Metro 6 Actually Shipping As Upgrade, They sure know how to keep a secret... Options

[Levon River]

Well, it seems that this was the quietest non-release release so far in OS X that I know of:

http://store.yahoo.com/cakewalkdirect/metr...o6upgrades.html

Apparently registered owners of Metro 5 and Metro SE are now able to purchase 6.0 (with OS X support) as an upgrade through 12 January 2003. I guess that's going to be the "official" public release date. (?) Any registered Metro users out there who've made the jump?

[gidfiddler]

www.sagantech.biz/metro/products.shtml

the demo is fully active . just shuts down every now and then .

I bought it for 2 reasons .
1.it works for os x now and it was cheap
I had metro 4 thrown in with a roland um2 I purchased years ago I never used it (the manual is a little intimidating ). so in affect it cost me $119 just the upgrade . without the upgrade it is $319 which I could not justify, as unless metro is incredible I will go dpx from dp3 so there is no way I would pay the full price for metro and afford that dp3 upgra de as well.
nevertheless it may prove to be better than dp in some way and i can also have a 2nd computer set up to use it . and besides which it is here now . i hated the whole oms free midi oms emulation issues in os 9 , it drove me crazy , and ok you master all that & 3 months later dpx is released (well sometime soon anyway) and you are wasting money on plugins for dp3 cause they won't work for dpx ,
core midi is so much better simpler apple real got that right . i just hope some releases the equivalent of sound diver for x . or some kind of decent patch editor that one can name and save patches from any midi device . cause that is the only thing that os 9 had over X in midi as far as i was concerned . my midi device is a gr30 guitar synth there is a patch editor but only works with oms . so must run dp3 with oms or oms emulation what a pain all those layers beforeyou even get to make music .
I decided that i could be more productive elsewhere and i'd just wait for audio to catch up on os x . well it has taken a while but metro seemed like a good start .



2,it hass fantastic support for sound fonts . I am also using sibelius but sibelus only allows you to load one bank at a time via the quicktime musical instrument prefs . so if you have a sound in one bank you like and another sound in a different bank you cannot access them both similtaneously in sibelius but with metro you can . you just select them . in the midi editor it is totally easy (no notation editing though )
i am very excited about sound fonts are fantastic there are hundreds of banks out there to download and some of them sound quite good to my ears . (with simplesynth you can play them in real time via a midi controller) and some of them sound great to me your only limitation is your processors power . latency when playing them via mid controller did not seem an issue . i think soon enough people will just turn up for gigs with power book and midi controller and just use sound fonts as there instrument sounds. with every update jaguar support for them improves .

howevet basically i am a hobbyist and at present time I have many non musical activities keeping me busy so it is going to be a while before i get a chance to have a close look at metro . so i suggest you try the download if your really keen .as it may be a while before i get the oppurtunity to explore metro properly . www.sagantech.biz/metro/products.shtml
if any body wants to create a yahoo user group and share there metro user tips I'm keen .

p.s there has just been a "g4 update" to metro 6.02 presume this means it takes advantage of altivec for processing . i'll ask the developer and post .