@Crescendo said:
As for PPC compatibility, I think we need to draw a line somewhere... producing symphonic music is really a task that is highly demanding regarding hardware. I don't see many people seriously producing orchestral music with just a PPC system. Prove me wrong but I think most serious users have already found it necessary to move on to the intel platform...
Not really sure what you do, Cresendo but I can assure you that there are many people out there that are still using a PPC in their systems. "Serious users," as you put it, usually have more than one computer in their system and those other computers are usually Intels - but there maybe a maxed out PPC that still has it's place in the set-up. I know it does with mine and my other Intels. It would be great to be able to use that G5PPC in addition and not a "door stop."
Sorry I went on a rant, and I but sometimes arrogance really needs to be addressed.
I have to agree. I make a full time living scoring feature films, so I think that would qualify me as a "serious" user. While my main DAW is an intel 8 core, I have 6 farms of various makes and OS's. One of them is my old G5. While I generally don't use it for heavy CPU type stuff, I do use it for lots of percussion. It still serves me well, day in and day out.
Also, I might add that I would have liked to see VE Pro able to work with Tiger as well. Many of us are not using Leopard - for many valid reasons. It's just not all the way 100% ready to handle all the various plugs and apps that many of us have to deal with. Tiger is solid and will still be the main OS in a lot of studios for some time to come.
Other than having it on a separate boot drive to run occasional smaller sessions on, I've held off on Leopard for my main working DAW OS. And, I can't see that I'll be moving to it full time anytime soon. Maybe some time next year if, and that's a big fat IF, all the developers get all the apps that I use functioning well in Leopard.
That's going to affect a lot of potential VE Pro users as well.
VSL informed me that VE Pro might work on Tiger, but they won't officially support it. I would like to see it be supported, at least for another 6 months or so.
