I prefer it anyway because I like my Logic project workflow to resemble composing on a full score page.
By that I assume you mean you want one track per instrument? You can do that without having to use one vep instance per instrument.
I prefer it anyway because I like my Logic project workflow to resemble composing on a full score page.
I haven’t tried the multi out yet. I will next week, out of town now. I was getting the orange button too before and now I’m not, not sure why but check the thing azeteg mentioned, it’s a column in the plugin manager window
Did you uncheck the "AU3 Mode" checkbox?
That's my experience too but maybe this changes with AU3?All I can say is that Peter Schwartz, George Leger III and I did extensive testing when it came out and we all concluded that VEP worked better with Logic using one instruments per instance.
I can see all 48 ports (VE Pro limit) in Logic Pro. Do you have your VE Pro preferences set to 16 ports?
And now it's not working.
I may have figured out some of it - you insert a 5.1 plug-in first, then it may work. But nah, not worth playing with.
As far as CPU management, doesn't VEP use blocks of CPU (if that's a way to describe it) per instance? So for example if you have a few channels of CPU hungry instruments (looking at you Herr Kepler) in a single instance, you'll hit a wall faster than if you were using separate instances?
When you say you see 48 ports, where do you see them? I think maybe it does not work right if you try to use that completely. The VEp plugin might show 48 ports, but the Logic UI will not be showing you all 48 ports in the track inspector. it can only show up to 16 ports there as far as I can see.
In order to use this properly with more than 16 channels you have to use the AU3 templates that VSL provided, or else you have to manually create some objects in the environment yourself, which is essentially what they did in that template.
If you put the AU3 plug on the Inst1 channel, then you create a bunch of channel strip objets based on Inst1 and you can set the port and midi channel for each one. This is generally how multis are handled in LPX. However, right now the environment and the track inspector will only let you define ports 1-16.
Hmm, that's interesting. I'ma way from home and my main DAW machine, but here on my laptop (running High Sierra), I can't seem to see more then 16 ports available in either the track inspector or inside the enviornment when inspecting the channel strip objects. I wonder how you're getting 48 to show up? I'd be curious if they all work! Paul had mentioned in his video about AU3, that we would not be able to get 768 midi channels per instance for some reason.
I thought Paul said we could not get even 768, which is 16 channels x 48 ports; and I thought 768 was the max number of channels per instance in VEP period...across all DAW's. I may not be remembering correctly, but I thought LPX was even more limited then that as of now. I know for my part, here on my laptop I can only see 16 ports available in the LPX inspectors. Dbuddle says he sees 48 which is great news but I don't know why I can't see that. I don't have a VEP server on my laptop to be able to run it and see if changing the number of midi ports there would somehow reconfgure LPX to think there is more. I already tried changing the number of midi ports in the VEP plugin itself to 48, but still the LPX inspector shows a list of port 1-16 for each track/channel.
I thought Paul said we could not get even 768, which is 16 channels x 48 ports; and I thought 768 was the max number of channels per instance in VEP period...across all DAW's. I may not be remembering correctly, but I thought LPX was even more limited then that as of now. I know for my part, here on my laptop I can only see 16 ports available in the LPX inspectors. Dbuddle says he sees 48 which is great news but I don't know why I can't see that. I don't have a VEP server on my laptop to be able to run it and see if changing the number of midi ports there would somehow reconfgure LPX to think there is more. I already tried changing the number of midi ports in the VEP plugin itself to 48, but still the LPX inspector shows a list of port 1-16 for each track/channel.
By that I assume you mean you want one track per instrument? You can do that without having to use one vep instance per instrument.
That's my experience too but maybe this changes with AU3?
@Ashermusic Did you try the VEPro AU3 beta? Would be interesting if this will change the overall behaviour.