Greetings from the U.S. on this Thanksgiving Day 2011! Today I am especially thankful for the new products released by VSL!!
First, my apologies for my questions related to Ableton Live. I know that most VSL users don’t often use Ableton Live for production. So I am not surprised that I am having compatibility problems. However, as a largely mobile user (including networking laptops with VEPro5 on the run), Ableton is often my “Go-To” DAW to go quickly move from backstage production to onstage performance.
VEPro5 works beautifully in most respects, including playing MIDI tacks from Ableton into VEPro5 and networking my two laptops. However, unlike my Vienna Suite plug-ins inserted into an Ableton Live track, the VEPro5 Server Interface plug-in does not seem to be “publishing” its available parameters in a way that Ableton Live can see them (see page 220 of the Ableton Live manual; http://www.ableton.com/pages/downloads/manuals ). Automation functions do work at all. The Play/Stop transport is also not working, making me suspect that there is some problem with VEPro5 sending AND receiving automation information from Live. Hopefully, whatever the Vienna SUITE plug-ins do to publish their parameters in Live can also be used in the VEPro5 Server Interface and/or Event Input plug-ins.
For now, I’ll probably default back to Pro Tools 10 for larger projects until the compatibility with Live can be fixed.
Thanks for any suggestions!
System:
Ableton Live Suite 8.2.6
Laptops: Thinkpad Core 2 Duo and i7’s
Windows 7 64 bit