I've downloaded the demo, and it looks and sounds amazing, but my setup makes it unuseable. I can't be alone in having a main PC (32-bit Win XP) running Cubase, with a slave pc (64-bit win 7) networked running VE Pro. It seems that MIR replaces VE Pro, as VI Pro sits within MIR, but there is no networking with MIR, so how can I use it?
At the moment I have a MIDI cable in the PC running MIR and that's how I am trying it, but to be useable it has to be slaved from the main DAW PC, and it seems I need to have a multiple port MIDI interface on both PC's and audio link from one PC to the other, it all seems a step down from VE Pro, or am I missing something here. Maybe networking for MIR would be the answer.
How is everyone using MIR with a DAW? I really would like to use it, but it just won't fit in for me.
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MIR looks spectacular, but how can I use it?
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Welcome Andyjh,
Thanks for your interest in Vienna MIR.
The most obvious solution for your setup is to send MIDI over a single network cable, using utilities like MOL ("MIDI over LAN") or ipMIDI. The scenario is the one described in detail as "Typical Setup 1 – Vienna MIR on a dedicated computer" on page 71 in MIR's manual. The manual is available as free download.
That said, a enhanced version of MIR (for now called MIR Pro) is planned to be ready 2011. Amongst other great new features (and OSX-compatibility) it will bring the networking features of VEPro to MIR.
HTH,
/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library