Does VSL have ongoing dialog with Steinberg about integration?? Because this is really a Cubase question but will undoubtedly disappear into a black hole if I try and ask them about this...
Render in Place is an incredibly useful feature in Cubase when using VEpro6. The main advantages I can think of are:
1) It prevents spurious midi parameter changes to the VSL instrument/channel from creating a headache further into the project.
2) It commits/prints a performance so I’m less inclined to think later “oh I’ll try that differently”
3) It frees up CPU
4) If ultimately there is something wrong with the result it is entirely reversible.
But there is one major flaw when doing this in a large project.
Lets say I have a string section (VEPro Instance tab). There are separate busses for the various parts - I normally have 7:
(Vi1; Vi2; Vla; Vc; Cb, Hp; and finally one for ensembles)
But if I want to render a few bars of my Vi1 part I always end up with 7 new tracks with 7 brand new audio files comprising my Vi1 bounce , but also 6 silent audio files.
I have to go in and clean up the project each time (remove track function in Cubase) and eventually clean up the audio pool and delete the unwanted audio files as well. All very cumbersome.
The only way of preventing this seems to be to deactivate the outputs I don’t want from the Cubase rack - but if I do this and then re-instate them the routing and naming conventions have all been thrown away. So that’s a non starter.
I know this is a Cubase issue but do the R&D guys at VSL have any clout with Steinberg to address this issue and come up with a feature request/solution?
Or is there someone in the community who has a better workaround for this that I haven’t yet figured out?