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MIND Music Labs & Steinberg unite
Software becomes hardware in Retrologue, the ultimate port
For us, one of the undoubted highlights of this year’s Superbooth synthesis expo in Berlin was getting the opportunity to check out the first fruits of the recently-announced collaboration between German software titans Steinberg and bold upstarts MIND Music Labs.
The latter’s ELK MusicOS is a Linux-based operating system capable of running VST plugins and Reason Rack Extensions on Intel and ARM CPUs embedded in dedicated hardware systems, thereby effectively enabling plugin developers to turn their creations into dedicated ultra low-latency hardware devices. As a proof of concept, the two companies have managed to get Steinberg’s well regarded Retrologue 2 virtual instrument running in a bespoke desktop-format synth, making the dream of the ‘physical plugin’ an impressive
