Hi Jason,

The enclosure has a fan and everything seems to be cold on that side. But I don't have a proper monitoring software to check it out for sure. I'll be checking on OWC site.

Cables are new and supplied with the box, and plugged directly TB3 on the Mac. 

The only thing remaining would be a bad strategy for assembling my 4 NVME drives into a single 8TO volume. Not much details in the Mac's disk utility.

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your quick response.

Yes, dropouts in sample playback seems to be the right word. It's like samples struggling to load from that disk, which is supposedly my fastest drive. I see spikes in the CPU monitor in Synchron Player each time I play a new note. It's like if my buffer what set too low, or a little similar to what happens when an unloaded cell is loaded upon midi triggering. I tried to push up the buffer a little, changes nothing.

I'm wondering why I have a good bandwidth and poor performance. This problem even occurs on smaller Synched libraries on my NVME, but doesn't not exist when streaming form my "normal" SSD.

After a while, playback gets "normal". It's like loading samples one at a time, every time I play a new note, and apparently, even the same note with different velocities can make a CPU spike.

Thanks for your help :-)

Hi all,

I've been setting up a 4x2 TO NVME OWC TB3 drive Raid0.

I'm using the MacOS utility for RAID and must admit I'm not happy with it. The sound is chunky and I get better results with my ICYBOX and 2x2 To Samsung drives using hardware RAID0 provided by the Icebox itself.

This despite speed tests that give better performance to my NVME setup.

BMD Speedtest :

NVME = 2425 MB/s Read (RAID 0 seems not to be better than with no RAID at all) but chunky sound

Icybox : 418 MB/sec Read

MBP Internal : 

In Synchron player, I get quite different results...

Internal : 269,5 (3072 preload)

NVME : 364,5 (3072 preload) >>>Should be good but it's chunkier than Icy box

Icy box : 152 (3072 preload)

Should I get back to No-Raid on NVME ?

Advices welcome :-)

JL

Dear all,

Last week I purchased Synchron percussion II and the 2 new BBO libraries.

I got a discount (thank you VSL friends) and a Student and Teacher discount option was showing, indicating a 30 Sept deadline. You had the option to add your student of teacher certificate and after examination, the discount was applied.

For some reason, this option is not showing anymore.

Was it a test, or can you just get it once ? Some of my student got rejected...

Maybe Stefan or Sales can light my bulb on this topic ?

Thanks a lot !

Cheers,

Jean-Louis Hennequin | Directeur

[apaxxdesigns] 159 rue Amelot 75011 Paris, France

Thansk for the answer LAJ. Feb is not that far away. For now I'm using Dimension Strings + Orchestral, and it sounds great.

Hi Paul,

A shame it was not clearly advertised. At the moment, it makes SyncStrings very difficult to use for what's VSL highlight : performance legato. There is no mention of these missing samples anywhere (unless I missed something). 

So unless writing for Vlns 1, Celli and Bassi, it's difficult at the moment using SyncStrings in my current projects, depsite its more than promising sound quality. I cannot make legatos with sustains..

Do we have any release date for those missing samples ? Would be great getting them during the NAMM.

Best,

JL

Hi all,

I'm encountering a strange bug lately :

• VE Pro 6 Server 64 bits latest version open, Logic Pro X 10.3.1 launch = VE Pro server crash. 
• Trying to open VEPro 6 server project from menu or double click on .vesp file = VE Pro 6 crash
• Opening VE Pro server and creating an empty instance, then loading a .vesp file = it works
• Opening VE Pro server, creating an empty instance, then opening Logic Pro X = works too.

Has anybody encountered the same problem ? Thank you for sharing your experience :-)

Jean-Louis Hennequin,  Mentor Trainer Logic Pro X EMEIA

A last question, Paul.

The four keys I recently bought are linked to a different account than my libraries licenses. I have two accounts, one for my training center, the other being personal.

Could it be an issue in case of an eLicenser failure if I use the keys registered on my training center account for my personal licences ?

Best,

 

JL

Good advice !

I have bought 4 of them recently, so I'll be dispatching my licences for use with my 3 mac minis + MacBook Pro.

To make sure I understand, by warranty, do you mean the licences would be replaced for free if the key is in the warranty period ?

That would be huge. 

 

Best

JL

Dear all,

I bought my orchestral cube a long time ago, and I'm still using the same eLicencer, which is about 10 years old.

Is there any risk that the eLicenser (which I pamper carefully and is in pristine condition) could break at some point ? Did someone encountered such a bad situation ?

Best,

 

JL

Hi all,

I've encountered a strange behavior lately with VE Pro in Logic 9.0.2:

The VE Pro AU plug in looses connection with the server on the local occurences.

It does not seem to happen with my remote Mac Pro.

To recover connexion, I have to re-activate the record button 

Is there any way to override this problem ?

CHeers,

JL

I think all ProApps will get an update when Snow is out. Then you will get two things: 29€ for Snow, free update for your ProApp, and so you will be happy to have to buy an Intel Mac  

Thank you everybody for all those good advices.

In fact, I installed everything on July 15th and did not make any update since then.
So I will check if any new version has been made available for both VI plugin and Synchrosoft, but I keep in mind that AU validation makes it even longer... and my Logic autoload did include one iteration of VI, so I'd better removing it.
Anyway, it is good to note that turning off computer makes reauthorization to happen again. I'll keep it on !

The computer I use has no internet connexion at the moment, maybe it makes it even longer ??

Thanks again !

JL

Hello !

I noticed that loading time of either standalone plugin or AU version in Logic takes ages after a restart.

At first, I thought it was because it was building some kind of database or ultimate license check, and that it would only happen once.

But when I restarted my computer (Mac Quad G5 with 4,5 Go RAM) I first got a "License key not detected" message, and after another restart, VI Standalone took maybe 10 or 15 minutes to open.

Is it normal ? Once it has been opened, it loads normally. But if I restart, bingo, I'd better have a coffee.....

Thanks for your advices on that topic !

JL