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Vienna Ensemble Pro (VSL) server is essentially a remote-controlled and DAW that sends audio back to a VEP plug-in over the LAN. It was primarily designed to be used for orchestral productions, but also works great for other types of projects. Since it can run multiple instances in a LAN, it has huge reserves.
VEP happens to work great with Synfire's Audio Engine. You load the VEP plug-in in Synfire and connect it to a server. That server works much like a DAW, i.e. you can load plug-ins and effect chains and do a very sophisticated mix (it has many high quality built-in effects, too). The mix is sent back to the plug-in in Synfire.
Here's a tutorial.
VEP seems to be a great companion that extends Synfire's limited mixing capabilities. As far as I know it can't record audio takes, but is otherwise equally capable as a DAW.
Advantages
- No synchronization needed.
- Virtually unlimited capacity for instruments and effects.
- Total recall, i.e. the state of the "DAW" as a whole is saved with the Synfire arrangement.
Have you used it? What are your experiences?
Di., 21.11.2023 - 13:02 Permalink
Speaking of the VEP server, it can act as one big sound module.
It also has a mixer and 48 midiports of each 16 instruments.
You can temporarily/permanently turn off instruments to save CPU load.
Would buy it now in the black friday offer from VSL.
Had an idea earlier to split the racks into local and remote racks
So separating the VEP server racks in Synfire , is that a good idea?