Important Notes For Digital Performers Users

Multiple MIDI ports with MAS Plug-ins

Your newly installed Vienna Ensemble Pro MAS plug-in enables you to utilize multiple MIDI ports with each instance of Vienna Ensemble Pro.

  1. Assign multiple MIDI ports in the Vienna Ensemble Pro Server Preferences:

  1. Choose Project > Add Track > Instrument with Options:

  1. Choose the configuration you need from the MAS plug-in list:

  1. Connect to the VE Pro Server of your choice:

  1. Add more MIDI Tracks, if you like, and assign any MIDI channel from the available Vienna Ensemble Pro MAS MIDI ports and MIDI channels. Do the same in Vienna Ensemble Pro.

Quick Guide – Migration to MAS

To migrate from existing AU/VST Digital Performer projects to MAS projects, uncheck the AU and VST items in the plug-ins list you find in the Digital Performer Preferences > General > Audio Plug-ins:

  • Vienna Ensemble Pro
  • Vienna Ensemble Pro Audio Input
  • Vienna Ensemble Pro Surround

Click Done and allVienna Ensemble Pro AU/VST Server Interface plug-ins will automatically be replaced with the MAS plug-in version.

Tip

To take advantage of the multiple ports available with MAS, you can now merge multiple VE Pro instances to one instance.

Working with Audio Input / Event Input plug-ins

Bouncing (offline rendering) does not work when using Audio Unit Event Input or Audio Input plug-ins, but Freezing (real-time rendering) works fine . As a workaround for straight bouncing it is possible to freeze first and then bounce the resulting frozen tracks.

Important

This only applies when using the Audio/Event Input plug-ins in Digital Performer. For regular operation, Vienna Ensemble Pro 7 works as expected, especially when using it as a MAS plug-in with Digital Performer 8 or higher.

Routing in Digital Performer

  1. Launch Digital Performer and Vienna Ensemble Pro Server.

  1. Add a new Instrument Track with Options.

  1. Assign it to Vienna Ensemble Pro (stereo)

  1. Add 16 MIDI tracks. If you are using VE Pro as a MAS plug-in in Digital Performer 8, you can get up to 768 (48 x16) MIDI channels, as you can use up to 48 MIDI ports per instance, depending on your settings in the VE Pro Preferences!

  1. Click on OK – this is will bring up the Vienna Ensemble Pro Plug-in.

  1. Click on Connect, select a Server IP from the list of available servers, and confirm the connection.

  1. The windows you will see now are the Vienna Ensemble Pro Plug-in and the Vienna Ensemble Pro Server. Create Instrument Channels in Vienna Ensemble Pro and assign MIDI channels to them.

  1. Add one or more auxiliary tracks to your project.

  1. You can now check the available Stereo Outputs of Vienna Ensemble Pro in the inputs of your Aux Track.

  1. Assign the different outputs in Vienna Ensemble Pro. It is also possible to assign the outputs below the fader of each channel.