SpinAudio Releases VST SkinRack 1.0New life for editorless VST Plugins
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June 9, 2000SpinAudio Software, a developer of audio
processing plugins for the music industry, has released VST SkinRack 1.0.
VST SkinRack is a product that allows you to create skin-based control
interfaces for your editorless VST Plugins. Basically it creates a new VST Plugin
with a name you specify, that when called, provides an editor, or so called
virtual rack, that is used to control parameters of editorless plugin it is
associated with.
For creating of a new SkinRack, changing parameters of existing ones and
removing there is an application called VST SkinRack Wizard that comes with
the product.
There are three parameters that you can specify on creating of a new
SkinRack: Skin to use, Number of columns in which the plugin parameters will
be displayed and SkinRack name.
There are two types of skins: slider and knob based. The former provides
sliders as a value controls, parameter label and parameter value display, the
latter provides knobs respectively, parameter label and value display tips
that can be viewed when holding right mouse button.
Due to the fact that you can specify any name for a new SkinRack nothing
prevents you from having multiple SkinRacks that wrap the same VST plugin
using different settings.
VST SkinRack comes with 14 skins. Additional skins can be found on SpinAudio
web site.
Key Features:
- Individual wrapping of multiple editorless VST Plugins
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SkinRack works transparently so all the functionality of wrappin
plugin is provided
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Slider and Knob based control interfaces support
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Easy-to-use management Wizard
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Skin based interface
SpinAudio also plans to implement the support of custom skins into the next
version of VST SkinRack. This feature will allow developers of editorless VST
Plugins to create interfaces for their products using all the power of
SpinAudio's skin based interface controls without any additional
programming.
It will be possible to assign different controls such as sliders, knobs, check
and radio buttons to different parameters, set their positions, use any
background picture and benefit from having automatic VU Meters and about
box support.
Developers will be able to get this new version for free. Preliminary the
release is planned for July, 2000.
System Requirements:
Platform: Intel Pentium, and compatible CPUs
Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Minimal Configuration:
Pentium 100, 32 Mb of RAM, Video adapter that supports running in high color
mode. 3Mb of free hard disk space.
Free demo version is available for download from the following location:
www.spinaudio.com/download_demos.html
VST SkinRack 1.0 can be purchased in the SpinAudio OnLine Shop and also
through distributors. The current retail price is $30.
SpinAudio also claims that VST SkinRack 1.0 will be given for free to every
person who designs ten skins for the product.
For more information, visit their web site at www.spinaudio.com. | 
