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  • 2 macs walk into a deadend

    Hi y'all

    I thought this would be a walk in the park, but it turns out I need help.

    I'm on a Mac pro 2012 with DP 9 and Sierra, and I had my old Macpro 3.1 (2008, Yosemite) lying around. I figured I'd use it as a target for my  Effects send from DP, using VEPro 5. Also some of those effects are 32 bit so the second machine made sense.

    Ok so far so good. Connected the ethernet, machines speak to each other, I got the dongle on the slave machine, VEPro 5 opens fine, I'm able to create input channels, save the metafiles, I can open input MAS plugs in DP, but that's where it all stops. Can't get DP to see the metafiles on the other computer, and when I create a new one, the effect sends do not see the file as a possible input. Actually just describing what's going on gives me a sense of how unnecessarily complex this is.

    So my Q is: Can anyone point me to a description of how to set this up so it works.

    Essentially I want to assign effect send in DP to effects that reside on my slave machine in VE Pro instances and bring them back into DP. Just using it for delays and reverbs so the slight lag won't matter.

    Thanks in advance.

    Alan


  • Can't get DP to see the metafiles on the other computer, and when I create a new one, the effect sends do not see the file as a possible input

    If I'm following you, it seems you're expecting 'Vienna Ensemble Pro' in the DP mixer to appear as a send target.    

    VE Pro is not quite following that normal FX paradigm, simple send. The DAW will not see VE Pro itself as a send target, it's an instrument. (Also note that it's essentially an external device for this.)

    What you do is instantiate Audio Input (seems like I was doing this in VEP 5, I don't 100% remember) as the effect and connect that to an established instance of VE Pro, to input channels there (not channel input, input input).
    That's VSL's workaround for it not being an actual Effect, the Audio Input version.


  • Thank you. Still leaves me a bit confused but at least I understand better what not to expect.

    Appreciate it.


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    IE: VE Pro will not be seen as an effect; VE Pro Audio Input will.

    I don't use DP but here's the look fr. Cubase (link to picture opens in new window/tab:

    instantiating AI

    (add FX track (I named it 'AI for send'); connect to extant instance.)

    Then:

    insert input

    there it is

    Here, it's assigned (default) to the master bus, which is my reverb target in that project. Now you can do whatever, in the normal mix paradigm.

    For the return to DAW, it's down to the output assignment in that instance of VEP.

    External Device means a real-time render or it doesn't print. (unless DP is that different)