Hey Fred, thanks a lot! It solved the problem, and so fast! Thank you very much again. Now everything work like a charm. So is it a 7.5.3 problem? i could swear that before I updated it didn't happen. But Fred's trick works perfect. Let's wait for an update. Thanks gkruse for the information.

Cheers!

Hi There! I need some help here. I'm working with the following setup:

- Cubase 7.5.3.
- VePro 5.3.1333.
- VI Pro 2.4.12844.
- Vienna Dimension Strings.
- Expression Maps provided by VSL.
- Presets provided by VSL.
- OSX Mavericks 10.9.4
- Mac Pro 2009

When I press stop, or when the note finishes playing (note off), the instruments go back to the default articulation, in this case Sustain with vibrato. It happens with the five sections (Violins 1 and 2, violas, celli and Basses) I tried to uncheck and check again the Latch mode in the expression maps setup menu, but nothing works. It keeps on changing. And, if I press the spacebar button twice, I mean, to stop and play again, the instruments go to the correct articulation. I don't know if there's some configuration I've missed or what happens, but if someone can shed some light in this matter, it would be great, because I've already done what I think that could work. Thanks very much in advance!

Miguel

That's it. And things in life are never as easy as "keep it secret, keep it safe!"

Ufff, each time I read a post about the eLicenser, I end up with a very uneasy feeling. Maybe I'm wrong, or maybe it is my ignorance about the matter but, is there not a better way to protect against piracy? I'm sure that people who is able to develop so smart and high quality products as VSL does, is able to find a better anti-piracy system. Call me paranoid but I find it relatively easy to get your dongle damaged, or lost or stolen, and paying again for something you've already paid when there are more user-friendly alternatives in the market...

I think I saw somewhere in the web page that the price was going to rise after the 15th of January. That's why I bought it last Friday. If you don't care about other people's opinion, why do you write in a forum? As DG said, talk to VSL directly.

You're welcome! I'm happy I could help you. Cheers!

When you click on the menu, don't release the mouse button until you make your selection. This works for me.

Regards!

Thanks Martin. Well, it looks like I understood the opposite. I think I read somewhere that it was better to have one instance per instrument (violins, violas, cello, etc..). From what you and Jean Paul say, the good way is to have, let's say, one VEpro instance for all the instruments, independently if they are from VSL or third party? This way is much easier and convenient, of course. Thanks!

Hi Jean Paul, thanks for your answer! I'll try what you say to see what happens. But, from what I've read, it wasn't like that before. It was better to have one instance per instrument, so the load was better distributed between cores. Hence my question. I wanted to know if this had changed with VEPro5, because I find it very embarrassing to have lots of VEPro windows opened. Thanks again for your idea!

Best regards.

Hi, this is probably a newbie question, but I was wondering if something has changed in the way VEPro 5 manages the different CPU cores. Let me explain myself. With VEPro, it was better to have one instance per, let's say, Kontakt string instrument, i.e. One VEPro for violins, another for violas, another for cello and so on. It was like this because, in this way, you got a better cpu load distribution between cores. My question is if it is still the same or, in VEPro 5, I'm able to load all the string section (8 Kontakt instances, more or less) in the same VEPro instance so I can use the VEPro mixer, and not having 8 windows open just for the strings section. I'm trying to keep things simple. Thanks very much for your attention.

Cheers!

Hi!

I was wondering if there is, or there will be, a set of patterns for the classic guitar instrument to use with the new APP in VE Pro 2. I found the ones packed with the Dimension Brass update very helpful when looking for inspiration, but I couldn't find a similar update for the classic guitar. Hope someone can help me.

Best regards!

I haven't made a deep read of the specs, but maybe one of them can meet your needs:

http://lividinstruments.com/hardware_ohm64.php

http://www.akaipro.com/apc40

Maybe you can use the APC40 as a plain midi controller, without all the Live functionality. The Ohm64 seems very close to what you're looking for. Hope that helps. Best regards!

Hi there. Very good! It captures perfectly the Halloween mood. Just one suggestion, about the percussive elements. You use a celesta, glockenspiel or something like that. There is a moment when it is playing a rhythmic pattern, repeating the same notes, that it falls into the machine gun problem. The repeated notes sound exactly the same, revealing its sampled origin. I would tweak the velocity of every note in order to achieve a more realistic result.

Of course this is just my perception after a fast listening, so probably I'm wrong! ;). But anyway, I hope you find my suggestion useful.

Best regards!

Same here. The only difference is that I load an instance of VE Pro, not Play. Also, the level indicator in VE Pro, on the top right of the window, freezes on the last position it was before I pressed the transport stop button.

Apart from the issue with the library installer, everything has been working ok for the last week, since I've installed it.

Cheers

What browser are you using? because my problems came with Safari. But with Firefox I placed my order with no problems. Hope this helps!

Hi, I've read this same suggestion somewhere else, but couldn't find the thread. Anyway, this new post is just to remark how good is the idea of having tabs (as those in firefox, for example) so you have just one window for all your open instances sorted in tabs. It could make much easier the process of navigating between instances and not having hundreds of windows scattered all over the place. Best regards!

Hi Andy! That's the way I used to work before but, having seen all the posibilities you get to play in real time, I'm trying to get used to play in this way, just to see if I can get a more "natural" performance without having to spend a lot of time tweaking midi notes afterwards. But I'm just experimenting, so you never know.



