Paul, your suggestion worked.  Having mixed ilok and elicense on the same machine caused some type of conflicts.  Crazy enough, I foolishly did that to both of my machines.  I uninstalled my software and reinstalled with the Assistant and it's working.  thanks so much.  I was fearful VSL would say I lost my license because both ilok and elicense are required.  My apologies.

thanks again,

Aug

What a nightmare this has become.  So I've figure out the problem is that I've been reinstalling the Elicense version.  I finally read the notice that Vassistant had to be used to install the ilok version.

On my main pc which is not the server, now VEpro x64 doesn't work.  It shows "no instrument" in Cubase.

I tried reinstalling the Elicense version but it still says "no instrument"  

Really frustrating.

My VEpro7 is activated on my ilok.  I don't have my Elicense usb since cubase 12 and VSL don't use it.  Now my VSL is saying Elicense license cant be found even though I have it activated on my ilok.  The ilok is ubdated, VEPro7 is the latest version.  What gives?

Paul, strangely, today Epic 2.0 is present.  Last night after installation, it didn't show up.  Perhaps a reboot is necessary?  Well, good news is it's working.  Thanks for the help.

heres the assistant

Thanks for the response Paul,

No, VIpro and VIpro for VI are not installed, as well as VEpro7 and VEpro7 MRI Pro and Chamber Strings are not installed.

Strangely enough, chamber strings is certainly installed.  Now like I said, this was installed with the Elicenser over a year ago.  But the Assistant shows it's not installed.  Maybe the new ilok version is doing somthing odd.

Everything looks right to me.  Epic 2.0 even shows up in the directories settings in Synchron but it's missing from the factory.  The license doesn't seem to be an issue so I'm sort of at a loss.

Perhaps it's because my install was previously on Elicenser and now I need to uninstall?  

Please help,

Auggy

Should be located in your list of apps.  

So I've been told that the sample rate buffer affects both computers, master and slave.  If so, that explains why my gen 8 i7 can't keep up with my gen 11i7.

try looking at Multiplicity pro.  I will allow it in windows.  Nice app, but I do believe it will take some network bandwidth.  Not sure how much.

I'm having noise in my fx busses sent to VEpro7.  So far i can't locate any answers why.  Seems VEpro is putting more load on my cpu.  If I do it internally on the host, it's fine.  But if i send out to Vienna.  CPU noise.

Did you ever get it figured out?

Hi all,

I recently built an 11700 i7 pc and it's wonderful.  I can run at 32 samples and load in FX busses in Cubase and it's perfect.  

However, I use VEpro7 on a small 8700 i7 and when I use it to send FX from my new pc to the 8700, it gets static and noise.  I'm using a gigabit switch and both computers network cards show 1 gb connection.  The buffer in the VEpro7 vst is set to 4.  Only 2 inputs set.  Neither pc cpu are showing anything near a load.  But it's def got something to do with the network because like I said, If bus FX internall in cubase on the 11700, i can run tons of effects perfectly even at 32 samples.

But once I send using VEpro7, it's noise.

I would think since VEpro is doing lots of the work, it would lighten the load but I don't believe that's what's even going on.  The CPU's are at like 8-15%.  It's got to be the network.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

So I'm using about 33 instances and I don't see any cpu load issues at all.  Stable. 

I'm using 1 effect on 1 instance for FX bus in Cubase.

One other question on this issue:  Does turning off instances change anything regarding CPU load?

AnyKenny,

Yea, that's the question in a nutshell.  I'm currently running abotu 15 instances for effects busses and it's working just fine.  But I'm going to try doing about 40 (1 effect per instance) and see if I get any different performance (audio pops,clicks / latency).

I'll post up whatever happens.

Aug

Paul, thank you for that info.  So it's unnecessary, just stick with 1 gb switches and I'll be fine.  I'm mostly using VEpro for rock-n-roll (effects) so I don't need that many tracks.  

Thanks again!

Would a 2.5 gigabit switch work better for ensemble pro?  Perhaps EP is not programmed to utilitze anything higher than 1 giabit?  Maybe even if it is, there would be no benefit?  My new motherboard supports 2.5 lan so I'm wondering if I should purchase a 2.5 switch?

Is there a way to have Ensemble Pro 7 automatically load in a server project when it is started up?  I can't seem to get it to do it and could not find any posts on this subject in this forum.

please keep us posted.

Does anyone know if moving from a 1 gb swtich to a 2.5 (along with pci-e cards) would improve Vensemble pro?  Maybe my latency is about my 3rd gen i7.  I'm trying to figure out ways to reduce latency.

I'm using for Rock-n-roll, moslty effects and some VST instruments.  With that said, Cubase is a pain because if I put 1 instance with 5 different reverbs on different outputs, in Cubase, if I turn off an output for the Epro instrument track, it will rename it back to "output 1/2" - 

What I mean is - once i turn on an output for the Epro output, in the mixer i can rename it from "output 1/2" to "Roomworks".  But if I turn off that output, Cubase clears the name because it's no longer in the mixer.  If I turn them back on, Cubase doesn't remember the previous name - it renames it back to "output 1/2".

Thus, I'm sort of forced to create 1 instance for 1 effect if my names in Cubase are to remain.  I say this because I don't want to turn on tons of outputs in Cubase.  But if I turn them off, then all I see in the mixer is "output xx".  PAIN!

So I'm guessing 20-30 instances may be the way to go.

Any suggestions?

Just for clarification, are you referring to Server or the Plugin?