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It could be we need different things -- how many parameters do you tweak in performance? For me, it isn't so many: wet/dry, how extreme the effect is (e.g., Q), how fast or slow, and maybe "tone" (or frequency, or whatever). Add an X control for whatever is strange about it: shape for tremolo, e.g. In fact, if you could map those four functions to controllers I bet I could work a large number of VSTs on the fly, especially if I got to generally set them up (via USB on my computer) first. I'd guess that if you wanted to use more than three or so of these boxes, you'd get the lappy. On 8/24/07, Travis Hartnett <travishartnett@gmail.com> wrote: > I think a lot of the appeal of a VST system is having a wide variety > of plugins, most of which won't be four-knob effects along the lines > of standard Boss pedals. > > Imagine a Boss pedalboard where all the pedals have no knob markings > or names on them--not very usable. There has to be some display to > communicate a lot of information back to the user, and I don't believe > there's anything in the VST spec which would make it easy to map all > the parameters (of wildly varying number) to a keyboard shortcut or > whatever. > > I think I remember one VST rack host that looked like an Eventide type > controller, with four or five softknobs and an LCD display, and I > thought you had to use plugins which had been designed to work with > that host so that the UI would work. Displays are pricey. > > TH > > On 8/24/07, Kelly Coyle <skcoyle@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't know. You can probably work your PDS 20 OK, or your "Metal > > Zone" distortion. If the controls weren't rotary encoders, but 0-11 > > knobs (where the knob position *was* the setting) it shouldn't be a > > problem for at least a few knobs. Of course, if you had seven of these > > boxes, or changed the VSTs out all the time, then you might have > > issues. I never had much of a problem with my Nord Modular if I stuck > > with the few patches I used a lot. > > > > -- http://quotidianme.kellycoyle.net http://organicguitar.kellycoyle.net