This is an interesting concept and worth keeping an eye on. You create a virtual session using one of the VST plugins featured on the site. You don't have to have a DAW or download or anything really, you play with it on line to try it out for 30mins. New plugins added all the time.

! No Installation needed
! MIDI-Keyboard Support
! High Audio Quality
! 38 PlugIns available
! Absolutely free

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This is the world's first online Test Station for virtual instruments and Plug-Ins. For the first time ever Best Service and SoundsOnDemand are presenting the possibility of testing virtual instruments from your home anywhere in the world by transmitting MIDI and audio over the internet.

System Requirements
Our remote system works on Windows only running on PCs or INTEL Macs (Mac OS is not yet supported!). Additionally we have tested CrossOver Mac successfully on INTEL Macs running the Try-Sound client (including MIDI Keyboard) without having any Windows installed :-) They offer a free 30 day trial version for CrossOver Mac here.We recommend having any MIDI- or USB-Keyboard installed, but itīs also possible to play the sounds by mouse click or by prepared MIDI-Sequences.

Registration
To use the service you will need to register first. After registration and login you will be asked to choose your startup Plug-In and select any available time slot. You can select any other Plug-In anytime during your session. After clicking you will receive a download link for our login-tool (~400kB). PopUp-Blocker have to be disabled!

Try-Sound-Session-Installer
This software needs no installation and does not modify any system settings or files. The software is only valid for one session at the requested time slot. Please save this "Try-Sound_session_XXX.exe" on your PC and double click it at the requested time to start your session.

The Try-Sound-Session
Each session is limited to 25 minutes. After your session has been terminated, you will be asked to fill out a short report of your experience. This will help us to optimize the system. Feel free to book another session if you like.

Latency and Sound Quality
The latency and sound quality depends on your internet connection. We offer several presets with latencies down to 110ms and MP3 resolutions up to 320kB/s (it should normally be possible to work with our default setting – 200ms and 128kB/s – on a 2000k connection). You can change the selection anytime during your session to find the optimal adjustment. The better your connection, the lower the latency and the higher the quality!

Technical Limits
Please notice: Try-Sound was developed as a realtime sound check system not as a realtime play/practise system!

Midi connection
A red MIDI symbol indicates that a MIDI event has been received. The sound is transferred in (nearly) real time as a MP3 stream back to your PC. There is an indispensable ongoing natural ambience in the background – sorry for that :-)

Ready-To-Play
After login the desired Plug-In should have been loaded already and will start playing a demo sequence with the first preloaded sound. You can start/stop playing by clicking the name of the MIDI Sequence. Please stop mouse moving and clicking during autoload actions

If you donīt have a keyboard connected
There are several sound presets available in the bottom line with an adapted demo sequence. If there is no Midi/USB-keyboard connected you will find some MIDI files which you can use for playing any loaded preset (although in some case it will not prove satisfactory).

Full access to all parameters
Feel free to change parameters and to load any other sound using the Plug-Inīs regular interface. The autoload funktion shows you the first steps and you can find a quickstart manual for the Plug-Ins clicking the HELP symbol. You can switch to any other of our installed instruments during your session by simply clicking the product symbol in the left column.

Try before you buy!

Now have fun!