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hardware would be your audio interface and any MIDI keyboard or controller
available. This mode is called stand-alone within this manual.
However, a hardware synthesizer will probably not be used alone but in
combination with a mixing desk, an effect rack and some cabling. You
cannot connect software with cables, so another mechanism is used to
accomplish this common use case: A so-called host application loads other
applications during runtime as plug-ins. While the plug-in applications
represent the synthesizers, samplers or effect units, the host application
mimics the mixing environment.
Within the host you can define how the plug-ins are connected and there
you also handle your system's hardware.
Sometimes an application can be used as a stand-alone and as
a plug-in; and some applications may be used as a plug-in and as a
host. Often, stand-alone applications are hosts that use plug-ins (in
both senses) – common examples are software sequencers. Those
sequencers mostly do not work as plug-in versions. Vice versa, there are
synthesizers and, more commonly, effects which are only available as
plug-ins and cannot be used as a stand-alone without the host. KORE 2
however, can be used in all suggested ways.
KORE 2 provides a stand-alone version and a plug-in version. You can use
KORE 2 without any other software, as described above, but you can also
use it as plug-in within another host. This ensures that you can combine
it with any other sound generator you want to use.
But KORE 2 is also a host by itself and can load other plug-ins. This
functionality is available when KORE 2 is running as stand-alone as well
as in plug-in mode; in the latter case, KORE 2 becomes a sub-host.
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