First impression of M5.2 - very positive!

[danworks]

SNIP ... By the way, you have a dedicated HD for your library, don't you?

Yes I have a dedicated drive I guess I'll try streaming and see how it goes, and thanks Dan, for that link to MenuMeters.

I'm, still curious though; what happens when you guys try to exceed available RAM? To have it crash is not helpful. Anyone get an error message instead?

Honestly I never deselected the streaming option for most parts, only on those parts w short samples (percussion) where the streaming isn't really necessary so, I never got any error message.

And by the way, lest this should all sound too negative, that's about my only complaint. I think for $200 it's a very good upgrade. Gavin

I have some complaints too, basically in the graphic area

Between me and my 22" screen there's an 88 keys and at that distance some of the M5 fonts are too small, other fonts have poor contrast compared to the background, some button looks selected while are deselected (LFO's "GLOBAL"), other deselected buttons like MIDI SELECT, are impossible to read. As I wrote there's still room for improvements.

[gavspen]

I haven't had the problem yet, gavspen. I did have a beachball freeze when I tried to convert one of those large piano samples into RAM-based, and not streaming. I just toggled-off the "Streaming" button, and the ball started spinning. Pretty soon it just quit.
Shooshie

Perhaps I dont have the nomenclature right (after all these years!); crash, quit, freeze.....sounds like you're getting just what I'm getting Shooshie; when trying to load a big preset, NON-streaming, it churns for a while, then comes the beachball, then it just disappears from the screen. Is that a "quit", not a "crash"?

Gavin

[danworks]

I haven't had the problem yet, gavspen. I did have a beachball freeze when I tried to convert one of those large piano samples into RAM-based, and not streaming. I just toggled-off the "Streaming" button, and the ball started spinning. Pretty soon it just quit.
Shooshie

Perhaps I dont have the nomenclature right (after all these years!); crash, quit, freeze.....sounds like you're getting just what I'm getting Shooshie; when trying to load a big preset, NON-streaming, it churns for a while, then comes the beachball, then it just disappears from the screen. Is that a "quit", not a "crash"?
Gavin

Technically it's an unexpected quit, but if you go here:
user/Library/Logs/CrashReporter

and you find a log, then it's a crash.

[Shooshie]

I haven't had the problem yet, gavspen. I did have a beachball freeze when I tried to convert one of those large piano samples into RAM-based, and not streaming. I just toggled-off the "Streaming" button, and the ball started spinning. Pretty soon it just quit.
Shooshie

Perhaps I dont have the nomenclature right (after all these years!); crash, quit, freeze.....sounds like you're getting just what I'm getting Shooshie; when trying to load a big preset, NON-streaming, it churns for a while, then comes the beachball, then it just disappears from the screen. Is that a "quit", not a "crash"?

Gavin

Well, I didn't tell the whole story. I got tired of waiting on the beachball and did a force-quit. There was some general chaos going on at the time, so I am not sure whether it quit on its own or after my force-quit, but I definitely sent it the force-quit signal and confirmed it with the OK button in the Force-Quit Dialog.

Shooshie

[Shooshie]

The more I use MachFive2, the more confident I feel in standing up here and shouting out:

MachFive2 is incredible! Buy it!

:D:D

Shooshie

[nk_e]

Got M5v2 upgrade last night.

1 - Installation is relatively painless. A little concerned when I saw the "chip on a card" that I had to insert in my iLok, but smooth as silk it was.

2 - The sounds are OK. Not blow your mind great. Not embarrassing. Certainly enough "to get going with" if this is your only sampler.

3 - Opening others sound formats is pretty transparent although there were some funky instances of Apple Loops playing immediately upon import without a key being touched. Happened several times in fact. For every EXS24 patch I opened, I had to manually locate the sample directory even though the samples are installed at their default location. So even when it said can't find sample at "user/library/applicationsupport/blah/blah" if I pointed to that exact same directory and said "find it", it would then load the samples. weird.

4 - As a Kontakt user I have to say working with M5v2 is extremely intuitive. I've created several sounds (albeit simple) that I enjoy - just by clicking around and trying things. IMHO Kontakt does not lend itself to that type of spontaneity without significant investment in time grokking the program.

That means there's less between me and creativity. A good thing.

Peace,
GN

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