Hey,

I started experiencing extremely slow loading times when opening projects in FLStudio a while ago. I think it happened after updating VEPro 7.

Every single Vienna Ensemble Pro VST3 plugin takes ages to load compared to before when it was instantaneous. I did a full clean reinstall and manually deleted all the ProgramData folders and anything I could find, since rolling back to a previous version did not fix the issue.. This worked for a little while, since the load times were fast again. However now that I want to actually do work inside the project like I'm used to I will have to increase the MIDI ports (per instance) to 48 to allow using all the instruments I have loaded inside VEPro server project.. Since clean reinstalling set them back to 8, which is the default, the load times were fast again. But now when I set it back to 48, the loading times are just insanely slow again.

I tried increasing multiprocessing threads from 2 to 24 with AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor. That did not help.

Not sure what I need these for, but I tried lowering Audio inputs (per instance) from 32 to 2. That did not help either.

I pretty much need to have Audio outputs (per instance) set to 32 so I did not try change that.

Somehow the only thing that seems to bring back the good old fast loading times is decreasing the Audio inputs (per instance).

EDIT (typo): What I meant to say that decreasing MIDI ports (per instance) is the only way to make DAW projects load quickly.

Could you maybe look in to it and try to fix this bug or whatever is causing it, or help me find a solution please?

Hi Andreas,

Sorry about that mistype.. I edited it to specify that decreasing MIDI ports (per instance) is the only thing that helps with loading times.

I want to set it to 48 and have equally fast loading times inside DAW projects, like it was some time ago before a recent VEPro update.

Hi,

I don't know if you're still investigating the loading time issue or not,

in any case in my quest to still trying to get back to the good old loading speeds I did a few finds that might or might not be of any use if you might or might not be working on a fix for the loading time issue.

So loading my new template 16 MIDI ports (per instance) takes 1min 24sec

Loading the same template with 32 MIDI ports (per instance) takes 3min 19sec

Loading the same template with 48 MIDI ports (per instance) takes 6min 11sec

Well, as you can see the times are not increased linearly, so double the ports double the time isn't the case.

What I found with dividing total seconds with number of ports is that it takes increasingly longer to load a single port when MIDI ports are increased.

5,25 s/port

6,22 s/port

7,73 s/port

Small differences but it adds up when you count it 48 times, which is the number of VEPro VST3 plugins in my template, which takes the bulk of the loading time, while the rest of the template (samples, synths, effect slot plugins) load in 9 seconds.

The other point is I didn't even have a server project loaded in VEPro 7 Server.. So what at least I'm getting is that the issue isn't in the instances or whatever is loaded in the server project, but has something to do with the VST3 plugin.

Again, to point out that it was VERY fast with 48 MIDI ports (per instance) before an update. Might that update have even been some VST3 support or something? I thought it was supposed to be faster? Maybe I'm wrong, but to make it slower with an update this is really annoying for me.

Anyway hope you find a fix for this sometime in the future, and hope this helps narrowing it down