On 17 Jan 2005, at 08:39 PM, David Froom wrote:
I wonder if it would be better with Virtual PC.
No. Not a chance. It would be terrible. Wonder no more.
Anyone with GPO on a Mac and Virtual PC want to try this?
Absolutely no need. Performance in Virtual PC will be absolutely abysmal no matter what.
There is simply no situation where running PC software in Virtual PC will be faster than running the Mac port of that same software. Not even if you're running the Mac version in Classic. Even the worst port in the world is better than VPC emulation.
So Darcy, don't despair. GPO may work just fine on a maxed out Mac Mini.\
Except I'm not doing chamber music. I'm doing either full-orchestra arrangements, or 18-piece jazz ensemble arrangements (including piano, which is a *huge* RAM and resource hog).
Also your tales of mysterious "one day it's working, the next day it's not" situations with GPO/Kontakt tend to induce *more* despair, not less. What I had hoped would be a simple solution to the problem of producing passable-sounding orchestral demos is already turning into a nightmare of kludges, workarounds, and time-sucking frustration. And I haven't even tried to do any serious work yet!
I'm almost certain I will have to "bounce" tracks to HD, one (or two) sections at a time.
Or it may run on the Mini controlled with Finale on your current machine?
I'm considering that possibility, but honestly I'd rather sell my old Beige box for whatever I can get for it and be done with it.
The Mac mini is meant as a stop-gap computer until Apple releases decent G5 PowerBooks. When that happens, I may hold on to the mini as a dedicated GPO host, if I can figure out how to do that.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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