Motu Mach Five - Anybody Using It? Is It Our Yet?, MOTU Mach Five sampler Options

[TiguerSound]

Anybody using the Mach Five sampler yet? Is it available? I know MOTU had said available end of June but you know them....
Thanks

[jklimeck]

You are totally right, Mach 5 on a Power Book 1Ghz or lower or any G4 for that matter is simply disastrous.

I was searching for a software sampler and got Mach Five, you basically have to use a G5 to get any work done, and eventually it taxes the G5, fans go on etc.

You notice Logic, Reason and Kontakt have no problem on the G4 or G5, it does not bring the G4 or G5 to its knees.

This is just lousy programming on MOTU's part, and I can't believe QA at MOTU didn't catch these things, or they did and said ship it anyway.

MOTU better get their programming / QA heads out of their asses and give us timely updates and fixes, I for one being a pro
musician/engineer/ producer am not going to stand for it much longer, nor would I think many others in my position, people will switch to Logic, Kontakt and/or Reason.

What does this tell you, Mach Five was released way too early, probably pressure from Reason and Kontakt.

And what is the deal with DP4, this is MOTU's first implementation of an OS X app, and frankly I am a bit pissed. Long time MOTU user, used to work for Apple on Final Cut Pro QA, I know how an OS X NLE for audio / video should respond, and DP 4 /Mach 5 performance sucks, needs an update like yesterday, spinning beach balls galore.

You notice the Windows version of Mach 5 is now shipping, and if you go to Sweetwater.com (Not MOTU's site) it says the Windows version has:

Disk Streaming (DFD)
Rex 1 and 2 support
Kontakt support

What the heck is going on, the Windows version gets what the Mac version should have have last year when Mach Five was released.

Mach 5 for Mac needs these feature as well as the following:

Get rid of the iLok and use what Kontakt uses, which is basically fool proof, no original CD, you cant run it.

Stand Alone, not all people have a host DA software, need one or use one (plus is should speed up the sampler efficiency / performance, etc.)

Much more speed and less spinning beach balls and delays.

Much better integration with DP 4, one would almost think, M5 and DP 4 was not developed by the same company, this should actually be embarrassing to MOTU.

Some sort of Librarian or easy way to search/access commonly samples, an easier way to create custom drum kits or custom samples/instruments.

An a damn easier way to export (bus?) the audio outputs to DP audio tracks.

You practically need a Ph D to figure this out and it seems there are several ways to do it, all of which suck and are non-intuitive, I want to highlight instruments , click One button that sends the outputs to DP4 and automatically new tracks are created in the sequence timeline.

Anyway here is to hoping we get ALL of these things I mentioned and Mach 5 (version) 1.5 or 2.0 whatever the will call it with DFD, etc. in a few days, they have said April and April is almost over.

Maybe the Windoze version being released is a clue.