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  • VEP Tabbed Interface...Soon?

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    I have mentioned this in person to Paul when I met him in Los Angeles and many others concur: VEP would benefit significantly from a tabbed interface for its various instances on each computer. Especially when running a program like Kontakt where you essentially run an instance of Kontakt per VEP instance. Things get clumsy and cumbersome to manage very quickly with 8, 12, 16 instances of VEP on each machine... I really hope that this there is some push towards this sort of interface design as it would help tremendously.
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    great idea!

    May I add:

    - have the ability with the plugin/server interface to launch one standalone VEPro instance on every remote machine (in addition to multiple x32 and x64 instances), sent it the project chunk on launch, query for the chunk on save. Use case: multiple machines connected physically via ADAT, have ONE project file.

    - extend the VEPro 5 Audio Input plugin to become a VEPro 5 Audio Insert plugin, sending audio the to server, as the Audio Input plugin does now, and receive audio back from a dedicated servers output bus

    - support MIDI out of the server instance
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     A tabbed interface sounds a good way to tidy the screen up, so I'm all for that,

    but why do you need to run an instance of VEP per Kontakt?   What is wrong with running multiple instances of Kontakt on one VEP?
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    I would imagine that most people who need so many instances are using a host that is limited to AU, such as Logic.

    DG
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    I am not sure of the other ways of going about this, but in my personal situation, I usually run an instance of VEP with a single instance of Kontakt and load up several instruments that relate to one another. A variety of keyboard instruments, Strings, Drums, Percussion, Synths, etc so Multis can be saved for each instance. So in this case, 1 instance of Kontakt can handle several midi channels and I run VEP in the host (Logic) on however many channels I need for that single instance. I assume there are hosts that work differently, but this is how I use Logic in my situation. If it is with software synths, I can run a rack of synths in VEP, 1 synth per channel. 16 Synths is quite a few and I am usually fine with 1 or 2 VEP instances in this situation. However certain synths only output on specific midi channels (usually 1 or between 1-4) and in that case I need to run more instances of VEP for synths as well. Largo is one that I think works this way and I always have to run it on the first midi channel in the VEP rack so if I want multiple instances of Largo I have to run multiple instances of VEP. I usually run one VEP machine for Synths and another for samplers that stream from disk (Kontakt, BFD, Play etc).