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  • [Solved] VEP7 and BBC SO Pro: only brass available

    I am not sure where to look for my error (if it is mine), but after moving to a new computer (macos Venutra 13.2, Macbook Pro M2) and opening the VEP7 template for BBC SO Pro I only get the library's brass instruments. Even when creating a new instance and assining the BBC SO plugin (AU or VST3) I only get the brass instruments...

    Any idea why?

    The BBC SO plugin works correctly, when used in Cubase. There I can choose whichever instrument BBC SO Pro offers.


  • On my M1Max MBP the last version of VEP Pro works fine with BBCSO. I have a combination of 8 VSL and 5 BBCSO instances in my server project file. Do you see the channels for the BBCSO instance you are using loading when the project opens?

    What does happen to me sometimes is that I deactivate channels or even whole instances with instruments I seldom use and when I do use them there is no sound in my DAW or Dorico as I forgot to press the on/off button for the channel or the whole instance in VEP. Maybe that is the issue..

    What I do have but that is an old big which has been reported but never corrected is that if you open a VEPPro vesp64 file by clicking on it in Finder, VEP starts but the file  does not open.


  • Thank you for your feedback, @mavros! – I did a complete new install yesterday night, and today my BBCSO template is working again. I think that my previous installation didn't correctly respect the fact that BBCSO must be installed in Rosetta mode. And even though I followed the guidelines on BBCSO and repaired each and every libs, I assume it wasn't picked up correctly.

    As for the "double-click in the finder only starts the software": yes, I have that, too. (I can live with that at the moment.)

    My new problem is: how to make the strings play portamento in Dorico? Found this: 
    but, being totally unfamiliar with all those MIDI channels, I don't know how to translate that to Dorico. Somewhere I read that "sustain" should be channel 64 in Cubase, so I assume it must be that in Dorico as well. But doing that does not trigger the portamento. Are you by any chance familiar with that? Are the VSL strings better at handling gliss?

  • Good to hear that all instruments work again. The most recent BBCSO plugin is actually Rosetta and M1 compatible but you might still have had the beta version which had two separate versions for the modes.

    Regarding Legato Portamento you have to reduce the note velocities to below 15. CC64 does not work. It only serves in a DAW to avoid that you have to overlap the notes to get Portamento but in Dorico it seems to work without overlap just with the very low velocity. You can still use Dynamics in Dorico to get the correct volume you want. The velocity in the performance legato preset has no effect on volume.

    How to change the expression map to set these low velocities automatically when you write Portamento as articulation above the staff in the score I have never succeeded in doing. Velocity is not a CC nor a key switch,.it is a note attribute for which Dorico cannot give "instructions" to the plugin..

    In fact these performance legato presets combining several articulations in Spitfire libraries are a pain if you do not play live. 


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