Hi
Any logic users found out if there is any major advances in building large templates with VSL EP7? I see the track count is now up to 1000 which is a bit more sensible.
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It's allready difficult to mix well 48 tracks,
It should be hell to mix a 1000 tracks
How can you do that ?
Do you put a note per track ?
There are not a 1000 instruments in an orchestra ?
Read this :
http://theidiomaticorchestra.net/14-orchestra-size-and-setting/
"A modern full-scale symphony orchestra consists of approximately one hundred permanent musicians, most often distributed as follows: 16β18 1st violins, 16 2nd violins, 12 violas, 12 cellos, 8 double basses, 4 flutes (one with piccolo as a specialty), 4 oboes (one with English horn as a specialty), 4 clarinets (one with bass clarinet as a specialty, another specializing in high clarinets), 4 bassoons (one with double bassoon as a specialty). In theory, all woodwind players are expected to be able to play all auxiliary instruments in addition to their main instrument. Furthermore 5β8 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones (one with bass trombone as a specialty), 1 tuba, 1 kettledrum player, 3β4 percussionists (of whom at least one must also play kettledrum), 1β2 harps and a keyboard player (piano, celesta, harpsichord, etc.).
Musicians mastering instruments such as saxophone, guitar, bass oboe (heckelphone), ondes martenot, synthesizer, etc., usually do not have a permanent position, but are engaged for special projects or concerts. Similarly, extra players are engaged when a score calls for extended brass, percussion, etc.
Some people need or want more tracks in order to create large templates. Nobody needs to actually mix 1000 tracks at once.
I also tend to agree with you though that LogicPro simply does not scale well with more than maybe a few hundred tracks...regardless of how many you're using at once, becuase it doesn't have great nested folder features, nor track searching, etc.. You can hide and unhide and do a few things, but I find it rather unmanageable to deal with a lot of tracks in logicPro...just because it becomes hard to find what you're looking for or have a reasonable list of things to look at and keep track of, or group things together that you're actually using. I am actually not terribly impressed with the way any of the DAW's manage large track counts for large templates. I don't think many peopel need to work that way so they aren't too motivated to improve upon it, but with nearly all of them I feel its kind of like having a 1000 page book with all pages open at the same time. Overwhelming to deal with when you have more then a few dozen tracks. At least for me. that's why I still can't bring myself to making a large template, but if I were a working pro I might feel differently in the name of getting things done quickly.
Lucky me I have on my Macpro with 4 x 26" screens so you can see 48 tracks in Logic with no problem and about a 100 tracks in VE PRO if I minimize them
I started to mix this 48 tracks project on a MacBook Pro, I was getting crasy !
How could you mix a 1000 tracks, you cannot have 200 screen connected to a MacPro
Have you see a Mixing Table with 1 000 tracks ?
At the moment there is a competition on the number of tracks, it's the sampe competition that there is on the length of the 3rd leg π LOL
The biggest benefit for using VEP7 with Logic in my experince, is that because Logic is so full of bugs and crashes so frequently, VEP7 significantly reduces project re-load time whenever this happens.