[sdiy] Re: Standalone PC synths

[Seb Francis]

Rainer Buchty wrote:

>In other words: I'd like to have that thing sitting in front of me, 
>looking similar to a DX7, or better, SY77 in terms of accessibility.
>
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Well there are ways ...
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan05/articles/openlabsneko.htm


JH. wrote:

>But it would really be great to have it stand-alone. I love the VNC idea,
>which would
>make monitor and mouse and keyboard dispensable. But more than tat, it would
>be
>important that this PC would boot and go straight into the VST program with
>just
>switching the machine on.
>  
>
No reason you can't just add a shortcut to the windows Startup folder ...

Or better still you could create an auto-starting setup running a number 
of synths within something like Steinberg V-STack, each accessible over 
a different MIDI channel and outputing to a different soundcard channel.

Or if you don't mind routing MIDI and audio within software on your main 
computer, but you still want to spread the CPU/resources onto another 
PC, this is a cool concept:
http://www.fx-max.com/fxt/
(Needs *fast* network to work well .. gigabit ethernet is best)

Seb