Hi everyone

I am in the process of updating my studio.

I am proposing to purchase a 2019 MacPro with the folling specs.

3.2GHz 16‑core Intel Xeon W processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz
96GB (6 × 16GB) of DDR4 ECC memory
Radeon Pro 580X with 8GB of GDDR5 memory
4TB of SSD storage

For the soundcard it is going to be either 

Universal Audio UA-APX6 Thunderbolt 3 Audio Interface

or

Apogee Element 88 Thunderbolt 3

If anyone could give me some feedback on my choices it would be appreciated.

Also posted this in the Hardware section

Regards

Mirabile

Hi everyone

I am in the process of updating my studio.

I am proposing to purchase a 2019 MacPro with the folling specs.

For the soundcard it is going to be either 

Universal Audio UA-APX6 Thunderbolt 3 Audio Interface

or

Apogee Element 88 Thunderbolt 3

If anyone could give me some feedback on my choices it would be appreciated.

Regards

Mirabile

Anyone at VSL

Can you reply to this query?

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Mirabile

Herb or Paul

Do the Dimension Brass II Horns contain stopped samples?

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Mirabile

VSL

Will the french horn samples also have stopped samples?

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Mirabile

mjmyers60

For a string ensemble using 8 first violins, the number of  cellos and double basses is too large.  I suggest 4 cellos  and 2 double basses for a better balance.

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Mirabile

Paul or Dietz

Could you please answer this one.

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Mirabile

Dear Vienna Community

I would like some advice for some problems I am having with a 84VI, 6 Kontakt tracks, large orchestral score using VEPro5 with MIR running on a 12Core 2.66GHz Power Mac, with 48GB of RAM and 500GB SSD and 2 1TB hard disks.  With Logic 9.1.8 using VE Multiport configuration.

My Soundcard is a MOTU 828.

The problems are as follows:

Sometimes when many tracks are playing together there are crackles in the sound and some sounds seem to cut out.  Also I am am having difficulty with the balance of the different parts.

The causes for these problems might be latency issues, No. of buffers in VEPro5 and number of threads used in VEPro5.

For my system what would you recommend for the number of threads, latency setting in logic and number of buffers in VE5Pro?

Are there any other reasons why I might be experiencing these issues?  

For this score I am using 33,822MB of RAM for 394,573 samples.

Also the MAC activity monitor is running at about 25%.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Mirabile

 VSL Team

How Vienna Suite Presets for Bb Trumpet and dimension brass?

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Mirabile

Cyril

Thanks for your reply. 

I have put a transformer into the environment page.  Where do you connect it? How do you define it so it transforms volume cc into expression cc?

I am not sure this will help because the volume slider on the software instrument moves without any midi data on the software instrument track that has VE Pro 5 on it, and this is connected to the all ports of the multiport setup.  It might being activated from one of the external 66 midi tracks that I am using for the project I am working on.

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Mirabile

VSL Community

I am using the VEP Logic Multiport environment with VEPro5 and MIR Pro with Logic 9.1.7.  I have a project that exhibits volume problems using this setup.

The volume slider on the software instrument into which I have loaded VE Pro 5 moves up and down without any midi controller data input.  This causes changes in volume at various time intervals in a project I am working on at the moment.  66 VI instances.

Has anybody got any ideas what could be causing this undersirable changes in volume.

Also how does one automate the volume sliders in VE Pro5 from Logic?

Regards

Mirabile

 Will someone please reply to this post.

Regards

Mirabile

VSL Community

I have an old project that I am trying to get up and running using VEP 5 and Logic 9.1.7.  I have used the VEP multiport solution to only have one instance of VEP 5.  I am having trouble with the routing on the Logic arrange page.  I have used the media window to assign ports and midi channels for my project, same ports and channels in the mixer of VEP 5 (1 intrument track with VEP 5 enabled and 68 External midi tracks). Also there are some strange volume behaviors such as the volume slider  changing on the intrument track  when I do not have any midi volume changes on it. My questions are as follows:

• What do I set the port to in the inspector for each external midi tracks and the instrument track?All? or some other port?
• How do you automate volume in the mixer of VEP 5 from the logic arrange page?
• What could be causing the volume slider movement on the instrument track?

Regards

Mirabile

MacPro 12 Core 2.66GHz, 48GB Ram, one internal 512 GB SSD and 2 1TB drives Logic 9.1.7,Vienna Cube, Appassionata Strings 1, Chamber Strings II, Saxophones - all extended versions.

