Totally agree. When GPO (or rather, Native Instruments) releases a
Universal version, I'm getting an Intel Mac. It would be interesting to
see if anyone who has GPO, Windows, Mac OS X, and is brave enough to try
it, see how many GPO or JABB instruments they can load.........
Darcy James Argue wrote:
The Core Duo processors found in the new Macs are more than adequate
to play back large numbers of GPO samples simultaneously.
The only problem with GPO is that the demands of the software were
ahead of the hardware most people own. But if you're talking about a
new Intel Core Duo at 1.8-2 GHz, that's a massive improvement over a
similarly clocked G4 or G5. A 2.0 GHz MacBook Pro with 2 GB of RAM
would run GPO like a champ in either Windows or (once a Universal
version is released) Mac OS X.
Whether you like it or not, hardware-based sounds are a complete
anachronism. One of the many reasons they are vastly inferior to
software-based samples is that you're stuck with the hardware samples
and can never upgrade them, whereas upgrading your software samples is
as easy as buying a new library. And there are simply no
hardware-based soundcards that offer anything like the quality and
flexibility you get with GPO or Garritan JABB.
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