EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Another competitor for the EXS-24 (?)

MOTU intros MachFive universal sampler plugin

MOTU last week announced MachFive, a $400 universal sampler plug-in 
for Macintosh and Windows. MachFive supports all major plug-in 
formats on both platforms (MAS, VST, RTAS, HTDM, Audio Units and DXi) 
and imports all major audio file, sample and soundbank formats and 
also offers many advanced sampling features, including support for 
sample rates up to 192kHz and the ability to import and playback 
multi-channel samples in surround. MachFive is expected to ship in 
the first quarter of 2003 for all plug-in formats on Mac OS 9 and OS 
X, with a Windows version soon to follow. Disk streaming (the ability 
to stream very large samples from hard disk) will be offered as a 
free update soon thereafter.