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I went to MusikMesse last week and demoed the Eigenharp Alpha on the Steinberg booth with Cubase 6 Note Expression. Here are some videos for those interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjF9EWtPKf8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Fjj8mBOh8

I'll record a tutorial video and screencast soon.

Hi Randy

Cubase is pretty much the reference VST host - Steinberg created and defined the standard, so if a VST doesn't work in Cubase there's usually something wrong with the VST. Cubase is actually a very good DAW, lots of professionals use it as their main studio tool. The new Note Expression feature plays nicely with the Eigenharps in editing performance data. Years ago I used it for a while as my main sequencing software and found it very usable.

Getting MIDI and Audio in and out of it from EigenD is a platform dependent issue and is, as far as I'm aware, no different from Reason. Are you planning on running it on MAC or PC?

John

Right, I did download and am currently testing Reaper. It allows me to make use of the AAS vsti's I play. Reason is firewalled to only work with it's own instruments or audio. I can record the VSTi's as audio in Reason, but then I get little to no editing control. Reason's forums are full of requests for VST hosting support.

I did look at Cubase for exactly the reason John mentioned -- they created the VST framework. It is indeed full featured and would work fine. If I didn't have Reason already I would jump.

I'm going to test Reaper for a time and see if it gives me what I need.

But I will miss Reason's song construction process -- very nice. So, will use it on projects that don't require something from the VSTi's.

Thanks all.

Randy

Hi TomD,

There's at this time no way to play VST 3 note expression in real time from the Eigenharp as Cubase doesn't offer a way to transform voice-per-channel MIDI data into VST 3 parameters. It only supports this for recording MIDI and then allows you to remap the recorded information to VST 3 note expression on playback. We've contacted Steinberg about this several times and suggested small improvements that would allow this to become available for live performance. The latest version of Cubase still doesn't offer this though. You might want to contact Steinberg to voice your interest in this so that they can take your request into account for their feature schedule.

Best regards,

Geert

Hi TomD,

EigenD supports VST2 on Mac and Windows and AU on Mac. The main reason why VST3 isn't supported is because the underlying plugin host framework (Juce) doesn't support it either yet. Given the lack of VST3 plugins that actually use note expression (Steinberg seems to have the only ones available), the global uptake of VST3 hosting support is extremely slow in the industry.

Hope this helps,

Geert