I can't seem to get any sibelius instruments to trigger the VSL jazz drum kits. I need a very small drum kit to include in an orchestral score - playing bass drum, snare and tambourine.

I may be missing the obvious but would like a push in the right direction please.

Hi Paul,

Well spotted - Vienna instruments were not updated. That is now corrected but the Vienna Solo Voices are still not appearing for use in Vienna Instruments.

Hi Paul,

I did all of this as you instructed. Everything updated But they still do not turn up in my VEP5.

Attached are what seem to be the most important screen shots:

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Same problem for me - non appearance of Vienna Solo Voices in Vienna Ensemble PRO5. All software up to date. Rescanning Directories did not solve this for me. Initially the Vieena Solo Voices were not in the Directory list but I added folder rescanned - still did appear in VEP.

Very impressive demo and a great way of managing the brass family but where are the mutes? I would buy this set immediately if there were muted and stopped sounds for horns (and I wouldn't mind a decent range of trumpet and trombone mutes). I can't understand why VSL keeps leaving them out.

Otherwise I am very happy working with VSL day after day after day.....

Can you tell me the vocal ranges of each voice please. That would be a factor in my purchasing the package?

Thanks,

Ross

I have updated to this version VE PRO from the previous one but when I tried to add a solo cello to my vienna instruments orchestral cello the loading seemed to go into a loop and was well on the way to filling up 16gigs of ram when I pulled the plug on it. The solo cello was supposed to be 175megs. Is this a bug? Should I go back to the previous version? Is it something to do with the new feature save/load channel presets because this instance was made with the previous version of VE PRO?

This happens on a Mac Pro with 16gig of ram.

Thanks for any help!

Ross

Thank you for your reply Maya. 

You refer to using the Vienna Ensemble PRO server to choose 32 bit or 64 bit but the way I am using VE PRO at the moment is not through a network (I am using midi cables) so I don't open Vienna Ensemble PRO server at all. I am using it like the old Vienna Ensemble 2 - the question is, does it open in 32 bit when used in this fashion?

Regards,

"With the 64-bit version of Vienna Ensemble PROyou can load as many samples as all of your RAM will hold!" (publicity info)

Is it possible that VE PRO loads in 32 bit mode when it is used on a slave computer connected via midi and not ethernet?

Can VE PRO respond to multiple instances of active VE PRO(s)  from Sibelius when connected via ethernet cable?

Many thanks for any help on these matters!

Thanks mpower88,

I was hoping that VSL would make an announcement along the lines that Sibelius have:

"We are pleased to announce the availability of a free update for Sibelius 6 users that provides compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Ross Harris 

I suspect I have missed an announcement about the compatibility of VI and VE with Snow Leopard. Could VSL please confirm that there are no problems updating to Snow Leopard?

Many thanks,

Ross Harris

With all the fabulous sounds that are available from Special Edition and Download instruments the absence of muted and stopped horns seems curious. I would leap at the chance of a horn download instrument that would cover these basic sounds.

Please!

This is an amazing feat of arranging. Congratulations Jay. Nice to hear the lower horns for a change! But there is one sound that doesn't work well enough - muted trumpets!

Which reminds me, where are the muted horn samples for the Special Edition? Please can I have some?

Ross

 Hi Andi and David,

I seemed to solve the problem by taking the Vienna Instruments vst and 'component' (whatever that is) out of the plugin folder leaving the Vienna Ensemble vst and component in place. I haven't had time to pursue this beyond one midi channel but initial tests looked promising.

Ross 

I have not been able to get Sibelius 5.1 and VE to work together on my Mac Pro. Both programs freeze.

I do not have any trouble with VE standalone instances when running them via midi (with Sibelius on another machine) 

I do not have any trouble getting Sibelius to work on the mac pro as long as the VE vst files are not in the plugin folder.

It is a little frustrating with such a powerful mac not to be able to get Sibelius and VE running at the same time.

Any help would be appreciated.

 I am thinking of getting a macbook pro to play my Vienna Instruments. If I have 4 Gig of ram how many instances can I expect to be able to run? Also, has anyone any idea if the Vienna Ensemble will increase this?

Many thanks. 

 Thank you for the reply. I misunderstood the Halion/Kontakt Topics heading.

By the way, I do own the Opus Bundle too but have no questions about that excellent package running in Gigastudio!

I have just bought HSO to use with Sibelius but I cannot figure out how to change the sounds in the 16 slots available. For example the first violins need to go from arco (legato, staccato etc) to pizz. The string Combi program (which seemed a logical solution) only has pizz. for the double basses!

I hope I have missed mention of this simple task in the manual!

Thanks for any help