I am having a problem trying to get VEP 5 working properly on my Mac Pro master-slave system with Logic Pro X (10.0.5) in OSX Mountain Lion (10.8.5). The moment I press "Connect" on the VEP Server window on the Master computer, I see the CPU usage (in bottom right-hand corner) of VEP Server window, on the Slave computer, start quickly cycling from CPU usage 0% to approximately 10% and back down every 1-2 seconds. This is with no channels or plugins added on the VEP Server slave computer except for the default Ch. 1 Master Bus.
If I add a channel and a plugin instrument (eg Omnisphere 1.5.8d 64-bit) the audio drops out exactly in sync with the CPU usage dropping to 0% and the audio comes back exactly in sync with CPU usage rising back to approximately 10%. This happens whether I use the 64-bit, or 32-bit, VEP servers on master & slave computers.
Please advise. My VEP 5 master-slave setup is as follows:
1) VEP 5 (OSX) build 5.2.12844 (Dec 6, 2013)
2) Wifi off on master & slave computers
3) Static IP set manually on master & slave computers
4) LAN working properly. Screen sharing functions between master & slave. Different CAT-5 ethernet cables don't fix problem.
5) Master computer:
2012 Mac Pro 3.33 6-core
OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.5
Samsung SSD boot drive
24 Gb RAM
VEP server 64-bit
Prefs: 2 threads per instance
Latency: 2 buffers
6) Slave computer
2012 Mac Pro 3.33 6-core
OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.5
Western Digital 7200 rpm Caviar Black boot drive
48 Gb RAM
VEP server 64-bit
Prefs: 2 threads per instance
Engine: "started"
Rate: 44100
Latency: 1024
outputs: 2
Inputs: 32