Vienna Ensemble Pro

[Stig Eliassen]

Originally Posted by drBill

I've had good success with the D-Link switches. You can get a 8 port one for less than a hundred bucks.

For screen sharing, it's done thru the network. If multiple Mac computers are hooked up via ethernet and the switch, you can use screen sharing / keyboard / trackball on all of them. It simple and takes about 30 seconds to set up.

That sounds great, and cheap. Love it! Thanks a bunch!

[Firechild]

VE Pro seems too good to be true

You don´t even need a Audio interface or MIDI on the slave computer,wow !

How much latency is it? Can you use the slave computer as a huge FX rack with CPU hungry reverbs, how much "pre delay" will be introduced ?

I am thinking about setting up aux sends in pro Tools routing through LAN to slavecomputer and back.
Let´s say 64 audio streams ( 16 stereo back and forth ). Or can you downmix the 16 stereoreturns to one stereo on the slave to save Voices when coming back to Pro Tools HD ?

Will that work without hazzle?

[dtmprod]

Been reading all these threads as I'm a G5 dual 2.7 owner needing more horsepower as well. Just picked up a 2009 2.26 8 core. VEPRo is set to 1 core/instance on the slave & latency of 2 in Protools. PT is set to 1 processor. I'm not hearing any clicks & pops while recording & playing back midi, but I do hear some when converting midi to audio. Have to switch H/W buffer to 1024 to get rid of it. Is this 'normal'? Is there another setting I should look at?
Another thot I'm considering is installing PT9 on my slave computer & using my NI Kore as an audio/midi interface. I could create all my midi arrangements in that format, bounce down audio & bring into PT 8 for further recording & mixdown. Anyone have experience doing that?

[Ramtitam]

Originally Posted by dtmprod

Been reading all these threads as I'm a G5 dual 2.7 owner needing more horsepower as well. Just picked up a 2009 2.26 8 core. VEPRo is set to 1 core/instance on the slave & latency of 2 in Protools. PT is set to 1 processor. I'm not hearing any clicks & pops while recording & playing back midi, but I do hear some when converting midi to audio. Have to switch H/W buffer to 1024 to get rid of it. Is this 'normal'? Is there another setting I should look at?
Another thot I'm considering is installing PT9 on my slave computer & using my NI Kore as an audio/midi interface. I could create all my midi arrangements in that format, bounce down audio & bring into PT 8 for further recording & mixdown. Anyone have experience doing that?

I have the same computer as you do and I have it set to 15 cores when I don't use VEPRO and 9 cores when I use it. (if it is a dual 8 core machine? you have) I don't have any pops and clicks. I have 256 pt samples dly and I've set the PT buffer to large. It works like a charm.

[woodsdenis]

A bit late to the VEP scene but here goes. For the most part it works great but I have come across a weird one.
I originally just put my Kontact stuff in VEP. Happy days no issues. I then used the RTAS version of EZ Drummer. this seemed fine also. I then tried to record another RTAS vi and ez drummer goes completely out of sync until I stop disable record and play. Bottom line is that when in midi record any RTAS vi already ready recorded is not in sync with VEP. until I disable record and play.

256 buffer. This is not the same as the long standing midi bug where a record enabled instrument is not delay compensated or is it ? I have toggeled Delay comp on/off etc, trashed prefs, all the usual stuff, any ideas.