Kjeti,
sorry if my posts came out too strong.
I may only be expressing a hint of the massive amount of suffering that I and all others have suffered as sample libraries have grown and software and formats are changing almost annually at this point.
What worked last year completely changed this year.
Gigastudio has lost its groundbreaking standard status as Kontakt took over but only after insane buggy releases and NI leaving it for dead for almost a year!
VSL wrote its own software but not without a year of difficulties for early adopters mostly due to synchrosoft dongle issues (I was not on the bleeding edge for this one as i have not much blood left to give). NI finally got it together for Kontakt 2 but it was a LONG wait. Now EW has a new sample player showing at namm ........ never ends. And of course there is Apple - the switch to intel literally stalled software updates for the year as that's where developers had to spend there dollars. Makes no sense to debug G5 app when were all moving to intel. (end rant...)
MacPro's are killer machines but the ram for them is off the charts expensive and when using huge sample libs ram is the cheif bottleneck at the moment.
My intent is only to try and save our inital poster some pain and suffering. I guess thats a form of self healing for those of us that are the walking wounded/bleeding edge and now broke - composers! Their are many guys who shared knowledge and saved us all alot of money and headaches. I'm just pitching in with the same intent.
By next year who knows - digi may nail the midi side - add sibelius notation within the app and reign supreme. Or Logic 8 may finally address its shortcomings and be a pleasure to work on (not holding my breath on either of these thoughts).
All I know is every time I buy a new sample lib I end up building another PC to run it one as my system is already maxed out. Its just crazy at this point. Maybe apple will debut a new laptop with 20 gigs of ram and macworld on tuesday and my fantasy machine will start shipping ..........
