EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

From: Cyril Blanc <blanc.cyril@...>

>I am also hesitating between VSL and QLSO.

Just to be clear, my ringing endorsement of VSL is not a comment that 
you should buy it over QLSO. They're both great in different ways.

>Apparently you must be very carefull about the hardware you are going to use
>as VSL is VERY VERY greedy

Not really, Cyril. You do need two or possibly three machines (unless 
the G5 changes that), but it's recorded without reverb, so it's not 
really voice-intensive. The Performance samples take up some memory, 
but the regular Cube instruments are very efficient. I wrote one 
over-the-top huge cue with the kitchen sink in it that fits on one 
machine easily.

>If you hacve an high end mac 2x1.2 and with 2 or 3 Gigasampler PC there are
>no problems but !

Ah, then it's just a matter of what one calls greedy.

>I have just bought a 2x2ghz G5 WITH 2.5 GB for this purpose
>
>By the end of this month we should have figures of QLSO as the EXS version
>will be available.

Lots of people are going to be interested in how G5s work with QLSO. 
QLSO is far more voice-intensive than VSL, of course, since its whole 
selling point is that it's recorded with reverb. And it's released in 
24 bits, which automatically means 1/3 more data to stream. Kompakt 
also seems to be more processor-intensive than EXS even when you're 
not using its DSP, but I'm not sure whether that's really true.
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Nick Batzdorf
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