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MOTU MachFive 2 AU VST RTAS MacOSX first soft sampler, MachFive, was released in 2004 as the 'Universal Sampler'. It was developed in conjunction with the French company Ultimate Sound Bank and used their 32-bit UVI audio engine. As a virtual instrument that could run on Mac or PC, it was available in all the major plug-in formats, and could load samples and patches in almost any current or legacy format. It also supported multi-channel surround as well as conventional mono and stereo audio, which was an impressive feature at the time. In short, there was a lot to like about MachFive, and it quite rightly attracted a lot of good reviews (not least from Sound On Sound) and loyal followers.
Four years is a long time in the world of music technology, though. It's still a useful tool, but the original MachFive looks less impressive now, compared with rivals like NI's Kontakt. MachFive 2, then, was eagerly awaited prior to its launch at the end of last year. As you'd expect, it works on Power PC Macs and Intel Macs, as well as Windows PCs, and offers a lot of new features, as well as an extensive sound library. Aside from broad GUI similarities between MachFive and MachFive 2, nearly everything is different or improved, so v2 can be pretty much regarded as a brand-new product.
MachFive 2.0 and later has the following system requirements:
* A minimum of 1 GB of RAM is required. However, since MachFive loads samples (or a portion of the samples) into the computer's RAM add as much RAM as possible to your computer; 4 GB is recommended. MachFive also allows samples to be streamed directly from disk thus freeing up RAM.
* Large hard drive(s). See below for Mac and Windows specific hard drive requirements.
* A free USB port for the iLok USB key. Note that if you have multiple products which use iLoks for authorization you can consolidate multiple authorizations onto a single iLok; see this tech note.
* A CD/DVD disk drive for installation.
For Macintosh:
* G4 1 GHz Power Macintosh or faster, with multiple processors/cores highly recommended; a G5 or Intel-based Mac is recommended. MacBook users, please see see this tech note.
* Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later. Version 10.4 or later is recommended.
* Hard drive(s) with at least 34 GB free to hold the sound files, plug-in, and application. The drive(s) must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (also known as HFS+); journalling can be on or off.
* An audio sequencer software package that hosts MAS, AU, VST, or RTAS instrument plug-ins. As MachFive 2.0 and later has 34 outputs (stereo main outs + 16 stereo aux outputs), the host needs to support instruments with greater than 32 outputs. Alternatively, MachFive can be used as a standalone application.
Four years is a long time in the world of music technology, though. It's still a useful tool, but the original MachFive looks less impressive now, compared with rivals like NI's Kontakt. MachFive 2, then, was eagerly awaited prior to its launch at the end of last year. As you'd expect, it works on Power PC Macs and Intel Macs, as well as Windows PCs, and offers a lot of new features, as well as an extensive sound library. Aside from broad GUI similarities between MachFive and MachFive 2, nearly everything is different or improved, so v2 can be pretty much regarded as a brand-new product.
MachFive 2.0 and later has the following system requirements:
* A minimum of 1 GB of RAM is required. However, since MachFive loads samples (or a portion of the samples) into the computer's RAM add as much RAM as possible to your computer; 4 GB is recommended. MachFive also allows samples to be streamed directly from disk thus freeing up RAM.
* Large hard drive(s). See below for Mac and Windows specific hard drive requirements.
* A free USB port for the iLok USB key. Note that if you have multiple products which use iLoks for authorization you can consolidate multiple authorizations onto a single iLok; see this tech note.
* A CD/DVD disk drive for installation.
For Macintosh:
* G4 1 GHz Power Macintosh or faster, with multiple processors/cores highly recommended; a G5 or Intel-based Mac is recommended. MacBook users, please see see this tech note.
* Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later. Version 10.4 or later is recommended.
* Hard drive(s) with at least 34 GB free to hold the sound files, plug-in, and application. The drive(s) must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (also known as HFS+); journalling can be on or off.
* An audio sequencer software package that hosts MAS, AU, VST, or RTAS instrument plug-ins. As MachFive 2.0 and later has 34 outputs (stereo main outs + 16 stereo aux outputs), the host needs to support instruments with greater than 32 outputs. Alternatively, MachFive can be used as a standalone application.
