I would have loved a Harp with more options than the one in the Special Editions.

However, failing that the Legato Combos would be nice too....

Hi All,

Audiodeluxe.com are showing Big Bang Orchestra Capricorn on their website - but there are no details here or even a video.

Have they jumped the gun on announcing this, or is there somewhere I can watch a walkthrough ?

Best, Michael.

Thanks Paul !

Hi All,

Today I had a little problem with an e-licenser. It was sticking out out of the side or my laptop and it got knocked. Now whilst the e-licenser was not broken, now the blue plastic casing/surround is a bit wobbly.

At first I was worried that I had broken it, but it still works. Now the wobbly e-licenser was only for one of my VePro 7 licences, and not for my main VSL library - phew ! So I'll just get a new key and move the licence over.

I have the insurance policy on my main VSL library e-licenser, without it I wouldn't be a VSL library customer), but this lead me onto the following question:

If this had been my main VSL library key, would I have been able to transfer my licences onto a new key and also move the insurance over to a new 'not-wobbly' e-licenser ? Or would I have been better off waiting for the key to break and then claim on the insurance ? To me it would make sense to allow the insured key to be substitued, as it would mean that an insurance claim would be much less likely.

Obviously, this is more of an academic question, but I would be interested to know the answer.....

Thanks in advance,

Michael.

It would also be interesting to consider the latency of pressing a piano key down, and the time it takes for the action of the hammer to hit the string, and compare it to this latency in using a digital keybed and computer.

I wonder how the two values would differ.....

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the reply.

Post edited:

I didn't have Force Unload Samples ticked. So the default for woodwinds is not to load samples, and the default for the other libraries must have been to do so. You need to force the unload.....

Thanks for clarifying.

Regards, Michael

Hi,

I'm pretty new to VSL libraries and I decided to go the Synchron route rather than VI Pro.

However I am having a small problem, which might well be basic to you guys, but I can't seem to figure out. I have the Special Editions Bundle 1-4 along with special edition 5. I have also just purchased the Woodwinds, (which I love).

My issue is this. I have the Synchron Player set to 'Enable Slots on MIDI Activity' so it only loads the samples when I use them. This works perfectly well on the woodwinds library.

However, with all the Speical Editions, Epic Orchestra 2 and the Big Bang library whenever I load an instrument it loads all the patches into memory immediatly (and they are not 'dimmed' in colour) like the woodwinds.

Obviously this is rather heavy on resources, and I'm wondering what is going wrong. I'm on a Mac using the latest version of Synchron player and it happens with both the stand-alone and the hosted version.

I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me why this might be happening.

Thanks to all in advance,

Michael

I've only very recently invested in VSL libraries. I got on board with the Special Editions Bundle, added Sp Ed pack 5, and only yesterday bought the Synchronised Woodwinds.

Previously I'd been stand off-ish with VSL, largely due to the fact I travel a great deal, and the VSL dongle policy. With their new insurance scheme that was no longer an issue for me so I jumped in when the Synchronised Special Editions were launched.

I went for the Synchronised versions over the VI, for a number of reasons, but high in my thinking was that I would not have to look at investing in the VI Pro Player, and MIR, and also it was a little more expensive to go this route.

I could have bought the VI versions, and then upgraded for pretty low prices to the Synchronised versions. But I didn't - and I'm now wondering whether that was a mistake.

Is there any reason why people like myself cannot move from the Synchron version to the VI version for the same sort of cost it is to go the other way ?

BTW I am really enjoying the Special Editions.

I have heard in several places that Wake on MIDI is planned for VePro 7 is planned.

Is there any update on this, or idea when it might drop ?

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your response. I will send the crash log over shortly - but I gave all the version numbers in my post above, and both Pianotec and Kontakt are the latest version according to the Moddart Website and Native Access.

Thank you for such a quick reply.

Mike.

Hi,

I have been exploring VEPro 6 to expand my knowledge of it - and I have found a repeatable crash.

I am on a Mac using OSX 10.13.2m Cubase Pro 9.5.10 Build 79 and VEPro 6.0.16751. The iMac is a iMac 5k Late 2015 i7 with 24gb RAM and 1TB internal flash. iStat Pro showing lots of Ram and CPU free.

I am running VEPro Server 64 bit on the same machine. 

I was playng around with unpreserved instances, to get a better understanding of how they work, when I found the following:

I created a single instance ine VEPro via the Cubase plug-in and selected new.

In this instance I created two instrument plug-ins. One is Kontakt 5.7.3 and the other Pianoteq Stage 6.0.3  

This instance is de-coupled from the daw. If I then close the Cubase project, the instance disappears from VEPro - as it should. However, VEPro will then immediately crash after any attempt to open another instance, or even just by clicking on it's window.

This happens without fail every single time.

I have only two instruments in the instance, and they do re-open as they should if I restart VEPro - but I havent tested with more instruments.

Mike

Well, I've just seen that an expiry date of Oct 31st has been put on the intoductory offer for Synchron Strings.

Are VSL honestly expecting to encourage people to pre-order when the only thing availble is a short video with a couple of the instruments playing for a very short while (40secs) againt the backdrop of some impressive percussion ?

Come on VSL, please post a couple of video/audio samples to help us make up our minds......

I must admit, this seems to be an odd way to release a new library that everyone is excited to hear and learn more about. All we have is a little teaser trailer and a basic outline. I wonder if the marketing department are on holiday.

I was rather hoping we might know a little more by now. 

What worries me is the they mght suddenly turn round and say the library is released tomorrow, so you have until then to pre order it, whilst we have little or no more detail on it.

Of course it may well be that the library is being released later on November and whole raft of info ready to be  - but I do hope we will have a reasonable amount of time and a reasonable amount of information upon which to make a decision.

Just one thing - you need to restart the mac after the update for things to get fixed.

Just in case it helps any of you guys, Google Chrome is working on my Mac.

But nothing else. If you need to get on the net with a browser Chrome should work for you too. There is a delay when opening web pages, but I think it is trying to use the Apple DNS service, giving up and then using it's own.

It looks like the update has broken the DNS service that resolves IP addresses. In console.app there are lots of error codes whenever you attempt a DNS operation.

Oddly in terminal you can resolve IP adresses using 'nslookup' but not using 'ping'.

I even installed Sierra on top of itself but to no avail. I think we will just have to wait until they fix this.

I'm flipping glad I didn't install it on my main machine so at least I can run libraries locally until they fix it.

Hi All,

My first post here.

Last night my VE Pro 6 updated to the latest verion on my cheesegrater mac pro running Sierra.

This morning I have no internet access - and with some messing aroung it seems me DNS service is screwed up, as I can access websites by their ip address - though oddly it seems I can resolve ip addresses via terminal.  [Updated Below]

Now, of course this might be a complete co-incidence and have nothing to do with the VE Pro 6 update, but it did start to happen after I restarted after the update.

Anyone else having any issues ?

Cheers, Mike