Hi Dietz

Thank you for your quick reply.

As i am working with a Wacom Pen/Tablet i don't have a mouse wheel, and therefor never noticed the option to do so ;)

Shame, but then i keep using the Legacy EQ

Cheers,

Geert.

Hi,

I just upgraded my VSL Suite to the Pro version. 

What really cought my attention was that in the old EQ you could grab a point and change the Q setting by pressing CMD. That made changing things really easy and intuitive.

With the Pro version this is removed and now you have to find a tiny spot with your mouse to change the Q, and you can't do it all in one sweep anymore.  I find this so clumsy that i rather use the old EQ.

Could you please bring this back in the next update?

Cheers,

Geert.

hmmm i obviously hadn't the newest,  now it works...

sorry for my premature cry for help ;)

Hi,

After downloading Syncro-Appassionata (4gb) the auto install gives an error saying:

"This package.info file is incomplete.

If this is a downloaded package, please ensure

that the entire package is downloaded before

starting the library installer."

I tried downloading it again... same message.

Hi,

I made a composition in 130bpm for large orchestra but the conductor rather wants it in written out in 65bpm, so i need to make every note half the length it was

To my knowledge there are two ways to change the length of the notes, Logical Editor/double tempo -or-
change cursor to the stretch tool and drag the blocks to half their length.

Both do the job but both leave the automation the way it was.

Is there a way to change everything, notes and automation to the new length?

regards,
Geert.

Hi DG,

Of course you can automate MIDI volume but then you are using the crappy volume slider of Kontakt, while the Cubase Mixer Fader has a much higher resolution, and you can use a controller because you are using the standard automation protocol instead of CC7. Also if you wanna use the sends and EQ with the controller it's handy when the VEP audio return is connected to the MIDI send.

Geert.

I found article below on the Steinberg forum

Lots of Cubase/Nuendo users must run into this problem is my guess

Did anybody find a solution for this or is this dealt with in Cubase 9 ?

"Now that with Cubase Pro 8 the line is blurring between Instrument Tracks and the Instrument Rack, I’d like to add a suggestion with the hope that a developer at Steinberg might actually read this.

I work almost exclusively with Vienna Ensemble Pro, which holds a very large virtual instruments template. The Instrument Rack in Cubase holds a couple of VEP plugin interfaces which connect to VEP and have many outputs enabled (around 80 per instance). The Cubase template has MIDI tracks set up accordingly, one per VEP instrument.

The signal flow goes like this:

Cubase MIDI track -> VEP Instance 1 on MIDI Channel 1
VEP Instance 1 MIDI Channel 1 -> Virtual Instrument in VEP with Output 1-2
Cubase MIDI track has Output 1-2 selected in the Fader section of its Inspector

Multiply this by around 70.

I switched to Cubase from Logic for two reasons, Expression Maps and the possibility to see, in the Inspector of any MIDI track, the corresponding audio fader and sends/inserts without having to go to the mixer or dig up audio channels. You can also rename the output to match the MIDI track name which is very useful. In my case this works wonders when it comes to workflow, especially when you have a large number of tracks in your template.

However, when set up in the above manner, it’s impossible to edit the automation for the audio output from within the MIDI channel (and MIDI automation doesn’t address the same functions, of course). So it’s still necessary to scroll down to the “VST Instruments” folder and find the corresponding audio output for the MIDI track, of which there are very many (and AFAIK Cubase can't select the output track automatically for you).

A workaround is to move each and every VST Instrument output out of the “VST Instruments” folder, place it below its MIDI track and use Cubase 8’s “hide others” option in the new visibility menu. But this is cumbersome and could be much improved.

Since there’s no problem in a MIDI track knowing where its audio output is going (it’s shown in the Audio Fader section of the Inspector), there should be no real obstacle to editing the audio automation from within the MIDI track itself by clicking a toggle on the MIDI track (“Show audio output automation” or something).

This would finally combine MIDI and audio editing on the same track and would be very, very handy. I’m no developer but seeing how Cubase displays related information of MIDI and audio outputs this doesn’t seem like a great deal to implement."

Hi,

i've noticed that if you work with VEP6 on a separate slave PC the audio returns into Cubase are not automaticly linked to the corresponding MIDI track. Somehow that makes sense of course because how can Cubase know what to connect to what.

But that means if you click for example on the first violins MIDI Track, the audio return is not selected in the Mixer so it's probably not selected on the DAW Controller as well....  am i right here?

Is there a way to link these ?

Cheers,

Geert.

Hi,

Is there a way to let Nuendo/Cubase automaticly jump to the audio return coming from the Slave PC when you mouse-select the corresponding MIDI track in the main edit screen?

