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  • Vienna Instruments stability? (vs. Gigastudio)

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    I hope this is a silly question: How "stable" is the Vienna Instruments software?

    I'm comparing it to GigaStudio. When it works, it's fantastic! But despite several OS upgrades, and Version upgrades, it still wins my "most liable to crash" award. (Today's trick: it randomly causes system to reboot, even when it's just sitting there unattended!) Plus there's all that "memory tweaking" mess to deal with.

    Does VI make all those hassles go away? Are the streets paved with gold over there in VI land? [:)]
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    @Stephen said:

    I hope this is a silly question: How "stable" is the Vienna Instruments software?

    I'm comparing it to GigaStudio. When it works, it's fantastic! But despite several OS upgrades, and Version upgrades, it still wins my "most liable to crash" award. (Today's trick: it randomly causes system to reboot, even when it's just sitting there unattended!) Plus there's all that "memory tweaking" mess to deal with.

    Does VI make all those hassles go away? Are the streets paved with gold over there in VI land? [:)]

    This is a difficult one. I have had no problems with VI, but then again I don't with GS3, so I guess that this is of no use to you. Sorry [:O]ops:

    DG
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    "Are the streets paved with gold over there in VI land?"

    Lenny: Tell how it's gonna be, George.

    George: We'll raise enough money to buy a small farm. We're going to have us VI strings and brass.

    Lenny: And tell about the rabbits, George.

    George: Sure we'll have rabbits, just for you. And a bassoon so pretty it'll break your heart.

    Lenny: And it won't never crash, will it, George.

    George: It won't crash at all. Not like them city samplers. T'ain't never going crash. We'll be our own bosses. With one thousand voice polyphony and crossfades ten velocity deep. Lenny, we're gonna have us eight band EQ per instrument, and it's not even gonna touch the first of our sixteen nodes.

    Lenny: And tell about the MIR, George....
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    I'm convinced VI's are far more stabile out of the box. If you have VI's on a good PC or Mac with the proper hardware (good drives, soundcard etc.) you will have a very solid setup. Gigastudio can be made stabile but takes a lot more tweaking to get it there - I mean a lot more. VI is not nearly as tempermental a program, in fact it's very solid.

    Not too mention the interface (when compared to Gigastudios with orchestral instruments) is far superior to gigastudio as far as articulations and control features. No comparison at all (and I've been using Gigastudio for years.)

    HTH
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    @Plowman said:

    "Are the streets paved with gold over there in VI land?"

    Lenny: Tell how it's gonna be, George.

    George: We'll raise enough money to buy a small farm. We're going to have us VI strings and brass.

    Lenny: And tell about the rabbits, George.

    George: Sure we'll have rabbits, just for you. And a bassoon so pretty it'll break your heart.

    Lenny: And it won't never crash, will it, George.

    George: It won't crash at all. Not like them city samplers. T'ain't never going crash. We'll be our own bosses. With one thousand voice polyphony and crossfades ten velocity deep. Lenny, we're gonna have us eight band EQ per instrument, and it's not even gonna touch the first of our sixteen nodes.

    Lenny: And tell about the MIR, George....


    OMG - LOL!!
    Plowman, I was reading your post while sitting around a conference table at work. Just about LOST it, that was so funny! A totally inappropriate moment in the meeting for me to be grinning ear to ear. Are you trying to get me in trouble? [:D]
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    Ah, nothing cheers Plowman more than an inappropriate guffaw in a corporate setting.

    I agree with everything Dave and DG said. I'm saddened by your experience on Giga PC. Mine has been better, to no credit of my own. Paradoxically, with EXS and VI, my time on Giga has dwindled over the last two years. Once a user drinks in the speed and reliability of offline-bouncing, any external sampler is going to take the hit.

    On this site, you'll read of frustration with Syncrosoft, and it takes longer to get *at* VI than we'd like. But once it's running, it's been hearty, elegant, and intuitive. I run it within Logic.
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    soso, you're reading the VSL forum in a conference meeting .... stephen, you _are_ in trouble [:D] christian
    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
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    plowman, you have got WAY too much time on your hands [:D]
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    Stephen, for what it's worth, I also had trouble with GS3O stability which would usually lead to a complete melt down every six months or so and yet another reformat and reload session.

    However, since I've had my Solo Strings VI I've had no noticeable problems and all seems good so far and it is a joy not to have to worry about GS3 (which I haven't re-loaded since the last failure).

    Problem is in the long run I think I'm gonna need to have GS3 and the VI running together if only to cope with the limited range of some of the VI instruments. I'm hoping that the new GS VSI will make that possible and hopefully will have less system problems - ever the optimist me.