Brainspawn

Ross Warren
"Prior to using Forte its was more or less impossible to use VSTi's outside of the studio. Now we can reproduce the studio sound in a live situation which is great....It really is just as good as a rack system but without the bother of having to set up and transport all that kit."

Ross Warren (HelioMonster)
Home Product Overview

forte 2 is a live performance workstation for virtual instruments, offering more control and convenience than a traditional rack of hardware sound modules. forte is optimized for the stage, with low latency audio, vast MIDI routing capabilities, and unique live performance features.

 

 

 

Low Latency Multiple Instrument Hosting

Play up to 32 virtual instruments live with mixing and routing to multiple audio outputs

 

Intuitive User Interface

If you’ve seen a rack of hardware sound modules, forte will look familiar to you

 

Performance Automation

Recall virtual instruments settings and MIDI routing instantly with remote controlled “Scenes”

 

Advanced MIDI Routing and Filtering

  • Flexible MIDI routing and filtering. Map any MIDI channel to one or more other channels, with each 'map' containing unique filtering and CC routing settings.
  • MIDI control of audio effect plugins
  • MIDI Clock tempo synchronization
  • MIDI output from plugins is available as a virtual MIDI input to other plugins
 

Audio Effects

Add audio effects to audio inputs, instruments or audio buss outputs. MIDI control of effect parameters

 

Audio Thru

Using the brainspawn Audio Input plugin, process live audio input through audio effects with very low latency

 

Virtual Set List

Configurable SceneView displays the set of upcoming Songs/Scenes in large font, multiple line Scene descriptions for storing notes per-Scene, and can display a custom background picture per-Scene, allowing elaborate 'cheat' sheets to be displayed per-Scene.

 

No-Touch Features

auto-start on boot up, auto-recovery, remote control, SceneView and other features eliminate the need to use the keyboard and mouse during performance.

 

Control Surface Support

Control your performance with Frontier Design TranzPort or Mackie Control.  Even define your own control surfaces for powerful customizations. 

 

Easily Adapt to Changing Hardware

A powerful wizard helps you load a rack on different hardware when your rig changes.

PRODUCER EDITION even remembers each hardware profile the rack has adapted to and can recall that profile when the rack is reloaded on different computers. 

 

PRODUCER Edition Exclusives

PRODUCER edition includes everything in PERFORMER edition plus:

 

  • Multiple hardware profiles can load a rack on multiple computers without remapping
  • 10 seat site-license to enable you to freely move your racks between computers
  • Includes EHCo MIDI Output