teachers+notes

Many of the virtual instruments you'll find here are "plug-ins". VST plugins named after Steinbergs Virtual Studio Technology or more accurately "VSTi" meaning VST instruments. This means you have to plug them into something. Most often this is a program like Steinbergs Cubase or a similar sequencer. IN my personal opinion the commercial programs do this best. However they are expensive and complex. The free or cheaper programs offer an alternative but they can be clumsy and in their own simplistic way quite complex (personal opinion again) This is the purpose of this site. To investigate all the possibiities and report on what works well and what doesn't (personal oppinions are OK)

To try out soem of these virtual instruments there is another alternative - VST Hosts, a simple program to load up the VST1. There are some examples here.