agree, the hierarchical file system of Giga 3 is much better for finding instruments. Not Forte's fault though!