i’ve been mucking around with VSTs to get a feel for them… read the wiki entry and stuff. There’s 2 things which i feel should be possible but i’m struggling to work them out.
When i load a vst (say mda Piano) there’s a few different presets (if i use the Program box in the vst settings) that affect the sound. it’s all cool. But, how can i add my own new presets, or modify the current list? i got a bass guitar vst and theres about 60 presets in a Bank file, only about 10 of which i like… can i delete the rest so when i load the bank its only the good ones? i can only find save/load buttons… same with preset.
I can’t get the alias idea to work. In my understanding it works like this: i can load a vst (mda piano) and select the “dark piano” sound… then load an alias into a second instrument slot and have a different preset selected. Is this what it’s for? if so, are there other steps i’m missing? (i remembered to change the channel #).
yeah, i know about .fxb and .fxp files… but my question is whether i can edit those files or somehting, because i only like a few of the presets in the file.
After re-reading that vst bit, i’m still confused about it. What exactly is the POINT of alias’ing a VST into a second slot if it’s going to sound exactly the same? Is it so that you can use it in a second channel?
There exist VSTi plugs that are multitimbral i.e. they will play different sounds depending on the channel of the incoming midi notes.
Now Renoise is a midi whore, i.e. it will accept notes on all channels and send them to the current instrument, effectively wiping channel info from the notes themselves.
Aliases allow you to ‘reassign’ some channel info before the notes are sent as midi events to the VSTi.
Effectively, you can assign each timbre in a multi-timbral VSTi to a different instrument in renoise.