Mac (UB) and Windows (XP and Vista) compatible, Play is available as a standalone and a plugin in AU, VST, RTAS, the latter Mac only (PC to come) and needs an iLok protection key. However, if you’d like to exceed the current limit, you need to use 64-bit calculation (2 to the power of 64, theoretically 17 billion GB…).ĮastWest has released its own solution, Play, a 64-bit (32-bit compatible) sample player. Certain programs allow to you use a combination of both solutions. Either you choose to read from the hard disk (streaming), necessitating a fast reading protocol and ideally dedicated ports and disks, or you choose to read samples from RAM, then you are confronted to the 32-bit OS limit, that is to say 4 GB maximum (2 to the power of 32). Most of them have now designed their own player, firstly to avoid unpredictable compatibility issues, secondly to benefit from financial and technological freedom. In order to offer autonomous solutions, some editors have chosen to use a player under license (EastWest, Zero-G, Best Service with N.I.’s Kompakt, Spectrasonics, Motu with UVI, etc.).
Fortunately, some format converters allow you to import samples and programs from various sources into your favorite sampler, even if you sometimes lose programming subtleties specific to certain formats. It also means that the end user as well as the editor are now facing two imperatives: the RAM/streaming handling and the mass of existing sampling formats, practically equal to the different number of existing samplers whether hardware or software.
There’s such a race for GBs that some libraries are now sold already installed on hard disks… In the world of sound libraries, quantity and quality have quickly led from floppy disk storage to DVD’s.
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