Q: Vienna Ensemble Pro and Logic 9.1.8

This an addendum to the above:

To answer one question, yes, I know about MIDI's 16 channel limit. However if you go to 

https://www.vsl.co.at/community/posts/t39143-UPDATE--Comfortable-Multiport-Templ ate-for-Logic-PRO-X-10-1-available#post235477   

you will find the the folks at VSL have configured Logic X song templates that allow for up to 256 MIDI ports in one instance of VE PRO.

To answer another question I am using Vienna Ensemble as host for Vienna Instruments as AU plugins. e reason for this is that VE PRO 5 is an integral part of VSL's MIR (multiple impulse response) software which is a very sophisticated convolution reverb which allows you to place an instrument anywhere in one of its virtual venues. The sound of the instrument will change if it is moved. Also MIR software has a feature called Natural Volume so that the relative loudness of each instrument, in whatever position it is assigned, is adjusted so that one has a good starting point for a mix. In addition MIR provides a starting point of EQ choices for each instrument, a choice of primary virtual microphone type and positions, and a choice of secondary microphone types and position.

Again, thanks for your help.

I noted exactly what you described about SoundFlower and uninstalled it and got rid of it completely from my computer. You say you can't reproduce what my experience with Logic 9.1.8 or Logic X running VE PRO as a plugin. This mystifies me. Let me ask this, how well does Logic X work with VE PRO with a metaframe with lots of instances of VI Pro each of them containing several matrices? Have you tried running any of the Dimension Strings or Brass Libraries with Logic X and VE PRO? Also have you tried any of the VSL's multipart templates for Logic X? At this point it it might not be practical to run OS 10.6 as so much of my software requires later iterations of the OS. I would probably have to install another drive just to run Logic under that OS version.

Hi Nigel,

Thanks for your many responses.

Sounds like a great studio setup to me! I'm tempted to upgrade Logic to 10.1 because I've been using Logic for quite a few years.  (Before there was Vienna Ensemble - - let alone Vienna Ensemble Pro - - I devised a way getting Logic 6 to be host for VSL instruments in a configuration where the MIDI source was Finale. Finale played Logic through the IAC busses.) But then again, according to MakeMusic, I'd have to use Finale 2014 which I've found to be a little unstable as well having some new "features" that were answers to questions that I, at least, was not asking. You're right: our setups are not really comparable. The essential thing is that, in your setup VE PRO servers are not running on the same computer as Logic. Because of that Logic can't interfere with the processing on the slave computers running VE PRO servers. It's very much like what I currently do with Finale 2011 (My favorite among recent versions) which is still a 32 bit application and is not aware of multiple processing cores - - qualities it shares with Finale 2014. So it does its thing and sends MIDI data  to a large configuration of VE PRO and the result is no artifacts, just beautiful sound. People who should know have advised me that Digital Performer, Cubase and Reaper do not have the issue that led me to initiate this thread, but as you might imagine I'd rather not to have to start over with a new DAW.

All the best,

Stephen