@benbartlett said:
Regarding Bidule: It's simpler than is at first apparent to set it up. However, it drops midi when it's fully loaded. And delay compensation (in Cubase at least) is not covered properly under re-wire (if you use Bidule that way). As a standalone, Bidule offers no real benefit now that VE can support 64 outputs - allowing you to pretty much address any chunk of your hardware you want.
No, you don't understand. Nothing passes through Bidule. No MIDI; no audio. It is only a way of getting the samples loaded into plugin memory. The advantage being that you can load cues much faster, as VE just checks which samples are already loaded into VE plugin memory. It also means that the sample settings are saved with the project, rather than having to save lots of standalone versions. Obviously I haven't checked that this works with VE, as I was just offering a suggestion to cut loading times between cues from 15 minutes (in my case) to 30 seconds.
DG