I'm not sure about the rest of the VSL community, but I would like to see the following enhancements on a future release of VE.
1. A method to save a single channel's setup in VE. This would include all settings (i.e. Pan, volume, sends, loaded effects & configured instrument with patches & configs). This would allow a person to quicky set up a pre-saved instrument in VE with all it's settings intact.
2. A pre-fader option on the sends like most if not all sequencers provide.
3. A button next to the VE preferences that would allow one to switch back to the mixer view of VE from an instrument view instead of scrolling through the list on the left and clicking on a bus.
4. A "No Output" option on the bottom of each bus/instrument. I use two sends (1 dry and 1 wet) to control reverb depth and currently select an output that I'm not using to force audio through the sends only. A "No Output" option would be a cleaner approach make output 17&18 usuable if needed.
5. A preference that would allow each instance of VE (Stand-Alone) while loading into memory, also load the last vframe (much like Logic 8 provides) or better yet, the ability to select the vframe that one would want loaded into a particular copy of VE (i.e. VE-1 - Winds, VE-2 - Brass, etc). This would make start-up much quicker plus would allow flexibility in selecting different project template configurations using multible instances of VE.
6. An indicator at the top menu bar that displays the amount of memory (RAM) used and the amount remaining that each instance of VE (stand-alone) will allow. This would assist in determining how close to the ceiling one is instead of relying on the machine to crash first. This would assume that the computer has sufficient RAM to allow the instance of VE to reach it's maxium (speaking of OS X).
Thanks for considering.