Hi, I'm up to a chalange I'd think and in another forum I've allready got depressing feedback like "Give it up man!", "Not worth the hours!" and the usual "Buy a Receptor or like!"
(Yeah, sure... if I had those cash to spend I would but I don't and besides, it's much more fun to show up handmade stuff! ;D )
Reading thru previous topics here there has been similar ideas but I can't seem to find anyone with a late date and that has acomplished the task.
My primary intention is to build a simple Hardware VST Host that will keep up for ONE single VST synth using:
An old P3 PC, aprox. 256-512Mb ram, 9Gb hd
A Creative SB card with ASIO4All or KX-Audio Prj. as driver
And bits & pieces of TK's great inventions :) of controllers and then a 2x24 LCD..... aaand there comes the tricky part. :-\
Sure I have to have a software VST Host that runs under the OS BUT with no need for a VGA display and that it is controlled by external thingies like simple push buttons, potentiometers or rotoswitches. The last part with the mechanicals is truly not the tricky part since Volume, Program +/-, Bank +/- etc. can be controlled via MIDI and that such are usually supported by the VST synth it self... BUT! HOW do I get to display for ex. the preset program in use, as ex. "Soft Saw Pad" or Bank number, actual Volume status etc. on to a 2x24 line LCD?!
This has to be supported by the Soft Host I'd guess? Any work around? A VST module that "listens" to the traffic between the VST Synth and the Host and outputs it to the LPT or COM port? By all means, controlling doesn't seem to be hard but feedback is?
One simple sollution to this is of course that I'd skip the LCD and use a LEDnumber display wich always is reseted to zero in the begining and use "dead-count" with an external counter/driver for this but... LCD would indeed make things easier.
Is there any one here that has some kind of response that can give me some hope in what I'm trying to achive than previous negative pointing thumbs I've recived in a (non hardware developing) forum? ::)
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Hi, I'm up to a chalange I'd think and in another forum I've allready got depressing feedback like "Give it up man!", "Not worth the hours!" and the usual "Buy a Receptor or like!"
(Yeah, sure... if I had those cash to spend I would but I don't and besides, it's much more fun to show up handmade stuff! ;D )
Reading thru previous topics here there has been similar ideas but I can't seem to find anyone with a late date and that has acomplished the task.
My primary intention is to build a simple Hardware VST Host that will keep up for ONE single VST synth using:
An old P3 PC, aprox. 256-512Mb ram, 9Gb hd
A Creative SB card with ASIO4All or KX-Audio Prj. as driver
And bits & pieces of TK's great inventions :) of controllers and then a 2x24 LCD..... aaand there comes the tricky part. :-\
Sure I have to have a software VST Host that runs under the OS BUT with no need for a VGA display and that it is controlled by external thingies like simple push buttons, potentiometers or rotoswitches. The last part with the mechanicals is truly not the tricky part since Volume, Program +/-, Bank +/- etc. can be controlled via MIDI and that such are usually supported by the VST synth it self... BUT! HOW do I get to display for ex. the preset program in use, as ex. "Soft Saw Pad" or Bank number, actual Volume status etc. on to a 2x24 line LCD?!
This has to be supported by the Soft Host I'd guess? Any work around? A VST module that "listens" to the traffic between the VST Synth and the Host and outputs it to the LPT or COM port? By all means, controlling doesn't seem to be hard but feedback is?
One simple sollution to this is of course that I'd skip the LCD and use a LEDnumber display wich always is reseted to zero in the begining and use "dead-count" with an external counter/driver for this but... LCD would indeed make things easier.
Is there any one here that has some kind of response that can give me some hope in what I'm trying to achive than previous negative pointing thumbs I've recived in a (non hardware developing) forum? ::)