MIDI plugins don’t like VE Pro - skipped notes+latency

[Marsdy]

Delighted to see MIDI Plugins in Pro Tools.

However, I’m having an issue using them with VE Pro. I have a couple of hundred Instrument Tracks routed to VE Pro in my template session. For each track, MIDI is routed to an individual VI (or an individual MIDI channel of an instrument) within VE Pro. The audio input of the Instrument Track is routed from an individual output of VE Pro.

If I insert a MIDI plugin on one of these Instrument Tracks, it doesn’t work unfortunately, at least not here! MIDI doesn’t pass through to VE Pro, even when the MIDI plugin is bypassed.

As a workaround, I’ve created a new Instrument Track and inserted a MIDI plugin on that. Then on the VE Pro Instrument Track, I’ve set its input to the MIDI Chain output from the new Instrument Track. This works if both MIDI tracks are record enabled but…. The latency is terrible and I’m getting a lot of random missing notes when using say EON-ARP. It’s unusable unfortunately.

So a bit disappointing! Is this a limitation of the new MIDI Plugin architecture, a bug or am I doing something wrong?

And regarding MIDI Plugins - to forum mods, would a separate AAX plugin in forum be a good idea? Also, can we have a page on the Avid site that lists available third party AAX MIDI plugins like there is for audio plugins?