Damn , it's gone again. That's the worst when the issue is unpredictable.

Owuld really appreciate some help from VSL support? Will try using other VST hosts to see what happens.

Hey Sharkfin- here's my problem:  The mac pro has TWO ethernet ports - one ai use for general network stuff, and has an IP address through my network router - i.e. 10.1. 0.XXX - the 2nd ethernet port is DIRECT connected to the slave machine (which has previously autoconfigured a direct connect ad-hock network to the slave machince, insuring all of the VEP traffic doesn't have to share bandwidth with other ethernet traffic.  Those IP addresses are different - 169.254.XXX.XX etc - I have the same 2 ethernet ports on the Slave machine - the proglem is that now in Yosemite and with the latest build, I only see the 10.1.0. options to connect to - which work, but don't give me the previous option I've always used for cleaner hassle free audio between the two macince - I'm goign to file a bug report with the VSL folks, but but if they are reading this, please help!  thanks

PS - in prev. OSX and VE pro builds I would see TWO options to connect to the same instance - one through the dedicated port and the other through the ethernet switch/router setup.

@sharkfin said:

Jeff I'.m struggling to understand -  is your advertising working but you can't connect?

Hi Jeff, 

You should definitely use static IP addresses, and avoid 169.x.x.x addresses (these are automatically assigned by your computer and tend to change).

Please do the following: 

Manually assign one of these IP addresses to the computers and ethernet ports in your setup: 192.168.0.x or 10.0.0.x, and assign a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, then it should work. 

Best,
Paul 

thanks Paul - this is for the directo connect ports - trying now! Jeff

yep, that did it - all fixed, thanks Paul! Reseved in the 198. range for the direct connect ethernet ports - (the 10.1 ones were already reseved to fixed #s by my router0

direct connect ports advertising and connecting now! - no more time machine and network traffic hassles screwing up audio streaming - big THANKS- 

Hi Jeff, 

Thanks for the update, that´s great to hear!

Best, 
Paul

Hi Paul

thanks so much for your help. I'm still struggling though, networking is not my forte.... can I not find step by step instructions somewhere? nothing in the VE pro manual.

what I did was open up network prefs and choose manually assign , and created ip addresses as you said... 192.168.0.2 for my Imac and 192.168.0.3 for my macbook, and subnets masks as you said.

You mentioned chainging the computers and ethernet prots... how is this done and how does it affect my wireless network settings?

thanks again!

Ben

Hello Ben, 

Networking is not always easy, but there are a lot of explanations avavilable on the web. 

Please send me some screenshots of your network settings and a short description of your setup and problems to support@vsl.co.at, I´ll see how I can help you. 

Just to have said it once again: Network support is actually not part of our support work, it can get very complex, and a professional network specialist will be a much better choice. 

Best, 
Paul

ok thanks paul, will do

Hello, I am re-installing Vienna Ensemble Pro (ver. 5) and the Vienna Server is not loaidng, nor can I locate an EXE for it. Does anyone have an idea how to start the Server? Thanks.

I forgot to mention: Vienna resides on my PC, using Windows 8.1 Pro. I use Pro Tools 12 on a MAC via ethernet. as the sequencer. 

Hello Right Touch, 

You can find the VE PRO Server in the PROGRAMS folder of Vienna Ensemble PRO. 

Best,
Paul