duhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!   Thank you!

That is why you are on the BIG money!    I overlooked that... pfffft  - all working fine now it seems !!! :))

Is that a new thing for VEpro 6?

Thank you!

Hi There.

I just bought the upgrade for VEpro6 and have been giving it a spin.   I have Mac 12 core MASTER machine and a Mac8 Core SLAVE.   Connectivity seems fine and everything working as it should pretty much (apart from a slight lag when hitting play intermittantly) BUT I also have a PC SLAVE - and the 12 core Master machine is not even seeing the PC server.   It also keeps throwing up a 'please check the version numbers are the same across the software) message 

(FYI I use static IP's & have run this set up perfectly with VEPro 5 for years and its been rock solid across all machines)

I did a bit of digging and see that the MAC version is 6.0.15180  -  yet the PC version number appears to be: 6.0.0.15180.

It looks like there is a typo error in the version number on the PC - an extra 'ZERO' has crept in - could this be what is stopping my PC being seen in the server window?

Any help greatly appreciated

Many thanks - Paul :)  (great job by the way - loving the new interface already!)

Yeah - tested this today myself - works great...

Civilizatoin3 - how do you deal with the masses of key switches if you are accessing all 4 banks - ? do you have a small 2nd keyboardand assign it right off the playable range of the kbd?

P:)

for me its housing all the instruments in the vepro server and architecture - separate from Logic - that way I can close one cue and load the next one with my template and all the samples in ram are already loaded and the instruments housed in VEPRO just hook up to the logic session - ready to go in 40 seconds - rather than reload everything again and again...

ahhhh!!!! good man Bill... thank you!

How are getting round the monitors / 2 x minis situation.. using apple remote to view both mac minis on the same screen ( or something else) - or does each unit have a dedictaed screen?

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yes - on a mac (and maybe on a pc too?) I think the only way to get more things loaded, is to indeed instatiate another instance of K5 - and then just route it to the relevant outputs ...

yes it does help when moving fast.....  and just use the specifiic loads to give the cues their project specific character...I dunno...sometimes I wonder if they arent all digital bankruptcy boxes ;))) balancing how much to invest on new tech against fee's / royalties in... but hey - what else is their to spend money on.... right....? cars... hookers... blow  ;) heh!

Where are you based?

oh...also thinking of moving one of my ssds out the 12 core into the 8 core...and maybe use that for some other duties as well as Protools - Which I have yet to buy... the idea is to have 2 separate rigs... one multiple computer one for midi programming and handling Library duties - and the other wil just be in recording playback duties for PT....

SOmething like that.... I have my first full feature film looming so want to scale up in readyness for stems delivery  / 5.1 etc etc

exactly... my 12 core main system has 4 x 512 SSD's in it   once I get the minis on board - I'll probably strap 2 (or maybe just 1) in each of them... and also yes - HB on one HS on another - plus maybe a few other bits and bobs - and I run various version of kontakt 5 / omnisphere / RMX etc etc in VE PRO on my main system... I run very littel directly in logic apart form EQs / verbs - as I change from cue to cue I need the tempalte to stay in ram and just re connect ot each new cue... its te fastest way I have found of making a big template work... 

hey - yes - everything that gets used on every project (mainly the orchestral / percussion templates) is ready to go.. - its the best way for me I find...no deciding which string patch to load - its all just there.... then I just load in the custom stuff for each cue / project as I go...  also bit of head room too is good - especially on the main system runnig logice... to give the computer a bit of space to breathe... 

Ok Ashermusic - I hear you -  thats great - I sincerely wish you all the best..!

as I said for me...I have had a pc slave in the past - and it let me down at a crucial time...twice over a two year period.... and it was a complete nightmare - so for me, I'm happy with my nice silver boxes and VERY happy to pay extra for them - at least I know how to resusictate them should they go nutzoid.... which they never seem to do...

