With AU you only get 16 MIDI channels per instance of VE Pro. When you need more, just open another instance of VE Pro.
DG
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DG is right, only 16 channels per instance. Even if VE Pro had a way of allocating more channels, you would still be limited by the AU Plugin itself in DP. DP (or any other Mac host) considers the VE Pro plugin to be an AU instrument.
I have 3 instances on my slave machine normally, which means I have 3 separate VE Pro plugins available in DP. This gives me 48 possible MIDI channels.
Welcome greg328,
You are referring to multi-timbral plug-ins (Trillian and Play).
VE PRO gives you 16 MIDI channels for 1 AU port, and if you want to use multiple MIDI channels, you should set the MIDI channel in the VE PRO channel strip to "multi".
It will be a good idea to open multiple VE PRO instances for these multi-timbral instruments.
You can also check out the chapters "Multi-timbral instruments" and "Routing" in the VE PRO manual.
Regarding your second question: You have probably launched the 64 bit VE PRO Server, which means that you can load 64 bit plug-ins like Spectrasonics, NI.....
To load 32 bit plug-ins, you can launch a 32 bit VE PRO Server additionally!
Best,
Paul
Hi greg328,
These are many many questions.
1) 1 AU instance of VE PRO offers "only" 1 Port/16 MIDI channels. This is a limitation of the AU standard.
=> So if you want to use multiple multi-timbral plug-ins, you will need to open multiple instances of VE PRO. Set the MIDI channel to "omni" in VE PRO for these multi-timbral plug-ins (on top of the channel in VE PRO, sorry for the confusion with "multi"), and assign the correct MIDI channel in your sequencer.
2) Yes, a 64 bit VE PRO lets you use all the RAM you have available. The 32-bit VE PRO has a RAM limit (in theory 4 GB, in reality around 2.8 GB).
You can always send a screenshot with a link to this thread to
Best,
Paul
I also am having the same difficulties in understanding how to make multiple plugins work in ve pro. I found a workaround by opening up a ve pro instance for each plugin - one for kontakt, one for omnisphere, one for vsl instuments, etc...
But, this is incredibly inefficient as I have to open up more ve pro instances than i need. I'm sure this is just a routing issue of some kind, but after spending hours trying to figure it out, I just started using separated instances.
You need to assign your first instrument to something like bus1-2 in DP and then the next to vep 3-4, vep 5-6 etc. This will separate each instrment. When you hit the plus sign on a vep Play master (the one assigned to Bus 1-2) you then get a next fader that should be assigned to midi channel 2.
It seems that I need to put two instances of Play into each instance of VEP because I can only get 8 discreet stereo outs from each instance. So if I use two instances of Play in each of two instances of VEP I get 32 separate stereo outs. I have tested this and it seems to work well.
There was a little glitch or it took a little time for the midi channels to assign at first but all seems to be working.
@greg328 said:
When I'm in DP, no matter which MIDI track I've armed, the VEPRO patch sounds!!!! So, say I arm the Trilian bass track--I get bass AND strings! It's as if VEPRO is receiving MIDI no matter which device or channel I'm record-enabling in DP.
I'm quite sure that you have figured this out by now, but for others who find this thread: PLAY defaults to an omni midi setting for each instrument. You need to manually set the discrete MIDI channels, or in the prefs set it so that new instruments are assigned to incremental MIDI channels.
DS
@plurye said:
I do this all the time — works fine.
I tried to load an Omnisphere and Trilian into one VEP Instance, thinking that the Omni would receive MIDI channels 1-8 and the Trilian could receive MIDI channels 9-16, but wasn't able to get it to work. However, is it technically possible to have a second multichannel AU receive specified MIDI channels like this? I couldn't even get Trilian to receive on Ch 9.