Asio4all with VST plugin support ?

[Ole]

Hi Michael

Now where many people use the computer for music playback and multimedia it could be fantastic to have the posibility to load VST plugins on audio driver level so that all windows sound got through the fx (equalizer, room correction or whatever) Many media player programs has crappy equalizers if any and only a few can use winamp dsp plugins but none can use VST plugins.
Is it possible to do that and what do you think of the idea making a driver that loads VST plugins?

Regards
Ole

[Uncle Bob]

Dude, doing that requires the same human effort (and cpu resources) that all the already existing programs do. It's pointless.

[Hef]

this is by no means pointless.
my studio doubles as my home theatre and i've also been looking for the exact same thing. i've been told it can be done and there is a program out there somewhere that can do it but i've yet to find a copy of it so any idea or alternative solution that can be found is worthwhile to me and quite a few other people i know.

i, and most people involved in pro audio and home theatre computing, have spare cpu cycles coming out of the ass and would dearly love to use them for a sonic maximizer and 31 band eq 24/7.

[Uncle Bob]

Oh, you're right, I didn't read the whole post... sorry Right, not only for instruments but for general purpose, I missed that part.

There's a million ways of doing it, presently. Here's a cheap one:

Grab an audigy card, install kx drivers in it.

Then you would have to go to the dsp, and route the wdm output to an asio input, process it with something like savihost + karmafx, or even something like Chainer (google it).

In a more professional way, E-mu's pci cards are great for what you want to do also.

[Phobik]

Just use VAC - Virtual Audio Cable as the windows sound drivers. Then route VAC into a VST host like Reaper and apply your FX. Done.