Element is a modular AU/VST audio plugin host. Create powerful effects racks and instruments by connecting plugins to one another. Load graphs on the fly for quick access to your sounds. Integrates with your existing hardware via standard protocols such as MIDI.

Features

Any other folder your VST host application is scanning during startup by default is also suitable. But, to keep plug-in installations independent from a specific VST host release, never install plug-ins into the program folder of the VST host application or any other program! The following chart includes other common VST2 paths. You have 2 possibilities for getting the VST 3 SDK: Download the full VST 3 package as zip file Download a full VST 3 SDK package which includes everything you need to build a VST 3 plug-in or host. Test your VST 3 plug-in in real-time with the included VST 3 Plug-in Test Host and execute automated tests (See What is the VST 3 SDK? Welcome to VST SDK 3 Interfaces. Here are located all VST interfaces definitions (including VST Component/Controller, UI, Test). License & Usage guidelines.

• Runs inside your DAW as an AU/VST/VST3/AAX Plugin
• Convert VST and AU plugins to AAX
• External Sync w/ MIDI Clock
• MIDI Controller Mapping
• Graph Mixer – Adjust levels on individual plugins
• Global Channel Strip – single channel strip showing the current node
• Graph Importing and Exporting
• Sub Graphing – Nest Graphs within each other.
• Velocity Curves
• Route Audio and MIDI from anywhere to anywhere
• Play virtual instruments and effects live
• Create re-usable instrument and effect graphs
• Graph Pre Loading – Quickly change graphs by keeping heavy-weight plugins loaded
• Chain Multiple Effects Plugins together
• Flexible connectivity via Patch Bay and Graph Editor
• Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
• Internal Specialty Nodes
• Support for AU/VST/VST3 plugin formats
• Placeholder Nodes – when Plugins are missing, this passes the audio through
  • Can also be added manually to build session templates with
• Built In Virtual Keyboard
• Multiple Undo/Redo
• Node replace – swap plugins without disconnecting

Hardware Integration

Element now supports MIDI controller mapping. The simple interface makes it easy to map hardware controls to plugin parameters. Check out this video demonstration on YouTube.

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4. VST 3 Plug-in Test Host The SDK provides a test application called VST3PluginTestHost for Apple Mac OS X (i386/x8664) and Microsoft Windows (32bits, 64bits). This application allows you to load a plug-in, simulates some inputs (Audio and Event) and acts like a small VST 3 host application based on an ASIO driver.

Element Screenshots

Graph Editor – wire any configuration you need

Patch Bay – Using patch points, simply route plugins to each other any way you want

Virtual Keyboard with global Channel Strip

Compatibility and System Requirements

Because element runs on both Mac and PC, supports a wide variety of Plugin formats.

Vst 3 Test Host Plugin Chrome

• OSX 10.8 or Higher – AU/VST/VST3/AAX
• Windows XP or higher – VST/VST3/AAX

Planned Features

• 32bit Bridging Support
• Scripting Engine based on Javascript
• Per-session keyboard splits and transposing
• Expose Node Parameters in Custom UIs
• Audio/MIDI Clip Trigger and Looping
• MIDI Monitor Utility
• Record Audio and MIDI Clips
• Modular Synth Building Blocks (Oscillators, ADSR, etc etc)
• LV2 Plugin Host Support

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VSTHost Slavery Suite

It was just a little question in a forum.. 'Is there a way to route the output of vsthost to Kristal Audio engine? And without latency?' that triggered the addition of a slave mode to VSTHost. And since I got a rather bad taste of humor, it got the above title.

When started with the parameter /slave, VSTHost goes into Slave Mode and waits for a Master to control it. The first (and currently only) master is a VST(i) plugin that can be embedded into any VST Host program (even another instance of VSTHost), called Legree. It comes as an effect and as a VSTi, since there are hosts that accept only effects, hosts that only accept VSTis, and of course hosts that accept both.

You can download Legree here (.zip file, 209K).
Current version: 1.07
Comes in 32- and 64-bit versions

You can download the current documentation for the VSTHost Slavery Suite here (.pdf file, 171K).

Open Source Variant

Originally, I made VSTHost available including the complete source code. Since I had to find out that (parts of) it made their way into other people's programs, and that without even mentioning my contribution, the open source variant has been frozen. I continue to add bug fixes to the existing code base, but new features won't make their way into it any more. Starting with V1.16k, this program is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser GPL.

Anyway - the important part of the program is an implementation of a VST host in form of 2 classes:

CVSTHost

Vst Host Pc

This implements the audio callback needed by an effect plugin as a neatly encapsulated VST host class. This is practically platform-independent code. The few platform-specific things are encapsulated in..

CEffect

Alpha 3 Vst Plugin

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This encapsulates a VST effect, as loaded by the VST host. This class isn't fully complete - since I don't have a Mac, I've only included the Windows code. If a kind MacIntosh programmer could fill out the few Mac-specific sections and send it to me it would be great and, of course, publicized here!

Vst Host Download

You can download the sources for V1.16q here (.zip file, 285K).
Current version: VST 2.4 rev2 + ASIO 2.0 support, ASIO Channel selection, bug fix from V1.19-1.46