Got it! Thanks

Hello Andi

Is the drum map still available? I tried the link you gave, but it just takes me to the VSL home page.

I'm having a similar problem. Using Dorico & Cubase (Windows 11). Existing instances in the Dorico project are there, but when I add a new instance, the server window is empty. Also when I disconnect an instance in Dorico, the free instance does not become available for connection.

Attached: screenshots of VEPro & server window

OK Andi, that works. Thanks.

I notice that in standalone Synchron Player, I can navigate up and down the list of parameters using the arrow keys on the keyboard. In VEPro, the same keys go up and down the channels of the selected instance. Is there a keystroke combination -- shift+up/down, for example -- that will work in VEPro?

Thanks Andi. That's where I was looking, but on my PC I can't see anything beneath Timbre Adjust

Update: I just checked the Synchron Player in standalone mode, and I found it. Previously I've been patching in VEPro (as per the screenshot). 

I thought that I added the Timbre Adjust On/Off, but I find that I did not, and cannot. In the dropdown that opens when clicking the + bottom left, there is no category for it, only for Timbre Adjust.

I looked at a couple of other instruments (specifically Synchronized Brass SE Horns and Synchronized Dimension Strings 1 Violin) and I noticed that Timbre Adjust On is available in the Control list, but there is no corresponding category in the + dropdown.

Thanks Andi. I'll get the latest installer.

>> Harp 1 [vel xf] 

I meant [xf sus]. Adding the controller is what I did, but I know you guys like consistency :)

I rushed out and bought the new Synchronized harps  Now setting up xp maps for Dorico.

Observation: Harp 1 [vel xf] Timbre Adjust is missing cc18 to switch it on and off. Also, other [vel xf] patches have xf enabled by default but Harp 1 doesn't. I haven't looked at the others yet.

The question then: what is the difference between "muted after rel." and "short"? For Harp 2 there is also a sons etouffes distinct from muted and short. Again, how do they differ?

I'm working on a project that involves synths and sampled/acoustic VSTs in Dorico, with the ensemble managed in VEPro. I've run into an issue with setting up automation for various synths. Some can respond to controllers on any channel, some allow me to specify a channel, and one insists that I use channel 1. 

With polytimbral VSTs (Kontakt, Omnisphere) I put them on their own VEPro instance, set up to receive --All--. That works fine, so no difficulty there. 

I realized that a cool thing I can do, when routing a part to multiple VSTs on the same channel, is to set up say two with macros assigned to different custom ccs, and automate them individually in Dorico.

Does anyone have tips for managing this general scenario?

Hello

I've got new options in my preset list -- at least, I think they're new -- VelXF sus, VelXF, and Velocity. It makes the list rather long and fiddly to deal with, and my Dorico expression maps already have init settings to set up xf as I want it.

My question is what's the VelXF sus option? First & third are I think self-explanatory.

Also, is Timbre adjust (cc8) something new?

Mhm... about 15 hours for me

You are right; that is what happened. Here we are 13 hours later and most things are installed now. 

I jumped at the chance to download the free Fujara flute this morning. At that point, I'd decided to put off migrating to iLok till I build a new PC, hopefully in the near future.

Anyway... got the license, and ... yada yada ... in order to use the iLok instrument, I now have to migrate all my other stuff -- and the installer doesn't overwrite or otherwise adapt to existing libraries, so I have to migrate everything off my crowded SSD to make room. That's going to take up most of my day, I think... 

Originally Posted by: DaddyO

...to match the VE Pro instances I connect to...

Looks to me like DaddyO is using Vienna Ensemble, but Bill is using an individual Synchron Player instance for each instrument. 

It has been discussed in the Dorico forum. Some people like to assign cc 2 (or 1) instead of velocity, and cc11 as a secondary. Others go with velocity + either cc2 or 11 (apparently some of the newer VSL products use cc1 rather than cc2) -- either way, you'd want xF enabled unless you're happy to stick with velocity-only.

I have Synchronized Special Editions, VI Pro Percussion, and Vienna Suite. The SSE instruments have their own reverbs, and I want to match (as best I can) that reverb with my VI instruments. Which preset do people recommend? I've gone with Warm Stage 1.2s, but maybe there's a closer match?  

There are two ways -- either by enabling manually in the individual instrument, or else (in Dorico) by adding an entry to the expression map's init: cc28, value 127. I dare say values less than 127 work, but I haven't experimented that far 

Got it, thanks.

Hello

Thought I should use the VST3 version of Vienna Ensemble Pro, having previously been using the x64 option.

A x64 instance is nice and simple. In Cubase, there's a single Instrument associated with the connected Ensemble instance. (that's using Cubase's terminology -- there are different VSL instruments on different channels of the Cubase instrument, obviously.)

With a VST3 Cubase Instrument, when I go to select the output for the MIDI track I want to assign, there is now  a list of eight MIDI Ins:

01 Vienna Ensemble Pro MIDI In 1
01 Vienna Ensemble Pro MIDI In 2 ... etc

For the project I'm attempting to work on, I have five VEPro instances, so the list now runs to 40 options. Is there some way to restrict these to one per instance?

I'm running Ensemble Pro and Suite Pro. I want to put the hybrid reverb plug-in on the instance bus. I can see all the other elements of Suite Pro, but not the hybrid reverb. I can load it on instruments or buses in Cubase, for instance, but I'm not seeing it in Ensemble. Why's that? Any ideas?

Thank you, yes; I shall not despair, since I'm running the demo version. It has demonstrated... well, I have learned useful things, besides the system requirements :)

I got hold of a MIR 24 demo license, with the current promotion going on. I didn't opt for a room pack, since I wouldn't be able to afford that much at the moment. 

Looking at the MIR tab in Ensemble Pro, I see a large concert hall stage represented, and I just assumed that I drag the instruments to where I want them to be, but I can move those harps no further left/right without straying from the hotspot. (They're part of an orchestra, and I want one mid-left, the other mid-right). Is that just because I don't have a room pack? Or have I missed something in the installation? 

Thanks Paul. The Rieger isn't to my taste. If you ever do a Schnitger or a Silbermann...

Meantime, I'll do as you suggest

Hello

I'm interested in a couple of specific instruments in the current VI promotion. Ideally I'd like to try them before buying, to make sure that they do what I think they'll do. So I was looking for information on demo licenses -- I've used them in the past and gone on to purchase in most instances.

Now, it looks like they aren't available for the VI promotion. Okay if that's the case, too bad -- but my real point is that there doesn't seem to be any place on the website I can go to for information on what is and is not available under the demo scheme. 

SSE being Synchronized Special Edition

I'm trying to reduce the standard patches to four instruments (well, 4/4/3/3/1, but let's stick to the violins for the moment) for a project. So far I deleted desks 3&4, players 5-8, and those players from group 1&2.

What I now want to do is add to the Players list "Player 2/3/4" on keyswitches F#/ G/ G#. I can't see how to associate the matrix with the player. Can anyone help?