Im running on 2 high spec windows 7 64bit machines One hosting VEP5 The other hosting Studio One All fully up to date with installs
I have a song with approx 32 stereo tracks going from S1 through VEP Audio Input Plugins to a remote VEP instance and routed back into 32 VEP outputs in S1 and I have a mixture of VST effects added to channels in both VEP (including MIR Pro) and S1
When the system works its great!! I mean really great! Great for load balancing, great for mixing!
BUT there are issues which are driving me literally insane. Unfortunately it is really quite difficult to pinpoint exactly how and when they occur. Very difficult to reproduce with any degree of certainty. But these issues do occur frequently enough and when they do I find that the audio transmission between S1 and VEP breaks down. And no amount of disconnected and reconnected or disabling an enabling plugins will restart it. When the transmission breaks it breaks good and proper and I cant get things back up and running without closing down both S1 and VEP. And quite often S1 freezes at the same time. In which case I may as well reboot because the S1 process doesnt shut down after a crash for about 10 minutes. And because my song project is rather large, it takes forever to reload it. All in all very frustrating indeed.
The only thing I can do is highlight the actions that most often lead to things breaking.
1. Enabling/Disabling the VEP instrument plugins
2. Loading/Unloading, Enabling/Disabling plugins in general
3. Changing the project sample rate, ASIO buffer size
It would be interesting to know if anyone else is having similar issues.
Thanks Stuart