Thank you but now I'm wondering why something different is happening on both my external PC DAWs. After completely loading a metaframe I created on an older version of VE PRO, when I double-click on a channel that has plug-ins loaded, i.e. East West PLAY with Stormdrum 2, it will completely re-load all the sounds in that particular plug-in/channel. It will do the same for all plug-ins I have instantiated.  I've rebooted, loaded different metaframes, various plug-ins from different manufacturers and have the same issue on all of them.  Is this functioning as normal for this new version of VE PRO?

Hi, I also have problems after the update. Within Sibelius 7 my playback configuration doesn't work anymore and rebuilding it doesn't work either. When I try to connect instances to my (virtual) 64bit server it says that the version is invalid. What's going on here?

Hello Heike!

I guess you have copied or moved the file "Vienna Ensemble Pro x64.dll" from your previous installation and now are trying to connect the old plugin to the new Server version. This cannot work. It is not recommended to move or copy plugin files, but rather to setup effect folders in your host software.

To get things back to work again, I recommend the following procedure:
- Uninstall Vienna Ensemble Pro.
- Search your hard disk for remaining files "Vienna Ensemble Pro.dll" and "Vienna Ensemble Pro x64.dll". Delete these files.
- Reinstall the latest version of VE Pro.
- Remember where you install the 64-bit versions of the Vienna Ensemble Pro plugins.
- In the Sibelius 7 Audio Engine Options/Virtual Instruments and Effects folders menu add the folder where you have installed the VE Pro 64-bit plugins.

Best regards,
Andi

Thanks for your swift response Andi! I now saw the problem: when updating, the VSL software always automatically displays my personal VST folder, and I'm used to not really looking when accepting the choice. But this time it displayed another (standard) location and so I acepted wrongly. It's solved now, I'll have to be more alert next time!

Best regards, Heike

Samre problem here....did we get a response???   I think I have to go back to an older version.  Is there an update to address this coming soon?

I'm also experiencing this "re-loading" issue.  Specifically with Kontakt 5.  Any time I click on a Kontant instance, VEP begins to re-load all the samples.

I'd rather not revert to previous version if possible.  I've made a number of changes to my template in the past week, so "going back" would be a pain.

One additional note, there are times when this "re-loading" will simply crash-midway through and purge the entire Kontakt instance.  (I'm running a pretty huge template, roughly 48 gb, so I'm sure that's contributing to said crash.  But the crash wouldn't happen if VEP was constantly having re-load the samples back into the memory every time I clicked on a plugin.)

We are aware of the "double-load" issue, and have already fixed the problem. We will release a new VEP version asap.

Hi Martin - can't seem to find how to enable my PC with VEP 5 installed, licensed and setup, to be seen on my Mac host running Logic...

The Mac localhost VEP is detected, but the PC, connected to the Mac via gigabit ethernet, isn't seen when running the Server apps. Can only load the localhost VEP in Logic.

Sorry for the newbie question - I'm new to VEP and have read lots of tutorials but can't seem to get the Mac VEP to see the PC VEP.

Thanks for any help with this !

Best,

John.

This may be elementary, but did you launch VE Pro Server on the slave? Before, when it hasn't shown up on my slave, I've forgotten to actually launch the VE Pro Server app.

Just a thought.

Mahlon

Thanks for the reply, Mahlon - yes - I did run the VE Pro Server on the PC first, and the Mac / Logic does not see it when initiating a VEP instance on the plugins in Logic.

Thanks Martin. I'm looking forward to the fix. I went back one version and everything seems to be working fine.

Hi John, 

@jptaylormusic_21373 said:

Hi Martin - can't seem to find how to enable my PC with VEP 5 installed, licensed and setup, to be seen on my Mac host running Logic...

The Mac localhost VEP is detected, but the PC, connected to the Mac via gigabit ethernet, isn't seen when running the Server apps. Can only load the localhost VEP in Logic.

Sorry for the newbie question - I'm new to VEP and have read lots of tutorials but can't seem to get the Mac VEP to see the PC VEP.

Thanks for any help with this !

=> Did you make sure that your ethernet connection works (pinging, copying files)?

=> Could it be that there´s is some firewall in the way, or maybe an anti-virus program with restrictive settings. 

=> Applications like "Little Snitch" can also get in the way here....

Best, 

Paul

Thanks for trying to help - I have no idea how to enable the Ethernet on my PC to work. It doesn't even show up in the Windows Network control panel ; only the Wi-Fi card shows up. The LAN and / or Ethernet is not even showing as available, although I have two of the ports on my new motherboard ( Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H ).

Pinging ? I have no clue how to do that. "Little Snitch" ?  You're speaking Greek to me, I'm afraid...  No anti-virus programs installed - it's a pure Windows 7 Ultimate install with no bloatware / adware. Custom-built machine.

Was able to File Share from the the PC to the Mac, but only via Wi-FI.

This whole thing certainly seems more difficult to setup than it's supposed to be.

Frustrated,

John.

VE Pro will not work over Wifi. To me, it appears you simply haven't installed the network card drivers. Please contact the support for your computer system, if you are having system related issues.

Good call on the network card driver ; something I took for granted with my Mac wasn't present in my new PC slave build. Once I downloaded the ethernet controller driver from the Intel website and installed it, the PC finally had a Local Area Network and VE Pro 5 finally works now.

Thank you again for all of your help - I really appreciate it !

@Simon Ravn said:

I am trying to figure out what makes connecting slow and what doesn't.... I am on a Mac Pro with Logic, and I have once slave connected using DHCP with a fixed IP. It seems that connecting/disconnecting to instances of VEP that have many plugins, as well as whether it is a slave or a local connection.

read the tutorial I made :

http://cyrilblanc.fr/site_principal/slave_mac.html

Cyril thanks, but it makes no difference (and besides, I am using two Windows slaves, no Mac). Even local connections have become much slower compared to VEP4.

1) Great to hear about the "double loading" being fixed!

2) What about the hanging on first load issue? I have had this since the last 2 or three builds. VEP server will just hang on loading the first instance and I have to kill it off and reload to make it start up. This happens on both Windows 7 and OS X.

3) What about the slow connection issue - is that just something we have to live with since VEP5, or will it be improved? I didn't see any improvement in that regard with the current build unfortunately.

Cheers.