Hey everyone!
Thanks in advance for any help! I guess this is more directed to people with lots of VEP + Cubase experience.
Question put (somewhat) simply:
Is there a significant CPU efficiency advantage between either running a big VEP template with multiple smaller instances through multiple Cubase VST Racks with less MIDI ports and outputs OR a singular VST Rack in Cubase with lots of MIDI ports and outputs sending to one maxed out instance of VEP (so like, 16 Kontakt Plugins x 16 outputs on each)?
Longer version: I've been using VEP for about 18 months on Pro Tools, with the latter approach. I've attached a screenshot of my current VEP template. In Pro Tools I would house one VEP Instance on an Instrument Track then each VEP output on a stereo AUX Track, accompanied by 16 MIDI Tracks which would be routed to the corresponding port and the 16 MIDI channels in each Kontakt multi loaded onto each VEP channel. I run VEP on a slave computer over Ethernet. This has worked super smoothly for 18 months. No crashes, no sample rate drop outs. I've done really big projects with no issues.
I'm learning Cubase for the prospects of doing more assisting work, and understand that VST Rack is the equivalent substitute in my scenario for the Instrument Track housing the VEP Instance. This is was all fine, and my template from PT was being replicated in Cubase smoothly until I hit about 5 ports of 16 MIDI tracks each on the one VST Rack. Suddenly, any action I did on Cubase prompted the rainbow beachball until my computer just crashed and switched off. This happened whenever I tried to reopen the Cubase project. I eventually got in, changed the buffer size to max, the VEP buffer to max, but to no avail. My computer just kept crashing.
I've heard about how well Cubase handles and processes MIDI so I must be doing something wrong. My computers are pretty powerful, and this setup was running super smooth on Pro Tools (Natively too!!!). Is this single VST Rack approach just not viable? And throttling my CPU?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm sure its something small!
Thanks again
Ryan
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________Project Computer: iMac Pro 2018, 10.13.5, 8-Core 3.2Ghz Intel Xeon W, 32GB RAM, 1000GB SSD. Slave Computer: Mac Pro 2012, 10.12.5, 2x 3.06GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon, 64GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 512GB SSD, 2TB HDD, 2TB HDD. Interface: Apogee Ensemble Thunderbolt. Software: Pro Tools 11.3.1.370 Native, Cubase 10.5.5.1, Vienna Ensemble Pro Server (64-bit) 6.0.17011, Kontakt 6.0.3.