Im on the same trajectory as you... I have a 12core mac with 48gig ram - and an 8 core intel slave, which i am going to be moving over to run protools... so buyig 2 x 2.9 mac mini servers ( so i can get 1024 ssd in them) to act as slaves.... and for me, the pc route i am not touching with a barge pole, as I'm not au fait with op system - nor do i have 0.1%  inclination to learn it !!!  ...I'm sticking with what i know so if theres a problem I can sort it out quickly and keep moving...  

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perfect - jeezuz - so simple!!  OK so just another quick one then - say I saved project 1 'decoupled' - I then went to project 2 and loaded it up, and realised that there was additional plugin data on the slave - if I have my 'incoming data prefs' set to ask - I can just click the flashing yellow arrow and it will load the new data?

Thanks again Asher... really appreciated... Paul 

Hi all,

I was wondering if someone can clear something up for me - or let me know if I am just being stooooooopid..

I have a 12 core MAc Pro master machine running Logic and a 8 core mac pro as a slave  (all upto date software across both computers).

I use the slave computer for Hollywood Strings (amongst other things) hosted in VEP5 as part of my template....  HW Strings instance is always the same and never needs to change...   

Now everytime I switch to the next projects in Logic, HW Strings insists of loading up the entire PLAY  template again some 41000 samples! - even though there is no different data in the instance of Play...

FYI - I have preserve instance enabled and I have the incoming project data behaviour preference set to 'ASK'.  but still it continues to load the same data in again..without asking anything....! ( I have also tried it on DIscard but still nothing - it continues to reload everything again)  

So the question is...... is this correct ... that each time I switch between logic projects I have to wait for 5 mins for the PLAY template to 'reload' or is there a way round it / or is something not right / or am I doing something wrong...?

Thanks in advance for your time on what is probably an obvious answerable question - !!

Cheers Paul

ahhh thank you Paul - (good to hear from you again!)

I am downloading and trying the latest version of VI PRO to get the template back to workable - and, now that I have bought it - I will start to populate - (with some tweaks) - the new VI PRO instance - I am sure it will be great.

Thanks for the quick response - always appreciated..

Cheers - Paul

Hey everyone - so... am I being really dumb here?

I have finally come up for air between projects and thought - I know I'll do my upgrades now...havent been using VSL libraries extensively a lot recently but thought I would get everything nice and up to date... so - latest version of VEPRO5 - donwlaoded and installed - done.   I then go to load a logic template session to check everything is ok - and I get the dialogue box telling me I need to upgrade to VI PRO to integrate the VI into the ensemble sessions (as the old VI is now no longer supported - correct?)  - sure no probs - I go and buy the upgrade & install - all good.   I then quit everything, reload VE PROS servers and Logic - then I  go to load my logic template (which of course always automatically loads the VI templates into VEPRO - well the ensemble patch loads the mixer / instrument names etc....but I was (foolishly it seems) expecting the VI instamces to simply port themselves into VIPRO2...but it isnt... at this point I start to think... 'oh dear'

so....have I just fallen down a giant rabbit hole or is there something I can do to make the old template load / convert into the new software (vepro5 / VIpro2) or do I have to start from scratch again...(surely not start from scratch - he says - hopefully!)  any help greatly appreciated...

Many thanks - Paul

BTW:  mac 12 core main system / mac 8 core slave - latest versions of LOGIC / VSL / EW ....everything all up to date

"output larger than 0" - get whatever is routed down it to the output you select... as for the bypass... it beats me... !!

I tried it both ways [bypassed / unbypassed] on insts / auxs/ rev returns / .audio channels......everything.....and it did F**k all!!  ;)0

Do let me know if you get it do work!!

mmmm :-(  I seem to have seen no evidence of this 'core diverting' on my system using this..

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Hey Novation

I would love to see an overview - I must be honest I see no difference in core processer usage when I use the I/O pligin and setting you describe... maybe include a screen shot of that?

many thanks for your help

Paul

....And another one here...same deal...kontakt 4.1 / Logic studio / VE PRO / 8core / 20 gigs RAM / MAC XEON 3.0 /   one cpu is spiking while others are quiet and it gradually gets progressively worse over time....

