Virtual Pianos

Spacerboy · Post by **Spacerboy** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:04 am

thanks for this review on it!

rick · Post by **rick** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:31 am

nolus wrote:i just bought ivory and i'm knoked out by it, ive not practiced so much in years.

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but be warned, it is a resource hog. it like to be installed on its own drive, so you need to budget for that, and at 640Mb you have less than the minimum system requirement.

The same happened to me. I just LOVE playing again. When I got better monitors (Genelec 8030A), put them in front of my keyboard and closed my eyes... well, extremely realistic

As for resources... I started out with a 1GHz Powerbook with 768MB of RAM and an external 7200 rpm firewire drive. That was fine (8 velocity levels and release samples) as long as I didn't have much else running. Forget about using it inside Live! So, I maxed it out to 1.25GB. That was better, but still problematic in Live. Now I have a dual-core 2GHz Power Mac with 2.5GB RAM. it's taking everything I can throw at it at the moment. If things become problematic, I plan to run Ivory on the other core (see thread below). No need yet...

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=183724

-Rick