It's impossible to have a rough 40 to 80 gigabyte ready to be triggered by one PC or Mac. plus the use of plugins, and many audio tracks at the same time.
So what is the use of being able to use only a tiny part of the whole library, even if it gives you better options (total recall)

That is the reality (at this moment) with the enormous size of the Cube alone, not to mention the Performance addition, and later the Pro edition.


EXS looks nice to me on paper, in reality I need to see (hear) first.

Geert.

@Another User said:

It's impossible to have a rough 40 to 80 gigabyte ready to be triggered by one PC or Mac. plus the use of plugins, and many audio tracks at the same time.

Actually, it should be possible with the new "Freeze" technology coming in Logic 6.0. Only the elements you are actively working on need to be live, and actually using DSP and memory resources. You Freeze the other tracks which are rendered in the background and simply played back as audio tracks. At any point, you can un-Freeze a track and edit it further.

This is all supposed to happen seamlessly in the background on OSX, and looks like a very creative solution. We'll see how it works when we get our hands on it, but the reports I've read from people who attended NAMM and saw it in action were very positive.

Lee Blaske

@William said:

Reality, whether that company likes it or not, is Windows. Not MAC. Even though I realize fully that MAC is superior to Windows. Just like Beta was superior to VHS. Anyone remember what happened to Beta? I do. I had a thousand beta tapes. However, there are many people who have a monetary stake in Windows, and it is STUPID to ignore them. Emagic is LOSING MONEY and as businessmen they are quite simply, idiots. You can quote me on that.

I agree with some of this. No manufacturer should ever ignore an entire platform. Especially one so huge as Windows. And it's not as if Windows is nonviable. You kind of get the feeling that this is the "revenge of the MAC junkies" for all that software on Windows that never made it to the MAC.
However, I am not prepared to say that MAC has no part in reality. It has its niche, and always will. BETAcam found its niche in the pro-video market. I'd be willing to bet that MAC's market will stay a good deal stronger than BETA's though. Graphics professionals (I am one of these [:)] ), publishers, and printers are hooked on the MAC, and always will be.
Personally, I can and do use both platforms, but all my audio hardware and software is set up on Windows. I can't afford to simply switch. So for me it seems like it's Gigastudio or nothing. And I just have to wait until 3.0 before deciding whether to take the HD sampling plunge. Isn't there an antitrust law that can do something about that . . . ?

~Chris

Chris wrote:

@Another User said:

So for me it seems like it's Gigastudio or nothing. And I just have to wait until 3.0 before deciding whether to take the HD sampling plunge. Isn't there an antitrust law that can do something about that . . . ?

If there was, that same law could be used to force Tascam to release a Mac version of GigaStudio. [:)]

Lee Blaske