These days, it makes no big difference if you´re on a Mac or a PC if the OS isn´t buggy and the PC machine is well configurated.
A Mac, you can use out of the box, you don´t have to tweak too much, but you have to pay for it instead.
I also have a old Mac OS9.1 here in action, running a librarian.
Most of the existing software samplers run crossplatform, Mac and PC ...
Tiger OS actually causes a lot of 3rd party software to malfunction,- see the NI forum regarding their native instruments in combination w/ Tiger on Mac and Logic Studio8 p.ex.
IMO, the best sampler actually is NI Kontakt 3, the script features are the saver for the future
- well see what the upcoming EMU X ( 3 ??? ) brings (AFAIK it was for PC only up to now) ...
Yellow Tools Independence seems to be also interesting,- actually I have the Independece free to check it out a bit.
I don´t know what happens to Halion, - I´m on version 2 anyway and far behind the evolution ...
But the only one which really samples in standalone is EMU X, all the others use the DAW audio recording functions for the sampling.
Also EMU X has instrument cloning functions, but not as complex as Samplerobot is.
But be aware, all these have bugs and issues also w/ various functions and sampleformat import.
So, sample converter proggis are a must in addition.
Karl schrieb:
Hi PeWe,
Thanks for the excellent tips and sampling advice. I am saving this
post for future reference. I do not have a lot of musical type
PC software yet. I am thinking about a MAC because it's the only new
computer that I an get an M12 librarian on. We'll see.
Karl