Yes,
I know, but they have a lot to do for "Frankfurter Musikmesse", like You.
I have my "Special Question guy" at Musicshop for many years, but he didn´t have time jet to check everything in detail. VI is to new.
My ploblem is: I have to start working on a moviescore in 1 week and I have to get used to a new setup to get my mind free for composing. I cannot change during work.

For the record, I use Forte on a PC, and use VI on a MAC with OSX, and the installations went fine with the exception of the woodwinds on the Mac. I then tried reinstalling the woodwinds again and it worked fine.

I have had no crashes with Forte on a P4 3.2 with 2g memory.

No crashes on a G5 Dual 2 gig with 2.5 gig.

Knock on wood...[;)]

TH

Bernhard,

plese send me a Email to 1mapson@gmx.de.

Hi Bernhard!

First of all I have to tell you that I do understand your situation and that you should still keep working with GS3 until the VI is ready for us!

I've been experiencing the SAME problems than you. Except that I could copy the whole library on my pc.

The thing is that if you install VI on a system where GS3 is already there, except some big crashes! So, just install a new operating system. It works way better than before.

I had the same questions than you : how can you expect us (composers) to work with bounce? I can't bounce each instrument one by one to get my memory free! It's absurd! Gigastudio was running as hell for me. Having more and more use of the articulations, I needed more and more memory...more pc then...

THEN I started to think : those guys at vsl know their job! It's impossible to think that they screw it up that much! So (with the help of Paul Steinbauer, thx man!) I started to think in a different way to write music with VI.

I've succeeded to launch 20 VI on 1 computer (I was so happy!!!...what the!) using Vstack. Then I started to write music in a way I couldn't think about when I was using GS : 1 VI = 1 instrument or group.
So I could have the whole articulations I needed for V1, V2, Violas, Cellos, Bass with only 5 VI! That was great! Of course, as I was writing my score I had to load and optimize the memory usage. But believe me, to obtain such result with GS, I would have needed something like 3 (maybe more) midi ports (16 tracks for each). Then, if I felt bad with a line I reseted the VI and change the line....optimize (ok..that takes time).

BUT after all, my pc wasn't strong enough or the VI is not as optimized as it could. I starting to have some electronic glinches when too many notes were played.....so I thought : ok! I'll wait.

I know they are working on dual proc 64 bits and I think I will buy the best configuration they will recommend. Today I'm still working with GS3.

I just hope I won't have to wait too long to use the VI as it should work!