On Jun 10, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 10 Jun 2005, at 1:58 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Perhaps this is a problem of Kontact's integration on Mac OS. I
keep hoping for updates (Kontact -whatever that is, and why should
I have to know about it at all? - or Finale 2006) to solve this
irritation.
Garritan is -- effectively -- not much of a software company at
all. What they do is record samples from live instruments, and
design sample libraries for playback (keyswitching, etc). But they
don't make the software that actually plays back the samples.
That software is made by a company called Native Instruments, and
the software used by GPO is based on a Native Instruments product
called Kontakt. The version of Kontakt included in GPO is a "lite"
version called "Kontakt Player" -- it lacks the advanced features
of the full version of Kontakt, which is a very expensive piece of
software (more than twice the retail price of GPO!). However, the
version of Kontakt Player included with GPO has also been specially
customized for playing back GPO instruments.
Unfortunately, Kontakt Player performs incredibly poorly on
existing Mac hardware. It is a quick-and-dirty port of PC software
and has not been optimized for the Mac at all.
The full version of Kontakt was recently updated to version 2.0,
and that version apparently contains (badly-needed) optimizations
for G4 and G5 processors. Eventually, Native Instruments will make
a new version of Kontakt Player for GPO based on Kontakt 2.0, and
eventually that version will be released -- hopefully as a free
download for existing GPO users.
(Gary can probably tell you a lot more about this than I can!)
That's a clear explanation - and news that makes me optimistic about
forthcoming "transparent" improvements at little or no further expense.
Thanks.
Chuck
- Darcy
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