For VEP 6 and VEP 7 you should disable ASIO Gurad in the Cubase plugin manager (see VEP7 User manual page 35). This solves a lot of issues with VEP.
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I have ASIO disabled but the sluggish loading of plugins, inserting channels or fx's is happening w/o any daw open. CPU is increased using Cubase from v6. There's increased latency in 7 over 6 as well, even when using compensation in CB. (@1024)
I'll investigate more, maybe it's a certain sample library that's not behaving well with new VEP7.
thanks
Same sluggish performance with the last update. Works well & normally if I use only VSL products & remove Kontakt, UVI, Play instances.
I also notice that when connecting using Cubase CPU really increases. My liquid cooler kicks in & it's slower to connect, something else that never occured using VEP6.
Yes. Same happening here. The sampler computer running Ensemble Pro 7 is pretty much the same but Cubase is loading much slower the templates with the connection plugin to the VE Pro 7 samplers. Feels like it is taking longer to establish tracks/connection to the sampler for every instance.
It's bad enough that we're rolling back to VE Pro 6. Can't work like this. This is with Cubase 10 latest on Windows (as is the VE Pro.) ASIO guard completely disabled for VE Pro. Installed with latest VE Pro 7 just yesterday.
Yes. Same happening here. The sampler computer running Ensemble Pro 7 is pretty much the same but Cubase is loading much slower the templates with the connection plugin to the VE Pro 7 samplers. Feels like it is taking longer to establish tracks/connection to the sampler for every instance.
It's bad enough that we're rolling back to VE Pro 6. Can't work like this. This is with Cubase 10 latest on Windows (as is the VE Pro)
I just rolled back to VEP6 (latest version), but now its totally unstable too. I can't even load an old viframe tutorial file (from VSL website), that has been working fine before today. Crashes VEP6 while loading it, tried repeatedly and rebooted, etc.. it won't load. I don't know if my system is broken now or if VSL broke the latest version of VEP6, but anyway, support ticket is in and I'm waiting to hear back
Update to the above. I have VEP6 (latest version) running fine again. For anyone that decides to rollback to VEP6 on a mac, watch out for the following thing:
On VEP7 they renamed the name of the VEP server app bundle to remove the words "(64-bit)" from the app bundle name. Previously under VEP6, this was the name used for the 32bit server.
So after I rolled back to VEP6, I tried to launch it by using the icon in my dockbar, which had been configured for VEP7 to point to the app bundle WITHOUT the words "(64-bit)". After rolling back, the dock icon was now pointing to the 32bit server and I didn't realize it.
When I tried to load a viframe into the 32bit server, it was crashing, who knows why. But after correcting the dock icon to point to the VEP6 bundle with "(64-bit)" in the app bundle name, it now seems to be humming along fine....
Same issue here.
I rolled back to VE Pro 6 for the time beign
Ve Pro 7 with Cubase combo was just impossible to work with. Cubase would take an hour and a half to load up and would take an hour every time I was exporting a mixdown...... well its back to normal with Ve Pro 6 now. Hope they can figure it out soon
VEP 7 has been extremely unpredictable and inconsistent, temperamental, or the system is temperamental with it. Yesterday learning automation from BFD3 would beach ball o' doom each time. Today not at all.
I experienced slowness in other ways and then didn't. All very stable and responsive today.
Same issue here.
I rolled back to VE Pro 6 for the time beign
Ve Pro 7 with Cubase combo was just impossible to work with. Cubase would take an hour and a half to load up and would take an hour every time I was exporting a mixdown...... well its back to normal with Ve Pro 6 now. Hope they can figure it out soon
Sounds like coupled behavior on crack. I run decoupled with Nuendo, I don't see that at all. The load of VEP 7 has definitely been snappier here. Systems differ widely.
There are already two updates - less than a week after the initial release.
Anyway I notice a slight increase in idle cpu compared to last version of VE6 but absolutely no other issues - this is on a project inovlving 77 channels/VIs, and 900 articulation sets within all custom matrices, MIR pro on every channel. Works exactly like VE6 except with all the new features. So this is one system not experiencing any of the issues reported here.
Though - this is the standalone version - a single VE running 4 MIDI ports on a 12 core Xeon Windows 10 slave wth 64GB ram.
Based on these reports, I did another comparison of CPU usage between VEP6 and VEP7 on Mac. Here is an excerpt of my findings:
Observed average process CPU values during playback and (idle):
VEP6 Maximized: 136% (37%)
VEP7 Maximized: 100% (31%)
VEP6 Minimized: 37% (29%)
VEP7 Minimized: 30% (22%)
An Instruments run of both version also confirms the above findings. VEP7 also feels more responsive during playback compared to VEP6.
I had the same good results using VE7 that MS mentioned from my latest project - a MIR mix of my Romantic Symphony. It uses 923 separate articulations on 80 custom matrices performing very smoothly and loading quickly the following instrumentation:
8 Flutes
5 Oboes
4 Clarinets
4 Bassoons
Contra Bassoon
2 C trumpets
B flat Trumpet
Cornet
2 Flugelhorns
8 horn ensemble dividied accurately into 2 or 4 divisi parts using a combination of 2 - 4 horn ensembles or 4 solo horn/Dimension horn combinations
4 Trombones
Bass Trombone
Tuba
Vienna Konzerthaus Organ
Timpani
Percussion ensemble
5 gongs
cymbals and anvil
glockenspiel
2 sets chimes
Harp
Appassionata Violins
Orchestral Violins
Chamber Violins
Solo Violin 1 & 2
8 Dimension Violins divided into 1 & 2
Appassionata Violas
5 Dimension Violoas,
Solo Viola
Appassionata Cellos
Solo
Cello 2
6 Dimension Cellos
Orchestral Basses
Chamber Basses
4 Dimension Basses
Well that is very frustrating. Because VEP7 uses 10-20% more cpu when the window is active for me here. I have reverted to VEP6 and run exact same project and VEP6 is using less CPU. Both VEP6 and VEP7 use a significant amount of additional CPU when the VEP window is open vs when its minimized. Personally I think that is concerni as well. Its even worse with a retina display. VEP7 is just a little worse then VEP6, those are MY results. I spent an entire afternoon running a precise test that would gather the results in a repeatable and exact way to be sure and I shared the test case with VSL. I can observe the additonial CPU usage as a percentage in the activity monitor and I have observe it in the loadavg value. they are correlated values.
If their answer is that their results are opposite of mine, I don't knwo what to say other then we have opposite results and that is frsutrating because my results are what they are.
I will not be able to run any more tests because the past few days I wasted of time with VEP7 and I am now reverted to VEP6 and will not try VEP7 again until at least a month goes by and poblems are more resolved.
regards
does the slave machine have a window showing the GUI? Is it a mac? If its a mac and you have a screen, then run the test with VEP window open and closed, watch the CPU when you have the VEP window open for a bit and closed for a bit. I think its probably a mac issue as well. I have found that the problem is worse when I have my monitor in retina mode as well.