Ok, thanks.

What about the loading bug: "Preparing to load..." message with Kontakt 5 ?
Is there a way to get around it ?

Update: The loading goes now past the message but the progress bar freezes after loading samples about couple of seconds. It doesn't continue loading after that, so I have to kill all VEPs and sequencer. It loads to certain point, but after couple of Kontakt5 instances it just stops loading (EW PLAY?) and nothing happens. This is all so random; sometimes the loading halts before loading anything, sometimes it goes past Kontakt5's...weird..
update2: after about 10 loading attempt it now loads all just fine. It seems VEP needed some re-launching to get it fully working.

-R

Hello.
I am in trouble after upgrading to VEP5. VEP5 on PC slave doesn't start loading; pop up screen just says " preparing to load " that's it. nothing happens after that. This is a game stopper for me. Need to go back to VEP4 ASAP. Please answer the question: Can VEP 5 be uninstalled reversed to VEP4.

-Mr. Rehtori

Mac pro early 2008, 18GB, Macbook Pro early 2011 8GB, PC I5 2500k 16GB, Kontakt, PLAY, VSL

VEP Pro suddenly started to close its server connection, reason unknown.

VEP slave server give this message: "server connection lost" and right after that Cubase hangs (spinning wheel of death)
Only thing to do is force quite servers and cubase from Mac and boot both machines. This happens occasionally but often while saving the project.

Host: Mac Pro 2008, Cubase 5.5.1, VEP 4.1.68844 (64 bit) server running in pc loaded with 12 instances of kontakt 4.1.1.
Slave PC, VEP 4.1.68844 (64 bit) server running in pc loaded with 13 instances of kontakt 4.1.1.


Any ideas ?

-H-

..ok it seems that this topic has already been opened in "general" section of the forum.

-Over and out-
-R-

..And Doug suggests as to ask if VSL support have yet tried this trick:

"Just ask their developers if they have tried to resolve the issue by linking their qt frameworks statically. If they haven't tried that there is nothing we can do to help them, we believe that's the solution, but are open to hearing their ideas. Obviously it's in everyone's interest to solve all technical issues for users.

Cheers,

- DR"

-R-

This comes directly from Doug Rogers himself:

"We already told them what to do, they could resolve the crash with PLAY by linking their qt frameworks statically. Understand it's not our software, we can't fix their problems, PLAY works fine with other hosts, it has nothing to do with competition, we cooperate with competitors all day every day, it's the nature of our business.

Cheers,

- DR"


- SO VSL VEP Should be able to run PLAY (Mac OSX) after some framework tweaking, right VSL ?

-R-

Hi.

I've installed Vienna Ensemble pro (latest stable release and latest beta).
when instantiate vep plugin inside Cubase / Logic Pro 9 the server interface seems to freeze, however it kinda works.

When I try to click on buttons in the interface nothing happens, nothing gets pushed everything in the interface is still.
When moving around the interface windows from screen to screen I got updated view occasionally. When it's on the screen where it initially opened it says in "not connected" and stays that way. I move it to the third or fourth screen (yes i have dual graphics card setup on my mac) the view gets updatedand shows all the slave servers. I can then click on the server address field (though the interface still stays static) and server opens up in the slave computer. When I click "latency" and change it (blindly, because of the freezed GUI) it then shows different buffer sizes in every screens, so it's unclear in which latency it is set actually. The same goes to ip address field. Overally GUI is atm unusable.

Also I've noticed rather big latency, which is too big for staccato intruments or fast playing. Buffer is default "2" I've 1Gbit connection via Linksys switch.

- Another question: Can Altiverb being hosted in slave computer's VEP and then used as group channel plugin in main computer (Cubase5) for all intruments ? In this way Cubase (including host and slave plugins) could use one master reverb setting for all instruments and channels.

System
Host: Mac Pro 2.8 Early 2008 Dual quad, 18GB RAM, OSX 10.6.2, Cubase 5, Logic Pro9, EW-PLAY, Kontakt4, Spectrasonics, RME-Fireface800, UAD-2, SSL-Duende, Nvidia 8800GT + ATI2600HD on four 22" TFT, Linksys 1GBIT switch, Cat 6 cables, DUAL 1GBIT Mac pro ports used

Slave: Intel Quad 6600, Asus P5K motherboard,built in 1GBIT ethernet + Realtek 1GBIT PCI ethernet nic (for DUAL LAN connection), Windows 7 X64, 6 GB RAM, Kontakt4, Spectrasonics, Altiverb