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Vienna Ensemble Pro with SFP

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Hi,

 

I'm currently demoing SFP and it's great so far. 

 

As I'm still getting my head around ports for setting up my plugins and hardware I need some advice from someone more experienced. Has anyone used Vienna Ensemble Pro with SFP? I would like to work with SFP on a Mac but keep my plugins on my more powerful PC but I'm not sure how I would set that up. Has anyone done this? Is it possible?


Mon, 2012-11-12 - 17:56 Permalink

I've not done this bt it is supposed to be possible. You need to ensure the firewalls are open and the engine is running on the second computer. You will need some way of capturing the audio out of the second computer and routing it into a daw in the first so you can mix the sounds from both computers. Although if just using the sounds on the pc, you cou,d try the write audio to file option.
When setting up the instruments on the first you should see the engine lsted from the second computer.

D let us all know if it does work out in practice.

Mon, 2012-11-12 - 18:07 Permalink

Another method would be to simply pipe out the midi from you mac running Synfire to another computer hosting a DAW and you plug ins.

 

You would obviously need physical midi routing. This would also simplify your work flow, as you wouldn't need to set up anything but a single GM device in Synfire.

 

On your DAW end, hosting your plugins, you may have to do some midi channel filtering to make everything work correctly, but you could set up one template in your DAW for the Synfire to DAW transfer and be done with it.

 

Another way to deal with transfer is midi over LAN ... but this is more technically challenging than setting up physical midi between your two computers using audio interface with midi connections.

 

Prado

Tue, 2012-11-13 - 01:14 Permalink

This needs to be an easy process, intuitive in design.. I've stumbled ever  this several times. If SFP can't easily 'childproof connect; (like all good apple products) then you need to build this into SFP which takes it away from it's original coception, and into more of Super DAW..

Tue, 2012-11-13 - 09:12 Permalink

If Vienna Ensemble Pro loads into the Audio Engine (please test on local computer first), you can also run an Engine on any computer in your LAN. Open the remote Engine's user interface and enter the IP address of your Synfire host. It should connect to Synfire then.

You however need to grab the audio signal of the remote computer physically and plug to your monitor mixer. The Engine can not yet mix audio over LAN.

Tue, 2012-11-13 - 10:12 Permalink

Thanks for all your helpful responses.

 

Supertonic - Yes, I just realised that an engine can be on any other computer in the network which negates the need of running Vienna Ensemble Pro. It's a pity it doesn't pipe audio yet but I can live with that.

 

Are there any detailed instructions on how to set that up? I'm still a complete novice at SFP. I'm trying to get my head around Device Descriptions.

Tue, 2012-11-13 - 17:11 Permalink
Yes, I just realised that an engine can be on any other computer in the network which negates the need of running Vienna Ensemble Pro. It's a pity it doesn't pipe audio yet but I can live with that.

Piping audio via LAN - doesn't do that Vienna Ensemble Pro already itself? I thought that's the core feature extension of the Pro version of Vienna Ensemble compared to the standard version (which I use). Hosting VE (standard version) at a drone works well, btw.

Sat, 2015-05-23 - 08:05 Permalink

Vienna Ensemble Pro runs great in Synfire

no connection problems

i run 6 computers with vepro 5 through Synfire

 

indo have some latency issues that i wish i knew how to fix

 

Mon, 2015-05-25 - 13:41 Permalink

Well buddy, this thread was starterd 3 years ago. :)

 

But yeah, running without any issues or problems here as well.