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  • VSL on Home Studio

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    Can someone tell me what hardware I would need to run VSL - and run it in a way that provides the best access to the library for arranging?

    I've been a guitarist for over 30 years (studied jazz and classical at North Texas State), but I have little experience working with samples. I currently am using a MAC G4 (733mhz), Pro Tools (Digi001), and have a Korg Triton LE keyboard that I use as a MIDI controller (it also has sampling capability, but only in 64 MB chunks). WHAT WOULD I NEED TO BUY TO HAVE VSL UP AND RUNNING IN THE BEST POSSIBLE CONFIGURATION?

    Thanks for any guidance!

    Peace.
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    David,

    If I would be you I would wait for the Emagic ESX version of VSL . If you add some more RAM to your G4, you probably could have a good setup, at low cost and avoid the PC-Gigastudio hassle.....

    Iwan
    http://www.iwanroth-sax.com
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    Thanks Iwan (hey, my Grandmother immigrated from Switzerland).

    A couple more questions....

    1. With VSL, can you select a sample (e.g. solo violin) and use an external MIDI controller (e.g. Korg Triton) to "play" that violin?

    2. Anyone using VSL with Pro Tools LE? How's it working? How are you routing the audio to Pro Tools?

    3. Once all those gigabytes of samples are loaded onto hard drives, can you easily listen to the various samples, or is there some time consuming process required to pull up a sample and here it?

    Thanks for any information you can share with this guitar player in Nashville, Tennessee.
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    I would actually recommend the opposite rig with this case...I would buy a PC/GigaStudio workstation and use it externally to ProTools as a separate sampling workstation. To me, there are far fewer issues with that in terms of the entire studio/production chain, and GigaStudio does give huge benefits in terms of quickly searching and playing samples, etc.