foo_vst: VST 2.4 adapter, Multi-instance, multichannel, and seamless; Now back in development Options

[Yegor]

Foobar2000 VST 2.4 adapter
by Yegor Petrov

How to use it (video)
Description, usage, changelog and other info is in Hydrogenaudio Wiki.

Version 0.9.0.3 download:  foo_vst_0903.zip ( 125.6K ) Number of downloads: 36415

Alternative ZIP of the same DLL:  foo_vst.zip ( 126.75K ) Number of downloads: 914

Yegor's latest source (2011-08-31; see p. 13): foo_vst_src.zip ( 180.35K )

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty.
In no event will the author be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH

This post has been edited by Yegor: Jan 19 2013, 19:48

Reason for edit: adding alternative download for those whose unpacker complains about the original

[Canar]

Excellent! Finally a VST adapter that feels like foobar2000 itself, rather than the ugly hacks that are the current ones.

[Robertina]

Finally a VST adapter that feels like foobar2000 itself, rather than the ugly hacks that are the current ones.

To manage VSTs "outside" foobar2000 as George Yohng's VST wrapper does seems to have the advantage that no application restart is necessary after having added new ones (I leave aside here the possibility to use an universal wrapper like Acon's EffectChainer).

But most important for me: I can play around with VST settings without beeing forced to have foobar's preferences window open so that f2k remains 'untouched' and fully controllable, because the VST configuration is not part of foobar's DSP section.

Or do I fail to see something in my first comparison of these two different concepts of a VST wrapper?

@ Entrase, please continue to develop your VST adapter, there is a lot of interest here and I am looking also for new approaches always.

[riboge]

Finally a VST adapter that feels like foobar2000 itself, rather than the ugly hacks that are the current ones.

To manage VSTs "outside" foobar2000 as George Yohng's VST wrapper does seems to have the advantage that no application restart is necessary after having added new ones (I leave aside here the possibility to use an universal wrapper like Acon's EffectChainer).

But most important for me: I can play around with VST settings without beeing forced to have foobar's preferences window open so that f2k remains 'untouched' and fully controllable, because the VST configuration is not part of foobar's DSP section.

Or do I fail to see something in my first comparison of these two different concepts of a VST wrapper?

@ Entrase, please continue to develop your VST adapter, there is a lot of interest here and I am looking also for new approaches always.

I like the same feature of Yohng's wrapper, but I found just today that with newly installed foobar 1.1.1 that Redline monitor plug-in does not appear on startup as it used to with the Wrapper in place using 1.0. I had to install Redline's dll via VST DSP Entries with a restart to get it to function, so now it only appears with the DSP section open by clicking configuration just like with this new vst adapter. You seem to imply you can still get the vst settings without needing to do this using Foobar 1.1. Is that so, and, if so, can you tell me how?

[Robertina]

You seem to imply you can still get the vst settings without needing to do this using Foobar 1.1. Is that so, and, if so, can you tell me how?

Yes, the wrapper's handling as described in the passage "USAGE" here also works with the current foobar2000 v1.1.1, at least with all VSTs I am using on Windows XP Prof. SP3

Please pose possible further questions related to G. Yohng's VST wrapper in the thread I linked to, I don't feel well to discuss this under Entrase's topic.