Yilma Seleshi DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF VIRTUAL STUDIO TECHNOLOGY INSTRUMENT PLUG-IN FOR KIRAR Exodus Getahun, Abykab Behailu and Menore Tekeba
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[email protected] School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, AAU Key Words: DSP, Kirar, MIDI, VSTi, ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION With the rapid increase of computing resources within the last decade, several real-time Virtual Studio Technology is an interface applications such as sound editing and for integrating audio synthesis and effects processing are becoming more popular. Virtual plugins with DAW. In simple terms it is a Studio Technology (VST) was introduced by way to get all those hardware instruments Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH in 1996 effects like racks, key boards and drum which provided a platform for sound effect machines into music software such as developers to implement their own effect Cubase, FL Studio or Logic Pro and others plugins. In 1999 a standard framework for [1]. According to statement given in [2], software sequencers, so called VST instruments VST allows the integration of virtual effect (VSTi), was introduced in which music processors and instruments into your digital instruments are simulated in the virtual studio. audio environment. It also includes To design an instrument as part of the virtual software recreations of hardware effect studio, a series of steps from audio sample units and instruments or new creative effect collection and recording to integrating the components into the VST systems [2]. samples using a plug-in to the VST is required. To the best of our knowledge, there is no VSTi With VST, Steinberg founded the world‘s plugins developed for Ethiopic music leading and most widely supported instruments so far.