Wow. NI customer care seems to be in the dumps.

I have DP 8 running Kontakt 5 and Signal (obviously demanding external sync) and I'm getting HUGE cpu spikes when changing tempos. When I turn the ext sync off, the cpu spikes go away completely. I'm shocked to hear that NI is not responding to this bug at all.

Thanks DG, awesome! That product is definitelly of the right track, 16 stereo tracks is WAY too few though. With many top composers using 10GBe Ethernet, there should definitely have to be closer to 200 stereo tracks (which is possible to move with VE PRO Server)

I suggest to VSL that it builds a solution for this problem, because it has already written a software that can move hundreds of tracks between two computers without very expensive hardware in between.

Why is it possible to move 400 channels of audio from VE PRO Server from slave computer to host computer by just using software and ethernet, but it costs $10,000+ to buy I/O hardware and PCIe cards to move 400 channels from host to Pro Tools rig for printing stems?

Thanks! Working with Desplat was truly an honour and a privilege. Eye opening experience to see the master at work.

Hi guys. I've recently started a new blog called Rescored:

http://rescored.blogspot.com

I take scenes from my favorite movies and rescore them with my own music. Almost all samples are Vienna samples, DP8 DAW. It's purely for fun and practising.

As of posting this there are three scenes now: 1. PROMETHEUS (2012), 2. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) and 3. PAN'S LABYRINTH (2006)

Yes I could, but I have 300+ midi tracks and 15 return tracks, so for instance Harp 1 and 2 are on the same return.

Bummer. Thanks!

Can this be done with VE PRO? I would love to automate specific vienna instruments panning from my DP:s midi tracks and midi controllers. For instance in some pieces I would like the two harps to be in the center, while in some cases I would like the first one on the right and the second one on the left.

It seems Play still has problems with VE Pro if there is a Kontakt 4.1 instance open with samples loading in the background.

My Slave is a 64-bit PC, not a Mac. Sorry, I left that info out.

I updated to the latest versions of Play (v2.0.18) and VE Pro (v4.0.6150, both master and slave) and tried to add a SD2 plugin to my slave PC's VE Pro (64-bit) and I still get the "Could not creat plugin play_VST_x64". I'm having a deja vu :/

I got it working yesterday just once, but I haven't been able to recreate it. I've tried everything, including an empty VE Pro (not server) instance with no other instances open. In my VE Pro instances, I have VSL sounds, plus many Kontakt's (v4.10.3681, loading samples in background) and MidiOverLan. In my master, all VE Pro plugins are in Bidule.

Any ideas?

Any reports from users that the v2.0.18 update is now really working with VE Pro? I had a few libraries from EastWest and ultimately had to stop using them completely in my template because of the incompatibility with VE Pro.

Good work. There's just way too much reverb. Especially in the celesta.

I agree. So I think it is only a matter of style and taste of the composer really.

Here is the soundtrack for a finnish feature documentary film I did called "In the Shadow of Doubt". Because of budget restrictions, almost everything was done with Vienna Symphonic Library Extended Cube.

1. Main Titles

2. Media's Teeth

3. Beautiful Paranoia

4. In The Shadow

5. Stepping on Big Shoes

6. Spies in the 70's

7. Heureka

8. State of Justice

9. Spy's Grave

10. Absolution

11. Switzerland

12. In the Shadow of Doubt

Books will teach you the basics of instruments and combinations. Here are two practical exercises after that:

1. Read full orchestral scores as much as you can. With and without audio.

2. Take a score that you like and reverse-orchestrate it, ie. turn it into a piano score

Casual-t, what is your audio interface?

Hi guys. Here is my latest orchestral demo, all VSL sounds except piano (steinway garritan): Three Arctic Pieces (demo)

What is the latest status on PLAY right now?

This problem was solved for me by taking my daisy-chained MOTU 828mk3 out of the rig.

Thanks. Have to try to fiddle. However the host's plugins show the slave computers but not the preserved instances that are open. Only turning "internet sharing" off and on again, will they find the instances again. 

The plugins try to find each slave instance (I have 7) for like 1 minute so it takes time for the projects to load. After it is loaded with all plugins showing "not connected", I have to connect them to their instances. For some reason all the instances can be found manually. It would be good if the plugins don't find the instances, it wouldn't try to find them for as long as they do now.

Are you using VE Pro standalone or server?

True. PLAY sucks big time and it must be decremental to their business, even though they intended the opposite. I myself have EWQL symphonic library sitting idle and unused because of PLAY. I rather focus on getting everything out of VSL. I'd still rather have the option to use the sort of palette and template as I wish. Not possible at the moment.