Product: Steinberg V-Stack
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
11/28/2007
at
02:17pm
by
Phaedrus
Email: thephaedrus at yahoo<dot>com
Reviewer Background
:
-Been gigging for 10 years, keyboards: Rhodes, B3, Piano, Synth, Strings.
-Reviewing Steinberg V-Stack 1.2.0.22.
-Use it with NI B4, Pro 53, EVP73, Massive, Absynth, Atmosphere.
-Live Gigs, Rock, RnB, Gospel
-AMD 2.4 Dual Core, Win XP, 2GB Ram
-M-audio, Audiophile 2496
Ease of Use
:
8
-Interface is great, simple easy to use
-Installation was fine
-Setup for "Generic Remotes" could be more detailed and easy to use. The "Learn" feature is not very straight forward.
-Setup is easy.
-Don't even need the manual.
Sounds/Sound Quality
:
2
-It is meant to work as a VST host for live playing. When playing live you don't want to ever have to use the mouse for anything. Everything should be accomplished by the onboard functions of the on-board midi-controller. Program changes need to be instant. The only way to switch between VSTs on the fly is to setup presets on your Midi Controller which send on separate midi channels. Ie. B4 on Channel 1, Pro 53 on midi channel 2, and so forth. HOWEVER, V-Stack crashes when I start switching between channels. Let me RE-ITERATE. A software that claims to be a VST Host for LIVE applications should be ROCK solid----as in Propellerhead solid. Never crashing. There are several bugs that I've found in the software after playing around in in for a short period of time. It also has some Rewire bugs associated with the "Direct Monitoring" and "Release SoundCard in Background" options in the audio setup. I've worked around these bugs, but can't seem to get it to be stable. So in my books that rates a big 2 in Quality.
Overall Rating
:
1
-not worth pricetag
-the features.
-I love the simple interface. the look.
-Hate the crashing. This software is no good to me for live.
-CPU management seems fine
-Crashes EVERY time when I start toggling between Midi channels.
