Paul Kopf Product Manager VSL
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Who's going to be the first to get it? How stable are initial releases of Vienna s/w? I ask because I came in well after VEPro 6 was released so missed the initial release. Combine that with having been burned on initial releases of other s/w so you can understand why I'm wary.Hi Christian,
This should be fixed with VE Pro 7, which is available NOW!
Best,
Paul
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No doubt you are confident but I'd like to hear from those who weren't on the beta test team. There's often problems in usability of regular features that end users find that the beta testers didn't simply because of the many differences in computer systems.We've had a quite extensive beta testing period of this release - so we feel confident.
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Glad it's stable for you. OTH it hangs when recalling .vesp files that have Native Instruments Kontakt 5 instruments in them. This message pops up in an NI-style window: 'Working on sample data cache. Please wait'. It never goes away.The application was just released. Who should be able to answer your question other then the beta-testers? 😄
Here is my experience: It is so stable that I can use it on my current projects without fear of breaking something.Also major bummed that on a Mac we lose the ability to have both 32 and 64 bit servers - it's now Windows only. If I had known that I would never have purchased the upgrade. A major part of using VEPro is being able to use both 32 and 64 bit plugins - now I've lost that and so have all Mac users. Didn't this come up in beta testing? Hopefully VSL will fix this.
Edit for additional: email sent to support about this
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Also major bummed that on a Mac we lose the ability to have both 32 and 64 bit servers - it's now Windows only. If I had known that I would never have purchased the upgrade. A major part of using VEPro is being able to use both 32 and 64 bit plugins - now I've lost that and so have all Mac users. Didn't this come up in beta testing? Hopefully VSL will fix this.
Apple is making it harder and harder to support 32-bit applications, and so are various 3rd party frameworks we are relying upon. In order not to limit the 64-bit application, we thus made the decision to drop the 32-bit applications on macOS. I hope you can understand this decision.
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Also major bummed that on a Mac we lose the ability to have both 32 and 64 bit servers - it's now Windows only. If I had known that I would never have purchased the upgrade. A major part of using VEPro is being able to use both 32 and 64 bit plugins - now I've lost that and so have all Mac users. Didn't this come up in beta testing? Hopefully VSL will fix this.
Apple is making it harder and harder to support 32-bit applications, and so are various 3rd party frameworks we are relying upon. In order not to limit the 64-bit application, we thus made the decision to drop the 32-bit applications on macOS. I hope you can understand this decision.
I do NOT understand this decision. The only OSX that doesn't support 32 bit is Mojave. Every earlier OSX continues to support 32 bit no problem. How can I get my money back on this upgrade? If this had been known when VEPro 7 was announced I would never have purchased the upgrade. VEPro 7 is useless to me in this state.
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Thanks.Hi Jack,
As mentioned in the other thread, I'll get back to your support ticket right away, and we can sort this out via email.
Best, Stefan
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Apple is making it harder and harder to support 32-bit applications, and so are various 3rd party frameworks we are relying upon. In order not to limit the 64-bit application, we thus made the decision to drop the 32-bit applications on macOS. I hope you can understand this decision.
From my perspective this is perfectly reasonable and understandable. Is it Mojave, or the next one will not support any 32bit apps period. so it is what is it.
I also was using the 32bit server occasionally, but truly there are only a couple of plugins left that are ever an issue and frankly there are not 64 bit alternatives and I'd rather be done with the fiddling around.
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Apple is making it harder and harder to support 32-bit applications, and so are various 3rd party frameworks we are relying upon. In order not to limit the 64-bit application, we thus made the decision to drop the 32-bit applications on macOS. I hope you can understand this decision.
From my perspective this is perfectly reasonable and understandable. Is it Mojave, or the next one will not support any 32bit apps period. so it is what is it.
I also was using the 32bit server occasionally, but truly there are only a couple of plugins left that are ever an issue and frankly there are not 64 bit alternatives and I'd rather be done with the fiddling around.
Just checked and it's Mojave that is the last OSX to support 32 bit plugins. It's important to me that 32 bit continue because there's a couple of plugins that I use (NI's B4-II and Pro53) that are 32 bit only and I make use of those on a regular basis.Either way around I'm back on VEPro 6. Would have been great with VEPro 7 but it just wasn't in the cards.
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B4II is one of hte ones I have been using 32bit also. remember that you can still use it with other 32bit wrapping solutions.. 32Lives still works. I think DDMF metaplugin does this I can't remember. Wusik now has a new product that does it also. However I expect all of them to stop working after Mojave...
I for one will switch to a different Hammond plugin, probably Blue, but we'll see. I also really like the old version of VB3, which is also only 32bit. But basically I will either just use something else or avoid using that inside VEP server (shrug). Its not the end of the world I think we have to move on sooner or later...
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Steinberg did similar.. everyone will have to.. so sandbox those old plugins with a wrapper and call it a day.. find new ones. - this should make things more stable all around too! So while a short term pain.. will help... Keep an old used laptop around to open old projects.. not too unusual used to do that for years.. purchase a hard driver per customer. Is whaat I always did.. shrug.
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32Lives! is $99. Not cheap. What is Blue? Never heard of it. Either way I'm done with VEPro 7 and back on 6 where evrything works. This 32 bit thing is only part of the problem with 7 - NI Kontakt hangs up on loading .vesp files. Got a support ticket in with NI but have little hope they'll have an answer as their tech support is utterly useless.B4II is one of hte ones I have been using 32bit also. remember that you can still use it with other 32bit wrapping solutions.. 32Lives still works. I think DDMF metaplugin does this I can't remember. Wusik now has a new product that does it also. However I expect all of them to stop working after Mojave...
I for one will switch to a different Hammond plugin, probably Blue, but we'll see. I also really like the old version of VB3, which is also only 32bit. But basically I will either just use something else or avoid using that inside VEP server (shrug). Its not the end of the world I think we have to move on sooner or later...
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Look, 32bit stuff will not run on mac after Mojave.. PERIOD. Won't work with the 32bit wrappers either. Once you upgrade past OSX Mojave you will need to find alternative 64bit plugins to use. The wrappers will stop working and VEP6 will stop working too. I don't blame VSL for letting this go, its dead on the vine as a feature and hardly anyone needs 32bit plugins anymore, lots of work to keep it going.
Or you could run the 32bit version of VEP server on a windows box in order to host the windows version of the 32bit plugins, if you really must still use them.
In the meantime there are various work arounds..
https://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridgem/ - also available for windows
https://ddmf.eu/metaplugin-chainer-vst-au-rtas-aax-wrapper/
http://wwww.wusik.com/w/index.php/products/host-chainers/wusik-x42
also, there is NetVSTHost, which runs on Windows, but for now you can use it with Wine on a mac and actually host 32bit windows plugins on a mac and use them...its better then nothing...
PlogueBidule might have a solution too, I'm not sure.
