Here are all things that really really suck about this:
1. all my samples are gigastudio format
2. because vsl discontuned my VIP discount there is NO WAY for me to convert to VI now. I will not wast my inital investment by paying again.
3. I am not sure any other sampler will be able to properly play my samples, my hope is machfive will be able to. My main concern is the performance legatos
4. I just bought gigastudio 4 and it's very buggy for me. It crashes a lot and takes 27 minutes to load my template (which only uses about 5 out of the 16 GB's of ram)
5. VSL also stopped selling the samples in other formats so I can't crossgrade to a non-orphanware sampler now.
6. I am screwed anyway I turn.
Here are my hopes:
1. VSL will lower their prices some time in the future
2. Gigastudio will go open source and some blessed people will fix it and keep supporting it(and that tascam will give people their money back for a program that basicly doesn't work)
3. Machfive will become 64 bit and properly run my gigastudio samples (especially the performance legatos)
So here are my questions, questions that I didn't think I would ever have to ask.
1. Can I get my discount back, can I get something, anything nice from VSL - you guys seem to hate your old customers for complaining but what do you expect, you basicly more or less lied - at least from our perspective.
2. Can machfive use the performance tool to do the performance legatos properly with .gig files.
3. is machfive for pc doing the many gigs of ram 64 bit thing?