@rpmusic said:

That sounds promising. So, if I run Rewire I can then route MIDI and AUDIO via the network? I'm a bit ignorant when it comes to this side of things but I'm fairly confident that Digital Performer handles Rewire.

I just wanted to make sure that there would be some sort of conflict or "bottleneck" if I ran VE and Bidule side by side.

although Bidule runs very stable (!)  rewired alongside my Logic 8 + VE2.0  setup ,

there are two things you should be aware of when using   Bidule in Rewire-Mode :

1 .The Rewire App runs only on one core  , which can easily  lead to system overload messages ( ...depending on your particular arrangement ...).

2. There is still a bug even in the latest Bidule release  ( Bidule 0.9690  / from July 6th 2009 )- at least  on my  Mac G5 / OS 10.4.11 ,

     which leads to hanging Midi-Notes every now and then .  This might (?) be different on other systems  ( Intel / OS Leopard / etc. ... ) .

Best

- Gerd

 Could someone briefly explain why one uses Rewire? I've googled it, but I'm not sure I understand when it's needed or desired in a pipeline. Is it for useful when you're running Bidule/hosting vst on the same machine as the DAW resides? Rewire doesn't actually send audio of ethernet, does it?

Sorry for the OT...

Oh... +4 for Kontakt 3.5/VEP stable goodness.

Thanks,
Mahlon

ReWire is used on the same machine as the sequencer.

People use it instead of hardware-returns from Bidule because the timing is better. Also you don't need another audio interface to get the audio returns back to the sequencer.

 Thanks, Jack. Got it now.

Mahlon

Man - every time I get an email on this thread - I think - IT'S RELEASED!!!!! :(

I'm with you, Rob...it's drivin' me crazy!

Ve 3 Pro Release date.... When?Please.... I will start a new project in few days and really need some information .

Regards

Are there any news about the release date? I believe I read somewhere in the forum that end of August was estimated...??

I can tell you what the answer is: WE DON'T KNOW YET and therefore can't commit to a release date.

This is software!

[It occurs to me that it may not be clear - I don't work for VSL, of course!]

A friend of mine received this email yesterday...has anyone else received this?

the content of the newsletter can be found here - if you have subscribed to our newsletter you should have it already in your inbox

My apologies for posting the previous thread...I didn't even think about the email address attached. But thanks for the link.

Won't happen again.

Hi. I am ANOTHER Rob but the Rob above took the words out of my mouth. I have to get this going now so I'm about to install Bidule etc. Not that I understand it yet, a step by step would be helpful. VEPRO is the way to go, but I have to do this right now so it's Bidule for me in the mean time.

(To clarify, for the moment what I need to do is run Vienna SE+, East West, and Kontakt 3.5 (converted Giga instruments) as much as possible, all on the same 16 gig 8-core Mac as Digital Performer. I wanna see how much I can max this out and, if necessary, then add an additional mac (with VE/PRO by then hopefully). This is to replace Gigastudio machines which have failed as systems now. Rather than replace the failed PC machines and/or trouble shoot (as I have done so many times), I'm now attempting to go ALL MAC. Other composers have achieved this successfully with Bidule.)

Just thought I'd check in again and see if there was any word about it being PPC compatible? In addition to that, is there any good tutorials out there to set up Bidule on multiple machines?

Trying to plan a "Preemptive Strike," just  in case.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hey Rob - I know what you mean.  I had a 'freeze' fest on my last project.   REALLY want this VEPRO (in this case to get my vsti's out of my DAW software and take advantage of all this ram I have on my main Daw.)

If for any reason this gets 'delayed' longer than a week or two I'll be installing Bidule as well.

Rob

Hi Rob,

Listen, I'm going to start doing some digging around to see if I can find any good Bidule tutorials and I'll certainly pass them your way...please do the same if you come across anything that will make this set-up a bit easier to understand.

 I briefly tested out bidule and was able to make everything work by following a small tutorial I found online (not sure where that is now, sorry). If you're just using bidule as a VST host, there's not much too it; it just looks more complicated because of all the 'wiring', etc.

I believe the help file that comes with bidule will get you there.

Also, Michael Patti at Cinesample made this great little video showing his setup with bidule. You can learn a lot just by watching this -- and it will fill in the blanks.

Mahlon

I was recently looking into Bidule and I came across a set of tutorials that they recommend.  Here is the link:

http://plpheads.noisepages.com/the-bidule-tutorials/

I watched the first one which was pretty useful, I suspect the rest are as well. 

Best of luck,

Kevin

At the risk of pointing at a competitor, Thomas Regin did a really nice tutorial on combining Bidule and jBridge here.

The jBridge part gets you past the 32/64 bit issues. Thomas was using this in Sonar for EastWest samples, but the approach he took ought to work equally well for Vienna.