Rob Elliott
Senior Member
The fact of the matter for me (master and 3 slaves) - VEP is right there with Cubase Pro for the MOST important software I own. I'd pay twice/thrice the price if I 'had to'. This pricing model seems fair IMHO.
Crashes or freezes. The slave PC won't even pass "Initializing" at boot. Support wants to remote my PC and have a look but I wan't to sit in front when they log in so that'll wait until next week.What issues are you having?
Crashes or freezes. The slave PC won't even pass "Initializing" at boot. Support wants to remote my PC and have a look but I wan't to sit in front when they log in so that'll wait until next week.
Ensemble Pro (!) Server is working on my main Mac now, but Vienna Instruments/Ensemble (not Pro) will crash on launch. Latest versions installed everywhere.
€75 is for upgrading the 3 licenses I got earlier? $45 for additional single licenses is for license #4 and above?
Errrrr ... this seems to be a misunderstanding: The "Synchron-ized" Vienna Instruments have no "baked-in artificial reverb". They were completely re-mastered and use some kind of next-generation MIRx for placement, tone and "artificial reverb" (ha!) to achieve a believable blend between the Vienna Instruments and Synchron Series, but nothing is "baked in".the Syncrhonized series is just nuts. It's the craziest offering in all Sampledom. The big selling point of the original series is control, and typically exquisite legato transitions. This is because it has been recorded on the Silent Stage. To actually take those samples and bake in some artificial reverb - screwing up the very thing that was good about them in the first place by muddying all those transitions -
Ouch. I guess v6 slaves won't be able to connect to a v7 host?75€ for 1 of the 3 licenses, 45€ x 2 for the other 2 licenses.
I just installed it and this is my first impression:
Content you'll get:
- Old content is just "synchronized" and sounds good.
- Syn. Strings: You get Short, Soft lyrical vib, Flautando. They sound good imo, full range over the keyboard. So can be usefull in some scenarios (layering, pad)
- Syn FX Strings: 4 articulations, usefull if you need that kind of stuff
- Syn App Strings: Only strong vib Legato and Slides up, only Vio I (there is no IR included for Vio II).
- Syn Chamber Strings: Only Vio I and only Legato, Halftone trill. No idea how to combine this with the rest of the collection...
- Syn Dim Brass: Only Wagner Tubas + Stacc, Portato, Sustain, Blare, Marcato. 4 players, individual programmable. Really great and a highlight of the collection.
- Syn Percussion: Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Tam-Tam
- Power Drums: Tama Star Light Set
- Smart Spheres: Tremolo Pad, High Anxiety, Pad Bass, Distorted Bass
You will get multiple microphone positions with the Synchron Libraries, which is great, but imo you should buy this for VEPro and not the bonus content. It's nice to have it if you don't have the libraries, but no must-have.
It includes all available mic-positions. This makes the library huge.So this is like a "taster" library bloated to 73GB?
Synchron Strings alone is 35GB as per Paul’s demo video.It includes all available mic-positions. This makes the library huge.
I’m right there with you. Dunno about the included library (the initial epic orch got a TON of use from me, what a nice little add on that was!) but I’m still totally amazed at what the software does. On my ancient Mac Pro, I’d say it approximately doubles the amount of CPU/ASIO performance with Cubase, and its ability to hook up MIDI and audio to a slave computer with a CAT cord STILL blows my mind.The fact of the matter for me (master and 3 slaves) - VEP is right there with Cubase Pro for the MOST important software I own. I'd pay twice/thrice the price if I 'had to'. This pricing model seems fair IMHO.
Errrrr ... this seems to be a misunderstanding: The "Synchron-ized" Vienna Instruments have no "baked-in artificial reverb". They were completely re-mastered and use some kind of next-generation MIRx for placement, tone and "artificial reverb" (ha!) to achieve a believable blend between the Vienna Instruments and Synchron Series, but nothing is "baked in".
In case of the Synchron-ized Vienna Instruments: Yes, similar to MIRx. In case of Synchron Series: No, the room is part of the recording (... but there's still the _additional_ algorithmic reverb in the Synchron Player for sweetening).So to be clear - which the VSL information absolutely isn't - you're saying that although they went back and manipulated the original samples, the reverb part of it is handled in Synchron Player AFTER sample playback?
It’s easy to draw this conclusion , but if you check the size of the Synchron-ized libraries themselves (the ones that were recorded in silent stage) you see they are in fact have a size pretty close to the dry versions. Not the case with Synchron line (i.e. Synchron strings, etc..).Thanks Dietz - though it doesn’t make me want to go anywhere near the Synchronized range, it’s certainly less bad to do it that way. IMO the information available about the range is very poor. I looked specifically for this information at the time and after a lot of head scratching concluded it was baked in.
Here’s to hoping NKS will be incorporated into VEPro 7 so the Lightguide will work with Kontakt instruments hosted in VEPro on a networked Machine (and Local).