I just ran some tests with Vienna Ensemble on PC, in the hope that I would be able to use it with ProTools (via the FXPansion VST-RTAS wrapper).
Everything appears to be fine - the wrapper identifies and wraps VE, ProTools sees the plugin and instantiates it correctly, the Ensemble application and server application launch as expected, everything is connected fine - basically all systems go.
However, when I actually assign MIDI in ProTools to be routed to the Vienna Ensemble plugin, and assign instruments in Ensemble to receive MIDI from 'Plugin MIDI In', I cannot get MIDI into the Ensemble. No activity at all. I've checked everything I can think of, tried different channels etc.etc. I can see MIDI being received on the correct channels in ProTools, but for some reason, it is not being routed to Vienna Ensemble.
I'd really hoped this would work, as I've found running Vienna Instruments in a separate VST host and then routing audio into ProTools via Rewire to be quite cumbersome. I guess for some reason the wrapping process isn't working totally correctly, which is causing MIDI transmission to fail.
If anyone at VSL had any ideas, or comments, or had tested this at all, I'd be really grateful to hear any feedback. If it's known to be
a no-go, I'll go back to how I was working previously.
Thanks for any help.
Jules
PS. Are there any plans for a PC RTAS version of VE - clearly that would be the ultimate solution?