In Settings>Privacy & Security>Local Network you need to enable Vienna Ensemble Pro Server

I believe that is a setting Apple introduced with Sequoia. We are running Sonoma and it does not appear to be present.

It's referenced here:

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/control-access-to-your-local-network-on-mac-mchla4f49138/15.0/mac/15.0

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-privacy-security-settings-on-mac-mchl211c911f/15.0/mac/15.0

But not here:

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-privacy-security-settings-on-mac-mchl211c911f/14.0/mac/14.0

I wonder if Apple changed something with the very latest update, which we did 2 days ago. The issue seemed to crop up after we performed the update.

When you updated, did it ask for permission to access items on you local network, and if so did you deny that request.

That happened to me once and it’s how I discovered the problem.

maybe in Sonoma the setting exists but is only accessible via terminal commands or by the permission dialog.

I do not recall any such request, but who knows...maybe the default is 'no access'. I'll see if there is some terminal command related to that new permission. You could very well be correct. It's there, but there is no GUI to manage it in Sonoma.

Vienna Ensemble Pro Server

OK, I looked at this some more. I reinstalled VE Pro 7 from scratch. It turns out if you don't delete the rosetta apps then in the Local Network list shows VE Pro (Rosetta). If you do delete the rosetta apps. then it lists it as VE Pro Server. I think this is a bug but that's beside the point.

So you have it enabled correctly. Now you also need to quit Logic and VE Pro Server and restart them to have the network search take effect.

Why are there two servers shown in your list? Do you have two machine connected? If so do they both have this enabled on each machine?

@dbudde said:

Why are there two servers shown in your list? Do you have two machine connected? If so do they both have this enabled on each machine?

I don't know why its twice.... if I turn off one of them than both will check and I can't delete it away.... I have only on machine connected.... the thing is, it worked always, and now not anymore, if I load an old project, VEP connects like it should 🤷‍♂️

Yes, it still works if you just type in the explicit IP address and Instance name, or it will connect to old projects that already know this information.

I suspect that the reason it isn't working for you has something to do with the two entries. But I am at a loss at this point.

Maybe there is some caching information you need to delete. Try deleting your VE Pro caches in your local Library, and also maybe your VE Pro preferences.

By the way, it might be useful to set up another user account and see if your problem goes away. This will indicate a caching or preference problem in your normal user account if it works.

@dbudde said:

By the way, it might be useful to set up another user account and see if your problem goes away. This will indicate a caching or preference problem in your normal user account if it works.

thanks mat, i'll give it a try

so I've tried to delete VEP 7 and reinstalled for several times.... nothing helped... so I deleted Vienna Assistant as well and reinstalled it and now it works!!!! thanks for helping out 🙏

Glad you got it to work.

Curious if there are still two VE Pro Servers in your Local Network Security list?

@dbudde said:

Curious if there are still two VE Pro Servers in your Local Network Security list?

no, after I deinstalled Vienna Assistant too only one Server is showing up, so it works now