Hey  John_1332

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner - thans for this - it is helpful to see how you get around this - I think I understand... so the 'cue' instances only carry the data that is relelvant to the one particular cue you are working on - while the 'template' instance is the same across all sessions?

And to be clear - you manually disconnect the template instances before quitting?

cheers

P 

Hey everyone... I have a question for you clever people out there.

I recently bought VE PRO and use it to host Kontakt 4 with the Memory server activated.   i load up a logic session and everything loads up perfectly.   i have instances of K4 also in the logic session - also using the Memory Server.   So on this particular template I use in total about 4GB on the Kontakt Memory server. 

Heres the problem.   When I use preserve instances and I close my logic session down and open another session (which used exactly the same set of Kontakt instances / samples - the memory display at the top of my screen plummets to zero ( so in effect the mem server 'dumps' all the samples)  adn then the logic session loads - but the server has ceased to be present - i look at the Activity monitor and it show like 23Mb... shortly after this the project crashes - normally when I try to load samples into an instance of K4 on my Logic session....  It happens everytime.

If I dont use K4 in the VE pro / logic session - everything is perfectly fine and 'preserve instance' works like a dream?!?!     But I need to use it!! aggghhhh!!

So - Can anyone tell me if they have had the same experience - or better still tell me if I am being a complete nob and doing something wrong here... or is there a compatability issue on K4 with VE pro?  BTW I have a mac pro 8 core 2.8 / 18GIg memory / latest versions of all software.

Thanks in advance for you help

Paul  :)

Hi Karel - thnx for the info.... and DG, I get how you are using the system now - I am sure that is nice and solid.  

Hey Karel on another note - I am using a MAC PRO intel as Main DAW and a G5 2.5 PPC as a Slave - now I know that my G5 PPC is not 'supported' but in any event I have installed VE Pro on both systems and loaded servers in correct order - then loaded the DAW (Logic 9.1 32 bit) on my mac pro and instantiated the VE PRo plugin in Logic.  

Now -  while i can trigger audio on the VE pro instance on the slave G5 computer by using the G5 mouse on the onscreen GUI piano keyboard and hear it in the appropriate server channel on my Mac Pro - I am unable to get the midi to transmit from my mother kbd thru the server from the MacPro to the g5.    

However - if i set up additional midi ports thru MOL and instantitae them on slave I can use them - but the latency is obviously terrible.... and if I start VE Pro in standalone mode on my G5 and utilise Midi over LAN and route audio outputs to the sound card on the slave and use the  lightpipe to get them into my Mac Pro - again all no problem... but with the small amount of latency you would expect....

But I really want to run the G5 in it's server mode and do midi and audio down the LAN cable.........SO..... I just seem to have an issue with the midi going down the VEPRO server port and being picked up by the G5 Slave.    Do you have any idea why that might be??  Are there any known issues with G5's / PPC's as slaves?? I am sure other people have got this working.....  anybody???

BTW I am running 10.6.2 (with 18GB RAM) on the Mac Pro - and 10.5.8 on the G5 (with 4.5GB RAM)

Can you help?? ....... or should I just quit crying like a girl and get my money out like a man and buy another 8 core Mac Pro / 64 bit PC slave ;)

Many thanks for a fantastic product in VE Pro by the way - it is GENIUS and really open the systems up - wonderful.

:)

Yes - I will start my experiments...

I think I see - So....if you have only one PC in the studio - does this mean you are using VEP in standalone mode on the same computer as your DAW? Is that how you are getting around the 1 port limitation?  OR..... is their some other factor I havent worked out yet... (PC / 64bit VEPro with VSL 64bit plugins only?  /  Logic with AU has the limitation but you are using VST within your DAW - Cubase perhaps?)

.........and if you *are* in standalone mode and not using the VEPro server plugin  within your DAW,  how are you routing Audio back to the DAW without using the bridge (as this would bring in the 1 port limitation you mentioned again - right?) and get access to all the delay compensation etc etc

Questions questions questions..... but really DG - thanks again for your time

Now 6M10 - I am guessing that a polka would not be a good starting point.... ;)