VE Pro is working great here, but there's two issues with Kontakt that seem to recur. Unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out a sure way to reproduce either one, so I'm hoping someone has more input on these.
I'm using VE Pro as a plugin in Cubase 5.1.0 on OS X 10.6.1. Kontakt is version 3.5 as mentioned.
The first problem has to do with the latency compensation. Sometimes when loading up the session, one of the Kontakt instances within VE Pro will have a huge latency and be out of sync with the rest of the instruments in VE Pro. It's about a second late.The problem is fixed by closing the session _and_ closing and restarting the VE Pro Server. If I don't close the server app, and just reload the session, the problem remains, and it'll be the same Kontakt instance every time (I had multiple ones in that session).
But that's unfortunately as far as I got with trying to test that thing. I'll post more if I figure out steps to reproduce it from scratch. Just happens with one of my sessions right now.
Another thing kind of seems like it's entirely a problem within Kontakt, but it doesn't happen to me outside VE Pro, so I'm a bit puzzled. What happens is some of the time, like 30%, when I load a patch in Kontakt, it loads up and receives MIDI according to the indicators, but nothing plays back. Then if I remove the patch and load it again, it works. Again, obviously doesn't sound like a VE Pro problem, but curiously that's never happened to me when using Kontakt in Logic for example. Anyone else have this happen? Seems there's a post about a similar thing with Omnisphere, maybe it's the same thing.