Bluezplayer, wow is all I can say. You are way ahead of most everybody including me!!!!

If you are going to use the heavy duty samplers for your high quality accoustic instruments, I would suggest also taking a look at Kontakt. GigaStudio 3.0 has just been shown at NAMM and will be out in late March or April 2004. It is suppose to be very good as well. Halion 2.0 is also supposed to be a good sampler. I believe it has the ability to load 128 instruments. So theoretically it should beable to do GM. I have not tested this. Halion is also supposed to be one of the better importers of the Giga Instruments.

You are going about designing your system the right way - an optimum mix of software and hardware. I took the route of software only as an objective/principle and to demonstrate the feasibility of such a system.

Vquestor, Bluezplayer will beable to provide the exact answer but you would think that the OMB will not necessarily select the correct drumkit given that the drumkits in the PSRs and Tyros will be different than those within the styles & Motif. However, once you have selected the appropriate drumkit (changing the drumkit within the styles using CasmEdit to the Motif drumkit of your choice) the various drum insturments within the drumkit will respond appropriately to your style, i.e., no misplaced dogs howling, handclaps, etc.

Bluezplayer, I am going to have to take a look at some of the Soundfont Samplers you have identified. Sounds interesting.

Bluezplayer, I am not certain how SBLive works but there were some very unusual problems installing the earlier versions of the Audigy 1 drivers. It could not properly be done with Windows XP with the SP1 installed. There was a unique procedure you had to use in the safe mode or install Windows XP then the SB Drivers and finally the SP1 Windows update. I phoned Creative and they said that is just the way it is - get used to it. The same applied to the early versions of drivers for Audigy 2. I am not certain what the new version of the SB drivers are like. They may have fixed this. Just thought I would point this out.

Bluezplayer, you would need the KX drivers if you are going to use GigaSampler or GigaStudio. It is the only way I know of getting the required GSIF drivers for this sampler and your soundcard. Midiman audiophile card has the appropriate dirvers.


[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 01-23-2004).]