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Hermann Seib

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(Figure 8). This is quite a nice way to audition VST's, as there is no DAW overhead. The price? Like VSTHost, SAVIHost is a donation. As far as I can tell, Hermann puts no nag screen, or other attempts to "guilt" you into paying something. Oh, and Hermann confirms that!

with Multimedia Extensions. Three So go visit Hermann's site and revel in words. Oh. My. Gorsh. Popeye said it. the useful and historic items he has waiting for you. Oh, and in case you So, as one example, you have, from were going to avoid leaving a the site, GMKbd (Figure 9) which is a donation for all his deserving hard feature-rich General MIDI-compatible work, remember he works for the keyboard simulator for MS-Windows Austrian Army. The guys that gave us V3.1 and later versions. It can be used The Terminator. The guy that further as a stand-alone program to play sunk California into the abyss. Because Hermann has been interested music on attached MIDI devices, or, in audio, especially midi, for quite with appropriate MIDI drivers, it can Oh, and this is Hermann Seib today, some time, a few of the treasures you be used to send MIDI messages to Figure 10. Dank Hermann f端r all die will find at his site will work on -- wait other applications, such as sequencers. harte arbeit! for it -- Windows XP (no big deal!), Man, this takes me back. Do you Windows 98 (huh?), Windows 95 know, back in the day, we used to Cheers! (whuuwat?), Windows 3.1 (das ist hook up kazoos to the PC speaker in unglaublich!) -- even Windows 3.0 order to try and make music? Just kidding. It was pennywhistles.

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