Fanan team has released Colossem VSTi, a VSTi version of Colosseum MIDI modular DAW.
Main features:
- Hosts plugins inside a plugin – Load VST3, VST2, and AudioUnit instruments and effects inside Colosseum VSTi, running as a single VST3, AU, or CLAP instance in the DAW.
- Visual node-based routing – Users can drag, drop, and wire plugins on an open canvas. “What you see is what you hear”, No hidden buses, no menu diving.
- Containers – Pack entire signal chains into a single reusable node. Users can save them, share them, import them into other projects and build their rig from self-contained blocks.
- Up to 8 stereo outputs – Users can route instruments and effects to separate buses in their DAW’s mixer. Drums on one, synths on another, effects returns on a third.
- 32 instrument slots with instant switching – Users can assign each plugin to a MIDI CC pad. Switch or layer instruments on stage with a single button press.
- Auto Sampler – Define notes, velocities, and durations and create SFZ patches from other instruments on the fly.
- Manual Sampler – Users can arm it, play a note, get a named WAV file. One-shot capture from any point in their chain.
- MIDI file playback – Users can load any .mid file, scrub to any position, loop sections. Clean seeking with no stuck notes.
- CC Step Sequencer – 16 slots of drawable CC automation with swing, triplets, ping-pong, random walk, and host sync.
- Transient Splitter – Zero-latency separation of attack and sustain into four independent outputs. Parallel process punch and body separately.
- MIDI channel filtering – transport override, bypass, freeze, pass-through, and crash isolation on every hosted plugin automatically.
- Modular recording – Users can drop recorders anywhere in the chain. Sync them together. Capture separate stems simultaneously.
- Mixer with floating window – Per-output and per-instrument faders. User can detach the mixer into its own window to view alongside the rack.
- Self-contained presets – Users can save everything – routing, plugin states, containers, bus config, into a single .cvst file. their DAW also saves the full state in its own projects automatically.
- No scanning, no waiting. Users can load plugins directly from a file browser. Instant startup, zero RAM overhead from cached scan data.
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Built-in manual – Everything the user needs to know, right inside the plugin. No external docs to lose.
Price – $20, sold in a pack together with Colosseum Stand-Alone app.
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