Confused about how to use MIR Pro 24

[ghoststrat]

I'm going to demo MIR Pro 24, and I'm not sure which machine to run it on.  I use Sibelius 7.5 on my master machine, and VEP/VIP pro on 3 slave machines.  As I understand it, I can only run MIR Pro 24 on one machine, and I'm thinking that should be my master machine.  What I'm not clear on is how to route into it.  

Is it:  Master/Sibelius - > 3 slaves VEP -> output to master and capture it with MIR Pro 24 stand-alone, or do I run it in Sibelius itself?  I know I can probably run Pro Tools with MIR Pro in it, and capture the output that way, but I'd like to maintain my workflow.  I currently complete my finished product with Sibelius, and export to audio file that way.

Any ideas?

[Dietz]

MIR Pro is meant to be used on individual instruments rather than with (sub-)mixes of several signal sources. This means that you have either all signals routed into one main instance of MIR Pro (which is the approach we had in mind when we originally developed MIR Pro), or you use several instances of MIR Pro on several, seperated machines. The latter method might be preferable in terms of CPU-consumption, but you will have to synchronize each and every change on all machines manually, and you will need an additional license for each computer.

In your scenario, I would keep MIR Pro 24 on the machine with the most processing power and route indivdual tracks from the other VE Pro instances into it. Just be aware that you will have to select the according Instrument Profiles manually then, because MIR Pro has no way to receive any detailed information about an instrument through a conventional Audio Input. Automatic Profile Selection is only available for Vienna Instruments instantiated in the main VE Pro frame.

HTH,

[ghoststrat]

Thank you, I think it does help.  

Which manual would help me with routing between VEP and MIR?  Both, maybe?

[Dietz]

That's a VE Pro thing, mostly. Just make sure that you activate as many individual outputs from each slave as you will need. They will appear on dedicated tracks in your master DAW. From there, you can route them into the master's VE Pro instance which hosts MIR Pro, by means of the VE Pro Audio Input plug-in which shoould have been installed alongside with VE Pro itself.

HTH,

[ghoststrat]

Thank you again for your reply.

Does MIR Pro 24 come with reverb, or do I need to buy that seperately?  Are the room packs the reverb, or are they just components that plug into MIR Pro?  Right now I'm using MIRx, and would like to have it applied to all isntruments, but I'm running a few slave computers.  If I get MIR Pro, is there something comparable that comes with it?

[Dietz]

MIR Pro (24) can be seen as the "sample player" software. It provides you with the GUI and the actual processing core of the engine. Much like a sample player, it needs some "content" in form of audio samples to make sound. In case of MIR Pro (24) that would be impulse responses from real halls - actually thousands of them. What would be an "instrument" for a sample player is a "MIR Venue" in our case. They are distributed in collections called "RoomPacks". MIR Pro (24) comes with an algorithmic reverb add-on called MIRacle (... a "synthesizer", so to say), for additional sound-shaping capabilities, but this is not an actual necessity for MIR Pro to do its work. MIRx is like a ROM-based sample player: Built upon carefully optimised presets derived from MIR Pro, everything has to be used "as is". The sound quality isn't compromised in any way, but there is hardly anything that can be changed by the user. ... I hope that these short explanations could shed some light on the issue. :-) Kind regards,