@edhamilton said:
Please note that my comments about halion/kontakt performance is about the mac versions.
It seems both apps fare FAR better on the PC side.
Us mac guys aren't having much fun lately.
Dual G5's but stuck with bad streaming from vsti's
A couple of reasons things are faring better on the PC side.
First, all the major programs can handle VSTi's and the ASIO 2 drivers. As result, VSTi and ASIO 2 are now a kind of "standard" for the PC area. Consequently, we have excellent results with FXTeleport and MIDIoverLAN allowing for a fairly complete networking solution with just MIDI, and with MIDI and audio using FXTeleport (Giga wrapper from FX should be available pretty soon).
On the Mac platform, we now have "browser" wars in the sense of Apple vs. Steinberg on redefining AU vs. VST Plug-ins. With this, we have three different OS systems, all of which are different - OS 9.2, OS X Jaguar and OS X Panther.
And then I believe we're also seeing a more sublte shoot-out between Apple and MOTU.
All these "business issues" create COMPATIBILITY problems on the Mac that are both agonizing and time consuming to deal with.
Right now, everything works quite well on the PC. But give it time. Soon we'll have Giga 3.0 and all kinds of compatibility issues sorting out Giga, GSIF 2.0, Giga-Rewire-Sonar, Giga-Rewire-Cubase, then Giga-Rewire-Seq + various streaming VSTi plug-ins...AND THEN mid year -
We get the new P4 and dual Xeon CPUs optimized for 64 Leghorn, and overall replacing the Intel Itanium chipset. And then at year end early 2005, we'll have Longhorn released and a whole new set of issues and threads for the various forums!
Peter Alexander
peter@truespec.com