So no April Fool's Joke in any of the announcements? ;) Nice....

@Paul said:

Hi,

the focus is on finishing VE PRO in April.... but as always with software, there is no guarantee, only high hopes and the best attitude 😊

Best,

Paul

Paul, are any of these new features going to be available for VE2?

DG

I'm really looking forward to this!

Any hints on how (or if) it will handle some plugins multiple output capabilities? Or is it stereo "only" :)

/Thomas

This got really quiet from VSL.  I can only imagine that they are both recovering from the show and working hard to post VEP.

Rob

Hello everybody,

these new features will only be available with VE Pro, of course.

But there will be a 64 bit version for the "normal" Vienna Ensemble as well, I hope soon. 

Most likely there will be multiple outputs.

We are going through some tough testing routines, and this will still take some more time, I hope it´s not much more than a month.

As always, we will release more informations when the tests are finished! Thanks for your patience, it will be worth it!

Best,

Paul

Hi Paul,

I want it as 'fast as possible' - BUT need it to your normal VSL release standards (few bugs as possible).   Good luck on this last testing and I am looking forward to it.

Rob

@Paul said:

Most likely there will be multiple outputs.

Just lovely, think I'm going to cry some tears of joy soon...

Thanks!

/Thomas

Multi outs - that would be f#$^& fantastic!!!

Really looking forward to this release. VE pro is going to pretty much change my whole setup in such a big way. 

Great news!

Thanks a million!

For sure - SMART BUSINESS move VSL.   You are going to now get NEW adopters into your program just because of this.   Which will help us long time users (the stronger you are - the more we benefit in new and well done libraries now and in the future.)  It's all good.

Rob

Yes, don't see why not as long as you have a Vienna Key or a Syncrosoft Key to store the licence.

Tim

Well, you only can buy Ensemble 3 when owning a VSL instrument...

@andreas_6739 said:

Well, you only can buy Ensemble 3 when owning a VSL instrument...

Really, I thought you could buy both VS and VE without having to own any of the libraries.

Can anyone from VSL confirm?

Cheers

Tim

Hi,

I think so, too. But you need to be registered as a user, of course.

Best,

Paul

I have a technical question regarding VE: 

When running several instances of VE on a mac pro (with the audio outs rewired to Logic 8), does OS X allocate each separate instance of VE to a different core? 

Thanks in advance for your answer! 

This depends on how the operating system decides to schedule the VE threads. One instance of VE will run one thread for gui, one thread for audio processing and several threads for sampler disk streaming.

Will it be possible to create a "duplicate channel" feature?

@MS said:

This depends on how the operating system decides to schedule the VE threads. One instance of VE will run one thread for gui, one thread for audio processing and several threads for sampler disk streaming.

The reason for my question is that I have some very CPU-intensive kontakt instruments. I am considering running each instrument in a separate VE instance to try and "force" the OS to schedule each to a different CPU core. 

@hose said:

Will it be possible to create a "duplicate channel" feature?

This is a good point, I'll see if I can squeeze it in before the release.

@Leon Willett said:

Thanks for your answer! Does the OS typically schedule the threads evenly, or does it leave much to be desired? 

The reason for my question is that I have some very CPU-intensive kontakt instruments. I am considering running each instrument in a separate VE instance to try and "force" the OS to schedule each to a different CPU core. 

Most of the time, the OS is really very good at scheduling threads. As long as you (as a developer) try to keep a sane threading model in your application - you can usually trust the OS to do the proper scheduling, as long as you have thread priorities set correctly. There are of course times when thread context switching can cause performance losses, but to my experience - the OS scheduler is remarkably good and quick. I suppose you are using Kontakt in a sequencer host today, I would recommend to have the sequencer handling any threading or affinity.

When it comes to threading in audio applications, and mixers in aprticular - there are several things to consider. At one or several points the threads need to be syncronized, for submixing, bussing, sends etc, and this can create some issues if it is not done properly. I know some people, running multiple audio input objects in Logic, are having quite some issues with most of processing plugins ending up on the same mixer thread, overloading even an 8-core machine with only a few plugins.