I haven't done this, but I think it would be possible as follows.

Design your instrument and get it working the way you want in another VST host.

Make it the default preset in a bank.

Save that bank.

In your Csound orchestra, in the global or header section of the orchestra, load that bank into the VSTi.

Hope this helps,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: csound username 
>Sent: Apr 24, 2008 11:57 AM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: vst4cs survey
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>No, I'm talking of vst4cs. (Someone else mentioned CsoundVST in this thread)
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>The problems is not loading a single program versus a bank.
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>Tha problem is setting up a complex VSTi: imagine using Kontakt or RealGuitar2..
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>How do you load the Kontakt instrument nki inside Csound?
>How do you select the kind of guitar of RG2 in Csound?
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>Thanks!
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>----- Messaggio originale -----
>Da: Michael Gogins 
>A: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Inviato: Giovedì 24 aprile 2008, 17:29:30
>Oggetto: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: vst4cs survey
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>Are you talking about vst4cs to run other VST plugins in regular Csound, or are you talking about using CsoundVST to run Csound in a VST host?
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>CsoundVST doesn't use parameters, it uses the CSD file which is stored in the song and this works fine as far as I know.
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>vst4cs has opcodes for loading and saving banks of presets and selecting a present from the bank. It does not seem to have opcodes for loading and saving a single preset. If your VST plugins use banks, you should be able to get this to work.
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>Hope this helps,
>Mike
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>-----Original Message-----
>>From: csound username 
>>Sent: Apr 24, 2008 10:59 AM
>>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: vst4cs survey
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>>Thanks for the answer Michael.
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>>It seems that vst4cs has still some problems. I don't understand way but if set up one of those VSTi who has extra parameters (for examples needs to load a patch or select a sample set etc.etc.), the whole state of the instrument is saved when I use Nuendo and when I open the project, I find the VSTi in the very same situation, ready to work. I can't find a way to have the same result with Csound.
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>>Yes, you can open the built-in plug-in editor and setup the VSTi by hand (I think, I didn't check it yet but you have an opcode for that) but I wanted to use Csound to make batch processing that I can't make with Nuendo. In this case I would need to re-edit the VSTi configuration manually each time I run Csound which completely eliminates the advantages of batch processing.
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>>It's sad!
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>>----- Messaggio originale -----
>>Da: Michael Gogins 
>>A: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>>Inviato: Giovedì 24 aprile 2008, 16:37:02
>>Oggetto: [Csnd] Re: vst4cs survey
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>>I usually use only the estimable Pianoteq, since it provides a physical model of a piano sound with configurable parameters that is superior to any other synthetic piano. For the other sorts of sounds, I use Csound instruments or SoundFonts through the fluid opcodes.
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>>Regards,
>>Mike
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: csound username 
>>>Sent: Apr 24, 2008 9:00 AM
>>>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>>>Subject: [Csnd] vst4cs survey
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>>>Hello.
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>>>What (kind of) VST plug-ins or instruments do you usually load in Csound?
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>>>Thanks!
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