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I'm Greg66666 and I have a system that I'm trying to sell on the for sale board but I'm having second thoughts. If I put all this stuff together:

My three Creamware Cards
Antec Rackmount Case Take 3 + 650 power supply (I wanted a real nice case. I know there are less expensive cases)
PCI Expansion x4 from VirtuaVia (just the barebones board to plug into the Antec)
Windows XP Pro on WMware or Parallels (for Creamware/Sonic Core Software 4.5)
Windows 98 on WMware or Parallels (let's see if I could even begin to get the Korg card working)
Windows 95 on WMware or Parallels (for the fun of it)
More Ram (for a total of 10 GB)
Scope 4.5 for Windows on WMware or Parallels (but praying that Scope 5.0 for Macintosh is really good)
Other Miscellaneous stuff (you never quite know what you're going to need)

into my Octocore Macintosh

Would that (in theory) be a workable configuration???

For the moment I would be trying to access my Scope Cards through A Virtual PC solution (whether Parallels or VMware) and the Scope 4.5 software. Anything has got to be more stable than 3 Creamware cards on a Macintosh OS9 system.

This would cost around $1,600 USD and would be cheaper than a Magma PCI Expansion x4 solution with the same software packages (which would be $2,200+).

I don't have a real NEED (or the money) for a full Xite system (although it would be a WANT).

there is no need for anything but Windows 98 for the Scope Software - I wouldn't even hold my breath on the STS Samplers properly adressing memory beyond the 512 MB 'border'
Spend 100bucks on an ASUS Tualatin board with passive Matrox and it will run cool and quiet.

Connect your Mac via a RME card with 16 Adat channels (and MIdi) to the Scope.
Saves you $1k (depending on how cute the case...) and you won't ever have trouble enjoying your Scope/Oasys system again. Guaranteed.

Seriously, this is about a sound-generating and processing system - it's not(!) about hosting a sequencer
the OS doesn't provide much more than the GUI and a bit of disk and parameter IO
I've run such a system from a 1GB flash disk for ages. It doesn't even need a swapfile (I think I provided 64 MB fixed just to keep it from complaining)

the virtualisation software can't adress the PCI slots anyway...

cheers, Tom