My name is Chris too.

I would love to. I have a commercial version of 2012 SAP and am a licensed user of Octane. I love it and would really like to try this out.

I'm running both with exports from Softimage 2011 and 2012 (both work great.) Quite a different beast than Octane. I plan to put both into heavy use. MachStudio can render very very fast, but not anything like Octane's unbiased approach. Much better for non-realistic rendering and very fast ...