nikolas

The mixup in countries explains a lot!

Now, listen.

Latpops usually get 5400 rpm hard disks, inside, which is highly insuficient for samples. Samples stream real-time from hard disks and a slow disk will create problems. A firewire external disk might be better, but still far from ideal.

Your laptop, which has 8 GB empty space in its hard disk, sounds to be... old.

Samples alone, won't do you any good. You need a sequencer, at best, or even a notation program (like Finale or sibelius) at worst.

Platinum is a highly sophisticated library, with top sound, as long as you can hear it! A crappy soundcard from a laptop, and no decent monitors will give you NO CLUE as to how Platinum sounds. I bet that you won't be able to hear the difference between Gold and Platinum. Unless you do have good monitors and a soundcard that DOES go up to 24-bit and 96 Khz.

:-/

And you actually said that the buy one get one free deal would fail.

So, if you have ordered already Platinum, as you seem to mention above, it means:

A. you spent $1125 on something which for you, chances are (not 100% sure) sounds the same as something worth $590 (Gold)
B. You didn't take advantage of the BOGOF offer (since you said it would fail, and you don't mention anything about buying anything else), which could get you the choirs for free...

You might want to work on your patience a little... That is IF you have already ordered.

A better plan, instead of asking what is the best of the best (to which you didn't listen anyway as it appears), would be to ask for some advice: "I have x$ what would you advice me to do, since I want to do music of THAT or THIS style"...

But anyways...