Ensemble vs. Instruments in Logic

[pscart]

Greeetings All, I was just wondering what the advantages and disadvantages were of using individual vienna instrument as opposed to the ensemble. There is of course the whole power pan thing... but aside from that, why would one use the vienna ensemble instead of separate instances of the individual instruments in Logic? Also, in using the multi-timbral track in Logic, as with VE, each individual instrument can't be solo'd(without having to go into the vienna ensemble), which can be a nuisance. The only advantage I could see would be that maybe the ensemble saves memory. Does the ensemble save memory, or does it come out the same? Say if you did a woodwind quintet, used the same amount of samples, would the ensemble hog less RAM? Can someone explain why the ensemble would be used in Logic? I think I am missing something. -Peter

[hetoreyn]

VE is meant to be hosted outside of Logic, which in theory means you can host an additional 2.5 gig of samples in VE and still leaving 3.7 gig free for Logic. Also VE is meant to be run on other slave devices thus increasing your orchestra.

Of course if you're running a machine with only 4 gig of ram then you're just as well to use only VI's in Logic. but if you have more Ram and lots of CPU power .. and you need a big orchestra then you do what I mentioned above.

That's one way to use it anyways.

[cgernaey]

Hi Peter,

@pscart said:

Also, in using the multi-timbral track in Logic, as with VE, each individual instrument can't be solo'd(without having to go into the vienna ensemble), which can be a nuisance.

That's not true.  I do it all the time.  You need to setup each track of the 16 parts on their own aux bus in Logic and then tell VE to send each seperate instrument to a different midi channel and output.  After that, you don't "mute" or "solo" from the arrange window.  You do it from the Mixer.  If you do it in the mixer it does in fact solo or mute that track only.

Maestro2be