Are There Any Vstis that Play MP3s besides Tracktor

9-9 · Post by **9-9** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:22 pm

I just want to get mp3s into Live via bidule, I'm on a pc, whats the best thing to use.

davidv@plogue · Post by **davidv@plogue** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 2:52 pm

Hello

Xtal is beta but is allready very good at giving the user 2 mp3 turntables
you can have a try there:

http://www.irdbisa.com/gunshopsoft/xtal/

Cheeers

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 4:34 pm

I was surprised to find out that Tassman 3 swallows mp3 files for its audio-processing instrments. Nice feature! Probably not what you're lookine for though.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:17 pm

thank you very much for the help david, and format actualy that is interesting, what other secrets do ya got.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:48 am

Anonymous wrote:what other secrets do ya got.

hehe, plenty

just ask!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:52 am

davidv@plogue wrote:Hello

Xtal is beta but is allready very good at giving the user 2 mp3 turntables
you can have a try there:

http://www.irdbisa.com/gunshopsoft/xtal/

Cheeers

how cool - this is quite significant for live users....maybe Ableton should look at getting in with the guy and licensing it for a Live plug-in

Kerrydan · Post by **Kerrydan** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:43 pm

Xtal is beta but is allready very good at giving the user 2 mp3 turntables
how cool - this is quite significant for live users....maybe Ableton should look at getting in with the guy and licensing it for a Live plug-in

XTal is a VST instrument, though, not a VST effect plugin. You need a ReWire slave host (like Bidule) to play it into Live, with tempo sync.

-K

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:32 pm

Kerrydan wrote:
Xtal is beta but is allready very good at giving the user 2 mp3 turntables
how cool - this is quite significant for live users....maybe Ableton should look at getting in with the guy and licensing it for a Live plug-in
XTal is a VST instrument, though, not a VST effect plugin. You need a ReWire slave host (like Bidule) to play it into Live, with tempo sync.

-K

how stable is this combination - say in terms of playing a live gig?

Kerrydan · Post by **Kerrydan** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:00 pm

Bidule ReWired into Live seems to be quite stable. At least, it is for me. From the reports I've heard, if it works, it works well -- and if it doesn't work well, you'll know immediately.

So don't worry about any surprises in the middle of a gig.

Bidule also has two different ReWire slave modes (change this in the Bidule prefs). A few users (mostly ProTools users, though) who initially reported instability with Bidule as a ReWire slave found it to be rock-solid after switching to the alternate ReWire mode.

Now XTal, on the other hand, is a beta plugin. The developer claims to use it himself for live gigs, but I have found it just a teensy bit unstable in Bidule. It's been getting better, though. The lastest version is way better than the first one was, so IMHO it's worthwhile keeping on top of the latest updates.

Hope this helps,

-K

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:43 pm

Kerrydan wrote:Bidule ReWired into Live seems to be quite stable. At least, it is for me. From the reports I've heard, if it works, it works well -- and if it doesn't work well, you'll know immediately. So don't worry about any surprises in the middle of a gig.

Bidule also has two different ReWire slave modes (change this in the Bidule prefs). A few users (mostly ProTools users, though) who initially reported instability with Bidule as a ReWire slave found it to be rock-solid after switching to the alternate ReWire mode.

Now XTal, on the other hand, is a beta plugin. The developer claims to use it himself for live gigs, but I have found it just a teensy bit unstable in Bidule. It's been getting better, though. The lastest version is way better than the first one was, so IMHO it's worthwhile keeping on top of the latest updates.

Hope this helps,
-K

speaking of which, at what stage would you say bidule is at re beta>full release - I'm running outta cash fast and I'm becoming quite attched to it - any ideas how much it will be yet??

davidv@plogue · Post by **davidv@plogue** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:59 pm

speaking of which, at what stage would you say bidule is at re beta>full release - I'm running outta cash fast and I'm becoming quite attched to it - any ideas how much it will be yet??

We will probably announce a price in the next coming months.

Stay tuned!