Looking forward to playing with this - wondering if the user can control the velocity curve?

Forget this - finally figured it out, but really would be helpful if the email or point of purchase actually had some information :) 

  

 I've been emailed the necerssary activation codes and serial numbers, but can't find the link to actually download the choir? Hoping someone from VSL can help :(

Philip Johnston 

Having been running VSL on gigastudio since I got my existing setup in 2003, i'm having trouble adjusting to the idea that one computer can suffice, is all. I am currently running Gigastudio 3 on a single core 2 Ghz P4 with 1.5 Gb of RAM, with a separate computer running Cubase to drive it...if I tried to run them both on the same machine, I seriously think it would burst into flames.

Looks like good things have happened to hardware in 4 years, and that the Bad Old Days of must-have-at-least-two-computers are gone.

I don't have this Imac yet, and I love it already...but I'm wondering, if a Mac Pro is at all affordable, is it still a better option? Or is the Imac so capable that a Mac Pro is overkill?

Christof, how often do you find you need to dial down your composition idea because you have an Imac...and that if only it were a Mac Pro, the piece could have been so much more? Or does the Imac usually handle whatever you throw at it?

I'm worried a little about the lack of upgradability on the Imac...I don't want VSL to release a fantastic new library in a year's time, only to find that you need at LEAST an 8 core machine with 16 Gb of RAM to run it. (The UBERORCHESTRA! Every articulation quarter-tone sampled at 127 dynamic levels! Ships on a special 3 Petabyte Hard Drive! Free tuning fork included with every purchase!). But if I knew that Imac would support current libraries without me having to keep a careful eye on the CPU meter, then I'd be very happy with that.

Philip Johnston

www.recitalworks.com

Canberra, Australia

Many thanks for taking the time to give this feedback.

Christof, my question aside - that's an astonishing demo, hats off to you. Just double checking that a single Imac was the ONLY computer used inproducing that? There was no second computer acting as the sequencer while your IMac hosted VSL? I'm confused, because I seem to remember Christian posting elsewhere that VSL SE had been designed very much with two computers in mind: one to act as the DAW, the other to host the samples.

With thanks

Philip Johnston

www.recitalworks.com

Canberra, Australia

I'm looking at getting the new 2.8 ghz Imac, with 4 Gb of RAM and an external drive for storing samples - wondering if anyone is successfully using the Imac to work with VSL (SE in particular), or whether a Mac Pro is really needed?

Do you have to spend all your time keeping a nervous eye on polphyony/CPU usage etc.?

Would it have the grunt to run VSL SE at the same time as (say) Synthogy's Ivory, or the Galaxy piano sample library? (I'm interested in VSL to mock up piano concertos)

I'd love to hear from anyone who is already running Imac as their DAW for VSL...am I about to make an expensive mistake? Bear in mind, I would only be running one computer - I will be using Logic 8 as the sequencer on the same Mac as the SE player.

With thanks!

Philip Johnston

www.recitalworks.com

Canberra, Australia

I'm posting this a year and a half late, but there's a free online resource that can help with just about any musical term you can think of, and it's reverse searchable too (so you can enter the English, and it will suggest terms that match - very useful for monolingual composers!)

Go to www.practicespot.com - inside the "Free Tools and Resources" is the "PracticeSpot Dictionary of Terms".

Should contain everything you need when the time comes to notate your VSL created masterpiece.

To all who've replied so far, many thanks.

Three weeks on, and I still haven't got gigastudio to make it's first sound. To make matters worse, I am now the proud owner of VSL Pro edition, but the cube is sitting on my piano mocking me (can you imagine how it's killing me to have it there, but not to be able to use it?)

Relevant specs are:

Pentium 4 2.4GHz (C) CPU (800MHz FSB)
Genuine Intel 875 Chipset Motherboard (1xAGP 5x PCI, LAN)
Geforce 4 MX440 64MB AGP Video
1024MB DDR PC2700 RAM (2x 512MB, 333MHz)
80GB 7200rpm Serial Hard Disk Drive (Seagate)
120GB 7200rpm Serial Hard Disk Drive (Seagate)
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Echo Mia soundcard

The only other program installed is Cubasis, which is what I will use as the sequencer on this maching. (Can I do that?)

VSL will go on the D Drive.

Latest thinking is that the chipset might be too new to support the Mia? Have ordered a Audiophile 24/96, will see if that does the trick.

Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Just purchased Gigastudio 160, and a brand new system to run it on - P4 2.4, genuine intel motherboard, Mia Echo soundcard. Program loads fine, as does the supplied gigapiano gig file, which I allocated to channel 1 of port 1.

So far, so good.

However, clicking the on-screen keyboard then produces no sound at all, nor does the controller keyboard. Soundcard works fine for everything else on the machine. But it's as though gigastudio itself is dead.

It also doesn't register midi input of any sort.

My computer is now back in the hands of my music retailer while they try to sort it out, but at the moment they're as stumped as I am.

I'm running XP home - any other Gigastudio or Mia Echo users experienced this problem initially? All theories welcome...I've hit a wall on this one now.