Standalone VST host for Mac?

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Tunecrew
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Standalone VST host for Mac?

Post by Tunecrew » Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:33 pm

I'm wondering what people are using as a very lightweight standalone VST host on the Mac?

I'm looking for something to host a single plugin for live use (as opposed to Live use) and need it to be as simple and lightweight as possible

Want to run it on my Dell Mini 9 Hackintosh, and Live is a little too resource intensive for this.
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Tunecrew
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Re: Standalone VST host for Mac?

Post by Tunecrew » Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:57 pm

i should add that i need something that supports audio input as well- some of the simple ones i have seen are output only
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swishniak
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Re: Standalone VST host for Mac?

Post by swishniak » Sun Apr 25, 2010 4:30 pm

i used to use this - http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/rax/

but not sure what the current version is able to do. .good luck

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Re: Standalone VST host for Mac?

Post by myxomat0515 » Sun Apr 25, 2010 5:08 pm

Maybe you should check out Renoise? Its probably more than you need, but for the price, it might be worth it. Its not free, but its only like $79. Tons of features, light on CPU.

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Re: Standalone VST host for Mac?

Post by Tunecrew » Sun Apr 25, 2010 5:12 pm

thanx

rax is interesting but it is an AU host, need a VST host

will look at renoise, although would still like something that has just audio in, audio out, midi in and that's it
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Re: Standalone VST host for Mac?

Post by Saxer » Sun Apr 25, 2010 5:16 pm

maybe reaper? it´s a daw but very slim programmed. the application is only a few mb.
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