Synthbox rack

Video here: Youtube video
Photos here: Image gallery

There are a few commercial products available that host VST plugins on hardware. The Muse Receptor is a very popular solution. I have built a similar device (a kind of "DIY muse receptor") by combining off the shelf components into a 2U enclosure.

Some sample screenshots/photos:
These are just a few example images - you can also view the full image gallery

The case outside:

The case inside:

Running sotware:

My device has:

• A modern operating system
• Full WinXP installation (SP3)
• Solid state harddisk with faster-than-usual boot time (typically ~25 seconds)
• Comprehensive pysical connections
• 6 outputs (4 XLR + 2 Jack)
• 2 inputs (Jack)
• 6 MIDI channels (1 DIN input, 1 DIN output)
• 1 USB 2.0 port
• 1 Composite video output
• A very flexible audio configuration
• Hardware-based realtime Digital signal processing (Emu10k1 DSP)
• Hardware-based soundfont playback with 2 independent synthesisers
• kX project audio environment
• Complex routing and processing of audio connections
• All audio signals (physical and/or ASIO channels) are routable through hardware DSP effects
• Hardware DSP is fully MIDI automatable (with a nice GUI), and open-source (with Emu10k1 assembly opcodes)
• Comprehensive set of freeware/shareware demo softsynths and hosts
• kX project audio environment
• Numerous free soundfonts and VST plugins
• Herman Schrieb VSTHost
• TobyBear MiniHost
• EnergyXT (demo)