

As with the other Spectrasonics products, the licensing arrangement is similar to that for CD-ROM samples, the main restrictions being that you can't make a commercial sample library using the instrument, you can't re-sell Trilogy and only the owner is licensed to use it. Prior to authorisation, you can use Trilogy for just 48 hours. Web address details are included in the manual and once you enter your serial number and challenge code, the response is immediate. A proprietary copy-protection method is used, which works on a challenge/response system. Both installation and operation were trouble-free on my Mac G4 (for the spec, see the box on the next page). The recommended minimum computer specs are a 300MHz Pentium III PC (running Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 or XP) or a 300MHz Mac G3 (OS 9.04 to OS 9.2.2). Spectrasonics recommend that you have around 512MB of RAM reserved for Trilogy, though most sample sets seem to be under 200MB in size. If your music has a bass line (and what music doesn't?) and you can use VST instruments, then Trilogy is about as close to an essential as it gets.Ī powerful computer is essential to make serious use of Trilogy (though less than Atmosphere, as bass sounds tend to use less polyphony) as well as needing over 3GB of free hard drive space, you'll also need plenty of free RAM, as some of the sample sets are pretty large.

MOTU will be supporting Audio Units under OS X, so it is anticipated that there will be no need for an OS X MAS version. As with the other two instruments in the series, the core sounds are based on completely new samples, and there's no provision to import your own samples, though future upgrades could add new sounds.ĭesigned to work as a VST 2.0 plug-in (also supporting OS 9 MAS, and RTAS), future upgrades to Trilogy are planned to support RTAS and VST and Audio Units under OS X, while Sonar users can employ a VST-DXi wrapper to make use of the VST 2 version. The categories are acoustic bass, electric bass and synth bass, and like Stylus and Atmosphere before it, the core sample library is around 3GB in size and comes spread over five CD-ROMs.

Trilogy is big on bass - its supplied library has 3GB of sounds! Is it sweet and low, or does it plumb new depths? We find out.Īppropriately enough, Spectrasonics' Trilogy is the company's third virtual instrument, but the name actually relates to the number of sound types covered by the product, which is dedicated to reproducing bass sounds.
