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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.

i should add that i need something that supports audio input as well- some of the simple ones i have seen are output only

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

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

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.

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

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