More feature requests:
I have several this time. The last requests had a few template building items. But now that I've been composing again (finally!), I'm noticing some different kinds of tweaks that could help improve experience.
1 - VEP CC Data
FYI, I initially marked another thread as solved. However, it no longer is as I really have to use the VST3 VEP instance. Please at least take note that it's open now. It's one of the most important issues I've been having.
2 - Disk Performance Monitoring in VEP
Call me a cry baby, but I hate never knowing how my computer is handling what it does. Studio One has a brilliant ASIO monitor that displays each VST and it's CPU usage. It would be brilliant if each VEP instance would tell me how much disk it uses, especially if I knew that it wasn't getting the audio into the buffer in time. Not sure if I put that right. But I'd love to know when a drive is or isn't able to handle what I've put on it.
3 - Kontakt
If Kontakt crashes, then so does VEP... and all of VEP for the entire computer. 😠I would love if it would only crash the one instance. That may not be possible to avoid. But if so, it would make life easier than reloading everything all the time. Heck, if VEP even reloaded that frame and reconnected automatically, I'd pay for a VEP6 upgrade for that one! 😉
4 - Make Vienna Suite free.
(I can hope, right?)
5 - Accidental Deletion Protection
I go a little insane anytime I delete a matrix by accident and lose data I spent a great deal of time working on and didn't save (because I'm a moron sometimes). I realize "undo" is a unique kind of feature to code. But it's worth mentioning.
6 - Live Time Stretching in Vi-Pro
I employ the "Time Stretch Pro" algorithm in Kontakt for the larger part of my template. While VIP is great, it requires that I go through each and every articulation to pre-determine a TS curve. That certainly has the advantage of control, just not ease. I understand this may be a preference I'm alone on. Just a suggestion.
7 - Cell Naming
While this works like a charm, the ALT function to replace a patch and retain preset settings/values does not actually preserve the name of cells if you have put in your own names in certain cases.
8 - VEP and Kontakt at war?
So VSL has, IMO, the most stable and freakishly well thought-through software in existence. 😃 Studio One may rival you on that one soon (watch out! lol) But seriously, great stuff. The ONLY exception to this... at all... is Kontakt. I swear the thing runs better directly in a DAW. I can't prove it. I have no bug to report. So I know I'm being a useless cry baby. I'm just mentioning it, in case others perhaps bring this up as well. Also, remember that thing about how I said I'd love all my samples to run inside Vi-Pro? *wink wink*
Cheers!
Sean