Amulet VST to DirectX Adaptor

[chrisNova777]

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may99/articles/pcnotes.htm

   Amulet VST to DirectX Adaptor    
     Since Steinberg released their VST plug-in development kit, many third-party developers (commercial, shareware, and freeware) have released plug-ins that perform a wide variety of sonic manipulations. This is great news for VST and Wavelab owners, but until now not a lot of use to users of other DirectX-compatible applications such as Cakewalk, Sound Forge, Acid, and Cool Edit Pro.

Spotting a gap in the market, Amulet software have developed the VST to DirectX Adaptor, an easy-to-use utility that appears in all DirectShow-compatible applications, and lets you load and use VST plug-ins. It worked well for me inside every application that I tried (even inside VST and Wavelab!), and the user interface is simplicity itself - just two buttons marked Load and Hide/Show. Clicking on load opens up a standard Windows open file dialogue to let you choose a DLL plug-in file. Then you use it exactly as you would inside VST - if the plug-in window disappears behind others you click on the Show button, and once this appears the button changes to Hide for the opposite function.

The Adaptor does impose a slight extra processor overhead, but offset against getting lots more plug-ins no-one should have any cause to grumble. It even deals with those basic VST plug-ins that have no panel design of their own (like AutoPan for instance), by creating its own front panels as required. Designer Angus Hewlett is only asking $50 - sounds like a bargain to me.

For more information take a look at the Amulet Software Website (http://surf.to/amulet),
or you can telephone 07808 157 967 in the UK).

http://web.archive.org/web/19991114133338/http://surf.to/amulet
http://web.archive.org/web/20010612185325/http://www.lawnet.co.uk/amulet/demo/vtd_demo.zip

[atheer]

Hi CHRIS

any update on this, now bandlab have bought cakewalk?

Cant seen to buy this anywhere

atheer

old cooledit pro user