VStack offers a full onscreen mixer with insert and send effects, along with four EQs per channel, and supports master keyboard-type functionality for the layering of multiple VST Instruments on the same MIDI channel, with transpose and split capability. VStack is a host for running VST instruments on another system in addition to your main sequencing computer, and offers support for both VST System Link and Rewire.
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Still, as some products depart, others arrive, with Steinberg ( bringing VStack to the Mac OS X platform with the newly released version 1.2. The most obvious choice would be BIAS' Peak ( which is certainly a mature stalwart of the Mac audio-editing world, although i3's DSP Quattro ( is also worth a look, carrying, as it does, the torch of the classic Mac audio editing application D-Sound Pro. At least for effects, TC's new Powercore Element PCI card, priced at £516, will fill the void left by the Native Bundle, but it might be harder to find an alternative to Spark. It almost goes without saying that companies are finding it harder to generate revenue from audio applications that don't require any additional hardware.
While this will undoubtedly be viewed as fairly annoying by the existing Spark user base, TC have had great success with the Powercore platform, and such a change in strategy for the company is clearly a sign of the times, for want of a better cliché. TC claim that the Powercore DSP systems account for almost 90 percent of the company's computer recording revenue, and for this reason the Native Bundle of plug-ins will also be discontinued.
Currently at version 2.8.2, Spark has won many friends since it was originally released back in 1999, being one of the first audio applications to be ported from OS 9 to OS X. Will the last developer of Mac audio-editing software please turn out the lights when they leave the building? It sounds bizarre, but that's the thought that occurred to me when, in a slightly surprising move this month, TC Electronic (which now encompasses the TC Works brand) decided to end development of their Mac-based audio-editing software, Spark. If you're suffering from kernel panics, if no one else can help, and if you can find a log file, maybe you should hire (well, read, at least) this month's Apple Notes.
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Steinberg's previously Windows-only VST Instrument host, VStack, is now available for Mac OS X, with support for 16 VST Instruments, VST System Link, Rewire and more.
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