I was at Paul's Mir Pro presentation in Montreal and I can tell that VSL have been working hard on a solution for Logic's AU limitation. The have a workaround. So they still care about Logic users.

@Dietz said:

Sigh. Why can't my words be taken with a pinch of salt, especially when I give a positive answer and add a BIG FAT SMILEY ...

So let me put it that way: Yes, we try to overcome the limitations of Logic once again on behalf of a tailor-made solution, developed escpecially for you.

... does this sound better now?

That sounds much better than "poor souls" who use Logic.

Your tailor-made solutions are always appreciated.

That's more like the Dietz I've seen on these forums.....[Y]

MIR is not a "system" Windows is one [+o(]

...sorry for having caused this debate by asking about logic's AU limitation ;-)

but I just have one more question concerning audio routing with MIR Pro...  

I have never used this feature with the current MIR simply because it seemed too complicated to send audio signals from my sequencer computer to the MIR slave and then send it back to the host.... so will it work with MIR Pro that I can send one or more audio tracks (or the output of a VEPro instance on a second slave being sent back to the host) of a project that also uses the new MIR Pro plugin directly to MIR (avoiding sequencer output-MIR input-MIr output-sequencer input)... rather like a effect plugin so to speak? 

Don't worry about it. Lot's of insecure people around. [;)]

Regarding the audio input issue, this is not currently  possible with either VE Pro (in server mode) or MIR, so you're missing nothing. As far as MIR Pro is concerned I'm also relying on this feature, without knowing anything about it, so unless Dietz is prepared to spill the beans we're all out of luck for the time being.

DG 

Once you try Mac, you never go back [H] (I wonder why they never used this in advertisements...)

@DG said:

 the performance differential is so huge that OSX isn't an option for me. I also think that aesthetics are really personal, and personally I hate the look of OSX and Aero...!

I think you're blind or in a very small minority to challenge the Apple aesthetics as a Microsoft user. No PC owner I ever knew, during all incarnations of Windows and Mac OS has ever claimed superiority of PC aesthetics over Apple's; actually, even if they insist on using Windows for one reason or other, they always lament the absence of the sheer beauty offered by Apple. Let's also not address in detail who has been copying who GUI-wise all these years (poorly)...

However, let's say that the above remains in the eye of the beholder. I would like to ask you to comment on your point regarding the "performance differential that is so huge" between the best that both worlds have to offer. Since I have never claimed any 'techie' awards for myself, I'd like to know why that is the case. Your wording makes it sound as if there is no comparison between the two, and about that I certainly want to know. Does it only have to do with the amount of RAM currently accessible to Windows users, or is there more?

(For the sake of easy reading - please open a seperate thread for the PC vs. Mac dabate. Thanks a lot.)

@DG said:

 the performance differential is so huge that OSX isn't an option for me. I also think that aesthetics are really personal, and personally I hate the look of OSX and Aero...!

However, let's say that the above remains in the eye of the beholder. I would like to ask you to comment on your point regarding the "performance differential that is so huge" between the best that both worlds have to offer. Since I have never claimed any 'techie' awards for myself, I'd like to know why that is the case. Your wording makes it sound as if there is no comparison between the two, and about that I certainly want to know. Does it only have to do with the amount of RAM currently accessible to Windows users, or is there more?

The Holy Grail for Virtual Instrument users is performance at low latency. There are various tweaks that can be done at a BIOS level that have no equivalent on a Mac. this is why Logic can perform better on a hackintosk than on a similar Apple machine. We then have the OS to deal with. Again things can be turned off in Windows to improve performance, and the general OS is faster as well. When you add these things together there is a really large performance differential between Windows and OSX.

However, if you don't need to work at low latencies, for example if most of your work is not played live or you are mainly mixing, then the benefits are less, because there is no longer any need to work at a low buffer.

There are some illuminating comparisons and graphs available on www.dawbench.com if you are interested.

DG

@Dietz said:

(For the sake of easy reading - please open a seperate thread for the PC vs. Mac dabate. Thanks a lot.)

Dietz, I don't think there is any debate necessary. You either like the look of one operating system or the other. As far as performance is concerned the benchmarks speak for themselves.

DG

Vienna MIR didn't offer audio inputs up to now.

MIR Pro will rely on a new version of Vienna Ensemble Pro. Both will offer multiple audio-inputs and -outputs, also via LAN. Both will be deeply integrated into practically any modern DAW, much like a meta-plugin with a dedicated send/return scheme, automation, and full latency compensation (within the limits imposed by the DAW, of course).

HTH,

Quoting myself from an earlier message in this thread:

@Dietz said:

[...] We've decided to implement the possibities that were introduced with the new Hybrid Reverb into MIR, too. [...]

I was made aware of the fact that this statement is misleading. I should have written: We have decided to investigate the possibilities of implementing the features introduced with the new Hybrid Reverb into MIR Pro. We haven't come up with a final solution yet. Sorry for any confusion this little sentence might have caused.

My bad ... [:$]

@Dietz said:

Vienna MIR didn't offer audio inputs up to now.

MIR Pro will rely on a new version of Vienna Ensemble Pro. Both will offer multiple audio-inputs and -outputs, also via LAN. Both will be deeply integrated into practically any modern DAW, much like a meta-plugin with a dedicated send/return scheme, automation, and full latency compensation (within the limits imposed by the DAW, of course).

HTH,

 This is the sort on information we need. We were all just goading you into revealing secrets and you fell for it. [:D]

DG

Thanks for the info. One more post for clarification if you don't mind DG - and Dietz this is not a complete departure from topic as I'd like to know whether MIR Pro will operate properly along with and on top of everything else on the Mac, especially for demanding scores ex. Mahler 2nd.

I had a look at those pages you referred to and the comparative results were not as damning, although slightly in favour of Windows and then only DAWs available on both platforms were considered (of course); it doesn't say much about how Logic compares for similar tasks, although I read little and mostly scanned the material (quite a lot of it there). Also, from what I understood, Microsoft became more efficient than Apple only after the introduction of Windows 7, if you switched back in 2004 I am unclear as to why you decided thusly back then (if reasons were pirated software or other of course this has nothing to do with comparing the two OSs)

When you say low latency is all important to you because you play your compositions "live", what do you mean? Don't you play/sequence one instrument (even polyphonic) in at a time? Are you saying that Logic and MacOS are inadequate for that? My M.O. involves importing the MIDI of a Sibelius score into Logic and working on it thereon. So my work on the DAW consists of EQing, automation, etc. and mixing, but not with frozen tracks. All tracks are "live" tracks right up to bouncing. In addition, not mentioning RAM at all in your post, makes me assume that it is not a main concern. I'd appreciate your - and everyone else's - insights.