KeithW
04-02-2008, 01:28 AM
Well, guys (and gals), the verdict is in and I'm very impressed. Garritan Authorized Steinway is installed and working. So far, I've played back MIDI files and played in live mode with my Roland RD500 Stage Piano. Everything works as advertised. I have a pretty robust system (8 core Mac Pro with 10GB of RAM,) so I can't tell you how it works on minimal systems, but the docs say it does.
Speaking of docs, this is the best documentation and packaging I've ever seen in a sequencing product. I nice spiral bound notebook binder embossed in gold. A REAL Steinway owner would be proud to have this sitting in their music room. The documentation describes all aspects of pianos, this package, how to install it, and there is even a section by one of my favorite musicians Wendy Carlos on Temperaments (there are 13 of them!)
For those wondering how much disk space this takes up- well, all 5 listening perspectives in 24bit resolution take up about 67GB (yes gigabytes,) so you probably won't be loading them all on your laptop, at least, not on the internal drive.
I highly recommend this package just by the small amount of time I've been able to spend with it this evening. Tomorrow is going to be "try it with the notation packages" day.
Keith Walls
Speaking of docs, this is the best documentation and packaging I've ever seen in a sequencing product. I nice spiral bound notebook binder embossed in gold. A REAL Steinway owner would be proud to have this sitting in their music room. The documentation describes all aspects of pianos, this package, how to install it, and there is even a section by one of my favorite musicians Wendy Carlos on Temperaments (there are 13 of them!)
For those wondering how much disk space this takes up- well, all 5 listening perspectives in 24bit resolution take up about 67GB (yes gigabytes,) so you probably won't be loading them all on your laptop, at least, not on the internal drive.
I highly recommend this package just by the small amount of time I've been able to spend with it this evening. Tomorrow is going to be "try it with the notation packages" day.
Keith Walls