Vienna Symphonic Library Forum
Forum Statistics

196,697 users have contributed to 43,030 threads and 258,429 posts.

In the past 24 hours, we have 6 new thread(s), 10 new post(s) and 89 new user(s).

  1. Home
  2. Software
  3. Vienna Instruments Pro
  4. Could someone from Vienna suggest how many threads to use.
  • P
    P

    Thanks so much. That really helps.

    This should be a sticky somewhere on the forum so people can refer to it.
  • A
    A
    last edited
    last edited

    @marnix said:

    Vienna Ensemble Pro Server will generally perform best when running as few instances as possible. With the VST3 or RTAS plugin
    So, can we poor AU users have a little hope that sometimes (in the near future) the sun will shine on us and we'll be able to deal with more than 16 midi channels per instance or (being the AU's specs limited to 16 midi channels) we will never see the light and we will be forced to open dozens of instances for orchestral projects? TIA Arceo
  • M
    M
    I was wondering-- isn't it possible to use Mac OS X's built in MIDI network capabilities to send the MIDI info, and use VEP only for the audio return? This would circumvent the 16 channel limitation. When I tried this I got a warning that said something like "Using OS X's MIDI network alongside VEP is an experimental feature and may not work properly". Indeed it didn't. Any chance that this will be a feature in the next version of VEP?
  • F
    F

    + 1 on making that a sticky

    A workaround to the midi device limit is to use Midi Over Lan as external MIDI. The you can run as many ports as you like on a single insgtance of VSL EP. But let's hope for a solution soon from pple  
  • K
    K

    VE Pro 5 has the Multiport layer for Logic (version 9.1.7 and up), as well as the Event Input plugin to circumvent the single MIDI input port limitation. I'd recommend going for the Multiport layer, which is mentioned in the manual on page 37.
  • V
    V
    Hello, This is all seems to be very helpful information - but i am just curious. . . . It says above to set the number of threads you have to the number of cores you have. So I am wondering, are you referring to the number of cores on the Host Sequencer machine? Or the number of cores on the Slave machine running Vienna Ensemble Pro? Any insight to this would be extremely helpful. Thanks!
  • F
    F

    I'm pretty sure it must be the slave but Karel is the guru on al this stuff!
  • S
    S

    another question - is cores referring to physical cores only or to virtual cores (e.g. i7)?

    Thanks
  • M
    M

    Q: Are thread settings important for master or slave?

    A: Thread settings apply to the processing slave. Master (Server Interface Plugin) is unaffected by thread settings in Server.

    Q: Should number of threads match physical cores or virtual cores?

    A: Virtual cores.
  • C
    C
    I have a Mac Mini 5,2, Intel Core i7 - 2.7GHz, 2 Cores. 16GB of RAM I'm running it as a slave to my Mac Pro (running DP8). If I have say 2 VE Pro instances in my Metaframe, each is FULL of big sample libraries in large Kontakt 5 multis. How many Threads should I have selected? And what if I have 3 instances loaded?.... Also, I turned off Kontakt Mem Server AND Kontakt Hyperthreading (leaving this to VE Pro). Is this ok?... THanks