Garritan Personal Orchestra, Power Requirements Options

[fastlanephil]

I'm just starting to learn GPO and have a iBook G4 933 booting from a Lacie 80 GB 7200 HD using Metro 6.2. I was quite depressed when first putting down some midi tracks and it choked after three tracks. But if you use the dry samples the cpu usage is much, much lower. It makes it quite usable and I can add reverb with my nanoverb when I move my tracks to audio. But those new iMac G5s sure look nice don't they.

[ROBBO2003]

Re: Stuck notes on Harp. Check to see how much dead air is living at the end of every individual sample clip. If you use a EXS24 this should be easy. But if you're using a package that comes with its own front end (like the NI one for the VSO) you might not be able to edit the separate sample clips. I recently got the first 'drumkit from hell' library and found I had to edit every sample clip to get the drums tight. There was up to 500 samples @ 44.1kh dead air at the begining of each drum hit, and some 2 seconds dead air at the end. The first is critical for timing and the latter for polyphony. Snare rolls can still jam the EXS24 up unless I use over 32 voices. If you own any of these new huge orch. libraries beware you might not be able to improve this situation because of the dedicated and exclusive sampler interface. Cheers Robbo2004