@dummy said:
This is the kind of thing I'm hoping for in VSL's future. I recently purchased the VSL Pro edition and have had to move from VSTi samplers such as HALion/Kontakt to Gigastudio, which I've found to be frustratingly restrictive. I really miss the ability to mix down my audio at faster-than-real time, I miss my performance sets being saved in my sequencer, I miss my audio being output directly into my sequencer through VST channels and I miss the reliability and accuracy of audio that is buffered similar to how Kontakt/HALion work rather than live. If it wasn't such a huge library, I'd have begun converting to a VSTi sampler. I wish VSL came as a stand alone VSTi (built-in-performance tool included) so that I don't have to rely on an external sampler, figure out MIDI routing or have to worry about which sampler I should buy it for.
I understand that most of my minor issues are down to the sampler software itself, rather than VSL. Here's hoping the Symphonic Cube comes in Kontakt/HALion format. At least that will be closer to how I'd like to use VSL.
I run all my VSL samples in Halion3 under SX3... I use the excellent built in giga->halion converter which has been working like a dream for several years... all my libraries (well most) are in native GS. I don't touch gigastudio... used to own gigasampler a few years ago but hated the lack of integration... some of us have very simple, yet effective, single PC, integrated solutions that don't neatly fit in with GS. GS seems to assume that you have some sprawling old-style studio with external mixing desks and wires. I just have a single PC and audio card... I don't want to have to run my work out to slave machines when it runs quite happily live on a single PC. Especially since Halion now has 0.1 second's pre-load... I am trying to persuade them to lower that to 0.0 second pre-load and just pull samples from disk with additional latency (since I notate rather than play live). That would mean I would be able to have the ENTIRE VSL library loaded (in effect).
It doesn't however, make using VSL any easier... I still have the performance tool issues to contend with.
Hence my suggestion above...