The VST Instruments
So, whuzthose tiny creatures ? Let's make it short : there are either sample readers, or virtual synths, fully softwares. What is bluntly genious, is that those VST plug-ins are fully controllable by Midi ! Vst instruments are played like any external expander, except that the sounds are calculated by the processor of the machine (or the plug will read the samples setted on the hard drive, as it is the case for sample readers like LM4 or HALion) and given back by the Audio outputs of the soundcard. Audio ? Audio ? But wait... Oh yeah, Audio means VST treatments ! A VST-i will appear in Cubase on the dedicated audio mixers of the mixing-board, with all the bunch of VST effects that are available ! One has thus on one hand the advantages of Midi, lightness of the data, easy edition of this data, and on the other hand the best of Audio, treatments in real-time.
