@Zelorkq said:
I wouldn't 'need' any outputs in Cubase anymore, except for one or two from my master VEP.
I don't see how grouping would help here, because I want to have each instrument of my slave VEP separate in my master VEP's MIR for perfect positioning. How do you send your slave outputs to your MIR instance?
Thanks a lot for your assistance in this matter!
I mean grouping in terms of VEP's output. the whole point of all that is to indicate you can have all the placement onstage you want, mixed in VEP and returned to Cubase in terms of maybe even one stereo channel. When I said the power of VEP, that is what I mean, as the mixer, and in particular taking the load off of Cubase. IE: if you have a hundred channels from a plugin in Cubase, grouping does not reduce the resources used; using VEP as *the* mixer as I do means say 4 stereo rather than 32 stereo ch. for Cubase. VEP working in its process and as the handling of cores etc is much more efficient, to boot.
Flexibility is not synonymous with more outputs, through the fact of more outputs. You have MIR Pro and all of this placement; this is not diminished by the act of grouping per se. What happens on that stage, what happens with all the pre- or post- fader FX and sends, etc, does not vanish because we, at the end of the day, reduced the number of outs. In terms of your problem, using more resources than you can manage, it absolutely helps and it does not reduce the flexibility in the mixing; it is a matter of embracing another paradigm.
this exceedingly high # of outs is kind of novel to computers and DAWs. When it was physical, no one would want it until it's something you can't manage without.