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This probably has been covered.
I have not yet attempted it, but, has anyone used it as a vsti, with audio/midi running through USB?

If so how is that working for you?

Audio thru USB? Maybe you have missunderstood something in the manuals.
There is no such an Audio thing thru USB on M50 nor anything to do with
Audio and VST, the M3 can do that with FrieWire but not thru USB.

Hay there, your topic is not clear to me.. Are you asking about using M50 as a MIDI? Well, I am using mine for my 4front True Pianos, reason4 and Pianoteq 2xx and the response is awesome!!

If you are talking about controlling the M50 through the vsti, then I've tried it. But I recommend you never use it. The trouble is that the M50 is for some strange reason put in the state it was when the vsti was created. Upon opening the editor, you will notice that patches and combis are transmitted. So you risk losing all the sounds you have created whenever you open old projects using the vsti on your computer.

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My Novation X-station does, audio and midi through USB, just set midi and audio inputs on my DAW to X-station, and no other cables are necessary.(Audio outs don't need to be routed, just a single USB).

I was hoping the same was available for the M50.

I was asking before I attempted it, but now I think I won't bother.

That's because your X-station isn't just a keyboard, it's an audio interface. The vast majority of keyboards don't have any easy way of sending audio to your DAW, so you'd use the standard way of having a separate audio interface and connecting your keyboard to that using 1/4" cables.

The plugin editor may be complicated and not worth it if you can't get it to work - at least try it and make sure you back up your patches to PCG using the SD card before hand.

The USB on the other hand has a number of advantages over a normal MIDI 5-pin DIN connection from any other interface. The main advantage though is the much higher throughput, very important when using the software editor or sequencing a large number of tracks. This is because the USB-MIDI link isn't limited to the slower data rate of the old physical MIDI connection standard, being a virtual 'port' over USB only.