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You need a 256Kb 2nd level cache memory, which should cost around £120‑150, and some kind of data backup method will be required.

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The minimum free RAM for VST to run is 7Mb (it won't even stoop to installing with less than 16Mb total RAM!), but the more RAM, the more audio channels you can have.

Other factors are hard disk speed and installed RAM. The speed of your computer is one of the factors that governs how many audio channels you'll be able to play back, and how many simultaneous EQs and effects you can use. Steinberg recommend the 90MHz 7200, and the minimum machine they say you should use is the 6100. The first requirement is a Power Mac, running System 7.5 or higher (but not 7.5.3 at the present time). These are the kind of people who'll be interested in Virtual Studio Technology.

Thousands of musicians have modest 'project' setups, where they produce demos and even budget releases.

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In a pro studio, these would be real limitations, and you'd want to spend the money on additional hardware to ensure the highest audio quality. You also have to rely on the Power Mac AD/DA converters, which won't be audiophile quality. Its stereo input means that you'll only ever be able to record two audio channels at once, and the stereo output means that your finished work will have to be mixed inside the computer.

Surely there's a catch? Well, Power Macs' audio connections are on stereo mini‑jack sockets, not the most robust or high‑quality of audio connectors. The only external gear you'll need is MIDI instruments, a mixer (more later on this), an amp and speakers, and/or headphones. The final track is then output from the Mac's stereo output for mastering. You can now sequence MIDI parts to your heart's content, manipulate them with powerful editing facilities, then add a number of channels of audio material, which can be EQ'd, effected, and mixed - all within your Power Mac, with no need for an audio recording card, or external effects or EQ.

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In short, it takes the sophisticated MIDI sequencing of Cubase, plus most of the audio recording and editing facilities of Cubase Audio XT (excepting Digidesign TDM support), and adds comprehensive parametric EQ and four virtual effects processors - reverb, chorus, autopanner, and stereo delay. So does VST simply bring audio recording to the parts of the Cubase range which didn't previously have it? As welcome as that would be, given that the price has remained the same, VST actually adds more. Anyone buying Cubase for the Power Mac now buys VST, an audio and MIDI sequencer which exploits this machine's 16‑bit audio capabilities, though for those who don't want audio or don't have a Power Mac, there's a non‑ VST disk set too. And with the launch of Steinberg's VST (Virtual Studio Technology) for Power Macs, audio now figures even in the standard Power Mac version of Cubase and Cubase Score, as well as in Cubase Audio. Opcode's Vision, formerly a MIDI‑only sequencer, now features audio, though in a more basic form than the company's own flagship, Studio Vision Pro. Recently, however, audio has started to establish itself as standard even on lower‑cost software.

When audio was introduced to MIDI sequencers, it was seen as a premium addition for top‑of‑the range packages.

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Software sequencers are in a state of transition. Is this the perfect desktop recording environment? Derek Johnson & Debbie Poyser find out. This year's show‑stealer at Frankfurt's Musik Messe, Steinberg's Cubase VST isn't just another 'MIDI plus Audio' sequencer - it adds the effects and processing options hitherto only available in expensive TDM systems, for the same price as the previous, non‑audio version of Cubase.