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FROM THE EDITOR


Hello and welcome to Virtual Instruments magazine mobile.

We're driving down to the NAMM Show just as this issue is being released, and a lot has been happening in our world. Companies have traditionally waited for NAMM to make important announcements, but it's hard to imagine that anyone can top what's happened in the past few months:

Native Instruments Kontakt 3.5 (they're on v.4 now) accesses all the memory you have installed in your computer. Windows has had 64-bit  memory access for a while, the 32-bit Mac Kontakt uses a memory server with a workaround for big RAM access.

VSL's Vienna Ensemble Pro allows audio and MIDI to stream over ethernet, and it now hosts third-party plug-ins. No audio and MIDI interfaces are needed on slave computers. You can run both or multiple copies of 32- and 64-bit versions simultaneously.

Some major V.I.s have come out. Audiobro's LA Scoring Strings, which is a serious advance, is reviewed here. Spectrasonics has released two significant instruments - the Omnisphere synth and Trilogy bass module - and Eric Persing, their founder, gives a really good interview in this issue.

And then Apple released Logic Pro v. 9.1 with 64-bit support. We have to wait for everyone to release 64-bit versions of their instruments, but things are moving quickly.

So the memory access battle has been won. Is there still any reason to use more than one computer in the studio? You bet, and we're releasing our first tutorial video on the subject. Watch for the announcement.

As always, write to us with questions, answers, comments, whatever. Enjoy the mobile issue - but please watch the road. - NB


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