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@JWL said:
The whole PLAY concept is intriguing enough to inspire serious consideration for this user who has quite a few NI-linked software bundles with EW.
64-bit support (requires Windows Vista 64-bit or Mac OS X Leopard 64-bit version). 64-bit support allows you to load many more instruments and voices, limited only by your system RAM (32-bit support is included also).
Windows users may be in slightly better position than Mac users right now in that the shroud of the 64-bit mystery is slowly being lifted in Windows than it is on the Mac. This is the first concrete statement about any 64-bit app to come for the Mac platform. While 32-bit support is "included", it remains to be seen whether Mac users will be able use PLAY in 64-bit with DAWs and other plugins concurrently which are firmly rooted in 32-bit.
The wording of the press release also implies that a 64-bit version of Leopard is a different software bundle from a 32-bit counterpart. This is spec because info about Leopard has been fairly cryptic-- with more promise than anything else. It will get here eventually, but "how soon" also remains to be seen.
It would otherwise appear as a cruel teaser to Mac users who read the GIGA GVI press release from more than a year ago where it was stated clearly that a Mac version was "already in development" with no word of such a version appearing since on the Mac platform to date.
Add to this the word from many other important virtual instrument developers, including the VSL team, whose word on the topic ranges from extremely cautious to doubtful at this time.
But even Vista has my attention in a big way as developers such as East West are taking a more pro-active approach to getting 64-bit instruments into the hands of users who need them sooner than later. Some will go kicking while others will go screaming-- let's see if the screams in 2007 are cheers or other words to be bleeped.
@mpower88 said:
that is debatable for one reason: mac osx has been out and running solidly for more than 5 years, with it being 64bit in the unix underpinnings for a long time. The stability of the Mac versus Windows Vista means that vista while available is not really viable. By the time Leopard is out windows will still not be as stable in my opinion. I was in a shop the other day with a mac and PC display. Some of the PC's had windows. I went up to one, and moved the mouse. it crashed. Vista looks like a real dog to me mind you I'm a big mac advocate.... Although you can run 64bit stuff on vista would you want to? Leopard is only months away and the thing is,when leopard is out we know that the first month or two may be rocky, but at best, this may well be a major release with few bugs, I expect it to be ready to roll straight away, or within a couple of months of release which I doubt the same can be said for Vista... which will probably be a year before it's basically stable, and they can't catch up with the Mac platform in terms of stability for some time yet... Well, in my humble opinion... [[:)]]