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  • Please....Brand newbie setup help

    Sorry for my complete ignorance but I was given VSL EssemblePro 6 by my wife on my suggestion and I really have no idea if it really is what I need.  First let me explain my need and then a pointer in my configuration would help as well

    I have a DAW...sadly a SSL/Soundscape system.   It runs on a WIn 7 32 computer.  I also have a  WIn10 64bit Lenovo X1 carbon laptop that runs Cakewalk Sonar X3 and my VSTi's (Addcitve Drums, some synths and NI Komplete.)  I really only use the Cakewalk Sonar to program Midi for drums and keyboard sounds.   I wanted VSL EP6 to port the audio outputs of Cakewalk to my DAW so I did not have to buy some USB audio interface to run digital audio into my Soundscape.  I I thought EP6 would pipe digitally the audio over the gigabit connection from the Laptop to the other and hence into the Soundscape DAW..  Yes the Soundscape supports VSTs.  Then after I recorded the audio within the DAW, I could then use laptop and its additional VSTs plugins within the SS/Daw.

    Am I assuming this will do this?  The install manual is not really clear on that configuration.  If so, then which computer is the Master and which one is the slave?  Do I need a elicense key for both computers?  

    In time I would like to eventually get into the instruments part and use that as well.  But first I need to get all this set up.  

    Sorry this is so newbie oriented, but VSL is a mind spinning vast in its capabilities.

    Thanks for any help.


  • Welcome thirdflr, 

    I'm afraid VE PRO cannot connect 2 DAWs. 

    The idea is to use VE PRO Servers to host your RAM-hungry instrument plug-ins OUTSIDE of your sequencer, be it on the same machine or on a networked computer. 

    Sorry to have no better news for your situation. 

    Best, 
    Paul


    Paul Kopf Head of Product Marketing, Social Media and Support
  • Paul the Soundscape is not a sequencer but a true Audio recorder.  I am simply trying to get the audio across from the output of one sequencer Cakewalk to record the audio onto SS?  So VEP6 doesn't send digital audio over ethernet?


  • Hi,

    I see. 

    VE PRO send audio over ethernet, but only to the host that it receives MIDI from. It is a closed system, so to say. 

    Best, 
    Paul


    Paul Kopf Head of Product Marketing, Social Media and Support