Re: vst plugin - looper - Usine

[Luca Formentini <luca@unguitar.com>]

about Usine:
I played with it for 6 months and have done some gigs and recording 
sessions.
It was the time I was trying to find the best vst host in which I could 
keep Mobius and do my routing through hw and sw effects via my audio card.
Usine was the second I tried, the first was Bidule and the last has been 
Audiomulch.

at the end I decided to leave Usine because ( as I can remember) it was 
lacking in the user interface.
For me it is important to have a visual fast understanding of the 
routing happening in my signal flow at anytime and Usine was forcing me 
to put many send/return/splitters/mixers in many different places of the 
screenshot, so that I had to check many areas and screen corners to 
check what was going on.
Plus, the signal flow was passing through many different submenus, so 
setting it up was a little messy.
These infos are true for the use I did of it.
I think that, if it is used for what it was designed ( loading 
pre-recorded samples in different tracks and play/mess with them) it is 
a very interesting sw.
It was pretty stable and light on the cpu ( at the time I was using 
it... 2 years ago ?).

The developer is very friendly, helpful and willing to improve his sw.

my best,
luca

Per Boysen ha scritto:
> Awesome, Raul! Please post here if you find out something "loopist 
> relevant" about it! ;-)
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
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>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Raul Bonell <raul.bonell@gmail.com 
> <mailto:raul.bonell@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     in the downloads section there's a pdf manual and quick start in
>     english...
>
>     2009/1/17 Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com
>     <mailto:perboysen@gmail.com>>
>
>         On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Ian Petersen <iep@mail.dk
>         <mailto:iep@mail.dk>> wrote:
>
>             In fact I'm surprised Usine gets so little mention 'round
>             these parts. It has much the same 'patchability' as Bidule
>             or Audiomulch but with an interface specifically designed
>             for live performance.
>
>             At least Usine is another VST host well worth checking out.
>
>
>
>         So Usine is not very popular? Looks cool though - thanks for
>         mentioning it and posting the link to their web site! First,
>         when reading your question "why does Usine get so little
>         attention" my spontaneous thought was that it must be because
>         of that name. "Usine". I mean, what's that? We all know, and
>         adore, the French Cuisine but this word "Usine" doesn't tell
>         what country's food it's about and even worse: it is
>         misspelled. Alright, alright... I'm joking, but maybe there is
>         some murky truth hidden in there, cause when starting to
>         dechiffer their website it dawned on me that these guys
>         actually are French. There must be some secret clue to the
>         product name that just passes by us out here in the
>         non-frenching world? I read several minutes at the site and
>         couldn't find out what it acually is. So I was left with the
>         feeling that it is designed to look cool - whitch it really
>         does! They only have videos that take at least five minutes to
>         watch, and there are many of them. I'd prefer a simple feature
>         chart that I can glance in ten seconds and understand what
>         this thing is capable of. They probably have that information
>         somweher on the site, I just couldn't work up enought furious
>         patience to stay on the site any longer ;-))  They should at
>         least put out logotypes on the first page to indicat what
>         computer system it runs on. They should hire a marketeer to
>         get the knowledge about their product out better. I will
>         return to that site later on and try to find out more.
>
>         Greetings from Sweden
>
>         Per Boysen
>         www.boysen.se <http://www.boysen.se>
>         www.perboysen.com <http://www.perboysen.com>
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