@ptlover said:
You know, I'm starting on a new project tomorrow, and I'd love to be educated on your workflow. If you have the time, I'd appreciate some insight.
- Do you couple the instances before you shut down for the day?
- Do you save viframes or metaframes?
- How many instances do you typically use on the slave, and does it alter the workflow in any way?
- Do you preserve?
Thanks.
- I don't couple them at all.
- I save viframes when I think to, as chances are they will be useful; eg., the next project might be a mutation of this one and I want to have both versions saved. I also save channels and channel sets. The thing about channel sets is if you import them into an already somewhat built project the sends won't necessarily be in order, but it's not a real big deal. I always save metaframes, as soon as I've made a change. So there's saving at both ends constantly.
- typically 3 or 4, 4 more often as some things weren't x64-ready and I needed the extra instance due to memory limits. I had older projects that were all 32-bit and one of them had like 13 instances. Since Kontakt went x64 for OSX, I'll start a new instance when the channels get to where there's horizontal scrolling past my 23" display. The lion's share is VSL and Kontakt libraries, and I can add instruments until, well, I have yet to hit a ceiling. As far as the workflow, if I have say 6 instances/vi frames, that's more 'projects' to save IF I'm going to need them, and while working I won't be much concerned with that, but for later reference, you know. at this point I'm a stickler for saving when a project completes.
- in the workflow I describe, they are preserved anyway. If I decide to reconfigure the slot arrangement in the next project, for instance a 3 instance rather than 4, I'll unpreserve to rename (and represerve) so I have an easy visual (I call them 1, 2, 3, 4 corresponding to slots in the vsti rack in Cubase).