@darkmatter said:
why do you have so many instances of Ve Pro open,since one Ve Pro instance can load 512 instruments?is it better to use more instances and less instruments in each instance? Also the same question applies to Play,why so many instances,are they all fully loaded? re VE Pros server prefs:in multiprocessing how many threads are set per instance?
Hey Dean,
The reason for that number of instances is due to the limitations of the AU plugin spec: each plugin can only access 16 MIDI channels. So, for every 16 channels/parts, I need an instance of VE Pro. It doesn't seem to make much difference in terms of memory though. Same with PLAY: I typically use a single multitimbral instance, but I thought I'd try 16 individual PLAY instances inside a VE server - that way I have much easier mix control of each channel.
Most of my little (!) experiment was to see how much I could load on one Mac; I will end up spreading the load a bit between my 3 machines. I'm very encouraged though - I get much better performance with VE Pro, and even usage of all 8 cores for the first time ever!
I left all the settings at default so far in VE Pro - if I remember right I think it's 2 threads per instance (I'm not in front of it right now).
Hope this helps!
Jim