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  • VE Pro Event Input in Cubase: no audio mixdown

    B
    B

    Hi,

    In Cubase 6, if I set the output of a MIDI track to a VE Pro instance, playing in real time works great and audio mixdown works great too. 

    If I change the output to a VE Pro Event Input instance assigned to that VE Pro instance:

    - playing in real time works more or less but misses LOTS of notes in a non-deterministic way (the MIDI track still shows the MIDI being sent), sometimes notes get stuck (the MIDI note off event was missed?)

    - in File>Export>Audio Mixdown (Real-Time Export not checked) there is complete silence.

    Thanks.

    VE Pro 5.0.10738

    ASIO card: Echo MiaMIDI PCI, latency setting in Cubase: 128 samples.

    Latency in VE Pro server interface: "2 buffers, 896 samples (20.3ms)"

    Cubase 6.0.5 32 bit in Windows 7 64 bit
  • K
    K

    While this is indeed strange, there is absolutely no reason to use the Event Input plugin in Cubase. You can use the VST3 version of VE Pro 5 there, which has multiple MIDI ports.
  • B
    B

    I use several instances of Plogue Bidule, so in the way I set things up, it's really convenient to be able to send MIDI data coming from/processed in one Bidule instance to a VE Pro which is hosted in another Bidule instance.

    Also, Bidule does not host VST3 plugins.

    However, as was implied in my original post, the problem happens when VE Pro and VE Pro Event Input are hosted directly in Cubase, completely independently of Bidule.

    VE Pro Event Input seems to miss a lot more notes, sometimes all of them (it varies a lot in apparently unpredictable ways), if there is more than one VE Pro Event Input instance connected to a given VE Pro instance.

    Interestingly, when hosted in Bidule, VE Pro Event Input misses a lot less notes, it actually misses none of them in certain situations.

    The mixdown situation is strange:

    - when VE Pro and VE Pro Event Input are hosted in Cubase, there is always complete silence as mentioned above

    - when hosted in Bidule, the mixdown is a badly garbled  but recognizable version of the original music, as if there was a synchronization/delay problem where Cubase/Bidule/VE Pro does not wait for the complete sounds generated by the Vienna Instruments to arrive, so they get truncated and we hear lots of clicks.