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A G4 500 MHz Power Macintosh or faster, with G4 800 MHz or faster preferred. A G5 or Intel-based Mac is recommen- ded (MSI 1.1.2 or later is required for Intel Mac support); dual processor machines are also highly recommended. |
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MSI 1.0 requires Mac OS X v10.2.4 or later; MSI 1.1 and later requires Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later. Tiger (10.4) or later is recommended. |
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A hard drive with enough space to hold the 8 GB sound files. The drive must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (also known as HFS+). Journalling can be on or off. |
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An audio sequencer software package that hosts MAS, AU, VST, or RTAS/HTDM instrument plug-ins. As MSI has 34 outputs (stereo main outs + 16 stereo aux outputs), the host needs to support instruments with greater than 32 outputs. Alternatively it can be used as a standalone app. |
Windows: |
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An 800MHz Pentium III-based PC compatible or faster. |
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MSI 1.0 requires Windows 2000 or XP; MSI 1.1 and later require Windows XP. |
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A hard drive with enough space to hold the 8 GB sound file. The drive must be formatted as NTFS. |
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An Open GL-compatible video card with the latest graphics drivers (support for OpenGL 1.2 is required, with support for 1.5 or 2.0 preferred). |
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An audio sequencer package that hosts DXi, VST, or RTAS/HTDM instrument plug-ins. As MSI has 34 outputs (stereo main outs + 16 stereo aux outputs), the host needs to support instruments with greater than 32 outputs. Alternatively, MSI can be used as a standalone application. |