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  • Optimise Mir pro 24 Render

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    Hi, I'm asking what is the best way to use Mir. The best solution is to use a single instance of mir pro, i guess. But.. For exemple,if i get one instance of ensemble pro 5 with all my strings and mir, then another one for woodwinds with integrated mir... etc.. it will be a mess ? no ? Here my question, is all the instruments in mir pro interact each other ? I mean, the addition of two instances of mir pro (strings + WW) is not really realistic right ? Thanks in advance.
  • DietzD
    VSL Team
    DietzD

    Welcome Brunom,

    the basic idea of MIR relies indeed of the idea of bringing many virtual instruments together on one virtual stage, using one global interface to control them all. That way you can forget about many technical aspects of your arrangement, acting more like a conductor than a mixing engineer.

    Soundwise it doesn't make any difference for MIR Pro wether you use one instance of VE Pro or split your setup into several instances: As long as the chosen Venue und its Main Microphone settings are identical, the acoustic results should be the same. All instruments will interact with the room and thus with each other, even across multiple instances. -- Keeping track of "what goes where, and why" is much harder, though, as multiple instances of MIR Pro _can't_ share a common GUI (user interface).

    BTW ... to make sure that the quite multifaceted options of MIR Pro are really identical across multiple instances, it's a convient way to do so by saving the settings of one instance as "MIR Pro Engine Project" (*.mirep) and loading it from within the other instances.

    HTH,

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
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    Hi Dietz, do you have any plans to integrate sessions across the network so that it appears as if all instruments are on the same stage no matter what MIR instance they are running on? Thanks, Stuart
  • DietzD
    VSL Team
    DietzD

    Thanks for your suggestion, but this is easier said than it is to achieve. 8-) Although it's a good idea, we have no plans for network-wide integration of multiple MIR Pro instances right now.

    Kind regards,

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
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    Hi stuartbeattle,

    for now the most practical way is to use a SINGLE multi-processor server (4-way Opteron 16 cores = 64 SMP CPU) for large computing power (up to <<1TFLOP). Your Intel i7 2700k overclocked does not exceed 0,1TFLOP.

    Recently the coprocessor Xeon Phi 3100 allows you to install a supercomputer with more than 50 processors on PCIe 16x slot for a large computational power (up to 1TFLOP).

    The latter possibility, however, requires the vsl support to compile the x86_64 code (easy to deploy) while the first option is transparent to the software that will see 64 SMP processors.

    Elia