Yeah - I seriously doubt it's the hardware. I've actually tried three different soundcards: HDSP 9632, HDSP 9652, and E-Mu 1212m. All have behaved the same. And MIDI Over LAN behaves the same, as well. It must be a problem with the VE.
rgames
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rgames, I'm testing more now, but so far I've been able to load almost 5 gigs and things seem to be working. I've got 15 midi channels this time, so 14 channels isn't the magic number. Midi is still responding. I'm loading some different (and duplicate of each other) matrices than before. Will keep going......loading a little more now.
Mahlon
Yes - once you get above 3 GB, it gets pretty random. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it sort-of works, but sometimes it doesn't work at all. The only presets that work every time (for me) are those that stay below the 3 GB limit.
Today I tried going back and re-loading channels one-by-one. I got all the way up to 5.3 GB and everything was working. And it even worked after a reboot. But after two reboots, it quit working and hasn't worked again since...
I'm certain VSL is hard at work debugging this problem. I don't think there's any doubt that it has something to do with the VE.
rgames
Re: standalone instances - yes, I can run two standalone instances just fine except for the fact that one instance produces unusable audio. My soundcard (HDSP 9632) is multi-client, so I can route the two VE instances to different outputs on the card. However, the audio only works from one instance. The second instance produces audio, but it's horribly broken up and not usable.
But I can get all of the MIDI channels to work that way... so it's a choice: do you want audio or MIDI?
rgames
Right now I'm using an ASUS P5W-DH (which, IIRC, is what VSL is using on their test machine). Previously I had an ASUS P5B-E. Both behave the same...
VSL has been very quiet on this problem over the last couple of weeks - any help here, folks?
I tried two MOTU 4x4 MIDI interfaces yesterday and they behave the same, as well. The hardware shows MIDI activity but the VE shows nothing or only one port sometimes.
rgames
@Paul said:
Hi,
we are working on it. For now, one workaround seems to be to stop and start the VE engine (sometimes more than once) - at least that works in our testing environment.
Let us know if that improves your situation.
Best,
Paul
Paul,
Unfortunately, pressing the "stop engine/start engine" button does not fix the problem on my system. Still getting no midi input.
I'm sure you guys will find an answer, though.