What program should I get to integrate all these virtual instruments in?

[petros]

I want to make a new beginning, assume I have no gear.

What program should I get to integrate all these virtual instruments listed below? I want to do Euro smooth jazz like Philippe Saisse does. In the past I have used slow Windows computers.

 

I want to use these virtual instruments:

"Atmosphere" "Trilogy" "Stylus" and "Liquid Grooves"

Bardstown's streaming Bosendorfer piano(16 bit Giga version is 1.5 gigabytes. The 24 bit native EXS24/HALion/Kontakt package is 2.4 gigabytes)

And I want the Scarbee 1.5 GB "Rhodes"

 

Should I get: Logic, ProTools, Sonar, Cubase, Performer?

What does Phillipe Saisse and Eric Pershing use?

 

It would be great to be able to use these virtual instruments live as well for desktop music production. I would surely want to use the Bardstown Audio Imperial Grand live.

[Raki]

Well, there are several plug-in formats.

Some are for Mac and some are for Windows. Some of them are for Both, such as VST.

 

And.. those programs support different types of plug-in formats, even more, some programs support a different

format than its older versions..

For Example, Logic on Mac OS9 supports VST, however Logic on Mac OSX doesn't...

 

All Spectrasonic's three instruments support Audio Unit

which is a plug-in format for OSX.

And, Logic and Digital Performer 4.1 support Audio Unit.

 

Do you want to play these instruments live?

Or are they going to be used in a studio?

That makes a big difference.

 

Hope that helps a little bit..

 

[petros]

I don't have a PC powerful enough to run these virtual instruments, so I could go either way with a Mac or a Windows computer. I have always been a Windows user.

 

It would be great to be able to use these virtual instruments live as well for desktop music production. I would surely want to use the Bardstown Audio Imperial Grand live.

[doug osborne]

Eric Pershing uses Logic.

 

IMO you could choose Cubase/Nuendo for best VST implementation, and it is cross-platform; Logic on OSX for the AU future.