About EHCo

EHCo extends FORTE’s features to external MIDI hardware devices. The name EHCo is short for “External Hardware Controller.” EHCo is added to FORTE racks in the same way other VSTi and DXi instruments are added. ECHo can be found in the FORTE instrument menu under ‘brainspawn’.  It is designed to work closely with FORTE’s built-in features.  ECHo receives MIDI input like any other VST or DXi virtual instrument, which it echoes to a selected MIDI output port. This enables you to use Forte’s sophisticated MIDI filtering and routing capabilities to control external hardware. Additionally, this allows you to send specific MIDI messages, including system exclusive to external devices on FORTE scene change.

How It Works

Within Forte, instrument plugins take MIDI and audio in and send audio out. EHCo extends this to external hardware connected to the PC with MIDI output ports. EHCo will pass audio through it without modification, which can be a handy way to do guitar processing with a single instrument module. In this case, the audio input is the guitar, which passes through EHCo into other VST processors and to the output, while the MIDI output is used to control external gear like guitar processors.

This product is an add-on to Forte and requires that product to function.  This product is included in the PRODUCER edition of Forte