Bachus,

Great points as usual. I am looking at my plugins in VIP right now. VIP has cataloged 11,723 sounds for Omnisphere alone. 1,525 for the Korg M1, and 4,025 for Sampletank. The list goes on! Wonderful and ridiculous at the same time. I am not going to play every single sound but with VIP it feels like you don’t even have to open a plug-in. Just jump around among the plugins, and either click or search only the ones you are interested in by various tags.

For the first time, I can sample sounds from all the plug-ins real quick that I didn’t even know I had. Now I need to get into how all will this translate for live performance with various midi controllers. I am just impressed and delighted by the performance of VIP.

As you mentioned, I am looking into using VIP in vArranger. That’ll be a powerful combination.

Fran, you seem to be very familiar with MC8, but I am not. What sounds or plugins from MC8 do you like and play? The two sound banks in it are really not more than General MIDI sounds. I don’t think you are referring to them, correct? I liked two or three analog synths in MC8. Then again, those are readily available, and many of them are even free. Anyway, let me know what sounds of MC8 you like. I’d like to check them out myself. I agree to your point that probably there is not much benefit in running VIP in MC8, but I like the fact that not only can you run VIP as a standalone, but open it up in a live performance oriented VST host like Gig Performer. Finally, I feel like I have pretty good control over all my plug-ins.

My Code 61 will be here on Friday, and the APC Key 25 before that probably.