Now the mixer stays dorment for my 100+ VEP6 MIDI tracks, but responds when clicking an audio or instrument track.

If its not possible a controller like the Steinberg CC121 isn't very handy i guess, because you are still accessing the Mixer screen and selecting the right VEP6 return before you can edit via the CC121.

(i was actually thinking about buying one)

Thank in advance,

Geert.

in the Bios :)

Thank you...

sorry to state the probably obvious but:

So that means, Hyperthreading activated is ok? and VEP6 can deal with 32 cores?

Hi all,

Easy question... :)

I bought a 2nd hand server with an Intel dual Xeon E5-2670 (so 16 cores with 32 threads)

Should i put the settings in VEP6 to 32 cores? i'm only using one instance

I know his is a Kontakt issue, but maybe somebody who is more wise than i am knows the answer :)

I had to reinstall windows because of a motherboard failure, now when i load the VE6 server file (which consists of about 60 instances of Kontakt) i need to point to all paths in Kontakt, and i need to do it with all VE6 server project files.

Kontakt doesn't remember the paths even when i just pointed to them in a previous project file.

Is there a way to have Kontakt remember all the new paths?

Hi,

Does anybody have knows what the maximum number of audio channels via gigabit is between a Mac and his SlavePC?

Running Nuendo 7 and VE6

I hope i can have a 100 stereo channels for direct input in the Nuendo Mixer.

This way you can totally mix everything in Nuendo and leave the Template untouched and the same for all projects.

G.

Hi Paul,

I was afraid that was the only solution :)

Hi,

When i load the orchestral template created on a Mac into my VE6 on the slave PC, it says it can't find Kontakt. I appearantly used the AU version of Kontakt on my Mac to create this template and because windows doesn't use AU, it can't load the VST Kontakt instead.

Is there a solution for this?

i don't look forward loading and configuring more than 100 Kontakt instruments again.

Hi Paul,

Here are logs of more crashes....

It crashes now every 5 minutes.

Adding a folder,

rearranging some instruments order....

changing MIDI channels or Audio outputs.

Hi,

When you decouple the mixer from VE6 it's on top of all windows automaticly. (OSX)

Is there a way to let it go to the background? I can't find it.

Cheers,

Geert.

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your update.

It's weird because both plugins i do not use in my Template.

The HOFA i don't use at all.... i think i downloaded a demo version once but forgot all about it. So it is probably an old vesion as well. I'll delete it.

'Play' i do use but only in Nuendo. Can i make VE6 exclude this plugin?

I heard play v5 is coming this week, see if that works better then.

Cheers,

Geert.

Hi Paul,

I'm using OSX 10.11.5

Kontakt 5.5.1.451

Metropolis Ark

Cinematic Strings 2.1

NI Brass Ensemble

Vienna Apas

Special Edition 1+2

Hi,

I'm building a new tempate in VEP 6. Nothing exotic, just some orchestral libraries which everybody uses.

But it's really hard to make progress because VE crashes every time after adding 4 a 5 instruments (Kontakt5)

It crashes also when i'm using the template and VE has switched a few times (10?) between instruments. (i have the "switch faster" option enabled

When i restart it, all Kontakt instances are corrupt, no samples loaded.I need to close everythig (Nuendo and VE) and then it loads the Kontakts right again.

There is no crash dump or so, VE just suddenly disappears.

I can't work like this

My specs are Imac 27" 2013 version. 32GB, Nuendo 7.1, RME Fireface UC,

Hi Paul,

ah, so it is just a way of organizing things, and has no clear advantages or disadvantages.

Thanks for your time :)

Geert.

Hi,

My goal is to have one Template on a Slave PC, which stays unchanged and connects to all my projects.

In de VEP6 manual i see an Orchestral Template with each instrument section assigned to a unique instance in the Server.  A tabbed setup so to speak.What is the advantage of using this setup compared to loading all instruments in one instance?

And what would be best for my preferred way of working?(You need to manage your multi thread setup and such, which makes it more complicated.)

Please elaborate :)

Geert.

Hi Paul,

Thank you for your reply.

Indeed the channel gets selected this way when sending MIDI data in Cubase, but is doesn't show Kontakt or VIpro automaticly, i still have to double click the name in the mixer.

Or am i missing something :)

Hi,

Is it possible to display the instrument in VE you are currently working on in Cubase  via a keycommand.

For instance when i'm working in the Cubase Key Editor, i would like to see the instrument in VE via a shortcut key.

It would be very handy for selecting keyswitches and quickly adjusting paramenters in the instrument, without having to go to VE and doubleclick the instrument in the mixer.

Cheers,

Geert.