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mikefox789 said:
Throughout the years, I've read a lot of complaints from people who stopped using EastWest products altogether due to Play causing them issues. This new update makes me wonder how many of those people will go back to using their EastWest libs now.
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I hadn't stopped but I have not been writing much whilst waiting for Play 5. I just gettired of the PC's quirks and yes I know so many people use them as slaves but I really would rather run as much as I can in my Mac Pro and offload a little to my MBP as needed. There are other things too like the amount of cooling I need in the machine closet when the PC is running vs/ just running the MP.

Now I can finally run HS, HB, etc on the MP because it won't chew up all the ram.
 
mikefox789 said:
Throughout the years, I've read a lot of complaints from people who stopped using EastWest products altogether due to Play causing them issues.
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Haha this type of behavior is every where cubase, protools, waves plugins, reaper, studio one, and the list goes on and on,

Just as an army of users give up on a music software there also will be a new fresh army of new users that cherish it.

When a music software plays a very important part in what you are creating then you are willing to bare the bugs or glitches

I am not sure but there is not many music software out there that some one will be a 100% happy with and there will always be an excuse to migrate else where.

Does there really need to be a bug or a glitch in a software for some one to migrate.
 
Matt Riley said:
I had this issue with VE Pro 5. To fix it, try this:
1. Open your template in VEP.
2. Open Logic and connect but do not hit play.
3. Turn off all decoupling.
4. Save your Logic template or maybe save as a new name.
5. Close everything down
6. Start VEP but don't load the template
7. Load your Logic template and it should rebuild your template.
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I tried this and I'm still getting immediate crashing. This is quite frustrating. Thanks for the help, though.
 
PLAY 5 is such a huge improvement and I really want to thank EW so much for making this possible. I am amongst those who have rarely had an issue with Play since many years and what we got now is absolutely stunning!
The FX suite is sure a nice addition, although I don´t see myself using it much due to having a myriad of other effect plugins I am used to using. But PLAY is huge!!
 
In the off-chance anyone has a solution:

After upgrading to PLAY 5, and after loading my old VEPro 6 template, as soon as I would hit play on the transport bar of Logic X my VEPro application would immediately crash. So far I have ...

-Reinstalled the directories and reattached play libraries via the installation center
-rebuilt the template

Both of these have netted the same result. Immediate crashing.

My latest experiment—I loaded the same template that was crashing consistently, but removed any instance of PLAY from it and it is now working. Removing play made the template functional again. Obviously this is not acceptable and I will continue tinkering to make it work, but In the off chance that anyone has experience/solved this, would love feedback. Thank you.

Update: I added back ONE instance of play to the template which I stripped of play and it started crashing again. I then removed that instance and tested again and it did not crash. I repeated this multiple times. It appears to be play causing the issues. Also tried changing the Cache to 1, instead of zero, same result.
 
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I'm having trouble bouncing in place in Logic X with PLAY 5 hosted on my slave in VEP6. Anyone else having notes dropped and sound cutting out? Playback is fine it's just when I bounce in place.
 
Matt Riley said:
I'm having trouble bouncing in place in Logic X with PLAY 5 hosted on my slave in VEP6. Anyone else having notes dropped and sound cutting out? Playback is fine it's just when I bounce in place.
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Even though my setup is completely different, I also get dropped notes in offline bounces. I've had to resort to bouncing as the DAW is playing, which of course is a fair bit slower than the offline bounce, but works.
 
AllanH said:
Even though my setup is completely different, I also get dropped notes in offline bounces. I've had to resort to bouncing as the DAW is playing, which of course is a fair bit slower than the offline bounce, but works.
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This is only a problem with PLAY 5 instruments for me. What about you?
 
mikefox789 said:
Throughout the years, I've read a lot of complaints from people who stopped using EastWest products altogether due to Play causing them issues. This new update makes me wonder how many of those people will go back to using their EastWest libs now.
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It is great Play works more robustly now (amazing that EW and their reps used to just blame the issues on other people's computers - wonder why they needed to release an update with all these improvements then). However, it is still not that flexible - especially compared to something like Capsule in Kontakt. Maybe Play 6. Their samples are great - hopefully they will improve the workflow.
 
Anyone have an opinion of how the EW SSL FX compares to other SSL emulations. In particular, the Waves SSL Console and the UAD plugs?
 
RyanWillStewart said:
In the off-chance anyone has a solution:

After upgrading to PLAY 5, and after loading my old VEPro 6 template, as soon as I would hit play on the transport bar of Logic X my VEPro application would immediately crash. So far I have ...

-Reinstalled the directories and reattached play libraries via the installation center
-rebuilt the template

Both of these have netted the same result. Immediate crashing.

My latest experiment—I loaded the same template that was crashing consistently, but removed any instance of PLAY from it and it is now working. Removing play made the template functional again. Obviously this is not acceptable and I will continue tinkering to make it work, but In the off chance that anyone has experience/solved this, would love feedback. Thank you.

Update: I added back ONE instance of play to the template which I stripped of play and it started crashing again. I then removed that instance and tested again and it did not crash. I repeated this multiple times. It appears to be play causing the issues. Also tried changing the Cache to 1, instead of zero, same result.
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Not seeing that with my large templates here on either Mac or PC.
 
I keep getting can not verify your license for HWS Gold and it will not boat up, i have had this before on 4.35 but this time i cant do any thing HWS want boot, i am in VEPro 5 that is where the play is.

on stand alone it opens but not in VEPro 5,

I was using play in VEPro 5 till today stopped for a few hours turned on my system no HWS

There is quite a bit of usage i have done so i am a little at a loss.

Any help will be appreciated.

I will also head over to soundonline to see if i can get help

Sorry if this is not the way to ask for help but i am in a little bit of a panic
 
prodigalson said:
Anyone have an opinion of how the EW SSL FX compares to other SSL emulations. In particular, the Waves SSL Console and the UAD plugs?
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IMO vastly superior to the Waves version... From what I understand the SSL FX in Play are 'legitimate' SSL Dunede FX... (Duende I own. To me Play and Duende basically are 1:1...) The UAD emulations are excellent too, as are Slate... If you use either you're in good company... (I use all of them, but skip Waves)

IMO the Waves SSL plugins are seriously brittle when compared to Duende, UAD or Slate... I'm sure some Waves users have a bone to pick... but in that case I would say do and A/B... Thee Waves SSL bundle are the only ones I've found that sound anemic, and not subtley...

I digressed by bringing in Slate... The big point is although it's subjective, I'm confident anyone who does a fair comparison wil also find Waves SSL to be noticeably brittle compared to the other 3...

And please, do Not take my word for it... do your own experiments if possible...

To my ears the difference is FAR from subtle, and everyone wins but Waves... And with that said, please remember it's an opinions. Please do your own tests before assuming my opinion is right or wrong...

Regards
 
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jcrosby said:
IMO the Waves SSL plugins are seriously brittle
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Dont forget the waves SSL has two it has an E version channel strip plus it has a G version channel strip they bath come together, one version I think it is the E version that is meant for a harsher sound and the G version is a more softer clean sound.

jcrosby said:
I'm sure some Waves users have a bone to pick
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Hmmmmm I am not gong down this road i have them and i love them, have not used the one in play 5 yet plus my play5 is down so dont know when i will get to use it any way,
 
novaburst said:
just my luck eastwest support canter want open just blank blue page, when it rains it poors heeeelp

Any one
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Are you using Safari on a Mac? I read about a strange but apparently working solution in the Soundsonline forum: restart Safari three times. That's it. Hope it works.
 
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