I’ve had the chance to really confuse matters now upon discovering that Deckadance supports VST instruments and fx. I’ve been using Cubase since it was just a MIDI sequencer and Deckadance was born out of the DAW world so this is appealing, I’m a bit surprised Deckadance isn’t a bigger player because of this. Although, my past experience with FL customer service could be an indicator. Nevertheless, being able to host VST plugins OR be hosted as a plugin from within a host DAW is giant. But it has to work; I use the Harmor plugin with Cubase and it’s not exactly Stable Mable.
Just on it’s own, however, four decks and 8 plugins slots would facilitate the addition of external MIDI keyboards and controllers (with the added expense and complexity of a MIDI interface) for performance. Incorporating a serious VST sampler such as Kontakt, VST synths, and drum machines (with their own various onboard FX) into a performances would be interesting. The four decks could could be used to play stems created in Cubase. Strays dangerously near to “pr-recorded track” territory though.
It certainly wouldn’t be as spontaneous as working with Ableton but for minimalist styles it seems like it could work. All would be dependent on the lfo’s, fx, and step sequencers within each hosted VST being able to play in sync with Deckadance. I’m not a DJ and have no aspirations as such but as a performance tool for original electronic music Deckadance looks very interesting on paper.
Ah! And VDJ supports VST as well. Cool stuff.
