@DG said:
OK, some interesting things here ![](http://community.vsl.co.at/emoticons/emotion-15.gif)
All times are from cold boot.
Loading VE within Nuendo 1' 07"
Loading VE as standalone 3' 17"
Yikes. If I was loading a standalone, I would be moaning about the times as well. ![](http://community.vsl.co.at/emoticons/emotion-3.gif)
DG
I took some time out to run some tests of the licence scanning times. To get the most reliable results I removed all USB peripherals.
Times as follows - all from a cold boot:
Vienna Key plugged into Sonnet PCI-X USB 2 card
VI stand alone 1:50
VE stand alone 1:50 (shows "licence scanning" for first 40" then disc scanning for the remainder)
VI AU plug-in in Logic 1:45
VE AU plug-in in Logic 1:45
Vienna Key plugged in to USB connector at front of MacPro
VI stand alone 2:05
VE stand alone 2:05 (shows "licence scanning" for first 40" then disc scanning for the remainder)
VI AU plug-in in Logic 2:00
VE AU plug-in in Logic 2:00
I suspect that the internal USB bus might be slower than the Sonnet card because the Mac keyboard is on the internal bus as is the Bluetooth network.
The figures were extremely consistant with the scanning times varying by no more than a second on multiple re-boots.
The software was the latest software for Synscosoft and VI + VE Logic version 8.0.2 Prior to testing the operating system was updated to OSX 10.5.6 from 10.5.5 and the latest Syncrosoft was downloaded strangely this most recent combination added 4" to the scanning times compared with some tests run directly before. Following the OS software update a permissions repair was done and the computer re-booted a few times and VI + VE run a few times to settle the system down.
Question for Daryl, do your VI + VE stand alone applications launch in the same time and could your Nuendo application have an autoload template that does some of the scanning so that when you launch a VSL plug-in it is quicker? I ask this as my licence scanning times were extremely consistent and only varied by 5 seconds between the stand alones and the plug-ins.
System Specification:
MacPro 8 Core 32 GB RAM SATA Raid 0 (2 disc) boot drive 30% full. Vienna Samples on e-SATA 4 disc Raid 0.
Installed licences as shown on LCC 37 (level 1 and 2 are shown as separate licences)
If I get time I'll post the increases in scanning time once I've loaded Solo Strings 2 and the Chistmas downloads.
Regards
Julian