Comments on: V-Machine Turns Your Music Software Into Hardware

By: Torley

Torley — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:24:46 +0000

Curious to see how this holds up on the road — and as a solution for those who consider Receptor, Open Labs’ stuff, etc. too expensive.

By: BlueBrat

BlueBrat — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:21:01 +0000

Devilman-

Point is you can do it cheaply with a PC, some effort yes but not everyone has $$$, but that’s why PC based machines took off in the first place, they were always cheap computers that were upgradable and can do anything you want from it with a little effort. Sweat Equity always wins out over $$$.

Dante – Yeah I wish the AtariST VSTi and some other chip-soft synths were on the MAC too.

By: Dante Jones

Dante Jones — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:40:29 +0000

I’m curious about this thing because I just moved over to Mac for audio and had to leave behind some well loved, free VSTs (Synth Edit for Mac PLEASE!)… but I also love the all in one box solution and don’t really want to be dragging another thing around with me just to work on some tunes.

By: devilman

devilman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:39:57 +0000

Kent- You also have crappy Windows box to support that’s not optimized for audio, and you have to take a day to get the thing set up and deal with updates, ad nauseum.

By: kent

kent — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:17:29 +0000

gee, let me see. SMS Pro Audio, the company that seems to be around just to make Behringer products look good by comparison, wants $600 for an underpowered box to run VST instruments. Let’s see:

Dell will sell you a 2GHZ Core2 Duo box with 2Gig of RAM for $399. Add an M-Audio 2496 for under a hundred (WAY under if you get it used) and you have a machine you can run a free VST host on for $100 less, and it’s faster and has more disk storage.