Re: Example of erratic hickup playback in Notion
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Again I'd suggest that this is a hardware/driver issue. You should contact Notion tech support for help.
retnev wrote:
I saw all this work on a Mac with far less powerful hardware. All twenty instruments in the score was no trouble at all, most using Miroslav.
retnev wrote:If you have good reason why 7 would resolve my problem let me know, but I have been sold that "newere Windows is better" ever since Windows 3.1, and it never solved my problems, just created new ones, so I would like to get it working in XP as all the software is advertised to work in XP.
Thank you for the suggestion for Vienna. That sounds good to me.
In your opinion is Vienna written more robust than Ik's Miroslav, as the latter really seems shaky to me.
I did a lot of software development in my life (more real-time and numerical than Gui), and I can see sloppy programming when I use it.
Does Vienna general use less resources and have less hickups ?
retnev wrote:You are right about XP-32 4G memory address limit.
I doubt however that can be the reason, as this score ran on a Mac with less that 4GB memory!.
I cannot go back to Mac right now as I have too many windows only programs.
I will ask IK, and if that is not resolved, I will go with Vienna. Since all my trouble in the past came from IK products, I must extrapolate and conclude that is where my trouble comes from in this case.
Based on what is happening now and what happened before with other IK software, this must be the reason. It might be just better implemented on Mac.
Anyway, I will ask IK and see what comes up.
retnev wrote:Surfhammy,
After reading up,
Vienna Ensemble PRO 5, seems to be exactly what I want. It can run as a remote server, which is nice. I casn run it in one of my rackservers and then use my desktop as a client. that is the right way to do it. Looks like way-way better software than Ik's offering. It seems to be E250 which is not that bad. If it actually works it is worth the cost. Miroslav has been giving me trouble for ages so it already costs much more than Vienna Ensemble PRO 5.
Did you compare Vienna Ensemble PRO 5, against Miroslav on the same piece of music (preferably a classical score).
The built in Notion orchestra has serious phrasing issues and it is not pleasing to listen to. On the same score Miroslav sounds amazing (if and when it works). If I can get a similar quality classical orchestra out of Vienna (that actually works), then it will be worth it.
retnev wrote:It seems that I will have to pay about E600 for what I need. That is fair as it pays for itself, since I dont have to change all my other XP software which will be more than $1000.
I really dislike working with multiple PCs for every application. Having Server based software brings me back to *nix distributed networks and client/server based applications which is way more rugged and nice.
I cleared with them that I can use Notion on Xp on the client if their software runs on a separate server running 7.
It really is the way to go, but takes some expense.
The outdated, "all the software runs on the client" as we have with windows mindset is just too much of a drag and the wrong direction.