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Audio input idea

Archive · 2007 1 old post

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Nu Audio Science ·

Somebody will probably shoot this idea down straight away cause it may not even be possible

That said with the ability to send MIDI directly out via your MIDI interface from within the plugin it would be good if the same could be done with audio input This would make using external hardware virtually tranparent For example if you had an external synth that you created a control VSTi for that sent its MIDI direct to the MIDI out and the audio from that synth was sent directly into that plugin then it would feel and act exactly like a virtual instrument You could use inserts and sends directly within your host not to mention the hosts mixer too Imagine this for FX too although FX would need an audio output too A hardware effect unit could be controlled by a VST and the audio would be fed out of the VST to the hardware and back into the VST to be completly transparent

Now i'm not very knowledgable here so it is it possible that a VSTi could access an unused ASIO input ? Is it possible that a VSTi could maybe access a second ASIO driver for a seperate (Second) audio interface or would this create syncing problems ? Obviously delay compansation would have to be considered too

The cost of hardware on Ebay at the moment would make this a very very valuable commodity if it was indeed possible and no one at all is thinking about it

The closest thing available to this is Podiums hardware intergration

Thoughts on this ?

NAS

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