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Originally Posted by ionactive

Hi Dj..

1/2 - would run under PT11 fine.

3/4 would run under PT11, via VE Pro 5, as long as I load the VST versions of them.

Have I got it ?!!

Thanks again (all) for the advice.

Mark

An additional benefit of VEP5 is time. In Protools 10 you can use multiple instances of either 64bit or 32bit versions of VEP5 AAX or VEP5 RTAS.
If you don't care to upgrade all of your older 32bit VIs right now, you can continue to you those in Protools 11 via VE Pro 5.
You can also use other 64bit VIs that are not yet AAX via VEP5.
For e.g. your IK Multimedia VIs are not yet 64bit (Sampletank, Miroslav etc), but you can use them in ProTools 11 or other 64bit DAWs via VE Pro.

It's your call, but I'm sure IK and other VIs will all be 64bit soon. Maybe you can wait for AAX versions of those plugins and ignore VEP5.

One reason I like VEP is that you can sequence in any DAW without having to reload VIs. It is like using a very powerful and flexible external sound module.