From hammondman85@gmail.com Fri Jun 09 11:19:24 2006
Subject:Re: Native instruments B4II

Back in the summer of 2004 when I first discovered B4, I was running
it on a PII 350Mhz 256MB RAM PC with an SBLive! card. It actually did
quite well. I have never tried it on the system I built last year with
an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1.8Ghz (equivalant to a P4 3.6 Ghz), 1
gig of RAM, and an SB Audigy 2 sound card. But I imagine the latency
would most likely be even less than on my old system. My assumption
is, that it's not only a matter of PC performance, but it's your sound
card. Just for kicks I tried using my Dell, P4 2.6 Ghz, 256MB RAM, and
integrated sound card with B4. Two words - total crap.

The tremulant tone on B4 and B4II IMHO is too pitchy on the highs.
Chorale sounds really good though. A couple of features I don't like
though, the acceleration knobs also affect deceleration. I wish they
would've separated them in B4II. But on the other hand, not many
people change these. Also the fast speed knobs turned all the way down
doesn't stop the rotors.

Lastly, I don't know if I trust software based instruments. It
wouldn't be a problem I guess if you were at home, but in live
situations, I just wouldn't want to chance it. What if the computer
crashes in the middle of a performance for no reason (it can happen).
Or what if a note gets stuck.

There's my 2 cents for ya.

--
Ryan