One more thing to note is the fact that it works with Pro-tools on an Intel Mac platform which nothing else does right now. V-Stack is not Intel Mac compatible. With the launch of PT8, composers that are looking to move over to PT need something like V-Stack to load their VSTi's into in order to side step the 4 Gig RAM limitation that Pro-tools imposes. Vienna Ensemble would be that solution.
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Oh yeah, there could be an internet link on the 3.1 GUI that goes directly to a VSL store that sells download instruments and software.
So now they would have all these new customers staring at the VSL logo every day for the rest of their lives who would be 'one-click' away from purchasing the latest downloads.The new customer would be working and suddenly realize that they don't have an oboe - voila, the French Oboe shows up magically on their slave machine. Another new friend satisfied. Gee, they might have heard good things about Vienna Suite - maybe they should buy that too.
Another link on the GUI could be for the help manual & FAQs to offload technical questions. Like Omnishpere, create a button with a link to a page with the latest updates.
On a couple other forums I visit many people are already considering (and hoping for) VE3.1. Some are even planning their next slave computer purchase to coincide with its arrival. It is the logical answer for so many of us. There is a groundswell of anticipation. VSL would do well to take advantage of the goodwill extended towards them.
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I can't understand why you guys would keep bumping this.
Are you trying to intimate that an open VE3 is something you'd like to use?
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Hey guys,
Im hoping that when the new vienna ensemble comes out it will be able to host my gigastudio 3 libraries and kontakt 64 bit. If this happens I will be able to use my i7 slave PC and iMac. Anyone know when VSL plans to release this?
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@dexterflex said:
Hey guys,
Im hoping that when the new vienna ensemble comes out it will be able to host my gigastudio 3 libraries and kontakt 64 bit. If this happens I will be able to use my i7 slave PC and iMac. Anyone know when VSL plans to release this?
The only people who know are those who work for VSL, and they're not saying ATM. However, as Gigastudio 3 is not a VSTi, and was never 64bit, so I doubt that can be hosted antyway. I'm not sure how you intend to solve that one, unless you port everything to Kontakt.
In any case is Kontakt 64bit? If not, then I guess your original question is still moot.
DG
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well I was thinking of using the giga vst adaptor. Having my computer in dual boot. 32bit windows for gigastudio 3 and when Kontakt 64 bit is released I will use 64 bit windows ( windows 7 or vista ) to run kontakt.
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Cavaett: I'm not a Giga guy at all.
But when I saw Audio Port Universal working at NAMM it had an instance of Giga working with a wrapper from a company I think was called FX Max.
So it may not be impossible with VE3.1. It might just have some limitations.
The issues that VSL might be having could be:
(1) to what extent would VSL be liable to make your [hybrid] system work?
(2) Herb has spent a ton of money over the past years on the development of Mir and would probably like to see the first nickel back. The VSL software development team is talented buy small [miniscule actually]. How these resources are allocated is probably carefully considered by Herb.
Still, with this in mind, there is great pent-up demand for what VE3.1 can offer the workflow of almost every digital composer out there. They are so very close to being able to deliver 3.1.
Personally, I think that VSL could benefit more greatly from an immediate release of VE3.1 than an immediate release of Mir - despite how much resources have been dedicated to Mir. Mir will certainly emerge. However Mir's greatest moment in the sun is probably not the version they plan to release this spring but the later version that accomodates other libraries.
Hmm....other libraries? Does that sound like the key to the greater future of VSL? Surprisingly, yes. Just like for all the reasons I earlier elaborated regarding the promise of VE3.1.
To quote myself:
- Considering the long term success of VSL - think about Apple. They made wonderful, expensive computers for years and years. When they finally started to acheive a market breakthrough it was because of the iPod - an inexpensive product that tied everything together for a whole new set of consumers.
- This 3rd party VSTi solution would tie everything together - VSL's way.
VE3.1 & the open version of Mir would be the way for VSL to own a greater share of the sample library market.
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I'm afraid that Giga VST adapter is old, old technology. I really wouldn't want to rely on that integrating properly with VE, unless the team definitely say it does. It is also really risky running GS3 on the same machine as anything else, never kind the ludicrous memory tweaks one has to do, that will totally cock up VE3. The best advice I could give here is let it die gracefully and start planning for a solution that has some future.
FWIW, has VSL actually said that MIR will accommodate other libraries? If so, how on earth will it know what ambience the other library already has? Does it have a de-convolver of some sort? Actually this is a whole other thread, so I'll butt out now, and start my own one.
DG