Vienna Symphonic Library Forum
Forum Statistics

201,590 users have contributed to 43,253 threads and 259,305 posts.

In the past 24 hours, we have 4 new thread(s), 6 new post(s) and 56 new user(s).

  1. Home
  2. Software
  3. Vienna Instruments Pro (legacy)
  4. VE Pro Server Slave connection Nightmare :(((

  • VE Pro Server Slave connection Nightmare :(((

    O
    O
    Hi All, I have a Mac Pro running Logic Pro 9 software. It also runs VE Pro 5. I have a 'slave' computer, a mac mini (2011), which also has VE Pro 5 on it. When I first connected the slave's VE Pro to my master computer (through Logic Pro), I seem to remember having to type an IP address into the Slave Address box in the server interface window - I only remember doing this once. Since then, every time I've loaded VE Pro as a software instrument in Logic, and gone to the connection window, it has ALWAYS seen my Mac Mini, and has listed it. Until today. Today, I thought 'I know, I'll update my VE Pro software'(5.1.12337) - so I updated it on my Mac Pro first. All good. I tried to load up one of my (very) recent projects....it didn't see the Mac Mini. So I thought, 'maybe it's because I need to update the mac mini too.' So I had to connect the mac mini to the internet wirelessly (it's not normally online)....and I successfully updated it. BUT - Logic/VE Pro won't bring the Mac mini up AT ALL now, on any Logic project, new or old. I wondered if it was something to do with not having set a static IP address (Mac mini was set to DHCP) - maybe something I did on my network might've disrupted it - but I went back through my mac mini's various logs at Applications/Utilities/Console.app, and tried manually entering the different IP addresses that the Mac Mini has had over the last 2 weeks (the period in which I KNOW it definitely DID work)....nothing seems to do the trick. I am weary, frustrated, and off to bed unhappy....but if there's ANYONE that can help on here, it would be a ray of sunlight when I wake up tomorrow morning! I have a TV project to work on, and the deadline is looming. Really need to sort this out quickly if at all possible. Hopefully it's me being really stupid and it'll be easy to sort! I live in hope - thanks in advance!
  • O
    O
    P.S. I should point out before I go to bed - I have now changed the Mac Mini's Ethernet network IP settings back to DHCP. The brand new IP address has been created, and so at least I CAN connect to it now via Logic (better than nothing!) - but only if I type the Slave IP Address in, EVERY time I want to use an instance of VE Pro on the Mac Mini. I'll have to go back over my last 10 cues and reassign them all I guess. Why can't it just show up on the list of connection options like it used to? Boo hoo! Off now - really hope someone can help!
  • civilization 3C
    civilization 3C

    You need to set the IP manually, period.
  • G
    G
    how do you type it in manually, i cant get get anything when i type in the box below where it says instance, i'm using pro tools 10.3 in osx 10.8 when i start the 64 bit server it loads but there's no ip address in the box?
  • O
    O
    Hi again, guitarsound1 - I typed it in the 'slave address' box in the connection window within Logic Pro - maybe it's different for you if you're in Protools? The problem has been solved now, thanks to the brilliant guys in customer support - they gave me some IP addresses to type in to each of my computers. I did try various IPs myself but I don't know what I'm doing really! So I was given a set of IPs and subnets to put into my Mac Pro and my slave Mac Mini, and hey presto, I can see the Mac Mini as an available slave when I want to connect to an instance on the Mac Mini. I think there should be something about this at the beginning of the VE Pro manual. The whole network setup implications are so important here - and with VE Pro being software that relies on networking, just a little bit of text on this would save problems like this happening for some people I think. Thanks All!
  • civilization 3C
    civilization 3C

    I didn't know what I was doing, I didn't know what 'dynamic IP' was when I first saw it here. I saw it in reply to issues I was having that apparently are likely to stem from dynamic, ie., addresses changing randomly. I took note of what the address was at the time and typed that, and added one to the setting on the other computer and fortunately it worked.

    there are posts here that reveal the range that will work.
  • civilization 3C
    civilization 3C

    I've never typed anything into anything to do with the software itself, such as into the server connections window of VEP as plugin.

    Getting it into Network\Ethernet\Configure IPv4\Manually should make it revealed to the connection window(s).
  • M
    M
    Can anyone point me to a really basic explanation/set of instructions on how to set up IP address manually on both Mac and Windows?
  • M
    M
    After a bit of googling, I went into the setup of my Netgear router and reserved the existing IP addresses of all the computers on my network (wired and wireless - I use V-Control Pro on my iPad, which is a great app), and didn't do anything else. This did the trick.

    For Mac users who have replaced their OS drives with SSD's, there's a strange thing where the SSD boots too quickly for the SMB connection, which resets the name of the WINS workgroup whenever you boot, which means that Mac will not be available from a Windows machine. The fix was here:

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4512558?start=30&tstart=0

    in case anyone as clueless as I am is trying to set this up and bumps into this thread.