From stonedwolf@gmail.com Sat Nov 06 08:51:36 2010
Subject:Re: Running two programs simultaneously?

VB3 is stunning indeed.

As already said using multiple keyboards, or splitting them, is something your host can or should do. How you do that will depend on what host program you are using. Not being a Mac-man I did a quick Google for you, apparently Garageband (as of 2004) could only accept one keyboard input. Don't know if that has changed. If it hasn't you might have to upgrade to a bigger better DAW.

Just a side-note, you might want to consider looking at the other instruments by GSi, the guy behind VB3. He does Electric Pianos, and they (like VB3) are modelled not sampled.

Also good are TruePianos, who use a model/sample hybrids to make some great sounding pianos (and a free Piano, Electric Pianos and other instruments at the personal site of the TruePianos programmer at www.yohng.com).

Depending on how fast you play, and how many sampled instruments you use at once, you can find sampled instruments dropping notes and other weirdness. It's always your choice (of course) but models and model/sample hybrids load faster and take up much less disk space, RAM, and CPU. If your Mac can handle it all fine, fine, but if you start to notice it struggling modelled VSTs are worth checking out.