Hi there
I recently setup logic with VSL on my new Mac Pro, using the IAC busses to route audio into a number of separate instances of Vienna Ensemble (duplicate & rename app), as recommended by VSL.
Everything works fine most of the time, but every few hours one of the VEs stops receiving MIDI. If I go into the preferences of the one that's stopped and just click OK to exit, it starts receiving MIDI again, but then connection to the others is broken instead, ie I can only get one instance to work at any one time.
I tried working with 3 instances initially but this was totally unreliable. I now work with 2, and another hosted from the Logic AU, which is better but still a couple of times a day I get this problem and have to reboot and reload everything (which takes 20 mins each time), often it seems after short breaks away from the computer.
I have downloaded a little program called Midifork which outputs note sequences on the IAC busses, and the behaviour of the VEs is identical to when I'm playing the notes from Logic. So I'm not convinced it's a problem with Logic, although I would be happy to hear of other people's experiences with the Environment (I have my IAC objects cabled to the MIDI Monitor to stop MIDI loop).
I know the IAC busses have a reputation for being flaky, but surely there must be lots of VSL/Logic users who have this working successfully? Any thoughts on what is going wrong?
Many thanks in advance for any help.
Harry
Logic 8.0.2 / OS10.5.7 / Mac Pro 8 x 2.16GHz 12MB