Cubase Mixdown not including VEP-based effects

[MichaelC001]

Hi there,

As a new user of VEP, I was loving it ...until I tried to mixdown in Cubase and discovered the VEP-based effects have not been applied.

To explain: I have a project in Cubase 12, most of the instruments are in Cubase, bar my EastWest Opus strings which are in VEP7. Most of my effects are in VEP as individual instances (with separate tracks in Cubase where I created an instrument track with VEP as the instrument and an FX send with VEP Audio Input).

Listening 'live' it works like a dream and sounds great. 

However, when I then mixdown the Stereo Out in Cubase the VEP-based strings can be heard in the output file but NOT the VEP-based effects. I can't hear any of them. 

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Michael

[Dietz]

Welcome Michael,

sorry to hear that you're facing problems. I'm sure that VSL developers will come up with a solution quickly. In the meantime, try to bounce your mix in realtime, not offline. This work-around is an old Cubase/Nuendo-trick to avoid problems like yours.

It will also help to get in contact with support@vsl.co.at directly. The forum is not the primary support channel for VSL.

Kind regards,

[MichaelC001]

@Dietz said:

In the meantime, try to bounce your mix in realtime, not offline. This work-around is an old Cubase/Nuendo-trick to avoid problems like yours.

Thanks Dietz! That did indeed work ...though hopefully VSL will work out the issue with the offline export too.

Cheers, M

[Dietz]

Hi again,

according to VSL's developers, the "Audio Input" feature of Vienna Ensemble Pro has to be considered "experimental". Modern operating systems as well as the plug-in hosts of today (and even more so - Cubase, specifically) aren't very fond of code that opens "side doors", so to speak. It's actually quite astonishing that this works at all ... 8-) ... consequently, you will also see that Audio Inputs will tax the CPU considerably.

Running these "hacks" off-line is even more demanding, it seems, so real-time operation seems to be indeed the "official" way to go in case you use Audio Inputs of VE Pro. 

Sorry to have no better news for you.

Kind regards,

[Dietz]

PS: Of course this is a non-issue in case of VE Pro's actual task, i.e. running virtual instruments controlled by MIDI input. In that scenario off-line processing will work like a charm. :-)