Esh, I know this has been noted by you, AJ and others that a viable alternative may be to use something like Bandstand for the Accompaniment and kontakt with higher quality samples for your lead or melody voices.

It takes about 30 seconds to load 8 high quality instruments in kontakt. The way I set things up is similar to what AJ has mentioned and that is, I will load 8 instruments suitable for a certain genre of music say Jazz as follows:

Channel 1 Jazz Organ
Channel 2 Flute
Channel 3 Trumpet/mute
Channel 4 Saxophone
Channel 5 Strings
Channel 6 Piano
Channel 7 Vibes
Channel 8 Jazz Guitar

You could then play a set of jazz pieces. If you next wish to play Latin you could then load 8 high quality instrument suitable for Latin. Switching between channels is quick and easy. It works for me.

If you use DFD then the RAM required is usually less than 1 GB. So there should be room enough for Bandstand in DFD.

It might work for me.


[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 11-10-2005).]