
Not sure I'd class my setup as that so I won't start using the term - I will stick to my clunky 'Sequencing Rig' as it better suits the complete shambles I have set up - but at least I'll know what people mean when they say it in future.

Well done Roland, Casio beat you to it again, but well done for getting there. Credit where credit is due then, finally it seems people are starting to get on the ball with this. It is, however, the only VST I ever use and even then I rarely use it, never use it to its full extent and do not have anything beyond its own dedicated host to load it in. This does understand SysEx messages fairly well, but has no feature to make the keyboard dump its patch bank which is mildly irritating as I have to switch back to CZLIB to do this. * Technically this is not true as I use Virtual CZ to make programming my Casio easier. Probably is, given I don't use a single VST* and I still rely on software from two decades ago to get things done. Also, what the heck is a DAW? People keep saying that and I'm starting to think my terminology must be out of date or something. Don't believe the latter applies to the SoundCanvas, can't remember as I got shot of mine years back and have no plans to use this plugin, I'm just curious and more info is always better. I'm still testing it, and found a few bugs here and there, but I'm sure Roland will iron them out in time.ĭoes this thing read SysEx messages and SysEx files properly? I've seen a lot of VST plugins which have no idea how to read such things either making existing MIDIs useless or rendering an entire patch library useless as examples. It took Roland a long time to make a proper software of sound canvas but it finally happened. I have the old Edirol Virtual Sound Canvas and the newer Editrol HyperCanvas, but none of them comes remotely close to the the new Roland Sound Canvas VA in terms of balance, accuracy and authenticity.

I use a small software called loopMIDI to rout all midi playback to an input which I use in my DAW (Sonar) with the Sound Canvas.

MMUSBAUDIO (formerly known as USBUA100) is a Linux kernel module device driver permitting access to the following audio devices through the Open Sound System (OSS) interface (/dev/dsp, /dev/midi, etc.) Edirol UA-1 EX Edirol UM-1 Edirol UA-5 Edirol UA-100 Edirol SC-8850 Roland M-1000 Cakewalk UA-1 G Cakewalk UA-25 EX Focusrite Sapphire 6 (kinda, see below) DigiTech GSP 1101 (standard USB Audio Class device) ION TTUSB Turntable (standard USB. MMUSBAUDIO is available as source code only and compilation is not slow or difficult. DOOM E1M1 and E3M1 music played through the Roland Virtual Sound Canvas VST v1.60, using VST Host and loopMIDI, on Windows 7 64-bit.