Dietz

Thanks for your reply.

I have double clicked the title bar as I stated in my original post.  This docks the various windows but they do not return to there default status (That is when you first open a VEPro instance).  How do get the windows to dock to there default status.

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Mirabile

VSL Community

I was playing around with the VE Pro 5 GUI with undocking the various windows but I cannot get the GUI back to its default state.  That is with the channels on the left and the mixer to the right of the channels and the Mixer MIR buttons below the window so you can switch from mixer to MIR Pro.  Double clicked on the top of the window and it redocks the windows but not to the default state. 

How do you return the VE Pro GUI to its default state?

Regards

Mirabile 

Civilization 3, Paul anybody at VSL

Could you please expand on connecting the volume automation data on an logic audio track to the the corresponding audio input channel in VE PRO.  

I have a project that has 66 audio inputs in VEPro and I have been trying to connect the automation data from the logic audio tracks to the audio input channel in VEPro.

For example I have a Harp audio track in logic using midi channel 3 in logic and this is assigned to audio input channel 75/76 in VE Pro.  I am getting sound ok through VE Pro and MIR Pro is ok, but I cannot get the automation data for this track in logic to affect the volume slider in VE Pro.

I am using a 2.66GHz 12 core MacPro with 48GB of RAM, Logic 9.1.7 VEPro 5/MIR Pro,

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Mirabile

Cyril

No I have not tried a transformer. Thanks for the tip.

I have encountered another problem with the engine start/stop button.  When i turn it on I do not get any sound coming through.  When I have it off the sound from the audio tracks comes through.  Any idea what is causing this.

I am using 66 audio input tracks in one instance of VE Pro.

Regards

Mirabile

 VSL Community

I am using an old project that I want to enhance using VEPro and MIR Pro.  Sending audio tracks to VE Pro using audio input plugin and also inserting Input I/O and bypassing as per instruction manual.  My question is the audio tracks in logic have volume automation data that affects the volume level.  This does not seem to have any affect once the sound is being processed by MIR.  How do you automate volume level in VEPro and MIR Pro?

Regards

Mirabile

 VSL Community

For my orchestral templates I will require 2-4 instances of VE Pro 5.  Is it possible to set up a MIR Pro Orchestral setup that combines all instances of VEPro or do you have a MIR setup for each section of the orchestra dependant on each VE Pro Instance?

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Mirabile

Cyril

Thanks for the information.  I live in Melbourne, Australia which at this time of the year is GMT + 9.  Never used ichat before.

But willing to give it a try.

Regards

Mirablie

Cyril

I have downloaded the file and I am trying to understand how you have put it all together.  I would like to point out I do not have a surround sound system and therefore I do not think that this tutorial is relevent to my setup.

Thanks for your help.

Maybe if you could contact me by email and we could discuss this further.

Regards

Mirabile

Cyril

Thanks for setting up the tutorial and the template.  However, I could not access your server.

look forward to be able to use the info. you have created.

Regards

Mirabile

Cyril

Thanks for your very generous offer to make me a template.  I feel I will waste a lot of time trying to sort this out so if you can make me a template when it is convenient that would be great.

My email is

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Mirabile

 Cyril & Noldart

Thanks for your replies.

Maybe I did not explain what I need so I have  attempted to convey what I need below.  I am asking this question because the Vienna Ensemble Pro Manual is a bit confusing.  It would be greatly enhanced if step by step  examples were included on how you can create various templates for starting new projects and adapting old ones.

As stated in my original posting I was using a G5 Mac  with the symphonic cube to create a number of orchestral pieces using the cube samples with Logic 8.02.  Due to the limitations of the G5 with 6GB of RAM and Logic 8 I was not able to load a full orchestra of samples into about 80 odd logic intrument tracks simultaneously.  To overcome this restriction I loaded just the string samples that I required for Violins 1 & 2, Violas, Celli and Double Basses and recorded audio tracks for the strings.  Then I repeated the process for woodwinds, brass and percusion recording approximately 80 audio tracks for the whole piece of music. This was achieved  using Logic Instrument tracks with Vienna Instrument AU plug in.  I did not use Vienna Ensemble (VE) or  VE Pro. The post production was done with Altiverb and Vienna Suite.

I would like to improve the sound quality of  the existing recorded audio tracks by using MIR Pro.

So how do you route the prerecorded audio tracks into VE Pro 5 so that I can use MIR Pro to improve the sound quality of these audio tracks.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Mirabile