PLAY Advanced Streaming Engine

2 questions:

Does PLAY run on an ancienst cubase vst 5.1 from 2001? I'm so incredibly used to the fact all notes get a different color there (so a C is always red for example) , in all ocatves.
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I'm looking for a new music software program, but I'm not sure which one has this option. I would prefer one that is 64 bit too,cause eventually i wanna go in that direction. I prefer a pretty 'simple' layout, since they often are pretty, but a bit confusing compared to old graphical user interfaces

I'm not sure why some others seem to figure this play engine rapes computer resources, I mean yeah it sure does, but we have to stop and think about what it is were actually loading up here. I mean the sheer ammount of ram it takes among other things to run these samples at such a high resoloution is astricinomical. Compared to the OLD NI engine I think the New PLAY engine handles the samples WAY WAY better, not to mention it can handle the samples via Play in 64 bit, that right there helps IC

It's actually not even all that heavy! I recently got Symphonic Orchestras and expected to barely be able to use it without having to record one voice at a time and then mix them separately, but I can get quite a few different tracks playing different instruments at a time, and it takes up surprisingly little RAM.

symphobia is more better than that

@ggboot WOW man, you are one lucky bastard LOL. I'd rape, pillage, and murder to get my hands on the fuckin complete composers edition. I'd be really interested in Silk, as I'm just starting to learn all my pentatonic's on the keyboard/piano, so China, and jap music would be a perfect fit for what i'm learning. The rest of the pack has the sweetest sounds ever! It was actually on sale a while back, for about 1 grand, which if you think about it is a deadly killer deal, aavg 3 to 500 bucks a pack

Great software. I've had it for about a month now and I must say, I can't complain. SO amazing. Silk by far has to be my favorite.

Hey ggboot, yeah it's killer. I only currently have the old version of Symphonic Orchestra and Symphonic Choir. They are both still excellent, with Choir library at a whopping 38.5gb, it still sounds very killer. However my versions use the OLD NI Engine, which isn't near as good as the Play engine as shown here. Not to mention the New "Play" engine ones as shown have the updated look, fit and finish, and they also have WAY WAY more and much better key switches and options. I'll upgrade soon. IC

hey i have those old NI versions as well but just wondering, are they the same sample packs with just an updated look and engine? or is this new version new entirely?

i'm not entirely sure about the samples. For some reason though the new ones through the play engine sound little better than my NI engine ones do. I do like the fact that the Play engine can run in 64 bit and take some load off here and there. I am only guessing here, but I seem to remember the New PLAY symphonic Choirs Library being about 38.5GB in size, which is exactally same size as old NI librarys. In that case one would assume they are the same? Though with new piano they may have new Lib

Actually I am now thinking they have redone most or atleast alot of samples, and have added new ones, because after looking at Eastwest's site ect, they mention way way more artuculations, and sheer number and size of samples over and abouve the Old NI ones. Glad to see NI engine go anyways as registering and dealing with NI's shit activation system, and support was and still is major hassle. Good to See EW develop thier own Engine anyways. I'll updrade to PLAY for th key switch atric's alone IC