Hello VSL Team,
First off congratulations on such a great update! I LOVE the idea of using my slave for more than just sample playback, but also for audio effect processing! WAY COOL!
However, I must admit the implementation is a little bit of a drag. Though its GREAT to be able to add an effect insert directly on a channel strip in Logic and process that plugin on my slave VE Pro, it stinks that in order to hear the resulting sound I have to create an new aux track and bus the input into this new track! DARN!! So if I'm using a combination of insert plugins on my host and on my slave for a single instrument; Instead of audio following through a single channel strip on a single track, I now have to manage separate tracks! This becomes a real problem for iloked plugins, as they are limited to one machine! I can easily imagine a scenario where my main DAW has the ilok, and I want to run other effects off my SLAVE, and I could end up needing 3-4 tracks for a single instrument, all of which I need to see in my arrange for automation of the plugins, etc. Talk about a NIGHTMARE!!
A GREAT solution / work flow enhancer would be to do something similar to Logics I/O plugin, in which you not only set the audio output, but the INPUT as well in this single plugin; no additional aux tracks needed. If you could code VE Pro's Audio Input plugin with a similar functionality to Logics own I/O plugin, this would allow us to route the output from VE pro directly back into the audio input insert plugin, so the audio chain continues on a single channel strip! I cannot stress enough how much EASIER this would make mixing, as we can have all our insert effects on a single channel strip, which is the working method we are use to experiencing, allowing us once again to have a single track for a single instrument.
Please consider this feature request, as I feel strongly that its a necessity in order to properly use your amazingly awesome VE pro as an effects host. Thank you very much for your products and for pushing the bounds of whats possible! I hope my feature request doest detract from all the other wonderful enhancements made to VE pro. I'm LOVING THEM; especailly the ability to use more than 16 midi channels! Thanks again and keep up the great work!!