Along with having to work with non-intuitive VFX software, complex wizards and no official support: it's not a plugin-and-go piece of equipment. It takes quite a bit of work to get your VST setup on the device. I personally use it as host for Toontracks EZDrummer (in combination of an electronic drum kit) and various free plugins as synthesizers for keyboard, it works fine with that with around 3-4ms of audio latency. But it's perfect for live situations where you don't want to deal with your OS crapping out, as it's very stable and can run for hours with no problems.
Keep in mind that the CPU power is comparable to a windows machine with a pentium 4 running at 1.5 ghz, so you won't get too much polyphony, heavy cpu-using vsts or just much in general. For live settings, fx loops or just to remove load from your main DAW. You can use it for VST instruments, samplers and effect processors. Digitally it's stereo 44.1 khz at 16 bit. You can of course hook up USB hubs to expand the number of ports. It has two 6.3mm unbalanced TR sockets as well as a 3.5mm TRS socket for audio out (both -10 dB line-level) with about a -50dB noise floor, a 3.5mm TRS socket for audio in, MIDI-IN and 2 USB ports for external storage or standard USB-MIDI equipment. You can also use any USB mass storage device to directly load plugins from. The RAM is upgradable to 1GB and the storage can be upgraded with any compact flash card and CF2IDE adapter, but problems may occur with FAT32 and large drives. The hardware is a 32-bit Via C7 CPU running at 1 GHz, 512 MB DDR-2 RAM and 1 GB flash drive. The v-machine is a small form-factor x86 computer that runs linux and a wine layer to run windows VST plugins. Plugin Compatibility List FAQ Hardware What is it? Plugins as provided by factory (268 MB).How to upgrade the RAM and storage (youtube).USB-flashdrive image for initializing upgraded storage, latest firmware and factory-default vsts included (594 MB).USB-flashdrive image for initializing upgraded storage (26.4 MB).Unofficial Operation Manual (French) (1.7 MB).(346 KB) (already contained in VFX setup).
VFX Application and Library Installer (129 MB).This page is for owners of v-machines to still be able to use their $500 (new) - $350 (2010) device as intended. In january of 2015 SM Pro Audio was acquired by Harman, leaving v-machine owners out of support, the knowledge base and website gutted and the software auto-update function broken.
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