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  • I'm a little confused...

    I just recieved VSL SE (standard), and I must say that so far it's been a beutiful experience. Having come from EWQLSO Silver, it's a huge upgrade. The installation was fairly simple and free of annoyances.

    However, I'm having a hard time figuring out the point of having 16 matrix slots if they don't correspond to the 16 midi channels (or so I think). I don't want to have one instance per instrument, that's a very inefficient way of working!

    So, my question is, how do you guys set up your orchestra? With an instance per section/instrument, or gradually filling up the 16 channels and starting with a new instance when you need more?

    Thanks for your time.

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    Hi Sonic E. The Vienna Instrument isn't multi-timbral - it operates in MIDI 'omni mode', which means it plays on all MIDI channels simultaneously. There is no way of internally setting it to receive on only one MIDI channel, you have to use the sequencer or VST host to do that.

    @Another User said:

    I don't want to have one instance per instrument, that's a very inefficient way of working!

    It's not as restrictive as it first appears - because each matrix can hold 144 patches and it's so easy to switch between them, you can load all the articulations for one instrument or section into one VI. Having to open multiple VI's to do this is slightly inefficient, but you'll find that the real issue is how many patches you load, as they tend to use a large number of samples (generally more than other libraries). This would still be an issue if the VI were multi-timbral in design.

  • Thanks for your clarity and time. Unfortunately the fact that vsl isn't multi-timbral isn't very cpu-friendly... I guess though that a 1.3 ghz isn't cutting it either way. Thanks for your help.