I had the same problem before, lots of bass notes everywhere making the score useless. I haven't used Cubase for a long time, but in Logic there's an option to set the note range of each instrument in the score editor, so it only displays the notes within this range. This way you can use keyswitches and keep your score clean. Maybe Cubase has this same option.



Yes, maybe you run out of notes, but I'll give it a try anyway. Thanks for your ideas!

Hi Andy, thanks for your suggestion! Well, what I wanted to do is to assign each cell of the matrix to a particular note so if, for example, I want to go to cell C9, I just have to press a button, not using the X and Y keyswitches. I'm also experimenting with the different ways VE Pro allows you to change between articulations. Assigning the X to a slider, and the same with Y looks good too, but it'll take some time to get used to. Which one do you use?

And noldar12, I think I know which library DG is talking about. :)

Hi noldar12! Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean with "directional" :(.


I agree with you in that we get great instruments. And paying for them is not only the logical and legal way of getting an instrument but also, under my point of view, is a way of recognizing VSL and other companies their effort in making so smart and useful tools as VI Pro (the more I use it, the more I'm amazed about its flexibility and usability) or VE Pro, to name just two. But, on the other hand, I think that, as customers, we MUST tell the company what we think can be better done or what we find inconvenient. It's not just a matter of "you take it or you leave it" because, as they take into account what improvements we say they can do about the software, they should take into account what we say about other aspects of the product. That's what make good companies better. I'm not saying that they have to do what I say, because maybe in this particular case I'm wrong, But I must say it, just in case it helps.

Cheers!

Hi, I need some help here. I use the AKAI MPK88 and MPK25 (this one for mobile purposes). As maybe you know they have a set of 16 pads (MPK88) which are very convenient for changing the different articulations inside VI Pro, as you can also have four different banks of pads that you can select just by pressing a button. The problem is that I cannot assign a single cell to a single pad. I have to use the X/Y configuration. I've been thinking about it for some hours but cannot find a solution. So, the question is, how can I assign a note to every cell of a matrix. CC's could also work. Any contribution will be very much appreciated. Thanks :)

What I wanted to say is that I never expected that my post could get so long. Not that it bothers me. As you can imagine, when you write a post you like to see the most people the better sharing their points of view.



If it was just banter, then my excuses for misinterpreting what you were trying to transmit. But understand that it is very difficult to get the meaning of your words when you just put the words and there are no smileys or anything than can make others know that you are just being ironic, but in a good and friendly way. I think it is not only a question of language problems, because the sentence "In view of the cost of a MAC Pro and the VSL libraries, is the cost of another dongle really an issue? Or where you hoping for an extra free license and another free dongle?" Leaves little or no room for a wrong interpretation. In a previous post you said that asking for a second license is like asking for a second Windows liccense to Microsoft. And I think this line of argument is much more serious and logical in order to defend your idea than saying that I only want to get things for free. But let's forget about all of this, because I'm sure we all prefer not to spend our time in stupid arguments, and dedicate it to more interesting things. Best regards!;)

Well, this thread is getting much longer than I had expected.



I was wrong, you don't use the same instrument in all your 70 tracks ;). But not everybody has a huge library as you have. Think that maybe people like me, who have more modest configurations, can have "slightly" different necessities.



This is senseless, and a bit offensive. Firstly, it isn't your business, and is not the focus of this forum, how I spend my money. Secondly, I'm not hoping for an extra-nothing because I don't have the need to "beg" for anything, as you may want to insinuate. I'm just exposing what I think is fair. Don't misinterpret what I wrote just to have something offensive to say, only because you cannot think about anything better to write. You know what? Thanks to what you wrote in your last post and what people wrote before, I was figuring out a way of configuring my system so I don't have to split the library, even though I keep on thinking that two licenses is a good idea. This is the great thing about forums, you learn from other people. And then comes someone like you and make this unfortunate comment, making such a great thing like this a little less better. Anyway, these are your thoughts and deserve respect. Up to you.

Best regards!

Sorry, my last post wasn't ended. Just pressed the wrong button! Anyway, let me clarify you some things about your last post:



I don't believe that this is the same expectation at all. Actually, I find it a bad example, with all my respects, of course, because you're mixing a computer with a software instrument. It's obvious that there can be much better examples. I bought the Dimension Brass Instrument and, as they do with VE Pro, in some situations you may need to split the library and need more than one license. Why? Because not all of us have the necessity of a powerful slave computer and just because VSL give only one license I don't have to make an investment I don't need. As you can see if you read the previous posts, lots of sample libraries are giving more than one license with their products, so I'm not asking for something crazy and these companies don't go bankrupt because of giving two licenses. I'm not asking VSL to give something for free. Just give me something I think is fair.


Tell me one thing. When you compose music, do you always use the same instruments? I don't. Imagine if all my orchestral compositions were made solely by brass instruments :). I tell you this because, as you can imagine, in may main computer, the Mac Pro, I not only use the Dimension Brass library. I also use a big strings library, synths, drum machines, drum samplers, etc, like probably everyone in this forum, but you, who seem to use always the same instrument. You probably could say that I can use VE Pro to use other instruments that don't need the dongle in my slave and less powerful computer, and use Brass in the main one. And you would be right, but this is not the point of this conversation. What I want to tell is that we, as VSL users, are tied to some restrictions that could be easily solved, like other libraries do (see previous posts for examples). Massmover, in a previous post gave a good idea to solve this little problem, and it shows you how easy it could be to find a better way of protecting against piracy. Unless you like to pay, and spend money on dongles and licenses which I don't.

Hope I've clarified you a little bit my position. Best regards! ;)