@Another User said:

Also if you do use Logic 6 on OS X. you will have have no VST support at all!!!!!No Waves, no Altiverb etc...

Both Altiverb and Waves will be supported in audio-unit format and thus will work in OS X with Logic. Altiverb is scheduled for next month. I don't know the schedule for Waves, but have seen a press release that they are committed to support this format.

Audio-units is a new plug-in format in OS X that is more capable than VST. Emagic has taken the position to only support audio-units in OS X to enhance that format's chances for success. They still support VST in OS 9 so that as the migration to audio-units happens people can maintain compatibility with existing plug-ins.

You can read more about OS X and audio units from Emagic here:
http://www.emagic.de/support/osx/index.php?lang=EN

@KingIdiot said:

oh wait...

it does freeze EXS? Well thats MIDI. Or am I misunderstanding something?

External stuff liek Gigastudio is impossible, unless its gigastudio that does the "freezing" and for that to happen it would have to be more incoorporated to the software.

King,

Hmm, Do not ask me to much......But in Logic their are so called MIDI tracks, which you can not freeze and their are so called Audio Instruments tracks (ESX24/ ES1/EVP88, etc...), and audio tracks, which can be freezed.

Iwan

@Another User said:

The current release version of Altiverb does not yet run in OS X. We hope to put new versions out within two months

I did receive this Email message from Audioease two weeks ago, so I hope it is your info which is rigth!

Iwan

Logic's 'freeze' does work with EXS. but it does not free up the RAM demands of that EXS instruments - those remain until a different instrument is instantiated, which can't be done to a frozen track. in that respect, it does not provide a great deal of help for VSL/EXS use.

cheers

bah crap!

[:)]

@Another User said:

The current release version of Altiverb does not yet run in OS X. We hope to put new versions out within two months

I did receive this Email message from Audioease two weeks ago, so I hope it is your info which is right!

I was trying to be optimistic about the Altiverb schedule. But quite frankly, I've been hearing the "within two months" story since last November. So it seems they haven't made any progress since then if that is what they are telling you.

Haven't they just put up online that it's due in July?
I thought i saw a graphic on the home page...

Peter

Haven't they just put up online that it's due in July?
I thought i saw a graphic on the home page...

Peter

I think the graphic your referering to, topcomposer, is the one stating that the 2.0 version was released last July. I received an email from them a few weeks ago stating that they were waiting for the results of beta testing to determine a release date.

I spent a good deal of money last month buying a new G4 with the sole purpose of using it with Altiverb. I found out the hard way that new G4s will only run OS X. I tried every trick I could think of, but there seems to be somthing, perhaps in the firmware, that is able to prevent boot-up from a valid OS 9 system disc (CD or hard drive.) So I have an expensive paper weight with an apple logo on it now.

I write this as a warning to others out there. There were no clear warnings from the Apple vendor about this, nor was it very obvious on the audio ease site that Altiverb did not support OS X. Several audio engineer friends of mine were planning to buy a new G4 soon, but they are steering clear now.

oh,

[:O]ops:

my bad... - sorry also for the double post.

Peter [:)]