Let me post a quick video for you then :)
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Please have a look at the video. Unless I really don't understand something, I'm expecting the VIP window to switch to the instrument I'm playing in Cubase. The screen on the left is my Mac Pro slave, the one on the right is my main DAW (cf. my signature).
https://vimeo.com/173493038 (password: vep)
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I'm indeed using 5.4.14074 on both computers.
Marnix's suggestion was instructive. Here's what happens :
Running a test instance of VEP with only two VIP channels, I got the feature to work on the slave, too.
So I came back to my template and tried again. My template has VEP running three instances : one for winds and percussion (VIP only), a second one for strings and percussion (a mix of VSL and Kontakt) and a third one loaded with various EW Play instruments.
The MIDI Activity Focus works fine on the VIP-only instance, but not on the other two. On the mixed-format instance, the feature doesn't work even when triggering events on a VIP channel while viewing another VIP channel.
So I'm wondering whether VEP "doesn't like" having none-VSL instruments loaded (which would be weird). Could this be a bug?
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I'm indeed using 5.4.14074 on both computers. Marnix's suggestion was instructive. Here's what happens : Running a test instance of VEP with only two VIP channels, I got the feature to work on the slave, too. So I came back to my template and tried again. My template has VEP running three instances : one for winds and percussion (VIP only), a second one for strings and percussion (a mix of VSL and Kontakt) and a third one loaded with various EW Play instruments. The MIDI Activity Focus works fine on the VIP-only instance, but not on the other two. On the mixed-format instance, the feature doesn't work even when triggering events on a VIP channel while viewing another VIP channel. So I'm wondering whether VEP "doesn't like" having none-VSL instruments loaded (which would be weird). Could this be a bug?
What could confuse this feature, is when an instrument is set to receive MIDI on all channels.
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I can confirm this is most definitely the cause of this issue. Thank you Martin.
Can you think of a way I could work around this limitation when working with multitimbral plugins such as Kontakt. or Play? Loading a separate Kontakt instance for each instrument wouldn't be considered a workaround in this case :) You must be familiar with the way keyswitching and divisi is implemented in LA Scoring Strings – loading several instruments inside a Kontakt instance is practically a must – and it's also much more sensible to group articulations inside the same plugin instance.
Or, maybe, there could be a way to make the MIDI Focus function address only the MIDI channel the note is being received on. This could be done by adding an option to VEP channels (right-click or a small box next to the channel dropdown), "Trigger MIDI Focus when receiving Channel #", which could still allow using the "All" option for playback at the same time.