I have Win 7 PC with 8 cores (16 with hyperthreading) and assign 6 to VE Pro and 2 for pro tools and Win7 (maybe 7 and 1 would be ok as well). I am not using any slaves at the moment and only starting VE pro server on the same PC of my Pro Tools DAW. With one instance of VE Pro in pro tools, I have 16 midi ports (each with 16 midi channels). So I can load up to 16 Kontakt instances (multis) within one VE Pro instance. Is it better to have one VEPRo isntance with 6 or 7 cores allocated instead of 6 VePro instances with one core each?
My basic template has 11 Kontakt instances (16 sample patches each) + Omnisphere and 180 midi tracks. Midi tracks are bussed into instrument groups (like flutes, horns, trumpets,e tc), then are bussed to Str Hi Long - Str Hi Short - Str Lo Long - Str Lo Short, WW Hi Long, WW Hi Short, etc..etc..then are bussed into main stems like Str, WW, Br, Perc, etc
Using VE Pro, I load 11 kontakt isntances (multis) inside one instance of VE Pro. Each Kontakt instance is assigned to a midi port. Now for the routing, each midi track in Pro Tools will output to the respecitve midi port/midi channel in the kontakt instances. I would then create 180 Audio input channels in VE PRO, rename them one for each midi track, and have the Kontakt outputs into the input channels. That will be a bit tedious. Then I would buss/group the audio input channels into sensible subgroups like Str Hi long, Str Hi Short, Str Lo Long, str Lo Short, WW ditto, Br ditto, etc..(i.e. around 32 busses), and apply reverb/eq on the busses. These are then further bussed into the main stems (strings, WW, Br, Perc, etc) inside Pro tools for bouncing.
Does that make sense or is it better to have say 6 Ve Pro instances with 2 Kontakts in each, instead of one VEPro instance with 11 kontakts?
Also, I guess there is no escape from having to create an input channel in VE Pro for each midi track in Pro Tools, in order to buss them and apply reverb/eq within VE pro. Previously, I had all the routing done inside Kontakt mixer by creating subgroup Auxes, which are mirrored in pro tools, and the Reverb/EQ was applied inside pro tools.
Any help would be appreciated before I go ahead and start the transition. thanks JP