EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> but, as far as I know..it has never been impossible to use just
 > one machine for both sampler and DAW duties. Even in the past,
 > once you reach your limit of cpu,/disk/ram you can bounce the
 > tracks to audio...then add more sampler instruments to that.

This is exactly what freeze does, only freeze automates the whole 
process, so you don't have to deal with bouncing/adding/muting/hiding 
tracks.  Freeze only makes the process quick and intuitive.

So you are correct, you will not need to stream samples from disk to 
feed a frozen sampler.

 > It also means, your system is portable. You can do this even on
 > a laptop. Since your not lugging 2 or 3 giga PC's around with
 > you...etc.

Well, portable to an extent.  Keep in mind we're talking 6 Gb of samples 
here.  You don't want to have to seek over all of those on a laptop 
drive, for example.  But you are correct, carrying around a few FireWire 
drives is MUCH more portable than toting a bunch of PCs around with you. :)

 > So, I wouldn't worry about it. YOu do have options other than to
 > buy a PC.

I think everyone is getting confused because of the clause "access to 
the entire symphony".  If I understand the funky english of the original 
post, the store clerk said a bank of giga PCs would be needed to have 
access the whole symphony sample set at once.  Clearly, if you only want 
to use one instrument of the VSL pallet, you would only need a computer 
capable of handling the bank of samples for that one instrument.  A mac 
should be able to take that.

Keeping every sample of every instrument ready and waiting for input, 
though?  That's a task that seems to be beyond ANY single computer. 
Seeing as there's no way to use GIGA to wire a multiple macs together 
into one large mega-sampler, you would have to use PCs to follow this path.

Cheers,
-Josh Emmons