Andi - I have now spent about 3 hours struggling with Vienna Pro and am unable to things fully functional.   Let me start with a very basic question.  After I downloaded, unzipped, and installed VI Pro, I ws expecting to see something like the first attachment

Instead I am seeing the second

Have I done something wrong?

Andi -  I had done that, but no luck.   I'm doing string quartets.  The best I can do is to get one instrument (e.g. Violin) playing for all 4 instruments - i.e., when I click on the cello a violin sound comes out.  But let's see if we can figure out what I'm doing wrong.   So here are a whole bunch of screen shots.

1. VE "basic" Instrument configuration
2. VE "basic" Mixer
3. VE Pro Instrument configuration
4. VE Pro Mixer
5. Sibelius playback Device for VE "basic"
6. Sibelius playback Sound Sets for VE "basic"
7. Sibelius playback Device for VE Pro
8. SIbelius playback Sound Sets for VE Pro

As far as I can tell I have configured VE Pro identically to basic, but I cannot get Sibelius to talk to VE Pro.   As far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with my VE Pro configuration.  When I click on the key indies VE Pro I hear sounds.

After much experimenting and consulting the documentation- plus some luck I clicked on the "Show" button while inside the SIbelius Sound Set window - and lo and behold a whole new VE Pro window opened up - according to the doc this is the "Pro Basic View"   When I tried loading one of the Sound Sets, I finally heard sound.   However, it appears that I can only load one instrument at a time in this view.   So I guess I could creatge 4 playback devices in Sibelius, one for each instrument - but that strikes me as a very clumsy solution.  

What am I doing wrong here?

9. Pro Basic View"

10.  "Pro Basic Vie" with instrumant loaded

11.  Everything "Pro"

Afdter I typed everything in, it looks like I cannot attach more files, so here is the next bacth

And the last "everything" screen shot.

Oh, and one thing I noticed?  In th=is last "everything" shot?  If I click on the lower right VE Pro window, it hides the upper right wiondow & the Sibelius mixer.

The upper window - the one which actually creates the sounds - can only be opened up from within Sibelius.

Andi -

I solved this, but no help to the manual.   The solution was to use the Vienna Ensemble device in Sibelius - *NOT* the Vienna Instruments Pro device. 

I have to vent some of my frustration here.  It is extraordinarily hard to figure out how things work by looking ast these manuals; and I am a computer professional by trade and am used to dealing with obscure and/or poorly written manuals and instruction sets.  Once you understand how all the different pieces work together it starts to make sense, but for a novice outsider, there is no "road map" to understanding how things work.

Eric